Rare Faith Blog

By Mark Andrew Beach

I remember sitting in my seventh-grade science class when my teacher introduced us to a foundational truth of physics: “To every action in the universe, there is an equal and opp...

By Robyn Young

"One of the greatest skills we can learn in life is how to deal effectively with disappointments, because after all, life is full of them. Learning the skill not only helps us turn thi...

By Robyn Young

Years ago, I watched the movie What About Bob?, a comedy about a man named Bob (Bill Murray), a deeply paranoid New Yorker who’s afraid of just about everything. His fears are so overw...

"There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated—And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law up...

We all wish life could be a little easier sometimes—peaceful, tranquil, smooth.
I know—I’ve felt that way too.

But the last time I found myself caught in the middle of a turbulent, disruptive, high-p...

By James Chase

The other day I ran into a friend that I hadn't seen in over ten years. He asked me what I was doing and it gave me the opportunity to let him know what I had been up to. I let him kno...

By Nancy Genys

It took me years to fully grasp the Law of Relativity. My therapist had been trying to teach me this concept—though he never called it a “law”—for as long as I could remember. He simpl...

By Dr. James B. Chase Jr. EdD

The Law of Polarity teaches that everything has an opposite: hot/cold, high/low, light/dark, good/bad.

Let’s take hot and cold as an example. Hot exists on one end of t...

By James Chase

As we move through life, we all experience highs and lows. We have good days and bad days. We celebrate wins, and we face setbacks.

This is exactly what the Law of Rhythm teaches us. ...

By Angie Kleven

Early in the morning on November 28, 1998, two of my sisters were killed in a rollover car accident on Interstate 80, just outside of Rawlins, Wyoming. Jennie was just days away from ...

By Linda Knudsen

Along with the struggling economy came our family’s own battle. We lost our home, our rental properties, two of our vehicles, and were left carrying heavy burdens from failed busines...

By Travis Giauque

Every now and then, we hear people lament, "Why me? Why, why, why?" I’ve found myself uttering those very words in the past. We all know that life doesn’t always go our way. However...

By Adam Porter

The Law of Polarity teaches us that everything has an opposite: yes and no, big and small, hot and cold, right and wrong. As we read in scripture, “For it must needs be that there is a...

By Jan Lambert

Mother had a vicious temper and a violent streak. She screamed vile names and beat us daily. Father was emotionally distant, always critical, and rarely present in a meaningful way. Ne...

By Doug Lange

Sometimes life feels like a yo-yo. When we're up, we brace ourselves for the inevitable downturn. When we're down, we hope—sometimes desperately—that things will swing back up. In truth...

By Doug Lange

My family and I went through two-and-a-half years of unemployment during the Great Recession. It was incredibly hard—but strangely, it also became one of the greatest experiences of my ...

Are you a mom who helps with the family finances—and finds yourself feeling guilty for not being 100% available to your children?

That was me. For years.

I carried that guilt like it was part of the...