Things I Regret Doing When the Church Told Me To
There’s a lot of social pressure in the LDS Church: to conform, to be a good missionary, to do things the “right” way, to follow the party line. Here’s my top 10 list of...
Category: Family
My Mother’s Quilt
The Quilt written by Kathleen Powers, May 2003 I love how this poem uses quilting as a metaphor. We might have been dogmatic and precise, even ripping apart our efforts if they did not...
The Patterns of Life
My mother was an excellent knitter, especially with mittens, hats and sweaters. She often wove pictures into the sweaters. When my daughter was in her Madeline phase (“In an old house in Paris that...
Guest Post: Reclaiming Mother’s Day
By Ariel Wootan Merkling Anna Jarvis was forever changed by a simple prayer offered during Sunday School by her mother Ann. Her mother, an activist who organized around maternal and infant public health, stated...
I Never Knew My Grandma Because of the Old Temple Sealing Policy
The Ogden Temple in the 1970s, before its modern makeover. Hooray for positive changes! I was married in the Bountiful Temple 16 ½ years ago, and it was a relatively small event as far...
A Talk for Baptism
I’ve been thinking about baptism lately and just remembered that I have saved the talk I gave at my oldest’s baptism 3 years ago. I thought I’d share it here. When you were 4...
#hearLDSwomen: My Bishop Sided With My Abusive Husband and Would Not Give Me Aid When I Left Him
My bishop told me if I’d hearken to my husband, he would feel better about himself and stop abusing me. I literally told my bishop that the phrase was to hearken to the counsel...
Letter From a Doubter
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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