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This week I found myself in that place Tinkerbell is so fond of – the place between asleep and awake. I opened my eyes from an awkward catnap on the...
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Today’s Ride to Music and the Spoken Word comes to us from Katrina Barker Anderson, who took pictures of her family’s ride to Music and the Spoken Word in Salt...
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I like fast and testimony meetings. I like them even though I sometimes feel like I’ve wandered into a UFO convention by mistake.
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I believe we have stories to tell and if we don’t do it, it will be done for us.
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As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up for what we believe in or do something because we...
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When it was announced that gays and lesbians would be allowed to marry in New York beginning on July 24, my first thought–as a lifelong Mormon–was, “Pioneer Day!” While we’ve...
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By Dayna Patterson Letters to My Polygamist Ancestors Dear Charles, What was it like to have three wives? It must have been confusing, especially since you chose women with...
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Few hymns seem to capture the Mormon spirit so completely or at ts best. The steady beginning building to the gorgeous swell of music and lyrics work together to convey...
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Last week I participated in this Mormon Matters podcast regarding modesty and Mormonism with Dan Wotherspoon, Chelsea Robarge Fife, and Erin Hill. The impetus behind the podcast (for me, anyway)...
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Those who weren’t too busy, too judgmental, too self absorbed and too self-important to drop everything to help someone else are worthy of reenactment and emulation.
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One year we had a brown horse in the church parking lot. Bonnet-wearing girls and cowboy-hatted boys took turns “riding” him around the building. Another year, I helped organize a...
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Mormons all over the U.S. (and elsewhere, perhaps) gathered yesterday to celebrate Pioneer Day–commemorating the entry of Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake...
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I loved this article by Elna Baker, author of The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. It was published in O magazine in July 2011. A Mormon and a...
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Can a religion be built on faith? Just plain faith? Faith that isn’t looking for a promotion, or a pay raise, or that isn’t on its way to...
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What would you get if the producers of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” combined “My Dinner with Andre ” and “Easy Rider” with some salacious food porn thrown in? Why, you’d have...
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For as long as humans have made objects, there have been baby dolls. It’s an almost universal phenomenon that young children play with dolls. Especially if they have younger siblings...
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A few months ago, Brent and I finally managed to complete a task that has been on our to-do list for—gulp—14.5 years. We had a will drawn up (and other...
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Four novels later, I find myself firmly in the critical admirers’ camp.
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It’s really cheating for me to write anything for The Wayfarer because I’m a big fan of my comfort zone and try not to leave it too much. And my...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us all the way from Claudia (Faithful Dissident) in Moelv, Norway. Claudia writes: Almost nine years ago, I moved to Moelv, Norway. This town...
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In 2006, Elder Nelson spoke of his first wife saying, “When people have asked her how she managed with ten children with so little time available from her husband, she...
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“The iron rod should only go halfway through the mist—just HALFWAY, not all the way. It’s clear from the picture.”
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My neighbor Sheri and I watched motorists pass our children’s school bus for years. We took video, called the police, reported tag numbers, complained to the public school department of...
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We try not to rant here at Doves & Serpents. We try to discuss things we’re thinking about, exchange ideas, and ask questions. But I was pushed over the edge...
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See this list from the Hairpin.
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What the writers of D&S are into right now.
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I grew up road-tripping to my dad’s favorites: Johnny Cash, Trio: Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris & Dolly Parton, and AM sports radio mixed with a lot of static. So it’s...
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“You’ll only be baptized once in your life, so it is a very special experience,” my grandmother said, speaking at my eight year old daughter’s baptism last week. After her...
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Today’s Walk to Church/Synagogue comes to us from Jacob Baker, who recently attended a conference in Krakow, Poland. This is sort of cheating because Jacob didn’t really take these pictures...
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The problem is that our assumption of order and constancy doesn’t match the diversity, incoherence, and contradictions of lived religion.
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You, the audience, look through the barrel of an assassin’s rifle at a circular white space as a smartly dressed gentleman strides into view and then he suddenly whirls toward...
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As I watched from my TV with a newborn baby, I was physically ill at the sight of those not able to escape New Orleans as the ravaging effects of...
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I consider myself a friendly, outgoing person. I had a great group of girls I was friends with in high school. I like to think people find me easy to...
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My husband and I both enjoy a really broad range of musical genres. As such, I’ve often wondered – how will our kids find a way to fulfill the role...
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A couple of years ago I acquired a macro lens for my camera, and had all sorts of fun working out the fuzzy science of getting photos of the tiniest...
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Becoming a citizen was a long, expensive process for my husband. I can’t imagine how difficult it was for those people from Burkina Faso, Serbia, Jamaica, Colombia, Cambodia that...
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Our beloved Erin just wrapped up a 10-day silent vipassana meditation retreat, or as some people call it, “meditation boot camp.” Hopefully she’ll tell us more about it here later....
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This week I found myself hanging upside-down from aerial silks in an artist’s studio in Oakland, when the blasphemous words came out of my mouth, “I can’t!” I found new...
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If my religion were a sports stadium, then I’m in the nosebleed section. I’ve got a big Diet Coke, a bucket of popcorn, and the field is the size of...
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Check out this beautiful photo blog entry: (Click the photo to read.)
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Among its confluence of forces and traditions, it is impossible to ignore that the mythological potential of America is enabled, at least in part, by its sheer size. As the...
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