Our Church Needs More Transgender Members
(Edit from the author: Just to be extra clear, my audience in this blog post is the general membership of the church, to remind them what *we* are missing out on when we...
Category: Relationships
Guest Post: What I Wanted to Say Today in Testimony Meeting
by Lori I have three daughters. The oldest two are LGBTQ and no longer attend church. Their youngest sister, in her mid-teens, wanted to use today’s testimony meeting to talk about them and how...
Pretention
It’s easier to pretend that this is what i wanted.My life is good. And I did dreamOf this.I dreamt, too, of more. But when people ask, I say “I’m very blessed”, because I...
Sparking Sorrow
With Marie Kondo’s show on Netflix, I finally decided to read her book and fold my clothes up tiny and pass along my unused items. Our whole family is participating and it’s definitely going...
My Other Ward
I had a dream I was talking with Prince William (of England), who was a counselor in my ward’s bishopric. (I dream big). We were sitting at a round table in a nondescript room...
“Ye Devour Widows Houses”
“There was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man. And there was a widow in that city, and she came unto him, saying: Avenge me of mine adversary. And...
Things I Regret Doing When the Church Told Me To
There’s a lot of social pressure in the LDS Church: to conform, to be a good missionary, to do things the “right” way, to follow the party line. Here’s my top 10 list of...
My Mother’s Quilt
The Quilt written by Kathleen Powers, May 2003 I love how this poem uses quilting as a metaphor. We might have been dogmatic and precise, even ripping apart our efforts if they did not...
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