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Do we believe, deep down, that the poor are that way because God wants them to be?
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Does reading make you a better person?
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Stopped at a light one Saturday morning, I met some teenage girls and their mothers with buckets requesting money to send the girls to basketball championships. My first reaction was...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from the West Coast–Portland, Oregon. JaneAnne writes: “I live in Willamette Heights, Northwest Portland, Oregon, and attend church in Beaverton. Although I mostly...
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My father grew up in a troubled home, poor as coal dust. A child of the depression and of divorce, he lined his broken-soled shoes with newsprint. As a child,...
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In their 1990 publication, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette suggested during the apex of the “men’s movement” that males...
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As part of this week’s discussion on “Mature Masculinity,” I thought I’d take a closer look at films and television shows that depict men grappling with questions of identity and...
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As a lone-parent, five-child family on welfare, we were hardly the ideal Mormon family.
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This is a post about men. This is a post about women. No wait, this is a post about ‘men’. This is a post about the relationships between women and...
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For years, I’ve cited To Kill a Mockingbird as my favorite book whenever asked. But I’ve read a lot of books since I first read that book in ninth grade...
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When I became a mother I was certain my children would grow up enlightened. And for me enlightenment meant my children would not ascribe to any traditional gender stereotypes or...
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I stumbled across this sweet article about a dad who read to his daughter for 3,218 nights in a row. And now that the daughter is grown and gone, the...
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When I was about six years old, my Dad walked me to primary class. We passed a man in the ward who nodded at the baby girl in my dad’s...
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Today’s ride to church comes to Doves & Serpents from our beloved Heidi, who writes Stacks for us every Tuesday, and her brother Torben. This is the parish church...
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Grr! Hmph! (Flex!) It’s Father’s Day, and that means that the next seven days on D&S will be dedicated to that strange cultural elaboration on the XY chromosome: it’s ‘Mature...
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Having arrived in London last week on an ordinary mid-week mid-morning, I exited the lofty frame of St Pancras International Station, onto Pentonville Road. Consulting the compass on my phone,...
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Trevor Price was kind enough to share this leaked picture of the newest edition of the Book of Mormon. Can’t wait to get my copy!
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I recently read this article in the Orlando Sentinel reporting on a third round of arrests of activists arrested for violating an ordinance prohibiting the sharing of food with large...
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My 14-year-old daughter recently said, “Mom, do you realize how many of your sentences begin with, ‘I just finished reading a book . . .’?” I paused for a moment,...
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Take a look at what we’re into right now.
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I can’t wait to read Desmond Tutu’s newest book, God is not Christian. I read his book Made for Goodness and found that it contained so much wisdom and light...
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I am terrified right now. In fact, I literally just sent a text to a friend that read, “I am terrified.” You see, this week, I set off for a...
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26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed....
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From the packed-in floor of a dark club (under Victorian railway tracks), and through the dancing columns of sound and light, the three members of Battles appear as conjurors, athletes,...
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Although best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is his delightful “Smiles of a Summer Night.” Whether you watch...
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Once upon a time, a woman in our ward (=church congregation) had a baby. In typical fashion, the women at church mobilized and quickly sent around a list for people...
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Ren took this amazing picture at Fort Snelling State Park in Minnesota. She says it’s a male twelve-spotted skimmer and that dragonflies are her favorite part of summer.
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I read a fair amount of young adult fiction—both as part of my job as a professor of secondary education and as a parent of two girls ages 11 and...
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It’s obvious that female writers and male writers are equals and “greatness” is highly subjective so we don’t have to say a word, right? I’m not so sure.
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They say 3 moves purges as much stuff as a fire. I’m testing that theory this summer. I moved last summer to what I knew would be temporary housing, grateful...
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I made a visit to my hometown in mid April, so I took some photos of my mom’s ride to church, through our little town of Trenton, Utah, just a...
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After recently bingeing on the award-winning and critically acclaimed BBC mini-series Downton Abbey, the drama-comedy Gosford Park caught my eye on my Netflix suggestions menu. It turns out they share...
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According to their origins, shoes are functional items. They give a degree of protection against the chance of you stepping on something sharp or unfriendly, and may be designed to...
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“He fell out of the nest two stories up yesterday. I think the parents have given up on him,” my friend told my 5 year old daughter after asking...
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Twenty members of the church discuss civic engagement at the White House. Read about it here.
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I have a 14-year-old daughter, so I have many opportunities to think about teens, texting, and Facebook. We got her a cell phone between 6th and 7th grade. She had...
