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“I so often feel unconventional and, well, lonely in my faith community. This conference made me feel like there's a place for non-traditional me at church.” — Christy Spencer   September 24-26 in Orem, Utah  (See Epilogue Below)   Restore Connect is for you if: You want to be inspired and lifted through Christ-centered engagement with exceptional thinkers, doers, musicians, poets, pray-ers, and good-hearted people like you.  You are a…

“I want to keep following Jesus Christ every day. I want to be kind, help other people, forgive others, and have more faith.” — Jimmy Mwemedi   A young man and I were recently asked to speak in the Latter-Day Saint Parley’s Creek African Refugee Branch. I have served there for over 10 years—mostly with the youth. Jimmy, who is 16, has been in the US for over three years…

“Plural marriage... is calculated in its nature to severely try the women even to nearly tear their heartstrings out of them...” — Journal and Autobiography of Joseph Lee Robinson, p. 50   Mormon polygamy is a fraught subject. Not too long after Carol Lynn Pearson published her book, The Ghosts of Eternal Polygamy, Jane, my wife, and I spoke on a panel with her at a Sunstone Symposium. Our story,…

“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things ...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.” — Teilhard de Chardin   To begin our conversation with Aubrey and Tim Chaves in June, I offered the invocation by reading a prayer I had been creating. Afterwards, several people asked if they could have a copy of it.…

“…and ye shall be as the gods, knowing good and evil.” — The Serpent, Genesis 3:5   Recently, Jane and I were camping with her brothers and their wives in Bears Ears. Jane’s brother has become quite conversant with the many native dwellings and granaries often built high up on cliffs, as well as the landscape and lifestyles of the remarkable peoples who once lived there. It is a yearly…