May 29, 2014 | Homosexuality
Question Dear Gramps, As marriage equality becomes more common, will the church try to evangelize to these families and what might that look like? Theoretically, a happily married lesbian couple raising children wants to join the church. Can they simply become...
Mar 27, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, This is in regards to your post about those not paying tithing being burned. I learned in institute that this was a commonly misunderstood scripture. Because the revelation was given to Joseph while the law of consecration was being practiced (Sept....
Feb 21, 2014 | Abortion, Baptism
Question Gramps, Can you be baptized if you have had an abortion? Trudy Answer Trudy, The short answer is yes…. Yes you can. Baptism is about having faith in Christ and having the desire and willingness to repent, in addition to joining the...
Jan 26, 2014 | Current issues
Question Why doesn’t the Church just come out and say it’s okay to drink coffee? They beat around the bush about caffeine drinks and hot drinks.. Steve Answer Steve, Because it has been revealed and interpreted that Latter-day Saints are to avoid...
Jan 23, 2014 | Homosexuality, Marriage
Question Dear Gramps, Should LDS parents attend the same-sex wedding of their gay children? What if they were having a heterosexual wedding in a Satanic church? Where does one draw the line in their children’s unacceptable conduct? How would one give their...
Nov 30, 2013 | Current issues
Question Gramps, I’m LDS. I’m very happy to be and so is my husband. We have been married for 32 years and our marriage is sealed but lately we have been very sick I lost my legs. I can not walk anymore and my husband has a bad problem with his...
Aug 24, 2013 | Current issues
Question Gordon B. Hinckley once said about revelation: “Now we don’t need a lot of continuing revelation. We have a great, basic reservoir of revelation. But if a problem arises, as it does occasionally, a vexatious thing with which we have to deal, we go to...
Aug 11, 2013 | Current issues, God, Jesus Christ
Hello Gramps, We enjoy your website a great deal. I’m glad someone takes the time to provide understandable homegrown and factual answers to gosel questions. This is my wife’s question. – thanks to the Hubble telescope, etc). Or are they responsible...
Jul 30, 2013 | Current issues, God
Does God get angry? Melissa _______________________ Dear Melissa, God absolutely gets angry! The scriptures attest to His wrath that get poured out among the wicked, and it is not spared against those who fail to live up to their covenants. The Book of Mormon is...
Jul 15, 2013 | Current issues, God, Life's Lessons
I hear everyone in the world say that everything happens for a reason. Does it? I always felt that we have our free agency and make choices and except those consequences whether they be good or bad. I am puzzled with what I hear about happening for a reason. Cindy...
