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Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Love and Testimony

After reading Melissa M.’s post last month about patriarchal blessings, I decided to pull mine out and give it a read. It had been more than a while. And toward the end, I had one of those quintessential moments where a few words stood out in a new way—a phrase stating that I would be [...]

The Princess and Appease

“I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they’re going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.” — Kelly Corrigan (The Middle Place)   The first time I read this quote I was a little bit bothered. The idea that faith was [...]

Be not silent, nor unquestioning.

Religious persecution is not a cross I have to bear.  Although at times I feel like a stranger in a foreign land when it comes to the beliefs and convictions that separate me from the general populous, I have only to glance backward at history to know that I have been born in an age [...]

A Socially-Networked Spontaneous Show of Support

I’m drawn AWAY from socially networked efforts to make ourselves seen, even or especially as missionary outreach. I didn’t vote for Joseph Smith or Gordon B. Hinckley in anyone’s internet poll. I wasn’t the one who asked you to Vote for Segullah in the Niblets (though by the way, thanks for doing so.) When we all do the same networked thing it sticks out as fake as it is. I think of computers infected by the same virus that puts them at the command of hackers in China publicists in Mormonland.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

At five something tomorrow morning I will hear classical musical eminating from the Wave Radio, gradually growing louder until I realize it’s not part of my dream and fumble for the alarm remote on the top of my headboard. Exhaustedly, I will roll out of bed and trip into the bathroom, shivering and banging into the dresser along the way. With [...]

Male’ yad

My Testimony for Today As I walked into church last week, I shook hands with the people I passed by, I embraced the sisters I saw, I patted the children underfoot. My hands touched and moved across the members of our ward as we mingled with each other before the services started.

Statue of Limitations

When I was a freshman at BYU, and straight out of being raised “in the mission field” of vast California, I was leaving a religion class and chanced upon this scene: There was a boy, in the JSB, off a corridor in a small little courtyard area that contained a statue of Joseph Smith. From [...]

O Remember, Remember

About a month ago one of our ward missionaries sent me an email explaining that they are getting ready to launch a missionary blog and asking if I would write down my conversion story for them to post. I agreed, and though I haven’t started writing it yet, I’ve been thinking a lot about it [...]

Burying our Weapons of War

The newest installment in July’s “Up Close” series on Inactivity and Faith struggles is Kim, a mother of four daughters and seven granddaughters. To balance things out her husband has been involved in Boy Scouts for 20 of their 36 years of marriage…so they have many wonderful young men in their lives. Now that all [...]

My most thankful Thanksgiving ever

It was nothing apparently dramatic. In fact, it was more on the order of “suddenly she realized” as in badly written fiction. Roll back to 2001. We were living in Silicon Valley, and the internet bubble had burst. Richard G. Scott had said in conference that the gospel invariably led to peace and joy, but [...]

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