A couple Christmases ago, I polled Exponent readers about their favorite Mormon Christmas movies and got a lot of blank stares. Apparently, most families don’t watch Christmas movies as voraciously as mine does. So...
by April Young Bennett · Published December 18, 2014 · Last modified December 16, 2014
My mother is a brave woman who dared to speak out about being raped on multiple occasions by a brother-in-law during her childhood, although recounting such experiences caused her personal pain and in spite of...
“You don’t have to make every person in the city of Jerusalem,” my son says to me. He is home from college for the weekend and surveying the scene, incredulous that the stacks of...
I have been thinking a lot about memory lately, and a lot about traditions. The first is because of a very big book I read out loud twice while I was pregnant, called Memory, History,...
Family / feminism / Gender / Journeys
by TopHat · Published December 5, 2014 · Last modified January 21, 2016
Today is the end of my seventh week in a 24-week programming bootcamp. Three months ago, I was only non-chalantly applying for it, after having applied to another and had not gotten in. It...
by Pandora · Published November 27, 2014 · Last modified January 13, 2016
Warning: what you are about to read is not clever. It has not been edited for treacle, banality or minutia. I am pretty sure I am over-telling and under-showing. It is Thanksgiving morning 2014...
Family / Gender / Gospel / Journeys
by Guest Post · Published November 25, 2014 · Last modified October 15, 2017
Guest post by Sarah “And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives! And this...
by April Carlson · Published November 18, 2014 · Last modified January 15, 2016
In honor of National Adoption Month For me the catchiest tune in primary is “The Family is of God.” I can’t get it out of my head. Along with the tune come images of...
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