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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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50: A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: What’s Real, Deconstructing John Dehlin, and My Thoughts on Religion, Part III
How we answer that question will largely determine how much control over our beliefs and behaviors we’re be willing to surrender to a religious institution,... -
49: A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: What’s Real, Deconstructing John Dehlin, and My Thoughts on Religion, Part II
The first challenge is an exercise in epistemology; The second is an exercise in phenomenology. The first asks what is “true,” while the second... -
48: A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: What’s Real, Deconstructing John Dehlin, and My Thoughts on Religion, Part I
I sometimes wonder, if given the opportunity, whether my 40-year-old self could talk any sense into my 19-year-old self. I don’t know the answer... -
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. -
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. -
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...
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Leaving The Paved Road
I have a seemingly insignificant memory from my early teenage years of walking through the grocery store and spying the front cover of TEEN magazine... -
A Record Keeping People
For me, writing both requires that I feel centered within myself as well as helps me to get to that centered place. It’s almost... -
Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Afraid to Pray?
I only know that I wasn’t strong enough to let the lamplight keep glowing, tiny as it was. I snuffed it out. -
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... -
Mormon Mommy Meets Eat, Pray, Love
In the spirit of wayfaring, Ashley joins us today with the kind of travelogue I’d love to hear in testimony meeting. I’m the one with...