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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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Columns Archive
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Collisions of Conscience
In today’s New York Times we read about the collision of personal conscience with the attempt of an institution (whether... -
There is hope smiling brightly before us
In September 1993, I was a 20 year old, already-married (gasp!) undergrad at BYU. I watched the September Six... -
97 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Song to be sung in times of famine, fear, and desolation”
“Oh, Father, make it rain; / Oh, Mother, make it quick: / Pour out that balm again / And swift... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 27.0
Numerous scholars (e.g., here, here, here, here, etc.) have studied the images included in U.S. and world history textbooks as... -
Unafraid to Ask: Jane Elizabeth Manning James and Ordain Women
There is no more sympathetic figure in Mormon history than Jane Elizabeth Manning James, African-American Mormon pioneer, beloved member of... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 26.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post focuses on the gender of the CES Devotional speakers over the last 14... -
Cost of Scouting (Equality is not a Feeling, 25.0)
Today’s guest post is by Nate Curtis, an endowed member with a current temple recommend. He is currently serving as... -
Ride to Church: Vacation Bible School
When I was growing up in the Midwest, some of my friends attended Vacation Bible School during the summer. I... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 24.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post focuses on seminary teachers and supervisors. This data comes from my local... -
The Manner of Prophets and Prophesying Among the Jews
Nephi once observed that ancient Hebrew prophets (Isaiah in particular) spoke things which were hard to understand because his people... -
Unglorifying Motherhood
April showers are over and May flowers are starting to bloom. This beautiful time of year has many people... -
96 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “New Moon”
“Mother, You are new moon / Reveal your glorious face / Give us Mother-knowledge soon . . .” -
95 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “The Lord’s Prayer”
“Thy Kingdom come when it’s time and everything, and not before or after, upon which score we’ll just have to... -
94 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “God Filled the Earth with Tigers”
; ; God Filled the Earth with Tigers God filled the earth with tigers; men and beasts warring for... -
93 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “God is Great”
“He / Hears and will consider prayers and tears, will / Weigh wildest hope and wilder worry in His palms... -
92 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Interfaith Dialogue”
“I punish you with silence. / The roads are empty and the silence / radiates out from our car as... -
91 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Christology”
“What if he were shepherd under guise, / The sleek and subtle mover of the worlds? / And moved among... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 23.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post illustrates the gender of the people involved in church discipline processes. For... -
90 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “Nothing to Prove”
“Which king brought myrrh to him, / in Bethlehem, how did he know / dull pain would be a gift... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 22.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post focuses on the gender of the Commissioner of Education for the entire Church... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 21.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post is a continuation of last week’s, which showed gender breakdown of the Church... -
On worshipping how, where, or what we may
Today’s guest post is a talk given recently by Emily Davis Harris. Recently there has been another push by the... -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 20.0
Today’s installment in the series illustrates the gender of the members of the Church Board of Education. From what... -
Heber J. Grant, Beer and Sexual Morality
by Greg N. I like reading comments on the bloggernacle. Especially when the discussion gets into “heated” territory. With popcorn... -
Paying it Forward
by Gabrielle Crowley Like many Americans, the day-to-day grind has taken a financial toll on our household. We have had... -
89 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Xenophilia”
“I would bend myself into an / impossible position and look out through my heels, / my head... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 19.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post comes to us from a Mormon mother of 11 children who compiled this... -
88 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “Sunday Discount at the Texas Car Wash”
“my daughter is eyeing / the bloody images on the racks of Christian t-shirts, / My God is Tougher than... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 18.0
Today’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0 and Equality is not a Feeling 17.0,... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 17.0
Today’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0, by Laura C., and depicts references to... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 16.0
The next three Equality is not a Feeling posts come to us from Laura C., who is a veteran around... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 15.0
Today’s post continues the same thought from last week’s by depicting the number of General Conference speakers by sex, from... -
My Take On the New Church DNA Page
After hundreds of thousands of archeological digs in the Americas, from the Hudson Bay to Patagonia, from Bristol Bay to... -
Gender Equality and the Mormon Church: Why Progressive Mormon Men are the Problem
Here’s the reason you’re the problem: You benefit from all the perks of patriarchy, but you won’t own it... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 14.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post depicts the number of General Conference speakers, by sex, from 1984-2013. I... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 13.0
Today’s post is kind of cheating, since it’s just a new visual depiction of data from the Equality is not... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 12.0
The Equality is not a Feeling, 10.0 post teased out some data about the doctrinal density of General Conference talks... -
87 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Upon Attending a Yoga Class with My Husband”
“We’re on the floor moving like elephants, like cows, like our cats, like the very deliberate and slow.” -
Equality is not a Feeling, 11.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post takes a quick look at the 2014 Primary Sharing Time outline. I... -
The Word on the Street
Last year, in “One Word,” I wrote about my family’s relatively new tradition of selecting a word for the year,... -
86 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Joseph’s Song”
“I sang it once. Three hours / stacking crates in the belly of a U-Haul truck, / its snout... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 10.0
Equality is not a Feeling 2.0 depicted the number of minutes of General Conference addresses delivered by men as compared... -
Race, Priesthood and Infallibility
So what we have is a page that just showed up on the “official” church website a few days ago... -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 9.0
Today’s illustration depicts the official duties of Mormon young men and women, ages 12-18. Each group has duties and... -
85 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “The Loaves and the Fishes”
“How many people / have needlessly starved since that show-stopper?” -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 8.0
This week’s Equality is not a Feeling post illustrates the number of males and females who have access to the... -
Ride to Church in Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico
About 18 months ago, I saw a call for proposals to a language conference in Puerto Rico. I have... -
Boys, Safety Patrol and the Priesthood
A couple weeks ago, four out of five of us slept through our alarms. I rushed into Stuart’s room... -
84 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Red Rock”
“I meet an oblong angel with streaming wings, / drawn on rock. Ants trek across his feet.” -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 7.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post is a depiction of the number of General Conference speakers, by gender, from...