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From all of us at Doves & Serpents, we hope you had a Merry Christmas and we wish you a Happy New Year! We’ve so enjoyed writing for you and...
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Today’s beautiful Ride to Church(es) comes to us from Amanda Klein Nokleby and Matt Nokleby, who spent Christmas Day 2009 in Scotland and were nice enough to share some of...
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Today, a special Christmas guest post from Colin. They say that the first step in recovery is admitting that you have a problem, so here goes: Hi, my name is...
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In the new year I’ll be back to answering your questions about life and Mormonism, but I wanted to do something a little different with today’s column, my tenth, and...
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The year I turned four or five, we drove to my grandparents in central Wisconsin for Christmas. Actually, we did this for most years of my early childhood- until I...
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We spent eight really fun years in Louisiana (2000-2008). It’s a pretty unique place. The people there know how to enjoy life. Every time I turned around, there was a...
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This year, I’ve been having a difficult time getting into the Christmas spirit this season. Heck, I’ve had difficulty even defining what “is” the Christmas spirit. For my kids, the...
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As a kid I read a lot of comic books. I enjoyed studying the intricate character storylines consisting of their origin stories, their many adventures and their overlapping histories with other...
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Robert Kirby says that his first look at this week’s cartoon marked the beginning of his career in Mormon humor: Tribune humor columnist Robert Kirby says Grondahl, then an editorial cartoonist at...
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Hello Jack, I just found out about this site. Is it really for people who have left the church? If so, how can it co-exist with those who are sternly...
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In early 70s, if you’d wanted to buy a Mormon book, you’d have had to walk into a Deseret Book somewhere, or, a local bookstore in the Mormon corridor, where...
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I am realizing these days that I do a LOT of stuff because I’m supposed to. Mel calls this her “approval whore,” which is a hilariously apt description. I do...
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I suspect every family has a list of Yuletide must-see TV such as “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, ” “A Christmas Story”...
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In light of the silly controversy that occurred last week at BYU-Idaho wherein a female student was denied access to the testing center for wearing skinny jeans, we thought it...
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Is your ward like mine — that first Sunday of January brings another round of Sacrament Meeting talks on setting goals? For the record, I love those talks. I’m actually...
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Today’s ride to “church” comes to Doves & Serpents from Matthew Crowley of Culpeper, Virginia. Matthew writes, “Sundays for our little family are often days for outings, particularly to locations...
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Dear Jack, I believe that one of the greatest gifts God has given us is our capacity to think for ourselves. If I do my best to understand a particular...
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Last week, at a familiar intersection, the sign a man held up said, “It doesn’t take much to be kind.”
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I never had much angst about the whole Santa thing. We did Santa when I was a kid, but not too extravagantly—no cookies by the fireplace or manufactured footprints outside....
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A few weeks ago, I was chatting with some of my students, seniors in a small, rural Texas high school, about what we were listening to. “Mylo Xyloto, the new...
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I reminisced about the lunches with other moms and days spent at museums and pumpkin patches without quite remembering the soul-crushing isolation felt when there was no adult conversation several...
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The story about the economics professor and the effects of “socialist” grade sharing is circulating again. If you aren’t familiar with it, I’ve included a version of it at the...
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When I moved to Texas several decades ago as a naive, hopelessly midwestern college student, adjustments had to be made. I had to get used to the way people here...
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Today’s “ride” to church comes to us from Nathan, Claire’s brother, who writes: My sister Claire asked me to submit a “Ride to Church” episode for her blog. So,...
