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  • Ride to Church in Parker, CO

    Posted on March 24, 2013 | 4 Comments
    Today’s snowy Ride to Church comes to us from Tiffany and Michael in Denver, CO: When I visited Denver for the first time one of the things that stood out to me was that there was a different church on every street corner.   I […]

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  • 32 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “Soft”

    Posted on December 13, 2012 | 5 Comments
    "The doctrine is an egg / in its shell / I can't swallow / God . . . "

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  • The Church and Homosexuality

    Posted on December 6, 2012 | 8 Comments
    I hope that, despite our setbacks, the Church will truly listen to its LGBT members and begin to loosen the reins that it has proverbially set upon our backs for decades.

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  • Ride to Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Posted on June 17, 2012 | 5 Comments
    Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Joanna in Albuquerque.   Joanna is one of the first non-Mormon people to send us a ride to church, so props to her (and to Elizabeth!).   Joanna writes: My ride to church is from my home […]

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  • Ride to Church in Huntsville, Texas

    Ride to Church in Huntsville, Texas

    Posted on June 3, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Karin (sister of Doves and Serpents’ Heather) and her daughter Synneve.   [Heather says:   I love this post so much because it’s my hometown.   And I love seeing the church building and remembering going to […]

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  • Ride to Church in Columbus, Mississippi

    Posted on February 26, 2012 | 7 Comments
    Today’s ride to church comes to us from Lori in Columbua, Missippi.   Thanks, Lori!

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  • Ride to Church and a Volcano in La Fortuna, Costa Rica

    Posted on February 19, 2012 | 6 Comments
    I spent the first two weeks of 2012 in Costa Rica with 18 female undergraduate students from my university.   It was a fascinating trip in so many ways.   I’ve never been to Costa Rica before, so that was amazing.   And it was […]

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  • 11 Dear Jack: Make It Work

    Posted on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments
    Dear Jack,   Our ward is changing meeting times next year, and we’ll meet right in the middle of kids’ nap and lunch times.  Do we make everyone go to church for three hours and spend the rest of the day crabby, cranky, hungry and […]

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  • Walk to Church in Australia

    Posted on November 13, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Queensland, Australia, courtesy of Spunky from The Exponent. Unfortunately, some of Spunky’s pictures were smaller than others.   When I asked her to re-send them, she told me the terrible news that her home had been broken […]

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  • The Feast of St. Francis

    Posted on November 10, 2011 | 7 Comments
    This year, our family observed General Conference by attending the local Episcopal church.

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  • Ride to Church in Vlora and Old Dukat, Albania

    Posted on September 4, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Today’s stunning Ride to Church comes to us from my friend Eralda, who took these pictures in Albania (her home country). Eralda took pictures in two different cities and writes: One is from my way to the Catholic church in Vlora, my hometown that is […]

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  • Heidi & Torben’s Ride to Church in Long Melford, England

    Posted on June 19, 2011 | 7 Comments
    Today’s ride to church comes to Doves & Serpents from our beloved Heidi, who writes Stacks for us every Tuesday, and her brother Torben. ; This is the parish church in  the nearby  village of Long Melford. I pass it every day and I’ve been […]

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  • Ride to Church in Avon & Paradise, Utah

    Posted on May 8, 2011 | 12 Comments
    Come enjoy Carole’s ride to church in Cache Valley, Utah.   Carole lives in Avon and the church building is three miles north, in Paradise.

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  • Worshipping WITH the World

    Posted on April 18, 2011 | 4 Comments
    Last Sunday I was in New Orleans for a conference. As much as I love the volunteer work I do every Sunday as the primary chorister (children’s music leader, for those of you who don’t speak Mormonese), I love the 3-4 times a year that […]

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  • Anticipation

    Posted on October 14, 2010 | 9 Comments
    We were on our way to church as a family, and I thought it would be a good opportunity for everyone to share in the 'lunch experience." So I was a bit disappointed when no one was waiting at the I-20 exit ramp like I anticipated.

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