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Archive for December, 2012
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Parenthood Juggle: From SAHM to Single Parent
I couldn’t quite believe my bishop had confidence in my ability to be in charge. “Are you sure about this?” I asked him. “My life is falling apart right now.” -
37 Psaltery & Lyre: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, “There Will Be Poetry,” translated by Charles Patterson
“the sun dresses the tattered clouds / in fire and gold . . .” -
Guest Post Invitation: The Parenthood Juggle
I want my daughters (and my son!) to be able to read about other women’s struggles. How did they go about deciding what to do and when? -
I Am
“And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.” Exodus... -
36 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Sometimes I Fear”
“Sometimes I fear a body knows when it’s dying / and relays urgency to the brain / to make a flourish of praise . . .” -
Encounters: Easter Morning
By Jessica This Easter my family and I were visiting London, with the intention of doing tourist stuff and to evaluate our choice to move to England. We wanted to... -
Encounters: Miraculous Timing
By Karin I work as a nursing home and hospice physician. One day, while travelling to see patients on a 100-mile round trip route, I got a call from one... -
Encounters: Flat Tires
My tire blew as I crossed a bridge on the way to the St. Louis VA at 5:30 on a pitch-black winter morning. I had a cell phone this... -
Encounters: I Wish I Was Still Young
She looked at me again and seemed almost surprised to find me there holding her hand. She thanked me for stopping to talk to her and turned to slowly push... -
The Years of Magical Thinking
“I know the truth about Santa Claus, Mom. I know the answers now, the real answers,” my twelve year old son said to me solemnly last week, waving a Christmas card featuring the red-cheeked... -
35 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “We Gather Together”
“I’ve practiced this before, like hard dough rolled / in sugar: how we sweeten survival.” -
Encounters: How Great Thou Art
She put her arm around my shoulder, gave me a sisterly hug, and was gone, without saying a word. -
34 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Herald”
” . . . bringing sick, / terrible knowledge and that grey uncertainty / of the world at an end—how it could come / when nobody realizes nobody hears... -
On Being a Christmasist
In the three years since I lost faith in Mormonism, I’ve tried on more than a few labels to describe my spiritual alignment: agnostic, atheist, humanist. I’m not content with... -
Twenty Years
I stumbled across this Facebook meme a couple months ago and sorta fell in love with it. I want to put it in a frame next to my girls’ beds... -
Mormonism is a Skirt, Not a Pair of Pants!
Skirtism doesn’t imply that there exists no universal Mormonism — for all we know, One True Mormonism is floating out there in the noumenal — it only requires us to... -
Behold, the Condescension of God
O Come, all ye faithful. O Come, all ye doubtful. Come, all ye sorrowful and shameful and prideful and sinful. You are never so low, but that He has... -
47 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: A Faith like Mine
I now admit, somewhat sheepishly, that one of the reasons I voted for Obama is because of his religious beliefs. -
Encounters: Collapsing Inside
Driving by the cemetery that day, I happened to look right and saw an older man with unkempt hair sitting on a bench outside a gravestone store across from the... -
Grondahl Restored 46
If you’d like to see other cartoons in this series go to http://www.dovesandserpents.org/wp/category/columns/grondahl-restored/ This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation, the publisher, and Calvin Grondahl. -
33 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Aesthetics Seminar as the Last Supper”
” . . . seconds when we believed our little thoughts / were stars pricking through a black canopy. / Stars we thought we could sail by to some new... -
Put on Your Pants Uke Song
Every movement needs music. This is a great start. -
Pantsgate 2012: There Is Room Enough for All of Us
There is room enough in Christ for all of us. -
46 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Girls Can Change the World
We’re not just losing the voice of someone who would say the same things as everybody else in the conversation. -
Heather Wears Pants
I was pregnant with Stuart, my third (and last) child when I decided I wanted to get a Ph.D. By the time he was three months old, I had already... -
32 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “Soft”
“The doctrine is an egg / in its shell / I can’t swallow / God . . . “ -
Encounters: The Power of Empathy
“I found out that there is a point where you might as well be literally drowning in rising water, instead of disconnection bills. And when your kids are hungry, you... -
45 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Pants-Wearing Women Running Wild
That, my friends, is how you maintain a cultural norm, and in that context, press releases telling women they can decide for themselves what to wear are meaningless. -
Friendless in East Texas
I was born and raised in East Texas and have spent most of my adult life living here or Louisiana. But my parents are originally from California, which means that... -
Encounters: We Are All Beggars
When we see physical need in others, it is merely an external manifestation of an inner need we all carry. -
Grondahl Restored 45
If you’d like to see other cartoons in this series go to http://www.dovesandserpents.org/wp/category/columns/grondahl-restored/ This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation, the publisher, and Calvin Grondahl. -
The Church and Homosexuality
I hope that, despite our setbacks, the Church will truly listen to its LGBT members and begin to loosen the reins that it has proverbially set upon our backs for... -
Now is the Time
And I hope that all of you who have suffered, if you need to sit it out, that you can begin to find solace from afar, if that’s what you... -
31 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Jesus Is Coming Back”
“He is walking home from the church in our skulls / knocking the halo from his head . . .” -
Encounters: I Passed By
I was enjoying the beautiful evening as I crossed the Maeser quad, and I heard her before I saw her. I had to look around for the source of the... -
Guest Post Invitation: Encounters
So throughout this busy month, we here at Doves and Serpents would like to share some stories of what we’re calling encounters–moments or exchanges with people, whether strangers, family members,... -
Worshipping in Exile
How do I worship in Exile? -
Grondahl Restored 44
If you’d like to see other cartoons in this series go to http://www.dovesandserpents.org/wp/category/columns/grondahl-restored/ This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation, the publisher, and Calvin Grondahl. -
Words, Words, Words
Earlier this week, someone I didn’t know, someone I’ve never met, just a woman in pain, mistakenly thought I had taken something of hers, or rather, someone of hers. In...
