Wild Sage
April 17, 2018I sit here by my gate, sniffing the stalk of sage in my hand, and wonder about the leaves drifting down on me. They float past my eyes and settle on my folded legs. Summer…
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Meditations on the Heavens
April 17, 2018On the night of 16 November 1985, Halley’s Comet was said to be visible just to the right of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, in the eastern sky. That night, ten of us from the…
Sons
April 17, 2018New grain, you are comely;
Long, straight, supremely vernal.
Standing in Earth’s sun
Unashamed green,
You sway.
“No More Strangers and Foreigners”
April 17, 2018As I look back on more than sixty years in the Church, two changes stand out as being most significant: I have seen my church permit all worthy male members to hold the priesthood, and…
A Celebration of Sisterhood
April 17, 2018I recently completed a short season of speaking at Mormon women’s conferences, largely related to Relief Society. I do not do this as a professional speaker. I don’t sell books, and (at the moment) I…
Family Scriptures
April 17, 2018For a book of remembrance we have written among us, according to the pattern given by the finger of God; and it is given in our own language (Moses 6:46). Sometimes in my journey through MIA I…
Religion and Suicide: A Records-Linkage Study
April 17, 2018Since the early studies of the French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, suicide has interested sociologists. But suicide, by its very nature, has resisted study, and the problem of studying it has not eased over the years.…
Four Characteristics of the Mormon Family: Contemporary Research on Chastity, Conjugality, Children, and Chauvinism
April 17, 2018From its inception, Mormonism has been characterized by a blend of traditional American culture mixed with unique, sometimes even radical, elements. The nineteenth-century Mormon family combined aspects of Puritan family morality with a unique theology…
The Binding of Isaac: A View of Jewish Exegesis
April 17, 2018For Jews, the Bible is an animate being. Understanding it means understanding everything we have experienced. The sum of meaning in the Bible is the sum of life’s meaning. Judaism is over 2,000 years of…
Recollections from an Ex
April 17, 2018mused in several voices
to the tune of tinkling cymbals
It wasn’t like she didn’t blend right in.
In fact, based on the type of clothes she wore,
People always figured she was from Salt Lake.
Her skirts were long enough, that’s for sure.