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We spent 10 days (our spring break plus both weekends on either end) in Tokyo visiting our dear friends who are living/working there and taking in as many sights as...
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In honor of the Rocky Mountain Retreat XX anniversary, we’re rerunning this Ride to Church which originally ran in June 2011. This year’s Retreat is May 31-June 2. Our speakers...
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Today’s stunning Ride to Church comes to us from Claudia, a RtC veteran. This Easter Sunday, I had the opportunity to visit a very humble church that very few people...
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Today’s Ride to Mosque comes to us from Norm, who recently visited Abu Dhabi, the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Joanna in New Mexico, who writes: My family recently visited Acoma Pueblo, one of New Mexico’s 19 pueblos, with intertwined yet distinct...
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Today’s snowy Ride to Church comes to us from Tiffany and Michael in Denver, CO: When I visited Denver for the first time one of the things that stood out...
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Last month, my husband and I visited our son, who’s a PhD student at the University of Montreal. We’ve visited him twice now, and both times we’ve stayed the Pavilion...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Emily (a “veteran” Ride to Church-er). In an interesting twist of life, I went on a mission trip with a group of...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Michael Nielsen (a Ride to Church veteran: see here). Michael writes: We spent this Christmas in Istanbul, visiting our friend Metin who...
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Today’s ride to church comes to us from Lori P., who writes: These are from a trip to Nairobi, Kenya to visit my brother and sister-in-law and their family. We...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Chelsea in Virginia. We live in Loudoun County, Virginia, about 50 miles west of Washington, DC. My family moved here in 1989...
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Disclaimer: This series of photos did not take place on a Sunday and they were not part of any type of official religious institution or spiritual observance. And yet, this...
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Today’s stunning Ride to Church (=corn maze) comes to us from Nicole in New Brunswick: I’ve been looking forward to sharing my pretty neck of the woods in all its...
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Today’s amazing Ride to Church comes to us from Angela Clayton and Ken Clayton (who took the stunning pictures). Angie writes: “Varanasi is considered a holy city by Hindus (as...
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Today’s installment of our Ride to Church feature that we usually run on Sundays is a Walk to the World Trade Center Memorial site, which my family visited in June...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Carole (who has also graciously shared her Rides to Church in Avon and Paradise, Utah and a last Ride to Church in...
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In June, we took a family vacation to New York. We spent 6 days in New York City and then rented a car and drove to upstate New York. We...
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Today’s Ride to “Church” (=Sensoji Temple) comes to us from Emily: In May of this year, I had the opportunity to take a group of five 8th grade students on...
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Today’s Ride to Mosque comes to us from Shayda, who writes: My name is Shayda, and I am half Iranian and half American. I am very proud of my Iranian...
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Today’s Ride to Church is not actually a ride to church; rather, it’s a ride to the Columbine High School shooting memorial, brought to us by Stephanie Siggard Stevens, who...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Blake, who visited the Grand Canyon and writes: Westerners transplanted to the Great Plains, my family now lives in and enjoys Kansas...
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During a recent drive through east Texas, on a 130 mile stretch of Hwy 21 that I have driven a number of times, each time noting to myself that ‘Dang!...
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Today’s Ride to Pride comes to us from Ren, who has done another Ride for us and has shared some of her amazing photography with us as well (see here and here). ...
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Today’s Walk to Church comes to us from Jenna in Chicago, who writes: We are moving from Chicago to the Bay Area this year, and I finally convinced my husband...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Joanna in Albuquerque. Joanna is one of the first non-Mormon people to send us a ride to church, so props to her...
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Today’s Ride to Pride is a slideshow of pictures from last week’s Pride Parade in Salt Lake City, UT in which nearly 300 straight Mormons marched in support of their...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Karin (sister of Doves and Serpents’ Heather) and her daughter Synneve. [Heather says: I love this post so much because it’s my...
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In late April, I went to Vancouver, BC for a work conference. As I was packing, I briefly considered NOT taking my running clothes (because they definitely take up room),...
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We bought a new (to us) house in March and thus had to pack up all of our belongings. While unpacking, I discovered an old disposable camera and had no...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Carole, who documented the last Sunday meetings were held in the LDS chapel in Paradise. The original part of this building was...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Alex in Bowling Green, Ohio. Alex writes: “My Ride to Church is to the Unitarian Universalist church in Bowling Green, Ohio. My...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Elissa in Staffordshire, England. Elissa writes: Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, England; about midway between Manchester and Birmingham. It’s part...
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Here’s a twist on our usual Ride to Church. These pictures were taken at a nearby drive-thru animal safari by Rhonda Nasuta Swanson, an amazing photographer. You can see more...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us all the way from Itatiba, Brazil (which is on the eastern side, outside of Sao Paolo). Huge shout-out to Melissa, who writes: ...
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So I’ve got one more ride to church from the two weeks I spent in Costa Rica in January. This one is from San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica,...
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I spent the first two weeks of 2012 in Costa Rica (and have written about it here and here). Bottom line–I had no kids to tend to and all the...
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Today’s ride to church comes to us from Lori in Columbua, Missippi. Thanks, Lori!
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I spent the first two weeks of 2012 in Costa Rica with 18 female undergraduate students from my university. It was a fascinating trip in so many ways. I’ve never...
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A couple weeks ago, my husband (Mr. Cheap Seats) and I were lucky enough to get to attend the Texas Mormon Stories conference in Houston. We even participated on a...
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Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Terry in Edmonton, who writes: I live in Edmonton, which is in central Alberta, Canada. I was born here, but soon moved...
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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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,...
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Today’s Ride to Church is actually a Walk to School–and it comes to us from Amanda in England. Amanda asked whether we’d be willing to run a series of photos...
