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Translating Mormon Transhumanism

Explore how Mormon Transhumanism bridges faith and reason by translating religious concepts into universally accessible language, finding common ground between believers and agnostics.

The Prophetic Voice

Explore the broader meaning of prophecy beyond Church leadership, examining how the spirit of prophecy—rooted in testimony and feeling—applies to every believer's life.

Transhumanist Advent: Christ as Invitation

Explore how Christ's life exemplifies a radical, ongoing invitation to expand morality and co-create a better world—a vision where transhumanism and Advent converge.

Transhumanist Advent: Blood

Explore how Christ's call demands active responsibility—not passive comfort—challenging us to acknowledge the blood on our hands and do the work of healing others.

Transhumanist Advent: He touched the man's ear and healed him

Explore how Christ's healing of Malchus' ear challenges religious zealotry, calling us to be healers and peacemakers instead of defenders wielding institutional swords.

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Teresa of Avila

Teresa of Avila

(1515–1582)

Teresa of Avila (1515–1582) was a Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic, and reformer whose writings on contemplative prayer transformed Christian spirituality. Born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada in Avila, Spain, she entered the Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation around 1535. After years of illness and spiritual struggle, she experienced a profound religious awakening in 1555 that set the course for the rest of her life. In 1562, at the age of forty-seven, Teresa founded the first convent of the Discalced Carmelites, launching a reform movement that restored the order’s original austerity and contemplative discipline. Alongside St. John of the Cross, she established seventeen convents across Spain, insisting on poverty, enclosure, and deep interior prayer as the foundations of religious life. Teresa’s mystical writings—including The Interior Castle , The Way of Perfection , and her autobiography The Life of Teresa of Jesus —remain among the most widely read works of Christian spirituality. In 1970, Pope Paul VI declared her the first female Doctor of the Church, recognizing her enduring contribution to Catholic theology and the contemplative tradition.

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Mosiah 5:7–10: And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters. And under this head ye are made free, and there is no other head whereby ye can be made free.

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Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks With compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good; Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands; yours are the feet; Yours are the eyes; you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

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Thomas BriggsThomas Briggs

Great service is given when we perform vicarious ordinances for those who have gone beyond the veil. In many cases we do not know those for whom we perform the work. We expect no thanks, nor do we have the assurance that they will accept that which we offer. However, we serve, and in that process we attain that which comes of no other effort: we literally become saviors on Mount Zion.

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3 Nephi 27:5–9: Have they not read the scriptures, which say ye must take upon you the name of Christ, which is my name? For by this name shall ye be called whoso taketh upon him my name, and endureth to the end, the same shall be saved at the last day. Therefore, whatsoever ye shall do, ye shall do it in my name; therefore ye shall call the church in my name; and ye shall call upon the Father in my name that he will bless the church for my sake.

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John A. WidtsoeJohn A. Widtsoe

In our preexistent state, in the day of the great council, we made a certain agreement with the Almighty. The Lord proposed a plan, conceived by him. We accepted it. Since the plan is intended for all men, we become parties to the salvation of every person under that plan. We agreed, right then and there, to be not only saviors for ourselves but measurably, saviors for the whole human family. We went into a partnership with the Lord.

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Return of Christ
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Lincoln Cannon

Return of Christ

Lincoln Cannon reinterprets the prophecy of Christ's return through the lens of Christian theosis and Mormon theology. Examining the Hebrew Bible's multiple "Christs"—including King David and Cyrus of Persia—alongside Paul's teaching that "Christ is in you," he argues that the "Son of Man" refers not exclusively to Jesus but to all the children of humanity. When Jesus says his return will be "as lightning visible from east to west," he speaks of a collective transformation: the return of Christ is the moment when we become Christ, loving, healing, and raising the dead as Jesus commanded his disciples to do.