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Updated :Grondahl 11– caption contest
The cartoon for this caption contest is VERY open-ended. Again, remember that if you know the original caption, don’t tell! I’ll reveal the original next Saturday, along with the winner... -
A gift of bread or stones?
If a gift harms someone, is it really a gift? Can we tell the difference between bread and rocks, or do we need to read some parables again? -
Why don’t Mormons celebrate Lent?
Today is Ash Wednesday. Before I spent eight years in Louisiana, I would not even have known what Ash Wednesday was. I grew up in the Bible belt, so I... -
Ebony and Ivory: discussing the politics of race with young children
In the post-Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday period and in the midst of Black History Month, my kindergartner has had a lot of questions about race. Not particularly about... -
Grondahl 10
Poor guy must be at Utah State instead of BYU. For other cartoons in this series, click here. This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The... -
20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church
I have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the boys will decide what games to play and what the... -
Ride to Church and a Volcano in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
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... -
14 Dear Jack: Self-Love
We can and should make ethical and moral choices about our sexual behavior, but attaching that morality to perfectly healthy and normal biological responses or our fugitive thoughts is a... -
Defying Gender Stereotypes
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’m thrilled to share this with y’all and hope that some of you participate in the contest.... -
Too Late to Party Like It’s 1999?
As a Mormon, my “one-true” nightclubbing years were spent as a newly wed trying to prove I was much older and more mature than my years let on, dutifully planning... -
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
In the space of just four weeks during the most recent holiday season, I had to purchase three new tires for my Mormon mommy minivan. That seems like a lot,... -
Grondahl 9
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. -
Ride to the Houston Mormon Stories Conference
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... -
Inviting the demons in for tea
As my son and I approached the enclosure at the dog park yesterday, we were excited to see another Samoyed eagerly waiting at the fence. Her owner seemed excited too... -
Staff Stacks
What the D&S writers are reading, watching, listening to, eating and browsing right now. -
Are all white people racist?
I recently saw this embarrassment of a video on Facebook: There are so many things wrong with the video, it’s hard to know where to start. I cringed when I... -
Every Mother’s Nightmare
“Unspeakable” is an interesting way for me to label this crime, especially considering statistics show an American is sexually assaulted every 2.5 minutes. Yet as much as I teach my... -
Grondahl 8
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. -
On Thin Places
I’ve been chewing my way through The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus Borg, a professor of religion and culture at Oregon State University. Borg’s is... -
Ride to Church in Edmonton
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... -
13 Dear Jack: Don’t Lose Heart
Dear Jack, My shifting faith away from Mormonism hasn’t created a problem with my parenting decisions — until now as my kids hit their teen years. My 16-year old... -
Mind the Gap
I recently re-read Carol Lynn Pearson’s amazing No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones for the second time because a woman in my very-Mormon book club... -
Rogue Cinema: Enjoy the Silence
The Artist is a bold, artsy stroke hidden in a big-hearted familiar story, or maybe it’s the other way around? -
19 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Organizational Physics
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). -
Ride to Church in Vienna
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... -
Grondahl 7
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... -
Dog Heaven
. 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... -
You Lost Me
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... -
Dusting Polygamy from the Shelf
“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... -
Ride to Church in Corpus Christi
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... -
Can a Virtual Cupcake Make Me Fat?
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... -
Pura Vida
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... -
My Own Personal Canon: Letter from Birmingham Jail
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... -
Grondahl Restored 6: Caption Contest!
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... -
Walk to Church (=Yosemite)
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... -
12 Dear Jack: The Good Daughter
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... -
Knock and it shall be opened….
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... -
Why All Mormon Women Should Wear Pants to Church
[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... -
And You and Me Are…
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... -
All Hail, Pauline Kael
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... -
Ask and It Shall Be Given
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... -
My Own Personal Canon: Bootless Cries
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,... -
Grondahl Restored 5
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... -
Ride to Church in Statesboro, Georgia
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,... -
11 Dear Jack: Make It Work
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... -
Roller Coaster
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... -
Guilty as charged?
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... -
I Resolve …
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... -
Sum Kind of Wonderful, 2011
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... -
Walk to the Book of Mormon Musical
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...