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34 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Charity by Force?
All those in favor of building a new sports stadium, please bring $100 cash and come down this Saturday and Sunday to help pour concrete. . . -
Walk to Church in Hyde Park, Chicago
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... -
Grondahl 23
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3 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “The Death of Ginny”
Sarah Dunster is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her poems have been published in Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah Magazine, and Victorian Violet Press. -
Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut
Last week I read this comment in an online Facebook group: “My daughter’s handout from Young Women’s today: Your greatest role in life is to be wife to your “sweetart”... -
Teaching Sex: Confronting Corianton
He came home weeping after meeting with the Lord’s representative and feeling like he was dirt because he was told he was committing a sin . . . -
Ride to Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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... -
Teaching Sex: It’s Not the Stork
Sometimes, he would preface with, “do you really want to know, because you won’t be able to un-know it.” -
2 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, Two Poems
M. Brett Gaffney graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin University and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. -
Teaching Sex: Sex Talk (Somewhat) Misremembered
My only hope now is that my son will also positively misremember my talk with him. -
I’m not a Runner
I recently went to the doctor to discuss my “blood pressure issue” (read = I have high blood pressure). My regular physician recently had a baby, so her husband (with... -
Letting Live
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that my perspective on life is limited. Life itself is complex and multi-faceted, and the more I am able to listen to other... -
Grondahl 22
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Ride to Pride
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... -
Teaching Sex: On Reframing Negative Assumptions
It’s time to get rid of the “sin next to murder” rhetoric: a closer reading of the text in Alma suggests that Corianton’s real sin is religious hypocrisy, not simply... -
Teaching Sex: Two Tables?
He walked forward and thrust in his hand. He pulled it back out to reveal . . . the centerfold from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue! -
Grondahl 25
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1 Psaltery & Lyre: Our Lord Jesus in Drag
Dayna Patterson is the newest blogger at Doves & Serpents. Her poems have appeared in Dark Lady Poetry, Persona, Words Work, Exponent II, Segullah, Borderline, and BlazeVOX. -
On Parental Hope and Heartbreak
I’ve read two things recently that bothered me—perhaps especially as the wife of Mr. Cheap Seats. Exhibit A: An article in the Deseret News titled “When children have chosen another... -
Coming Soon to a Life Near You
Saturday was a terrible day. Nothing better than the bald statement, as they say. I was blue, so many shades of blue (NOT grey!) before dinner time that I decided... -
Teaching Sex: My Body Can Do That?
I wondered what it would feel like to take my arousal from beginning to end, instead of cutting it off (as I had become quite adept at doing with my... -
About
About Psaltery & Lyre In the words of Canadian poet Anne Simpson, “Poetry dares us to locate the white heat in ourselves, but that isn’t enough: it dares us to... -
Psaltery & Lyre Submission Guide
Welcome to the Psaltery & Lyre submissions page! Please follow our guidelines carefully: Read what has already been posted in Psaltery & Lyre to get acquainted with our aesthetic. If... -
Sunday Morning
Today’s guest post was originally published by Marion Jensen on his personal blog: The Open Author. Our gratitude to Marion for letting us share this with our readers and to... -
Ride to Church in Huntsville, Texas
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... -
Good Grief
But in that moment, I acknowledge the reality that it’s nearly impossible for me to go back, for my faith to be sufficient, for me to KNOW that there is... -
Grondahl 21
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Teaching Sex: I Apologize
I apologize after sex. Yes, I literally say, “I’m sorry.” Actually I have come a long way in recent years about uttering the actual phrase. . . -
33 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Loving Those Who Choose the Other Road
The real test of love is not if we can love and appreciate people who agree with us…but if we can honor and respect people who don’t. -
This is Nutters
[This is me sighing.] I’ve written a few times here about modesty. Some might think I sound like a broken record. There is some truth to that claim. However, in... -
Our Favorite Mormons: “We Believe in Equal Rights”
This is a guest post by Mark B (aka, Mark Mighty And Strong) about an early Mormon feminist and her husband, who is the most effective Mormon missionary you’ve never... -
32 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Wheel of Fortune & Evergreen International, Inc.
Groups like Evergreen International only practice science when it’s convenient. Like my grandma, when presented with contradictory evidence, they simply turn off the TV, insisting that their answer is... -
Lauer-Evergreen Email Exchange
A Mormon in the Cheap Seats blog post referenced an email exchange between Rob Lauer and David C. Pruden, the director of Evergreen International, Inc. (http://evergreeninternational.org/, http://www.thessavoice.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_International). The entire exchange appears... -
31 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Straining at Gnats
Aah, yes, the “don’t sweat the small stuff” argument. It’s as familiar as Wonder bread in a sacrament tray. -
Guest Post Invitation: It’s SEX Guest-Post Month
If we approach the question of sex from the perspective that it is our responsibility as parents to teach our kids how TO HAVE sex, how does that change things? -
A Tradition Not Worth Preserving
I’m nearly 20 years removed from the dating scene, so it goes without saying that I do not have my finger on the pulse of the dating world these days. ... -
Mutual Improvement Associations: Wednesday Nights
My son is a bit of a puppy dog, though more bounding Great Dane than docile lap dog. He is tall with shaggy-ish hair and size nearly-9 feet and a... -
Grondahl 20
Grondahl explains the wing issue. For other cartoons in this series, click here. This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation and Calvin Grondahl. -
30 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Higher Education?
Harvard Business School has its issues, as does any organization. But I believe that its values of openness, tentativeness, intellectual honesty, democratic knowledge, and informed dissent are indeed worthy... -
Grondahl 19
Sorry for the lag in posts. It’s been a lousy few weeks at my house the last month or so. Here’s the cover of Faith Promoting Rumors in all its... -
On immodest angels . . .
I’m not a fan of censorship. Don’t even get me started on book banning. So when I saw these two pictures side by side, my censorship flag went up! The... -
Our Favorite Mormons: “Man-Who-Takes-Himself-Apart”
Generally, we’ll try to avoid showcasing General Authorities of the LDS Church as a part of this series, not because GAs are not our favorite Mormons, but because we like... -
To my Children’s Other-Mothers
Mother’s Day is not my favorite for a number of reasons. Sometimes I wish that Mother’s Day meant I could hole up in my bedroom in my PJs, a couple... -
Staff Stacks
What we’re into now. -
Better Safe than Sorry
Last week our little town had a kerfuffle (although some would say it was much more than a kerfuffle). Here’s what I’ve been able to piece together. (Please recall that... -
Sanctus
It’s the blessings in life, not in self, that they mean to express. -
Mutual Improvement Associations: Moving Day
This is the first of at least four pieces in a Sanctuary series — Mutual Improvement Associations — wherein I try to describe the bonds that exist between members of... -
Jog to Churches in Vancouver, BC
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),... -
29 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: David Foster Wallace, Cement Mixers, and Mormonism
We get to grapple with our own spiritual ineptness, sling it over our shoulders, cart it home, and store it under our beds. -
Sunday Takes a Mallet to My Head
Usually a very confident person, I avoided their eyes, smiled at their foreheads, and slunk behind the piano. The chorister introduced two visitors and announced that we would be singing...
