The image of ... isn’t that God is a Father. The real problem is that our earthly fathers—who, however unintentionally, tend to serve as human stand-ins for the heavenly Father—have often ...

Underlying this view is a belief that terms like father and mother are mere human characterizations of God, shaped by specific cultural and backgrounds. The predominantly masculine images of God ...

Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother has gone mainstream ... the connection that during the ‘First Vision,’ when Joseph Smith was visited by God the Father and Jesus Christ, he first mentions ...

As Jesus himself used the fatherly analogy we have, as Christians, felt duty bound to adhere rigidly to that image. God the Father has consequently ended up as an elderly man with a beard ...

Being immersed in the Holy Spirit brings a new way of thinking and responding to the Lord, said Father Jim Livingston, pastor of St. Paul in Ham Lake. “Within us there is an innocence that we go ...

Just because I’m a “she” doesn’t mean the Creator I reflect has to be. I'm my dad's spitting image. My fair skin, strawberry blond hair, analytical mind, and impatience with all things not ...

Slated to run throughout March at Provo’s Writ & Vision, the show represents a ... Latter-day Saints that all are children of a Heavenly Father and Mother. The gallery, which features some ...

One of the earliest saints to receive a firsthand glimpse into the heavenly realm ... they enter into the depths of God, contemplating the inner life of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy ...

In the song, he sings “Heavenly father, look down from above.” Paul was asked if the line was supposed to be about his father, James McCartney, or God. “Heavenly father … That’s either ...