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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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Brent’s Corner Archive
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Russell M. Nelson: Culture Warrior (Face Palm)
Posted on August 17, 2014 | 20 CommentsBigotry doesn't have to be an extension of religious belief. -
Gender Equality and the Mormon Church: Why Progressive Mormon Men are the Problem
Posted on January 31, 2014 | 59 CommentsHere's the reason you're the problem: You benefit from all the perks of patriarchy, but you won't own it in a way that motivates others to change it. You want to smooth out its rough edges, polish it up a bit, so you're not embarrassed by it. -
Race, Priesthood and Infallibility
Posted on December 9, 2013 | 10 CommentsSo what we have is a page that just showed up on the "official" church website a few days ago that states that we now believe that all men are equal. Do we get a cookie for showing up to the party 50 years late? -
Miracles: Don’t Look Behind the Curtain
Posted on October 6, 2013 | 24 CommentsI want to believe in miracles. Here's the deal, though. Every time I hold up a miracle to the light and examine it, I'm disappointed. -
Women, the Priesthood, and the Cookie Jar
Posted on September 25, 2013 | 16 CommentsWe don't like to frame it that way. We like to talk about how men and women are equal partners (as long as it's understood that men "preside"). -
Women and the Priesthood: It’s Complicated
Posted on September 24, 2013 | 92 CommentsOnce you become aware of the problem, you see it everywhere. It's cultural. It's systemic. It's grounded firmly in biases, faulty assumptions, and, fundamentally, in a lack of imagination. -
Ebenezer Baptist Church and Marriage Equality
Posted on July 9, 2013 | 2 CommentsOn Friday afternoon, we saw the Edmund Pettus Bridge--the bridge on U.S. Route 80 that spans the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama--and told our kids about Bloody Sunday when armed police attacked a group of peaceful civil rights demonstrators in 1965 during the civil rights movement. -
Modesty for Men
Posted on May 1, 2013 | 17 CommentsThe ward modesty committees determined, however, that these inconveniences were worth it if they helped the women of the ward maintain virtuous thoughts. -
On Holland’s Epistemology
Posted on April 20, 2013 | 21 CommentsThere is a wide chasm, however, between choosing to live a religion and claiming to have absolute knowledge that one's religion is the only "true" or "valid" path to God--and this chasm can't be crossed based solely on one's own experiences. -
On Men and Heavy Lifting
Posted on April 15, 2013 | 153 CommentsBeing in charge of everything isn't about power or control, it's about service. Men should be grateful that women create space for them to concentrate on doing what God expects of them.