What’s the Financial Value of a Mom?
I am a part time landlord/full time stay at home mom. I recently received a rental application from a single mother who included in her income statement a monthly payment from the state of...
Category: Family
Family Home Evening: Discussion of Amanda Gorman’s Poem, “The Hill We Climb”
As Ms. Gorman’s poem focuses on unity and inclusivity, this lesson outline is meant to include all sorts of families that might gather together for a lesson, whether they be Mormon or not, friends who become family, American or not, and is meant to include all ages who want to feel the Spirit through the emotions that are stirred during the reading of “The Hill We Climb.” Please take what is helpful and provide your own suggestions for a more robust lesson in the comments.
Lady MacFacebook
In Shakspeare’s MacBeth, Lady MacBeth’s “Unsex me” soliloquy has always intrigued me. As a high school student reading this speech, I wondered if there was something -outside of religion, of course- in my female...
Dear Believer
Dear Believer, I know it sometimes feels like you don’t know me anymore and that can be disorienting. I feel very much like the same person but I realize that in one very important...
Guest Post: Heartbroken
By Blaire Ostler I am heartbroken to learn that the “Radical Orthodoxy” manifesto co-authored by Nathaniel Givens, Jeffrey Thayne, and Jonathan Max Wilson is intended to be anti-queer. I’m heartbroken. I’m utterly heartbroken. The...
Guest Post: The Photo That Changed My World
by Jenn Nielsen I’ve always imagined, a tiny baby wrapped tightly in a white blanket with a small blue and pink stripe, pink or blue cap on the baby’s head. A newborn’s first portrait,...
Guest Post: An Open Letter to My Baby Brother
by Bryn Brody You were about 9 when a boy older than you but younger than me bullied you at the bus stop. He made fun of you in the way that mean kids...
From Conception to the Grave: WHO Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Guest Post By Karen Ady Karen lives in the Central Valley of California with her husband. When she is not writing or catching babies you can find her singing at the piano, schlepping...
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