Jesus Made a Feminist Out of Me
Growing up, I never heard the f-word in my house. No, not that one, although I didn’t hear that one either; I didn’t hear the other f-word: (whispers) feminist. I did encounter the word...
Category: book review
Introducing The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 2
Rev. Dr. Fatimah S. Salleh was born in Brooklyn, NY to a Puerto-Rican and Malaysian mother and an African-American father. Dr. Salleh received her PhD in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina...
This Bridge Called My Back
You didn’t think I was going to stand on that corner by myself (arms and legs like board, mouth full of cement) forever, now did you? To Be Continued by Kate Rushin I told...
Our 5th Sacred Text
Do you remember that one General Conference? That one when we all raised our hands and sustained the Handbook as holding more authority than scripture, or common sense, or the spirit? I was...
A Stone for Anger, Rage, and Forgiveness
In March of 2020, I was taking a class titled Justice and Reconciliation at Luther Seminary and the professor assigned Desmond and Mpho Tutu’s The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves...
Emma Smith in a Party Hat and Other Contradictions
My sophomore English teacher was insistent: we would learn the definition of a paradox. She wrote it on the board and instructed us to copy it. We knew it would be on the quiz...
My Mormon #MeToo Experience and the Language of Consent and Assault
CW: This post discusses experiences with sexual assault and abuse. Four years ago, I watched the start of the viral hashtag MeToo on Twitter. At first, it was a trickle, and then a flood...
Beyond the Mapped Stars: An Interview with Rosalyn Eves
Every summer I binge read a bunch of novels. And while I enjoy them in the moment, most of them fade from my mind faster than a sunburn turns to a tan. But two...
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