Gladly, gladly, we'll walk in the light

Not Catholic or Protestant, but a secret third thing (member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

[daisydisciple]

Now, what do we hear in the gospel which we have received? A voice of gladness! A voice of mercy from heaven; and a voice of truth out of the earth; glad tidings for the dead; a voice of gladness for the living and the dead; glad tidings of great joy.

Doctrine and Covenants 128:19

[awesomebutunpractical]

You are not immune to shrinking Jesus down to your specific pet virtues and ignoring the parts of Him you don't like.

[loves-em]

I can't find the artist for the life of me to give credit, which I'm sorry for. Maybe someone recognizes them? But this just caught my eye. Let's not be that little fella, let's have charity, understanding, patience, and endure all things.

Apparently, the artist is @robotatertot according to comments :P

[daisydisciple]

"Mormons believe"—stop. are you referring to something that is taught in formalized church curricula/the popular interpretation of scriptural or prophetic canon, or are you referring to something that a member of the church publicly speculated about one time?

[omtai]

Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else

[holywatermelan]

I'm obsessed with the phrase 'card carrying member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' actually. Yeah I have a card. It's over in my wallet.

[lilies--lament]

i went to do baptisms by myself for the first time and it was a friday morning so i was the only person there. the workers apologized and said they'd try to find a priest to baptize me. i really didn't mind because i was having a nice time sitting in the chapel reading mosiah haha.

but i was kind of thinking, wow! im waiting in uncertainty because i need someone else to come and help me with this. i can't do it on my own, and i am just hoping that someone happens to come in out of the goodness of their heart so i can be baptized. it was a really small scale experience, I'd say at maximum I was waiting 15 minutes or so, but it reminded me that we come in and do work for people who have had to wait to have this opportunity. they couldn't be who they want to be or go where they want to go if i wasnt here to step in. i just think temple work is such a blessing for us as a community; it connects us across the veil in really unique and tangible ways

[psalms-and-spells]

Art with Jesus having the kindest eyes and the scruffiest beard gets me every time. Like he purposefully didn’t look ‘holy’ or ‘regal’ he was your neighbor. He was your carpenter.

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Yay an excuse to share my favorite paintings by Henryk Hector Siemiradzki!

[hamletthedane]

I don’t quite go here (not a Christian in the traditional sense) so pardon me for intruding, but I do also love this theme in art. Here are a few of my favorites:

Rembrandt’s Faces of Christ series (circa 1640s-1650s)

Woman, Why Weepest Thou? (circa 1890), by Fritz von Uhde

Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (1605) by Lavinia Fontana

Christ on the Mount of Olives (1919) by Gyula Benczúr

And then of course everything the Eastern European and Russian artists were doing with Christ depictions in the late 19th century was insane:

Christ in the Desert (1872) by Ivan Kramskoi

What is Truth? Christ and Pilate (1890) by Nikolai Ge

Christ in the Garden aka Christ on the Mount of Olives (1878), by Vasily Perov

Head of Christ (circa 1880), by Leon Wyczółkowski

[transgang-deactivated20201105]

you know even if a homeless person or a starving person is in that position because of their own "bad decisions" i don't care. it doesn't matter. no supposed financial misstep is enough to condemn someone to homelessness or poverty.

[gay-mormon-wizard]

the Book of Mormon kinda went off about this. Mosiah, chapter 4:

16 And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.

17 Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just—

18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God.

19 For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?

[outintothevoid]

look I think the general persecution complex of Mormons tends to be disproportionate to the actual (modern day) harms

but that being said

I'm genuinely frustrated with the number of people who casually denigrate Mormons without interrogating that impulse when they would not do the same with other minority religions

[catie-does-things]

There is reasonable discussion about the problem of evil to be had, but I dont think we should lose sight of the fact that God's answer to human suffering is the cross. We don't have the proper perspective on this question at all if we approach it like evil is something God merely allows humanity to suffer, rather than something he himself suffers first and foremost, and for our sake.

[nerdygaymormon]

[laurelindorenan]

Come, behold the wondrous mystery Slain by death, the God of life But no grave could ever restrain Him Praise the Lord, He is alive!!!!!

What a foretaste of deliverance How unwavering our hope Christ in power resurrected As we will be when He comes!!!!!

[brontes]

the veil is torn! the tomb is empty! death is defeated! the power of sin is broken!!! God has made the way to salvation and in Him we are set free!!!!!!

[melliabee]

“Because of Jesus Christ, all that is unfair in life can and will be made right. He will consecrate our afflictions for our gain. […] He will dependably and consistently make us whole.”

— Elder Dale G. Renlund, April 2026

[eesirachs]

what gives you the right to say jesus loves trans people?

literacy

[hollers-and-holmes]

Are you like the only guy who hasn’t been in Jerusalem this weekend? still one of the funniest beats in Scripture

[mademoiseli]

While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” (Luke 24:15-18)

[supreme-leader-stoat]