Perfect vs. Enough
I don’t like to learn new things. I like to be already good at things. I’d rather leave the page blank than write the wrong thing. Unfortunately, moving to a new, not majority-English speaking...
Category: Culture
Death and Ritual in Mormonism
I recently watched a fascinating Ted Talk by Kelli Swayze entitled, “Life that Doesn’t End with Death.” She talks about her husband’s home culture in Tana Toraja, Indonesia, and how, in the Torajan...
On White Man’s Burden
In the aftermath of recent happenings in Charlottesville, I’ve been sad and feeling powerless. I’m wrestling with my whiteness and what it means about my responsibility as a citizen of planet earth. In this...
V.I.P.s in the Kingdom?
…Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34 Central to our beliefs is that each of us is a child of god. I mean, we have been singing...
Racism in the church
With the recent events in Charlottesville, a church member brought up the issue that racism is still present in the church. I remember being shocked when I learned as a teenager that blacks didn’t...
The Mormon Concept of Heavenly Mother with Rachel Hunt Steenblik and Ashley Mae Hoiland
In this episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, author of Mother’s Milk: Poems in Search of Heavenly Mother and the book’s illustrator, Ashley Mae Hoiland, discuss some of the beautiful and...
The Lone Flower: Voting “Yes” for Marriage Equality while Mormon
Guest Post By Amelia Christensen. Amelia likes podcasts, ripping up gardens, and whale watching. She has two beautiful, curious, and emotional boys with her husband, and aspires to work in the mental health sector. Her...
Facing the Racism in Mormonism
Guest post by Molly Hogan Years ago, I attended an after church choir practice. Our choir conductor, Cathy Stokes, was attempting to teach a small group of multigenerational white Mormons the proper way to...
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