Mistaking Scaffolding for the Soul
I ran into a friend recently whom I hadn’t seen in months. She told me she was stepping back from the Church for a while. There were a number of factors, but the biggest...
Category: Belief
Why is there no Justice in Mormon Discourse?
Recently, Gina Colvin shared a video of a choral song that I found deeply moving. “For Everyone Born” completely resonated with me spiritually, and to me, it represented everything good about religion. It represented...
ADDENDUM 7.24.18: Stake President Denies Temple Recommend to Nursing Mother
ADDENDUM 7.24.18 Due to the overwhelming response to this post, several questions have been raised. They are addressed below. “Who is this woman, who is her stake president, where does she live and...
The City of God is Like This
The kingdom (queendom? commonwealth? city?) of God is like A mustard seed Small Easily missed. Potent. The city of God is like An olive tree An orchard A seed A wedding guest An ordinary...
The Toxic Language of Polygamy Culture
The parallels between societal rape culture and Mormonism’s polygamy culture are alarming. “Rape Culture” is a term used to show the ways society blames victims of sexual assault and normalizes male sexual violence. When...
How Orrin Hatch Made Me Pro-Choice
I don’t know exactly how it came up but I remember sitting in the passenger seat of my mom’s car, winding through the tree-lined back roads of suburban Cincinnati, as she drove me to...
Guest Post: Prodigals
by Caroline Crockett Brock Prodigals I imagine a cosmic welcome party thrown in our honor. The prodigal daughters have come home to their Mother. Long lost in the world and enslaved to foreign Masters,...
Kintsugi: Focusing on the Cracks
I was surviving fast and testimony meeting ok and then it came… The testimony that went something like this, “I visited another church and didn’t really learn anything new and I’m so glad to...
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