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When we lived in Bristol, we went a few times to the nearby and ancient town of Glastonbury, where, on top of a sharp and very prominent hill, a strange-looking...
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I just read this sad article about a woman who can no longer close her eyes due to a plastic surgery procedure. And if you’ve been reading here this week,...
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I watched the Twin Towers fall on TV, my oldest child safely ensconced in her kindergarten class. My toddler was playing with blocks nearby…. building towers and knocking them down. ...
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I just read this article re: the sexual behavior of college students. This article reports on research done by Mark Regnerus, who wrote Forbidden Fruit that I wrote about several...
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The willingness to spend tons of money and time grooming or getting surgery is born of a desire to control outcomes, to dictate the potentially unpredictable vicissitudes of desire and...
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“At fifty, every man has the face he deserves. To erase the lines and change the contours of one’s face is a way of obliterating one’s history.” –George Orwell...
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I thought this was a great interview. I loved it when he said he liked the Mormon practice of having weekly “Family Home Evening” and hoped his kids were having...
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The flickering of the candles drew me in as if they were the wish at end of a birthday celebration. . . when I found out that money was tied...
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Part 1: My poor kids have a Yogi-Buddhist-Pacifist (and Christian leaning) Mom. This does not bode well if you are a 15-year old boy who loves video games. Have you...
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It’s easy to be unconscious about our consciousness. The stories that we tell ourselves make up our world, but it’s natural to be unaware of the huge potential power that...
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Forty years ago today I received a gift, an item I’ve owned longer, and used more often, than any other possession
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This beautiful picture is a shot of the view Brent (married to Doves-and-Serpents-Heather) woke up to every morning growing up in rural Washington state. The picture was taken by Brent’s...
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By Claudia On my personal blog, I am known as “The Faithful Dissident.” For the past three years, I’ve been hiding behind that alias. Afraid of what, I’m not exactly...
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My son Stuart turned 8 in February and was baptized as a member of our church last Sunday. (Children typically get baptized when they turn 8 in the Mormon church,...
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) shows us (to use David Lynch’s words:) people ‘in trouble’. Like Altman’s Short Cuts, the film revolves around the strangely interconnected lives of a number...
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And mostly I felt sadness that it takes people completely outside of my faith to see where the power of Mormonism lies.
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I was inspired by Andy’s post of churches around York several weeks back and decided to give it a shot where I live here in the Salt Lake area. I...
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Nearly a year ago, I was distressed to realize that I desperately wanted to be somewhere else, doing something else. I wanted to be someone else. Felt burnt out at work....
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When Dogma (1999) was first released, it was met with all the usual protestors: the Harry-Potter-book-burners, who hadn’t bothered to see the film. From a copy of the script, the...
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This is, reportedly, what my daughter’s second grade teacher asked her class during a fit of frustration over their less-than-enthusiastic preparation for the looming standardized testing. Several other parents and...
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I never thought too much about whether I’d be a mother (see this post if you’d like). I thought about becoming a mother about as much as I think about...
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Welcome to a new segment on Stacks where I give brief reports on what I’ve been reading or listening to lately. Today’s edition will feature four novels I’ve read in...
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In the spirit of wayfaring, Ashley joins us today with the kind of travelogue I’d love to hear in testimony meeting. I’m the one with my mouth open wide and...
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Today on ‘The Sanctuary’ we’re very pleased to have a guest post from Krisanne, who writes at the Mormon Women Project, as well as A Paper Moth and Bottari. A couple...
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Come see Erika’s drive to church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Erika is a licensed therapist and photographer. Click here to see her amazing work. Erika says: “I live in Baton...
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‘Sometimes there’s a man… and he’s the man for his time and place.’ The Big Lebowski (1998) is a film about a man who ‘nobody calls… Lebowski.’ He is ‘The Dude’...
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This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of my purpose), but I’ve always read the parable of the...
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Check out this amazing picture taken by D’Arcy Benincosa of Bee Photography. This is one of her favorite shots:
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I’m a public school junkie and since this is Texas Public Schools Week (who knew?), I’m hopping up on my Public Schools Soapbox. My three siblings and I are...
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My boy, my oldest, is turning nine tomorrow. He is still young, but in the last six months, there have been these strange flickers of the future, a shadow of...
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We can blame it all on Ben Franklin. Starting the trend for using artistic satire to editorialize, his “Join, or Die” cartoon was the first of its kind to be...
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This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Candy Chan is a public installation artist, designer, urban planner, and co-founder of Civic Center who...
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I don’t know what I was thinking, but I (Heather) accepted John Dehlin’s invitation to participate in his first re-tooled Mormon Matters Podcast. Check it out here and let me...
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My name is Reuben Collins, and I’ve lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for 5 years. My local LDS chapel is only about two miles from my home, but there’s a lot...
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This week, Brandon Davies was suspended from playing on the BYU basketball team for violations of the Honor Code. (ie: he had sex with his girlfriend) The responses have surprised...
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A special guest post today featuring the short documentary ‘Tarkio Balloon. The film is the first in ‘The Lost and Found Series,‘ a series of five documentary films by a...
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How much recompense can mythology – or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body – provide in the face of human yearning?
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Over on her weekly column ‘Salt and Seed’, Rosalynde Welch discusses the move away from the LDS Church teaching that ‘R’ rated movies (for it’s US members) are forbidden. She...
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A guest post from a reader, Debra. Names matter. They do. My life experience has taught me this. Names are important as they are references – signs — that direct...
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Guest Post: by Ian — An Early Review of The Book of Mormon Musical. This past Monday I had quite the Family Home Evening—I saw a preview performance of the...
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This is the fifth post in a series regarding sexuality, religion, and teenagers. You can see the other posts by clicking here. The first one was January 26, 2011. ...
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In the last few years I’ve become a fan of Swedish death metal. There, I said it.
