Performing #givethanks
Photo by Simon Maage on Unsplash Since Saturday, I have had my social media feeds filled to the brim with posts tagged #givethanks. People who I haven’t seen on Facebook or Instagram in...
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Sacred Music Sunday: For the Beauty of the Earth
Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Gratitude is both a simple and a difficult topic....
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It was first held November 20, 1999, marking the anniversary of Rita Hester’s death, an African American trans woman who was killed in her apartment. Now on...
A Christmas Sacrament Meeting, the Sequel
Last Christmas, for the second consecutive year, I was charged with creating the Christmas Sacrament Meeting program in my local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) ward as part of my calling...
The Undisguised Brutality of our Time
In January 1920, exactly one century ago, Dr. Sigmund Freud lost his daughter, Sophie, to the Spanish flu pandemic. He was unable to visit her during her time of sickness because of travel restrictions....
Spring 2021: Family History and Legacy
I learned family history the old-school, traditionally Mormon way: filling out hundreds of pieces of paper that went into binders full of names. Young women activities in the library, staring at microfiche. Proud stories...
Hey Man, How Are You? (Yes of Course, Lady – That Obviously Means You!)
On my Utah ballot at the beginning of this month, we had a constitutional amendment up for an approval vote. It looked like this: A female state senator named Deidre Henderson (also Utah’s...
Reclaiming The Great Apostasy
The Church takes a very dim view of the period between 100 A.D. and 1820. Preach My Gospel, the manual for missionaries, uses the following words and phrases to describe 1700 years of humans worshipping...
Guest Post: A Call for Victim Advocacy in the Church
by Sisyphus I have attempted several times to write this post—a story about me opposing a man called into a bishopric, the stake president (SP) believing me but not acting on the information, that...
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