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[Guest Post from Starfoxy, as part of the Doves & Serpents and The Exponent Blog Swap. Starfoxy blogs at The Exponent, and has terrible taste in movies.] After I signed...
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I knew that even small acts of assertiveness would be important. Maybe it didn’t change the world but for that individual woman, it was world-changing.
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After our two posts re: capital punishment last week (The Worth of a Soul and Finding Peace), I asked Dan Wotherspoon to do a Mormon Matters podcast on Mormonism and...
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Guest Post from Whoa-man as part of the The Exponent and Doves and Serpents swap. Hi, I am Whoa-man from Exponent. My husband and I are both PhD students trying...
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Today’s Stacks comes to us from EmilyCC, today’s guest for The Exponent and Doves and Serpent Blog Swap. Every so often, the bloggernacle has a discussion about the essential texts...
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When I was 27 I met my first orphan. She lived in Brazil. She was in a bare room with dank yellow walls. She was in a yellow crib. She...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Jessawhy, today’s guest for The Exponent and Doves and Serpents Blog Swap. “Hi, I’m Jessawhy, I live in Mesa Arizona with my husband...
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[Heidi, a fellow cheap-seater, still has the floor.] In an earlier Cheap Seats post, Brent asked “Why do we spend so much time telling each other what spiritual experiences mean?” I...
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Forgiveness. As babies and young children, we can’t help but forgive those that wrong us. We have no choice…. we are too dependent. But somehow along the path to adulthood...
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I grew up in Huntsville, Texas—the city where death row inmates are ultimately executed. Growing up, lots of people I knew worked for the Texas Department of Corrections, or “TDC”...
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“Novelists, poets and playwrights make literature; screenwriters make changes.” So jokes Scott Burns in a recent column titled “From Script to Screen with ‘Contagion,’” appearing in the 9-10-11 Wall Street...
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We are pleased to announce …
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A very wise woman told me recently that part of loving someone was giving them the room to be disappointed in my decisions. I’m still trying to wrap my head...
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Last Sunday, I gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting. It had been four years since I had been asked to speak, so believe it or not, I was excited about...
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Today’s ride to church comes to us from Paula, our favorite Ride to Church veteran. I have one last Ride to Church, a ride to The Rocky Mountain Retreat,...
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[This week we pass the microphone to Heidi, a fellow cheap-seater. Heidi, it's all yours. . .] Like many cheap-seaters and feminists, I’m not a fan of the modesty discourse...
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Every once in a while, I meet someone who is just plain old good. Without guile. My friend Rebecca is one of those people. And so are her kids. Rebecca...
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I had my five year old daughter with me and I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get her very interested in the bronzes. Then we turned the...
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I think I was a freshman in high school when I got my first C—in Algebra II—on my report card. I was sick about it. I knew I had been...
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Part One, ages 6 to 18
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by Randy B “[S]eek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” Matthew 7:7 A few years ago, I had become all but convinced that nobody...
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While I sat in the pediatrician’s office on three different days in the last 10 days, waiting and waiting for each kid’s well-check appointment, I picked up several magazines I...
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If you were to open your green hymnbook emblazoned with that nifty gold Tabernacle organ icon to page hymn #144, you’d find this ode to solitude, a song about the...
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We recently took a family trip to Austin, Texas. Oddly, I have spent nearly 30 years living in Texas and have only been to Austin once, to visit a BYU...
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In August, I underwent a 40-hour training to become a guardian ad litem or a “CASA” (court-appointed special advocate) for children in the foster care system. I was surprised to...
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I struggle to know what to do/how to handle 9/11 with my kids. They ask a lot of questions, those kids of ours. So I was glad to read this...
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I’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it hidden for many years, but when my wife finally catches...
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To me, these white clothing traditions are cultural in nature and are just part of being a Mormon, but to some they represent yet one more way to cast judgments...
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Today’s stunning Ride to Church comes to us from my friend Eralda, who took these pictures in Albania (her home country). Eralda took pictures in two different cities and writes:...
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The kids and I began this school year with everything organized and ready. Clothes, backpacks, lunches – all ready to go. I summoned my inner “Tiger Mom” and set up...
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This post comes to Doves & Serpents from Atticus F. McConkie. Joanna Brooks, a respected author and scholar, and faithful member of the Church, in an August 24 article in...
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Based on an informal poll of cheap seaters, these are the worst conference talks, GA talks, and other official pronouncements in the last forty years.
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Stumbled across this blog post somehow on Facebook and was really moved by it. It’s a good reminder that we never know what’s going on below the surface when we...
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The thought of any inexperienced driver in charge of a 4,000 pound machine makes me very nervous, but anticipating my own flesh-and-blood inexperienced driver sends me almost into a panic.
