'Why am I Mormon?
- I am Mormon because I willingly – and with my eyes, mind, and heart fully open – choose to be Mormon.
- I am Mormon because I doubt.
- I am Mormon because I hope.
- I am Mormon because I believe.
- I am Mormon because I know.
- I am Mormon because I choose to wrestle with God in my “dark night of the soul”.
- I am Mormon because I choose to wrestle with the LDS church.
- I choose to be Mormon because it is within Mormonism that I have found God.
“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ.
My hosanna
is born of a furnace of doubt” (Fyodor Dostoevsky).'
(Michael Barker in Featured, Mormonism, Why I Am Mormon -
Personal Essays)
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