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  • 03 Dear Jack: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    Posted on October 28, 2011 | 14 Comments
    Dear Jack, I’ve been struggling with my Mormon-ness for about five years, but have been attending weekly and fully participating. I just got released from a calling that I love. It was truly the only thing keeping me attached to the church. Now that I […]

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  • The Nursery Window

    Posted on August 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
    "Long ago," he said, "I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed."

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  • On living my confirmation

    Posted on November 3, 2010 | 30 Comments
    I took a course as a Ph.D. student called “Engendering Curriculum History.”   I was 30-something, had three kids (ages 0, 3, and 6), and fancied myself a good feminist (although also Mormon, which is an oxymoron to many-myself included).   An article we read […]

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