Sacred Music Sunday: Abide with Me
This past week was the solstice – summer for the northern hemisphere and winter for the southern. I live in the middle of a hot desert, so summer makes me cranky. There’s an oppressive...
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Battle of the Hymns
We’re about 6 months in to COVID-restricted church and with Fast Sunday coming up this Sunday, you may be needing a pick-me-up from Zoom Testimony Meeting. Have no fear! We all know the best...
Sacred Music Sunday: I Will Sing the Wondrous Story #CopingWithCOVID19
I’ve really missed going to church. There’s something about being physically present in the same space as other people that can’t be replicated over Zoom. A couple of months ago when my state’s stay...
Sacred Music Sunday: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Isaac Watts sure knew how to write a hymn. So many of my favorite hymns were written by him. One that I really love that I wish were in our hymnal is When I...
Hymns in the Key of Corona
Perhaps, like me, your ward is meeting via Zoom or on a similar platform. Our ward doesn’t sing hymns together anymore and I miss it. However, none of the songs really capture the flavor...
Sacred Music Sunday: All Creatures of Our God and King #CopingWithCOVID19
In the last few weeks, it feels like the world has turned upside down. With the COVID-19 global pandemic, many of us have had to give up large parts of our lives, with no...
Guest Post: Toward a Gender-neutral, Gender-inclusive LDS Hymnal
by Bob Rees “A hymnbook is as good an index to the brains and the hearts of a people’s as the creed book.” —Alexander Campbell One of the enlightened revelations of the Restoration is...
Listen to feminist women at church! Sing one of these official LDS hymns by feminist lyricists.
Carol Lynn Pearson Carol Lynn Pearson is an advocate for LGBTQ rights (see her book Goodbye, I Love You) and feminist theology (see her book, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy) and a regular contributor...
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