Hope in Lament
This longing for justice, I realized afterward, was hope. It wasn’t a smiley feeling that everything was going to be all right but an overwhelming desire for things to be different from what they are.
Category: Belief
Guest Post: The Limits of Orthodoxy
By Lindsay Hansen Park When I’m not running a non-profit that gives platform to marginalized Mormons or podcasting about Mormon fundamentalism, I’m usually online talking about Mormonism. Hey, who says I’m not...
Guest Post: Radical Love Manifesto
By Bryn Brody I don’t want to give it any more airtime, this not-radical, very-much-orthodox manifesto. I don’t want us to read it, or think about it, or spend (more) time arguing with the...
Sacred Christmas Music Monday
I know that with the inability to sing in large groups, many people are missing their traditional Messiah Sing-along. I participate in the Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra that usually performs in the auditorium up...
Guest Post: Heartbroken
By Blaire Ostler I am heartbroken to learn that the “Radical Orthodoxy” manifesto co-authored by Nathaniel Givens, Jeffrey Thayne, and Jonathan Max Wilson is intended to be anti-queer. I’m heartbroken. I’m utterly heartbroken. The...
Guest Post: On Listening
By Anonymous* At church we talk a lot about developing ourselves spiritually, but we don’t often talk about being better listeners. The church teaches that we have a Heavenly Mother and Father and, though...
Guest Post: An Open Letter to My Baby Brother
by Bryn Brody You were about 9 when a boy older than you but younger than me bullied you at the bus stop. He made fun of you in the way that mean kids...
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