Despite never having seen Return of the Jedi, my 5-year-old loves all things Star Wars. While perusing an “easy reader” from the library, he came across a photo of Princess Leia chained up to...
November 1 is the deadline for the annual Exponent II essay contest. We are so excited to read your submissions and publish the essays in the Winter 2017 issue of Exponent II. The winner...
I was the kid who wanted to be a spider for Halloween. Because of my lifelong obsession with Charlotte and her web, this was less scary insect and more hero worship. The adoration extended...
Body / Culture / Family / Gender / Relationships / women
by Guest Post · Published September 16, 2016 · Last modified July 18, 2019
By Hannah If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “sex positive” – read this definition first! Everything I learned about sex came from the World Book encyclopedia, starting with the day my first menstrual cycle...
book review / Family / Relationships
by April Young Bennett · Published September 15, 2016 · Last modified September 9, 2016
After learning about John Gottman’s research demonstrating that successful couples make five deposits into each other’s emotional bank accounts for every one withdrawal, my husband and I tried a little experiment to see if...
by EmilyHB · Published September 10, 2016 · Last modified September 12, 2016
Although my brother will no longer come to church with me, and neither will my sister (notwithstanding that respectively they gave, until a certain point, their time, their money, and their hearts— their open,...
Family / Gospel / Relationships
by Chiaroscuro · Published September 4, 2016 · Last modified April 9, 2019
Mother Eve faced two incompatible directives – “to multiply and replenish the earth, that you may have joy and rejoicing in your posterity” and “of the tree of the knowledge of good and...
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