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The Artist is a bold, artsy stroke hidden in a big-hearted familiar story, or maybe it’s the other way around?
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So here it is. The one inmutable law of organizations. As long as #4 is greater than #2, the organization will grow (and continue to amass resources).
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Dean, who is living in Vienna, Austria right now. Dean writes: We are living in Grinzing, the northernmost community in the...
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I love Grondahl’s representation of people. Mormon people, as lumpy, tired, pasty people. And, the kids, monstrous kids, running wild and irreverent. If you’d like to see other cartoons...
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. You know how we all imagine that ‘dog heaven’ will be a place where dogs get to do what dogs like, like ride in cars with their heads hanging...
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By day, I fancy myself a qualitative researcher. That means that people’s stories matter to me—significantly more than their answers to Likert scale questions. I’ll read a qualitative research study...
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“Families are Forever” reads the plaque, its vinyl modern font letters set against an artful antique finish. It’s the catch-phrase of modern Mormonism, a way of life for the most...
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In October of last year, I spent a couple days in Corpus Christi at a work conference. One morning, I put on my running shoes, bought a cheap disposable camera...
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The phrase “it takes a village” surfaces a deep longing for living in a time when I might have had a village. Nostalgic thoughts of sharing housework, childcare and my...
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I just spent two weeks in Costa Rica. Technically, it was for work, but it was very un-work-like. I went as a chaperone for a group of 18 female undergrads...
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Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous April 1963 letter, written to his fellow southern clergymen, was not known to me, sadly, until I was a college student, some thirty plus years...
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Caption Contest Tell us what your caption for this cartoon would be, in the comments below. If you know what the original caption was, don’t tell us. The idea is...
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Today’s walk to church comes to us from Laura in California, who spent a weekend in Yosemite with her family last fall. Laura writes: We had the opportunity to enjoy...
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Dear Jack, I don’t have a great relationship with my father. He and my mother divorced when I was six, and he became engaged to my stepmother two years...
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I’ve always been intellectually supportive of the mission of Visiting Teaching. Actually making myself do it, or enjoy being on the receiving end- or ‘teachee,’ as it were- hasn’t...
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[Photo Credit] This guest post is written by BDBeal. Yes, it’s a post about women’s dress written by a man . . . All groups have their idiosyncrasies. Mormons...
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My mother made the dolls by hand. She lovingly stuffed their life-sized bodies, making small neat stitches in their elbow and knee joints to make them seem articulated. She chose...
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I first came across movie critic Pauline Kael’s work in an undergraduate English course in the early 1980s. John Trimble, author of our textbook Writing with Style, showcased a few...
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She’s the most powerful woman in the LDS hierarchy, and now General Relief Society President Julie Beck is offering to answer questions from the editors of Mormon Mommy Blogs this...
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Today I am thinking about a profound lesson I learned as a student at Ricks College. I am thinking about the sacred text that prompted this lesson, its lines inspired,...
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This one’s from Marketing Precedes the Miracle, published in 1987. The later cartoons are more detailed, and a bit edgier than the earlier ones. This cartoon, as always, is posted...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Michael in Statesboro, Georgia, who writes: I live in the flat farmlands of south Georgia, a change from the mountains of Utah,...
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Dear Jack, Our ward is changing meeting times next year, and we’ll meet right in the middle of kids’ nap and lunch times. Do we make everyone go to church...
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A year ago, I was living in a daze. I was spending most nights curled up against my 11 year old daughter’s back as she lay on her...
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If there’s guilt to be had, I seem to want more than my fair share of it. I feel guilty about a lot of things. I feel guilty when my...
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Instead of putting my energies into losing weight – er, being healthy – or, you know, trying to be a better person, I think my life in music, books and...
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Second only to Halloween, New Year’s is a favorite of mine. The ritual self-assessing gets me literally giddy as I look ahead at a new year with a clean slate...
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In September, Brent and I went to New York City to attend a party to celebrate my aunt’s wedding to her partner of nearly 40 years. It was a quick...
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Posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation, the publisher, and Calvin Grondahl
