We all know the Sunday School answers, but life rarely, if ever, plays out like a seminary video. So what do love, sex, and marriage look like in the lived experience of Mormon women? […]
[…] her alter ego “Giselle” as the ideal Mormon woman, mother, and wife she had to dismantle in order to accept herself. “I’ve never known a woman who prayed as much” she describes the ideal. […]
[…] man in a twenty-five-year-long relationship with my husband Göran Gustav-Wrathall. We were legally married in July 2008. Over the years, people have asked me how it is that I could consider myself Mormon if […]
[…] of us wanted to do), as remarry is to wary, or to worry. Like what I did the first night my brother and I stayed at Mom’s new house. Dad was alone. All alone. […]
[…] was about ready to step in,” he said. “Sorry about that,” Honri said. “But all is in order now. Sometimes it’s necessary to let your feelings out. We learned that from watching your TV […]
[…] complicated feelings about Lydia), Lydia through her blog and her applications to colleges, and Travis through an online community attached to the fantasy books he loves. But a startling tragedy that affects all three […]
[…] any other sentence could possibly be. Then you have to do that with paragraphs and chapters in the service of a whole whose shape knocks readers right out of unconsciousness, makes them alive, blasts […]
[…] a fan. He is the proprietor of the website quotidiana.org which is, among other things, an “ online compendium of 420 public-domain essays.” Both Madden and the above-mentioned Lopate (along with countless other essayists) […]
[…] his church attendance, one week attending his LDS ward and the next with a Protestant congregation, in order to make Grace comfortable in the land of the Saints. She later converted to the LDS […]
My first entry into the world of so-called Mormon polygamy began on June 17, 2010 when I attended the second annual conference of Safety Net, an organization that seeks “to assist people associated with […]