I was married on December 13, 2013. After some debate, we chose the Mesa, Arizona, temple rather than the recently dedicated Gilbert temple. The Mesa temple was a staple of my youth. I had grown up seeing its Christmas lights, doing Baptisms for the Dead in its font, and had taken out my own Endowment there. It felt like a part of who I was, like an extended family member in ...

On March 30, 2026, the First Presidency announced a new meeting schedule for the two hour block. Unsurprisingly, we have thoughts:

Rebecca J: I suspect there’s been feedback that having YW and YM quorums me...

I’m writing this at 11pm a few weeks before Easter, an hour or so into spending the night with my son in the emergency department. He’s fine, at this point they’re just observing him as a precautionary measure. He is sound asleep. I am watching over him and I cannot sleep.

And I’ve been thinking about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane on Maundy Thursday. When he prayed...

According to Mark’s gospel, on what we call Palm Sunday:

“[the disciples] brought [a] colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those w...

A couple of years ago I posted a brief reflection about the LDS Church’s complicated relationship with the cross. The short story is this: despite the fact that early saints wore the crucifix as jewelry, that early churches were adorned with cross-rel...