A Trans Blessing, part 1
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the women’s blessing I and a few of my ward sisters did for my oldest’s baptism, right after the confirmation. Today I’d like to share about...
Category: Journeys
Shades of Becoming: Poems of Faith Transition Bulleted List of Poems
Please see the bulleted list of poems below that correspond to the four themes discussed in the Exponent Book Review for Shades of Becoming: Poems of Faith Transition, edited by Nancy Ross and Kristen...
Book Review – Shades of Becoming: Poems of Faith Transition
July 2019 By LMA The compilation of poems in “Shades of Becoming: Poems of Faith Transition” edited by Nancy Ross and Kristen R. Shill is direct, powerful, introspective, affirming, and very much needed. In...
“Claiming Time to Be”
[“Resting in the Purple Snow Jacaranda-2” by John, Flickr] I am the primary caregiver of two young daughters, ages five and seven. My time with them is the best of times, and the...
What comes next?
Since before I was born, my life has been structured by a blueprint I was later taught both implicitly and explicitly. My mother was 19, my dad was 23, a newlywed Mormon couple fulfilling...
Shades of Becoming: Poems of Faith Transition
From the Introduction, Shades of Becoming: Poems of Transition, ed. by Nancy Ross and Kristen R. Shill. For sale at Amazon. When I experienced the most painful part of my faith transition and started...
Smash the Plate-riarchy: A New Feminist Ritual
I grew up hearing the legend about the early Mormon pioneer women who sacrificed their china to be smashed up for the plaster on the Kirtland temple. I imagine it was told as...
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