Personal Revelation and the “Ideal”
This is a reprint of a post I wrote back in 2010 at my personal blog under a pseudonym. Twelve years later, it’s still just as relevant as the day I wrote it. I...
Author: Trudy
Sacred Music Sunday: For All the Saints
I’ve always been drawn to bold brassy hymns. When I played the organ, I would throw in trumpet stops whenever I could get away with it. One hymn that I especially like is For...
Ask the Readers: Scripture Study
I wasn’t raised in the church. My family celebrated Christmas, but that was more or less the extent of my religious upbringing. But my parents had received a Bible as a wedding gift, and...
Sacred Music Sunday: What a Friend we Have in Jesus
This weekend is Stake Conference in my stake, and the theme is 2 Nephi 33:6 “I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; I glory in my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul...
World Childless Week
A friend of mine posted on Facebook the other day about World Childless Week. I had never heard of it before, but I felt seen and validated. At church, our worth as women is...
When Marriage and Motherhood Become Idols
https://www.crossway.org/articles/when-marriage-and-motherhood-become-idols/
Sacred Music Sunday: From Homes of Saints Glad Songs Arise
I find most of the hymns in the hymnal about home and family to be narrow and reductive – only one kind of home is contemplated, and it isn’t mine. It’s a father employed...
Singles’ Wards Are Against My Religion
It’s rather peculiar that in the church adults are segregated by marital status. There are entire wards (and in some more densely populated LDS areas, entire stakes) just for the unmarried. And I don’t...
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