The Middle Path, Colorized
March 26, 2018The usual iconography failed me.
My mother thumb-tacked
a cardboard print above my crib;
my age of reason came early.
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On Being a Mormon Woman
March 26, 2018Last weekend, I traveled to California to attend the graduation of my youngest child and only daughter, Megan, from UC Berkeley. She graduated with honors in sociology, a true personal triumph for her. Also graduating…
“Dear Brethren” — Claiming a Voice in the Church
March 26, 2018In the several decades in which I have heard LDS women discuss “women’s issues” as they pertain to the church, I have found it remark able how much fear there is among so many to…
Pioneers
March 26, 2018My people were Mormon pioneers.
Is the blood still good?
They stood in awe as truth
Flew by like a dove
And dropped a feather in the West.
Where truth flies you follow
If you are a pioneer.
Midwest Pilgrims: We’re Still Here
March 26, 2018Midwest Pilgrims is the result of a charge given the women at the Nauvoo women’s retreat held in 1982. It was to go back to their various geo graphical locations and organize similar gatherings. It…
Plymouth Rock on the Mississippi
March 26, 2018“So you’re considering a pilgrimage,” I wrote to someone I’d recently met and liked, “nothing would delight me more. You’d have some time away, you’d make new friends, get more deeply acquainted with familiar ones,…
My Short Happy Life with Exponent II
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 191–1933
Claudia Bushman and others reflect back on Exponent II.
Sunday Morning — Eight Days Before Christmas, 2001
March 26, 2018On death, I have thoughts
That bread and water
Can not satisfy:
Because they are gone
Jack, John, Eugene, and Ruth. . .
Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 159–175
In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages have had on women’sreproductive choices.
Temporal Love: Singing the Song of Songs
March 26, 2018I have taught from the Gospel Doctrine manuals for a total of sixteenyears, over a period of about twenty-five years. Not one of those manuals mentioned the Song of Solomon. In defiance, I read through…