Thomas Wirthlin McConkie
For adult Mormons, there’s more to spirituality than ‘endure to the end’
By Jana Riess — September 23, 2020
Feeling burned out? A new online course from author Thomas McConkie casts a wide net to help Latter-day Saints deepen their faith through meditation, theology and psychology.
More Mormon missionaries are coming home early, study shows
By Jana Riess — September 26, 2018
A growing number of Mormons who serve a mission wind up coming home early, a national study shows. What is going on?
For some Mormons, “cafeteria spirituality” is a lifeline
By Jana Riess — July 31, 2018
As more Mormons leave the LDS Church, others draw on "cafeteria spirituality" in their quest for a way to stay, supplementing their Mormon identity with meditation and practices from other traditions.
In a Mormon faith transition? Here’s help
By Jana Riess — December 18, 2015
A new book argues Mormon faith transitions are healthy and necessary crucibles in our journey toward spiritual maturity. "We can grow unbounded," says Thomas Wirthlin McConkie. "Isn’t that the message of Mormonism in the end?"
When your Mormon faith is too small
By Jana Riess — December 17, 2015
When our faith is in crisis, it can be comforting to know that what we’re going through doesn’t mean we're falling into apostasy. Drawing from the science of adult development, this author says we’ve “simply driven off the edge of our current map.”
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