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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
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lds Archive
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Equality is not a Feeling, 23.0
Posted on April 2, 2014 | 7 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post illustrates the gender of the people involved in church discipline processes. For the uninitiated, there are two levels of church discipline processes: one that occurs at the ward level and another that occurs at the stake […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 22.0
Posted on March 26, 2014 | 3 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post focuses on the gender of the Commissioner of Education for the entire Church Educational System, which serves approximately 700,000 students in 146 countries in a wide range of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions, as well as the church […] -
Heber J. Grant, Beer and Sexual Morality
Posted on March 10, 2014 | 31 Commentsby Greg N. I like reading comments on the bloggernacle. Especially when the discussion gets into “heated” territory. With popcorn and drink in hand, I was enjoying the semi-intense back and forth dialogue last month surrounding Tad Callister’s Morality article when I stumbled onto this […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 17.0
Posted on February 19, 2014 | 1 CommentToday’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0, by Laura C., and depicts references to deity (by verse) in our LDS hymnal. [For more posts in this series, click here to see the archive.] -
Ride to the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Posted on September 15, 2013 | 7 CommentsGrowing up, I only learned the “standard” stuff about the Civil Rights movement. Pretty much just what was in my Texas-state-adopted-history textbooks, which means that I missed a lot. It wasn’t until I began working on my Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction, in […] -
Parenthood Juggle: Twists and Turns
Posted on February 25, 2013 | 4 CommentsAs I was graduating from BYU with my MBA I got a piece of advice from the assistant dean, herself a single mom whose husband left after she put him through medical school. She was meeting with the women in our graduating class (all 13 […] -
How Much Does a Mormon Apostle Make?
Posted on January 8, 2013 | 178 CommentsFor the time being, I believe it is literally impossible to answer these questions appropriately, especially because the Church is far from transparent with its financial information. . . . -
Why Language Matters: A Side-by-Side Look at a Lesson from the New YW/YM Manuals
Posted on October 12, 2012 | 79 CommentsText in pink is only in the YW version; text in blue is only in the YM version. It's more than just taking one lesson and adding/subtracting priesthood to it. The language differences are subtle, but telling. -
37 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: The 1800s Called
Posted on July 25, 2012 | 6 Comments. . . they want their magazine back. -
34 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Charity by Force?
Posted on June 24, 2012 | 9 CommentsAll those in favor of building a new sports stadium, please bring $100 cash and come down this Saturday and Sunday to help pour concrete. . . -
Marshmallows, Obedience and You
Posted on April 30, 2011 | 12 CommentsIn the famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (1972), Professor Walter Mischel gave four year-old children a marshmallow, and instructed them that if they waited twenty minutes without eating it, they would be given another one. Mischel observed that although some would “cover their eyes with their […] -
The Joys of Parenthood
Posted on April 27, 2011 | 33 CommentsWhy do we have such a hard time admitting to the realities of parenthood? This morning a dear friend of mine who has just given birth to her second baby posted a question on her Facebook page. She has another child who has just […] -
The Good Book
Posted on April 23, 2011 | 3 CommentsI love getting books in the mail. No seriously: I feel like no one could possibly understand how much I love it. It doesn’t happen often enough, but when we returned home from a recent trip out of town, there was a lovely hardback book […] -
The West
Posted on April 2, 2011 | 3 CommentsYesterday on ‘Rogue Cinema’ I wrote about one of my Granddad’s favourite films, the 1955 version of Oklahoma!, and pondered how this representation of the American West appealed to his personal psychology. He was a man with an abundance of energy, who loved amateur dramatics, […] -
Kids and Calamities
Posted on March 31, 2011 | 12 CommentsI watched the Twin Towers fall on TV, my oldest child safely ensconced in her kindergarten class. My toddler was playing with blocks nearby…. building towers and knocking them down. “Mommy, why does your face look like this?” she asked, mimicking my […] -
Jonathan’s Ride to Church(es) in Salt Lake City
Posted on March 20, 2011 | 21 CommentsI was inspired by Andy’s post of churches around York several weeks back and decided to give it a shot where I live here in the Salt Lake area. I had visited some of the churches in the area before, and decided to use […] -
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 […] -
The Fountain
Posted on March 4, 2011 | 15 CommentsHow much recompense can mythology -- or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body -- provide in the face of human yearning? -
Playing Valentine
Posted on February 14, 2011 | 213 CommentsLegend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed by Roman emperor Claudius II who thought married men made poor soldiers. A priest named Valentine continued the marriage tradition by marrying couples in secret, […] -
Elaine Bradley: ‘Marching to the Sound of Her Own Drum’
Posted on February 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsFor the most recent addition to the ‘Mormon Women Project’, Krisanne Hastings has interviewed Elaine Bradley, the drummer and backing vocalist for Billboard top #100 alternative rock band ‘Neon Trees’, and an active member of the LDS Church. Her story takes her from sixth-grade ‘New […] -
Black Swan
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 7 CommentsToday’s post is from a guest that we’ll call ‘White Cygnet’. I didn’t expect Black Swan to strike at my Mormon roots. I found the film both disturbing and moving (once I could calm down from its “thriller” effect), but surprisingly the part that spoke […] -
Joanna Brooks, Elder Oaks and the ‘Battle’ for ‘Religious Freedom’
Posted on February 10, 2011 | 13 CommentsIn her post today, Joanna offers an insightful analysis of Elder Oaks’ recent address, in context of the larger campaign he and other church leaders have been waging to call orthodox LDS members to ‘battle’. For links to the addresses by Elder Oaks, and other […] -
What do a burger, a rare steak, and a gift all have in common?
Posted on February 9, 2011 | 48 CommentsA couple years ago, I sat in a Relief Society lesson at church about modesty. According to the rumor mill, this lesson was necessitated by the fact that some women in our congregation were dressing immodestly, a most unfortunate reality that was making it difficult […] -
Blood of Eden – Part 1, Metaphor
Posted on February 8, 2011 | 3 CommentsMadame Curie engages with the Garden of Eden story over on Sapphic Soliloquies, exploring a role-reversal where Adam stands as a mother figure to Eve that came from his side. The myth of Adam and Eve has always seemed to me to be one of […]