-
Welcome to Arras Theme!
Arras Theme is a WordPress theme designed for news or review sites with lots of customisable features.
-
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
-
Tag Cloud
Book of Mormon books children church Cipher on a Wall creative death epistemology equality faith fakebook families family fear female ordination feminism gender Grondahl homeless humor Joseph Smith kids lds life love marriage memories mind mormon mormonism motherhood music nature ordain women parenthood parenting photography poetry priesthood religion service sex sexuality spirituality women
faith Archive
-
On Holland’s Epistemology
Posted on April 20, 2013 | 21 CommentsThere is a wide chasm, however, between choosing to live a religion and claiming to have absolute knowledge that one's religion is the only "true" or "valid" path to God--and this chasm can't be crossed based solely on one's own experiences. -
Behold, the Condescension of God
Posted on December 18, 2012 | 5 CommentsO Come, all ye faithful. O Come, all ye doubtful. Come, all ye sorrowful and shameful and prideful and sinful. You are never so low, but that He has gone lower. You are never so lost but that He will seek you out. -
47 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: A Faith like Mine
Posted on December 18, 2012 | 7 CommentsI now admit, somewhat sheepishly, that one of the reasons I voted for Obama is because of his religious beliefs. -
Choosing Faith in the Face of Doubt
Posted on September 17, 2012 | 10 CommentsThe truth is that some things will hurt and be difficult. The truth is that some questions will never be fully resolved. Part of a mature faith is accepting the inherent ambiguity of life and acting in accordance with our deepest hopes anyway. -
6 Psaltery & Lyre: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, Two Poems
Posted on July 12, 2012 | 7 CommentsChristine Butterworth-McDermott is an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches creative writing, fairy tales, and acts as the poetry editor of REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, a national literary magazine. -
Grondahl 19
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsSorry for the lag in posts. It’s been a lousy few weeks at my house the last month or so. Here’s the cover of Faith Promoting Rumors in all its orange glory. I decided it was worth seeing even with the stain on the left […] -
29 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: David Foster Wallace, Cement Mixers, and Mormonism
Posted on May 5, 2012 | 5 CommentsWe get to grapple with our own spiritual ineptness, sling it over our shoulders, cart it home, and store it under our beds. -
13 Dear Jack: Don’t Lose Heart
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 12 Comments; Dear Jack, My shifting faith away from Mormonism hasn’t created a problem with my parenting decisions – until now as my kids hit their teen years. My 16-year old son hangs out with other kids who seem like nice, reasonable and fun teenagers. Often […] -
19 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Organizational Physics
Posted on January 30, 2012 | 6 CommentsSo here it is. The one inmutable law of organizations. As long as #4 is greater than #2, the organization will grow (and continue to amass resources). -
Santa and I
Posted on December 22, 2011 | 7 CommentsThe year I turned four or five, we drove to my grandparents in central Wisconsin for Christmas. Actually, we did this for most years of my early childhood- until I was 8 or so and we moved to Florida. Making the 1100 mile […] -
Moral Issues
Posted on October 13, 2011 | 2 CommentsToday on our local NPR affiliate, a local Stake Presidency member was interviewed about the roll-out of the "I'm a Mormon" PR campaign in our metro area. -
09 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Faith is the Miracle
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 5 CommentsFaith doesn't affect anything. It doesn't cause anything. Faith is a commitment to see the world in a particular way. It's about choosing to look through the kaleidoscope. -
10 Seconds with Tinkerbell
Posted on July 31, 2011 | 9 CommentsThis week I found myself in that place Tinkerbell is so fond of — the place between asleep and awake. I opened my eyes from an awkward catnap on the I-80 in Nevada, and for a few brief moments I forgot which Honda I was […] -
04 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Build Out, Not Up
Posted on July 23, 2011 | 16 CommentsCan a religion be built on faith? Just plain faith? Faith that isn't looking for a promotion, or a pay raise, or that isn't on its way to becoming something else? -
Parallel Journeys
Posted on March 24, 2011 | 20 CommentsBy Claudia On my personal blog, I am known as “The Faithful Dissident.” For the past three years, I’ve been hiding behind that alias. Afraid of what, I’m not exactly sure, but some of my experiences during the past yearhave made me realize that I’m […] -
Talents: Addition and Multiplication
Posted on March 10, 2011 | 9 CommentsThis is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of my purpose), but I’ve always read the parable of the talents to mean actual talents. It’s just easy to see how one might be […] -
A Prophet at Wartime
Posted on February 26, 2011 | 6 CommentsWhat does this Prophet deplore in war? The actions of the enemy? The actions of the US-led coalition? War in general? It's hard to tell and this appears to be by design and consistent with the LDS church's oft-stated mantra that it avoids making political statements. -
Hate
Posted on February 24, 2011 | 7 CommentsAs an antidote to all the love around here lately, I thought I’d offer up a little bit of good old-fashioned hate. I grew up in a very low key household where strong feelings didn’t really have a place. My typical toddler tantrums were […] -
Adam-God Theory
Posted on February 19, 2011 | 11 CommentsWhat we believe truly matters. Most of what we believe has its roots in what we were taught as children by people who we once rightfully worshipped as demi-gods; [...] These are the source of our own private Adam-God Theory. -
Leaving
Posted on February 12, 2011 | 33 CommentsI'm in the process of choosing to leave. I'm almost there. There's only a consideration of the cost. -
The Trouble with Immaculate Contraception …
Posted on February 9, 2011 | 8 Comments… is that there are always exceptions. Love to Jesus and Mo. -
The Golden Rule
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 5 Comments[UPDATED] I am bound and cannot escape. I live in shadows and mists along the edges of that magical world of my childhood; a realm where all of humanity is enslaved by unhappiness and fear of certain destruction ... unless ... -
Faith – Worth the Risk?
Posted on January 16, 2011 | 4 Comments*The following is a guest post by Dan Ron Kauk is one of the world’s most renowned rock climbers. A fixture at Yosemite during the climbing season, he’s pioneered routes on some of the most notorious walls, including a few first ascents on El Capitan. […] -
Seminal Works — Gilead
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 11 CommentsThis meditative novel is an examination of faith, humanity and the unbearable beauty of everyday life; it is impossible to overstate the spare, lyrical beauty of Robinson's prose or the complexity and intellectual rigor she brings to her writing. -
Top 10 Principles of Happiness That I was Never taught at Church
Posted on November 7, 2010 | 30 Comments1. Don’t believe everything you think. Putting aside all past conditioning — if that’s even possible – ask yourself, “Who am I?” At the core of your human experience, who or what are you? As you engage the question, attempt to answer it without […]