Let Them Worship
It was pre-pandemic, back when Activity Days happened in-person. My dear friend is the other leader, and we loved having time to chat and be together. Sometimes I’d be wrangling my toddler. Sometimes there...
Category: Belief
Guest Post: I Love You, So I Say This, parts 9-11
Guest post by Anonymous. This Mama got a gay kid for Christmas in 2019. In March 2020 BYU signaled LGBTQ acceptance in an update to the Honor Code, and hastily retracted it. Feeling protective,...
A blessing to call you back to life
Almost a year ago now, we held what we would later discover would be our last day of in person church meetings. Fortunately, we had a lot of fun things going on that day....
Embracing My Own Spiritual Authority
September 2014. I am 8 months pregnant and feeling simultaneously vulnerable and brave. Kate Kelly’s words after her excommunication in June keep coming to me: “Don’t leave. Stay, and make things better.” (Reaction to Kate Kelly’s Excommunication ~ Ordain...
Follow the Prophet?
Sacrament meeting in the local Mormon congregation focused on “Following the Prophet” on Sunday, which feels appropriate, as I’ve pondered this concept quite a bit recently. A tension exists in Mormonism between a deep...
When Wandering is Seeking
When Wandering is Seeking Straight.Narrow. Do not veer! But I cannot feel my Motherthrough the rigid asphalt. She is soft, colorful inviting. And forgiving when I stumble. Must I stay on the covenant path?...
A Little Bit of Therapy
This world is hard. Beautiful, and awesome, and heartbreakingly magnificent, but also incredibly damaging to our souls. Every day, little things break us down and tear us to pieces. Any tool that helps us keep it all together, that creates peace inside so we can share ourselves with others, well, that seems to me to be a worthy practice, and divinely appointed.
Book Review–House of Light: Your Guide to the Temple
When it comes to first time temple experiences, I consider myself lucky. As a college junior I was taking several classes in folklore and mythology and was waist high in initiation rites: symbols, punishments,...
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