Beyond The Spacious Building

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Welcome to Beyond the Spacious Building, a space for truth-seeking through exploration and reflection. This blog invites you to look beyond the ordinary and question your perceptions while searching for meaning. Each post aims to reveal deeper aspects of our experiences and shows how curiosity and self-reflection can lead to personal insights. Join me in discovering ideas that promote growth, authenticity, and a deeper connection with the world around us.

  • Planet or World: Either way you say it, you don’t get one anymore.

    As a young child convert to the LDS Church, I remember vividly learning that those who reached the highest level of heaven would receive their own planet. This teaching, often framed within the doctrine of eternal progression, was a central part of what I and many others believed and continued well into adulthood. So it…

  • It’s Either True, or It’s Not

    When Gordon B. Hinckley declared, “Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing,” during the April 2003 General Conference in his talk titled “Loyalty,” he framed a profound ultimatum…

  • Hard Choices, trials and growth: A Personal Reflection

    This past year, especially the last few months, has been one of the most challenging seasons of my life. Amid personal upheavals, I closed a business that I had poured my heart into for 12 years. I also started school again and, to my surprise and pride, finished my first semester classes with all A’s.…

  • Mountain Meadow Masacre: The Shocking Truth

    The Mountain Meadows Massacre is one of the darkest and most horrifying chapters in Mormon history. For years, I dismissed it as anti-Mormon rhetoric, not worthy of my attention. As a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I was taught to shield myself from anything critical of the church. But…

  • Friends? or foes?

    Navigating Isolation After Leaving Mormonism Since leaving the organized religion of Mormonism, I’ve come to understand a kind of isolation that I never expected. It’s a subtle, yet deeply felt shift in relationships. People who were once part of your daily life now hesitate, unsure of how to interact with you. The sense of belonging…

  • But did you ever have a testimony: the common question

    But Did You Ever Have a Testimony? This question stings. I hear it too often, and it’s not just a query—it’s a judgment disguised as curiosity. I figured it was time to address it directly. The implication behind this question is clear: If I had truly believed, I wouldn’t have left. If I had truly…

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