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Mormons, Mormons Everywhere

When I moved to Minnesota in 1998, a number of my new Midwestern friends and acquaintances saw my Mormonism as a curiosity. Many of the people I met had never known a Mormon “in real life” before, and a few held some interesting misconceptions. A woman in my MFA program assumed I had left the [...]

My Cake Doctrine

It seemed crazy, riding a camel up a moutain at midnight. Helpless, six feet in the air, I tried to tell myself that the camel didn’t want to die any more than I did. I listened to the sound of the pebbles as they spilled down the drop-off cliffs, and echoed as they bounced down the rocks [...]

More Righteous

Self-righteous behavior makes me cringe. Ooh, I despise it all– holier than thou testimonies, finger-pointing, long Pharisee-like checklists…. Why?

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