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Irresistible (Dis)Grace

http://irresistibledisgrace.wordpress.com

A blog about peculiar aspects of the Mormon/Latter-day Saint culture, from the perspective of someone who grew up in the church but is not a faithful believer.

• Added on: Feb 7th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Andrew S
• Listed in: Atheism Christianity
• Tags: atheism mormon lds ex-mormon cultural mormon former mormon

Recent Posts

• The role of parsing in Mormonism

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 21:54 in mormon, mormonism, inference, expectation, john dehlin, new order mormon, middle way mormonism, stay lds, word parsing

  If you’ve read through the Mormon Bloggernacle long enough, then you’ve probably come across Ray (aka Papa D of Things of My Soul.) Ray is noteworthy for a great many things (for one, I have never seen Ray lose his cool. I have seen him e...

• Growing up as an atheist Mormon

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 13:08 in atheism, mormonism, theism, non-belief

  I feel that my upbringing in the church was just so different from everyone else’s…but in a silent, private way. This foreignness or alienation wasn’t about a difference in locations or labelings…because up until recently, I w...

• Tithing and budgeting

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 15:01 in tithing, Sacrifice, ex-mormon

  I have felt rather ambivalent to tithing. Since I’m recovering from a chronic allergy to working for pay, I can say that I’ve been able to get out of all of my recommend interviews as a 100% worthy member without paying a cent of tithe. (...

• The Inauthenticity Crisis

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 13:08 in authenticity, inauthenticity

  Have you ever been in a situation where you were slighted, undervalued, underappreciated, or even maybe despised…but you couldn’t say or do anything about it, because that would only increase the slight, undervaluation, underappreciation,...

• Should we cultivate hardship?

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 16:58 in mormon, trial, tribulation, eugene england, why the church is as true as the gospel

  Consider the cultivation of this bonsai tree. Last Sunday, Hypatia pondered over whether it was a good thing for her parents to be taking her daughter with them to church. Her daughter is currently nursery-age, so I (and the others who commented) se...

• Narrative calculus and bliss

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 02:25 in Identity, truth, authenticity, narrative, worldview, joseph campbell, follow your bliss, monty hall problem, unintuitive truth

  How do we come up with our worldviews? Why do we narrate the world in the ways we do? How are our many beliefs knit together? I have had time to think about this topic in several (really really really long) comments over at LDS & Evangelical conv...

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