By Louise In the past 11 years, I’ve given thousands of hours to this church. I’ve attended meetings, I’ve prayed for inspiration, I’ve taught countless lessons, born my testimony, and paid tens of thousands...
Throughout my faith transition I have had to wrestle with the construct of “God” in an entirely new way. In my childhood, and throughout my time as a traditionally believing Mormon, I was taught...
Belief / Body / book review / feminism / Journeys
by LMA · Published April 26, 2019 · Last modified April 25, 2019
April 2019 By LMA I have written on the blog about my experience reading Rachel Hunt Steenblik’s poems for the first time. I wrote that reading her poems was like finding water in the...
Belief / Body / book review / feminism / Journeys / women
by LMA · Published April 26, 2019 · Last modified April 25, 2019
Please see the bulleted list of poems according to the four themes discussed in the Exponent book review of “I Gave Her a Name.” Theme 1: Heavenly Mother is multifaceted and complex, and embodies...
By E. Gray I have an irrational love for churches. All churches. Soaring medieval basilicas, ancient stone shrines, clapboard New England meetinghouses, eccentric modern architecture, Latter-Day Saint temples. Old and new, large and...
Christian holidays after a faith transition can be tricky. Two years ago, I wrote about speaking to my congregation on Easter Sunday. I finally answered my own question about the Resurrection on my short...
Belief / Culture / Family / feminism / Gospel / Journeys / Relationships / women
by Violadiva · Published April 19, 2019 · Last modified April 26, 2019
Dear Church Leader, Allow me to introduce myself: I’m a millennial, part-time-work-at-home mom of 3 young kids, married in the temple to a returned missionary. Based on the outpouring of messages and firesides directed...
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