The Forgotten Women of the Nativity
Last month, I unpacked my nativity set with my toddler son, handling the smooth olivewood figures carved in Bethlehem for purchase by eager Christian tourists. We named the figures as we put them in...
Category: Gospel
Guest Post: The Limits of Orthodoxy
By Lindsay Hansen Park When I’m not running a non-profit that gives platform to marginalized Mormons or podcasting about Mormon fundamentalism, I’m usually online talking about Mormonism. Hey, who says I’m not...
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: Learning to Lament
By Sara Bybee Fisk I am a student of The Living School. Part of the curriculum experience is an assignment to Circle Groups who meet online to learn from each other and from the...
Guest Post: On Listening
By Anonymous* At church we talk a lot about developing ourselves spiritually, but we don’t often talk about being better listeners. The church teaches that we have a Heavenly Mother and Father and, though...
Sacred Music Sunday: For the Beauty of the Earth
Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Gratitude is both a simple and a difficult topic....
A Christmas Sacrament Meeting, the Sequel
Last Christmas, for the second consecutive year, I was charged with creating the Christmas Sacrament Meeting program in my local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) ward as part of my calling...
Reclaiming The Great Apostasy
The Church takes a very dim view of the period between 100 A.D. and 1820. Preach My Gospel, the manual for missionaries, uses the following words and phrases to describe 1700 years of humans worshipping...
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