I was plucking my eyebrows one morning last fall when she walked into the bathroom. “Mom, does that hurt?” she asked with big eyes. I hesitated as I thought about whether it was hurting, “Um, I guess it’s not comfortable. The first time I did it, it definitely hurt, but now it doesn’t hurt too bad.”
She looked at me incredulously, “Why would you do it if it hurts?”
Belief / Culture / Journeys / Relationships / women
by Miriam · Published January 28, 2023 · Last modified November 7, 2022
So often I hear people trying to convince others that the way they feel about a particular topic/meeting/policy is the way that everyone *should* feel. As if God speaks to each of his children in exactly the same way at exactly the same time. But that’s not the way personal revelation works.
There have been a lot of calls for reconciliation, for meeting in the middle. We’ve become too divided, they protest, and we need to set aside our political differences. But I don’t want to meet in the middle with oppressors.
Belief / book review / Culture / Family / Gospel / Journeys
by Lavender · Published December 8, 2022 · Last modified December 7, 2022
I have always wrestled with my faith and when my husband suddenly left our fundamental religion six years ago, stumbling from Mormon to Christian to agnostic to atheist over the course of a year,...
Culture / feminism / Gospel / Intersectionality / women
by Heather · Published December 4, 2022 · Last modified December 1, 2022
Recently a friend of mine shared an observation about the Mormon community that got me thinking about blessings in a new way: Ask a BYU student, faculty, and staff to name and count their...
A few Sundays ago I sat through another Relief Society lesson based on a talk from General Conference. The teacher has been teaching Relief Society for years. She’s considered the best teacher in the...
The anti-intellectualism is killing personal enlightenment. Why is this view so prominent?
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