Dialogue From the Pulpit: To the 78 Percent

by Heidi Harris

"The problem isn’t that there are so many who apparently have doubts...but rather that there are so many people with questions that will never be asked and spiritual wounds that will never be healed with help from our ward brothers and sisters....It indicates that we do not encourage an atmosphere of complete spiritual honesty in our worship but value instead the tidy ease of conformity and the comforting façade of flawlessness. It indicates that many feel as if they will be rejected by their ward family if they do not answer every question the same way as everyone else. It indicates that, after baptism, many feel as if Mormons should never have any more hard questions to ask or that those questions even deserve an answer." Heidi Harris voices some important and beautiful thoughts in this "From the Pulpit" regarding those who doubt, and how "we can learn more as we come through our questions and doubts, that they are part of a human experience, that we are all good people trying our best."

11 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 16, 2012