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.

  • Overwhelmed but Growing: Navigating Life’s Challenges and Transformations

    Today, I am feeling overwhelmed. My heart and mind are tangled in the chaos of everything I’m juggling—the weight of it all feels like too much at times. There’s so much going on right now: a new business I’m trying to get off the ground, family issues that are breaking my heart and disrupting my…

  • Becoming Like God: Exploring the Uncertainty in LDS Theology

    The doctrine of “becoming like God” has long been one of the most distinctive teachings in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For many, it is an inspiring concept that offers a sense of eternal purpose. However, like many aspects of LDS theology, the details surrounding this teaching have shifted over time, leaving…

  • Faith, Finances, and Accountability: Reflections on the SEC Settlement with the LDS Church

    In 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment firm, Ensign Peak Advisors, had settled allegations over financial reporting practices. The SEC accused the Church and Ensign Peak of using shell companies to hide the size of their investment portfolio, which is…

  • 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.…

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