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- 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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Return and Report: The Murakami Edition
Four novels later, I find myself firmly in the critical admirers’ camp. -
Austin Eateries: We Are What We Eat (?)
It’s really cheating for me to write anything for The Wayfarer because I’m a big fan of my comfort zone... -
Claudia’s Ride to Church in Moelv, Norway
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us all the way from Claudia (Faithful Dissident) in Moelv, Norway. Claudia writes:... -
Great Expectations
In 2006, Elder Nelson spoke of his first wife saying, “When people have asked her how she managed with ten... -
03 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: From Kolob Wikileaks
“The iron rod should only go halfway through the mist-just HALFWAY, not all the way. It’s clear from the... -
Operation Stop Arm
My neighbor Sheri and I watched motorists pass our children’s school bus for years. We took video, called the police,... -
Modesty, Mormon-style
We try not to rant here at Doves & Serpents. We try to discuss things we’re thinking about, exchange ideas,... -
How You Can Keep Your Head Down and Pass as a Mormon While Living in Utah
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Staff Stacks
What the writers of D&S are into right now. -
Earthy Soulful Awakening
I grew up road-tripping to my dad’s favorites: Johnny Cash, Trio: Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris & Dolly Parton, and AM... -
Healing Waters
“You’ll only be baptized once in your life, so it is a very special experience,” my grandmother said, speaking at... -
Walk to Church/Synagogue in Krakow
Today’s Walk to Church/Synagogue comes to us from Jacob Baker, who recently attended a conference in Krakow, Poland. This is... -
02 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Our God is Too Small
The problem is that our assumption of order and constancy doesn’t match the diversity, incoherence, and contradictions of lived religion. -
Considering James Bond in a Post-Mad Men World
You, the audience, look through the barrel of an assassin’s rifle at a circular white space as a smartly dressed... -
Needing it Now and the Eye of the Storm
As I watched from my TV with a newborn baby, I was physically ill at the sight of those not... -
Passing up Girls’ Night Out
I consider myself a friendly, outgoing person. I had a great group of girls I was friends with in high... -
Rasputin Records
My husband and I both enjoy a really broad range of musical genres. As such, I’ve often wondered — how... -
A View into Tiny Worlds
A couple of years ago I acquired a macro lens for my camera, and had all sorts of fun working... -
Independence Day
Becoming a citizen was a long, expensive process for my husband. I can’t imagine how difficult it was for... -
Erin’s Ride to a 10-Day Silent Vipassana Course
Our beloved Erin just wrapped up a 10-day silent vipassana meditation retreat, or as some people call it, “meditation boot... -
This Wild Playground
This week I found myself hanging upside-down from aerial silks in an artist’s studio in Oakland, when the blasphemous words... -
01 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: On Being a Church Loser
If my religion were a sports stadium, then I’m in the nosebleed section. I’ve got a big Diet Coke, a... -
Beautiful!
Check out this beautiful photo blog entry: (Click the photo to read.) -
Winter’s Bone
Among its confluence of forces and traditions, it is impossible to ignore that the mythological potential of America is enabled,... -
Joining the Jesus Freaks
Do we believe, deep down, that the poor are that way because God wants them to be? -
The Evil One
Does reading make you a better person? -
The Great I AM
Stopped at a light one Saturday morning, I met some teenage girls and their mothers with buckets requesting money to... -
JaneAnne’s Ride to Church in Portland
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from the West Coast–Portland, Oregon. JaneAnne writes: “I live in Willamette Heights, Northwest... -
Patriarchs I Have Known and Loved
My father grew up in a troubled home, poor as coal dust. A child of the depression and of divorce,... -
Joseph Smith and the Archetypes of the Collectively Unconscious Male
In their 1990 publication, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette... -
Men On Film
As part of this week’s discussion on “Mature Masculinity,” I thought I’d take a closer look at films and television... -
Proxy Work
As a lone-parent, five-child family on welfare, we were hardly the ideal Mormon family. -
‘Men’ in the Dock
This is a post about men. This is a post about women. No wait, this is a post about ‘men’.... -
Atticus Finch: Fatherhood Gold Standard
For years, I’ve cited To Kill a Mockingbird as my favorite book whenever asked. But I’ve read a lot of... -
Burying the Weapons
When I became a mother I was certain my children would grow up enlightened. And for me enlightenment meant my... -
3,218 Nights of Bedtime Stories
I stumbled across this sweet article about a dad who read to his daughter for 3,218 nights in a row.... -
A Most Important Proclamation
When I was about six years old, my Dad walked me to primary class. We passed a man in the... -
Heidi & Torben’s Ride to Church in Long Melford, England
Today’s ride to church comes to Doves & Serpents from our beloved Heidi, who writes Stacks for us every Tuesday,... -
Welcome to ‘Mature Masculinity Week’
Grr! Hmph! (Flex!) It’s Father’s Day, and that means that the next seven days on D&S will be dedicated to... -
Stories and Stone
Having arrived in London last week on an ordinary mid-week mid-morning, I exited the lofty frame of St Pancras International... -
WikiLeaks: Newest Edition of the Book of Mormon
Trevor Price was kind enough to share this leaked picture of the newest edition of the Book of Mormon. Can’t... -
No Soup For You!
I recently read this article in the Orlando Sentinel reporting on a third round of arrests of activists arrested for... -
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall . . .
My 14-year-old daughter recently said, “Mom, do you realize how many of your sentences begin with, ‘I just finished reading... -
Staff Stacks
Take a look at what we’re into right now. -
God is not Christian
I can’t wait to read Desmond Tutu’s newest book, God is not Christian. I read his book Made for... -
Fear Factor
I am terrified right now. In fact, I literally just sent a text to a friend that read, “I am... -
Be Ye Therefore Perfect
26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over... -
Battles – ‘Gloss Drop’ Tour, London
From the packed-in floor of a dark club (under Victorian railway tracks), and through the dancing columns of sound and... -
I Love the Smell of K-Y Warming Jelly ® in the Morning, or, Marital Apocalypse Delayed
Although best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is... -
The Parable of the Potato Soup
Once upon a time, a woman in our ward (=church congregation) had a baby. In typical fashion, the women at...