A Personal Story of Adoption

Our journey through the adoption process and our entry into parenting has not been without bumps in the road, but the fact is that our eight-year experience with adoption has been the best experience of our lives. When my husband, Keith, and I married in 1987, we knew...

Loving Lucy: Society in a Sit-com

Some critics have labeled Lucy a scheming wife whose manipulative tendencies undermined the biblical marital model. In the 1950s, more than 40 million people watched the show each week. Reruns have aired most every day since the show was canceled in 1957, and scripts...

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Lived Her Faith

I strongly disagree with her ideas about the place of women in the world and in the church. Yet she is, for me, a model of what Christ calls each of us to be and do. She lived and breathed the gospel. Every day of her life, no matter where she was or what she was...

Are Denominations a Thing of the Past?

In his 1972 book The Denominational Society, Roman Catholic Priest Andrew Greeley predicted that organized religion and denominationalism were so important to the fabric of America that, despite the skepticism of sociologists of religion, denominations would continue...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Every December I find my Mormon Tabernacle Choir tape and listen to the beautiful sounds made by that well-trained and dedicated group. Whenever I see television commercials produced by the Mormons, I am inspired and touched. And when two young, attractive and...