Doctrinal Essays

I love truth, and especially enjoy when it is presented to me through the observable false beliefs in culture - whether that culture is the workplace, society, or church. For the last several months I've had the emotion of Shame on my mind, which idea was put there by a close friend and probably the Spirit. Since that time I've been able to observe how this emotion is one of the most lethal emotions, if not the most, to our spirits. What is startling to me is how pervasive the emotion is in our culture. I'm at church and I hear someone say "I don't read my scriptures as often as I should"; "I don't attend the temple as often as I should", "I don't ..." I could go on and on. You get it. Because you've been there. I've been there too. The emotion and gesture may come across as humility, or piety, but I'm coming to realize it's just a weak yielding to Satan's influence. The reason we are all adherents of the s...