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Two “firsts” happened on September 11th, 2001 as my college roommate and I watched those planes crash into the Twin Towers: I actually wanted to kill another human being. I met the religion of Islam. I was still a fire-and-brimstone Christian and highly patriotic at this point in my life, so the fact that these Muslim men…

When I was a kid I hardly ever believed my parents. “Andrew, don’t touch. It’s hot!” I touched it anyway and was burned. “Eat too much pizza and you’ll have a stomach ache.” I did it anyway and it turned out they were right. Ignoring the advice of our parents–especially in those rebellious teenage years–is…

…And I catch a cold. Seriously, I get sick maybe once a year and it happens on the first day of Islam AND Ramadan? I barely got any sleep last night (which is typical for the first of any month because of new religion jitters), but woke up at 4:30 this morning with a nasty…

We are here again at the end of yet another month. Each one is radically different from the next, with new challenges, new lessons, and new family members. The end-of-month post is bitter-sweet, the one I dread the most. Let’s see how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like the faiths before it, changed my…

Nope, that isn’t a misprint. In general, members of the LDS Church believe in the existence of a divine momma, however if you ever ask a member of the church about her, well… The concept of God the Father being the sire of us all isn’t so foreign in what we might call “mainstream Christianity,”…

Well, I promised I wouldn’t cry when I left my local Latter-day Saints home on Sunday and–it was tough–but I stayed strong. Months like July are rare for Project Conversion. Not only did I get a local faith community (the LDS church is 10 minutes away…when traffic is bad), a fantastic LDS following on the…

Imagine a mob waiting to beat and expel you everywhere you go. Imagine fearing for your life, liberty, and family all in the name of faith. Imagine being hated, scorned, and ridiculed…all because of your faith. How long would that faith last? When Joseph Smith, Jr. revealed the Book of Mormon and his call by…

If my heart and mind are clean sheets of glass for the year, my experience with each of Project Conversion’s Mentors is a unique fingerprint left upon the glass. No two are alike and each leaves an indelible mark upon my progress. Last night during a weekly meeting with my two young Mentors, something happened. The meetings…

I began Project Conversion to combat ignorance and fear of the religious unknown we harbor for our neighbors. There is a chance for healing among the homes, streets, and neighborhoods where we live, but is there hope for religiously blind politics? Religion plays an important role in the lives of many voters and is the scaffolding…

I would like to introduce Sister Laura Bradbury, an LDS member who volunteered to share her testimony and experience with the Church. Thank you for sharing with us, Sister Bradbury! —————– Hi there! My name is Laura Bradbury. I am a 27-year-old graduate student of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  I graduate…
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