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- 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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Book of Mormon Heroines for Our Daughters
Hi, I’m Stephen Carter, a writer and stay-at-home dad raising two teenage sons and a four-year-old daughter. I like to... -
Ride to Sacred Places in Nigeria
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Valerie, a West Texas gal married to a Nigerian man. Valerie... -
Finding My Path to Motherhood
–by Ginger C. Hanson, PhD As a genXer, growing up in an active LDS family, I struggled with the seemingly... -
83 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “The Encounter”
“The early light / makes mini suns in her curious eyes. / Wind rustles through her clever coat. / Then... -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 6.0
This week’s “Equality is not a Feeling” post is an illustration of the number of times the phrase “Heavenly X”... -
Ride to a Sacred Grove
From Terry I must have watched The First Vision (that movie staple of 1970’s and 80’s era baptismal services) dozens... -
82 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “Winter of 1997, Missouri”
“She stares at marble / eyes, the deer gazing / beyond her maybe seeing Van / Gogh’s Starry Night /... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 5.0
–From Laura C. This week’s “Equality is not a Feeling” post is an illustration of the people needed–according to the... -
Planning for Now, Not a Maybe
Naomi Watkins, a former middle school English teacher, earned a B.A. in English education from Brigham Young University, a M.Ed.... -
Local LDS member joins movement, challenges gender roles in church
[Today’s post came out in my local newspaper. The full article can be seen here, but I think you... -
Ride to the Ecuador Guayaquil Temple
Today’s post comes to us from Synneve, a veteran Ride to Church submitter (see here and here): I spent two... -
81 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, Two Poems
“Leaves / like sloughed skin / beneath\her feet. / She walks faster.” -
Equality is not a Feeling, 4.0
Another illustration of a way to measure (in)equality in the Mormon church (for other measurements, see here, here, and here).... -
Does it Get Better?
Today’s guest post comes to us from Brad Jones. Heather’s post the other day on the allocation of time between... -
Ride to Priesthood Session with Ordain Women
A couple weeks ago, I flew to Salt Lake City to attend the all-male priesthood session of the General Conference... -
80 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “And I Remember He’s My Father”
“I’m Mormon, and as such, long / to scrub babies in sinks, / deliver vegetable casseroles to wakes, / find... -
LDS Men, Please Consider This
“The end goal is the diffusion of any and all anger, frustration, judgement, or ill will toward the women who... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 3.0
Here’s another installment in my series, Equality is not a Feeling–in which I am trying to illustrate, visually, numerous ways... -
Eshet Chayil
Earlier this year, I read Rachel Held Evans’s book A Year of Biblical Womanhood and hosted a Mormon Stories Book... -
An Economic Perspective on Female Ordination
Today’s guest post is by S. Mark Barnes, an attorney and a university law and economics instructor. He served a... -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 2.0
I have “equality” on the brain these days. What does it mean? What does it look like? How... -
Equality is not a Feeling
Two-part proclamation from me: 1. I don’t know what I think about God these days, but this much I... -
79 Psaltery & Lyre: Rima VIII de Bécquer, translated by Charles Patterson
“it seems possible to tear myself / from the miserable ground / and float with the golden mist, / in... -
Not the Same Mormons
“When I was a kid I loved to read fiction and non-fiction books about the Old West. There was always... -
Miracles: Don’t Look Behind the Curtain
I want to believe in miracles. Here’s the deal, though. Every time I hold up a miracle to the light... -
78 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Your Ex-Girlfriends Ruined All the Good Baby Names”
“Forgive the walk in Central Park, / my pitter-pat over prams and kites and tiny shoes / the color of... -
Smog-Breathers
I just read an amazing book called “Multiplication is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa... -
Ordain Mormon Women
Doves and Serpents just received word that the fantabulous Cate has penned a song for the women (and men) of... -
77 Psaltery & Lyre: Christen Mattix, For Longing [Cyanotype Blue]
“your fingerprints stuck / to the tape like mushroom / spores or the dust / of a moth wing.” -
Women, the Priesthood, and the Cookie Jar
We don’t like to frame it that way. We like to talk about how men and women are equal... -
Women and the Priesthood: It’s Complicated
Once you become aware of the problem, you see it everywhere. It’s cultural. It’s systemic. It’s grounded firmly in biases,... -
Ride to Church in Oakland, CA
Today’s complicated ride to church comes to us from TopHat from the Exponent. TopHat says: My family lives in... -
Ride to the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Growing up, I only learned the “standard” stuff about the Civil Rights movement. Pretty much just what was in... -
Psaltery & Lyre in Print!
Our first print volume of Psaltery & Lyre is ready to come live at your house! It includes the... -
Speaking of Spirituality
Phyllis Barber is the author of eight books of fiction and creative nonfiction, including How I Got Cultured (voted one... -
A Letter from the Past for Today
I am a college writing teacher and every semester, I assign my students the argument classic “Letter from Birmingham Jail”... -
76 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Peaceful Blessing”
“I could not pick his speech, and asked / where he had come from. ‘Afghanistan.’ I told /... -
Letter to A Bishop: Can I be a witness at my daughter’s baptism?
“In preparation for my daughter’s upcoming baptism, I was asked to organize and make the necessary assignments regarding who would... -
My response to a Letter of Kindly-Intended Correction Regarding My Pro-Female Ordination Stance
By Spunky On October 5th, there are a group of Mormon women who will go to the Priesthood Session of... -
75 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “An Original Thought”
“Raised religious, / so many words, sentiments, / (buzzphrases, actually) / were programmed into me / little square holes of... -
74 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Being a High-School Teacher Is a Great Disguise”
“Being a high-school teacher is a great disguise . . . “ -
Straight Thinking on the Role of Women
Elder Ballard addressed an audience at Education Week at BYU on August 20th, 2013. The topic of his address... -
73 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “I Am Not Vanilla”
“Put me in a ruby red / corset and lace me up like pleather / knee high boots. Measure my... -
Grondahl Restored 66
For other cartoons in this series, click here. This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of... -
This Must Stop: A Call to End Sexually Invasive Interviews Between Priesthood Leaders and Minors in the LDS Church
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual and spiritual abuse When I was 13-years-old, I was violated in a very personal way. A middle-aged... -
72 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Silences”
“A dog sits silent. Her gaze shafts up / in study of her master’s face; / nostrils twitch and... -
The Next Generation
I’ve written plenty here about the (what feel to me like unrelenting) gender inequities in the Mormon church. And... -
71 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “An Elegy for the Phoebe Caulfield of the South”
“Bring back fireflies in mason jars, / bring your bell curls as blonde / as blonde could be.” -
Ride/Walk to the Tokyo Temple
Okay, so I’m a bit behind on this ride/walk to church that I’ve been meaning to do since we got... -
70 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “The Martinet”
“Colors are brighter, and the days / are far too short. / People look at me / As if there’s...