Sacred Music Sunday: (Give Me That) Old Time Religion
When I joined the church in 1994, it was in many ways a very different church than I find myself in now. We talked about how the Book of Mormon was written for our...
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MHA Devotional 2019
Last Sunday, I spoke at the Mormon History Association devotional in the Salt Lake City Tabernacle and gave a short talk and opening prayer. As I was entering the building, it struck me that...
The One Commandment
The Ten Commandments are taught at a young age as a way to live rightly. They’ve even gone beyond the religious sphere and into popular culture such that just uttering the words “thou shalt...
Deconstructing the P word
About 30 years ago a Utah Valley area authority was giving a talk to a large audience. He spoke of attending a sacrament meeting where a newly baptized family, consisting of parents and several...
Sacred Music Sunday: I Saw a Mighty Angel Fly
Most of the hymns I select for this series are general Christian hymns that I love but that aren’t familiar to a wider LDS audience. However, today I’m sharing a very Mormon hymn –...
Lasik, a Solar Eclipse, and my Feminist Awakening
I first had laser corrective eye surgery at age 21. (I’d saved money up for a mission, but purchased Lasik instead when I got married.) It was really easy to know the surgery would...
Mormon Feminist Liturgies: A Toast to Our Mother Eve
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to lead a welcoming ritual at the opening of a Mormon feminist retreat. I left things to the last minute and ordered feminist theologian Rosemary Radford...
Relief Society Lesson: The Eye of Faith By Elder Neil L. Andersen
Guest Post by Descent Link to the talk Sometimes Relief Society instructors mention how they have to dig to find a lesson that they find uplifting to share. This is one of those talks....
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