love Archive

6December 14, 2012
Pantsgate 2012: There Is Room Enough for All of Us

There is room enough in Christ for all of us.
5December 13, 2012
32 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “Soft”

“The doctrine is an egg / in its shell / I can’t swallow / God . . . “
0November 22, 2012
29 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Cleaning our keyboard”

“It’s weird how we erode. / In the valleys, shed pieces of me / fell from busy fingertips and mingled...
10September 17, 2012
Choosing Faith in the Face of Doubt

The truth is that some things will hurt and be difficult. The truth is that some questions will never...
22September 13, 2012
Unyielding: It’s How We Operate

During my ex-boyfriend’s honeymoon, I sent him a dozen red roses, along with three singing telegrams, which I had delivered...
1September 7, 2012
The Pillars of Love, Part 1: Authenticity

To be pure, love must be authentic. This is much more than saying that love must be authentically felt....
11August 28, 2012
39 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Please Don’t Tell Me I Don’t Understand the Gospel

Had I simply refused to see it? Turned a blind eye out of conformity? Why, after decades in the church,...
11March 15, 2012
The Hallelujah Chorus

Let’s just get the Shrek connection out of the way. The strange inclusion of the song “Hallelujah” in the enormously...
8January 26, 2012
Dog Heaven

. You know how we all imagine that ‘dog heaven’ will be a place where dogs get to do what...
7December 22, 2011
Santa and I

The year I turned four or five, we drove to my grandparents in central Wisconsin for Christmas. Actually, we...
3December 9, 2011
08 Dear Jack: Nourishing the Delusion

Dear Jack, I believe that one of the greatest gifts God has given us is our capacity to think for...
9November 20, 2011
My Own Personal Canon: Southern-fried Love

In Paul’s 2nd epistle to Timothy, chapter 3, verses 14-17, we read this ringing endorsement of inspired writings: But continue...
8November 5, 2011
Going to the Dogs

The following piece is a guest submission by Claudia Ruptier ; Ron liked dogs. He just didn’t want one-even...
0October 6, 2011
Favorites: Business Lunch

I asked a group with an empty chair if I could sit with them. A young man’s smile put me...
4September 22, 2011
Finding Peace

Forgiveness. As babies and young children, we can’t help but forgive those that wrong us. We have no...
1September 15, 2011
The Wish Tree

I had my five year old daughter with me and I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get her...
7September 6, 2011
Book Lover

I’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it...
6August 11, 2011
Window to Utopia

What would heaven be like, for a teenager?
10August 9, 2011
Husband and Wife Book Club: The Road

Read The Road only if you can handle the bittersweetness of life. Read The Road only if you can bear...
4July 28, 2011
We Are Pioneers

As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up...
8June 10, 2011
I Love the Smell of K-Y Warming Jelly ® in the Morning, or, Marital Apocalypse Delayed

Although best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is...
9May 12, 2011
Angels with Power Tools

When you hear the words “Compassionate Service” what comes to mind? This is like one of those word association...
10April 16, 2011
“Come to Zion”

‘Zion’ has become a dirty word in our world: now it is shorthand for the displacement of native peoples from...
9April 15, 2011
Before Sunset

For Jesse and Céline these questions are embodied in a single night and in each other. But the question of...
24April 8, 2011
Before Sunrise

An American man meets a French woman on a train in Europe. They connect and get off together in Vienna...
20March 24, 2011
Parallel Journeys

By Claudia On my personal blog, I am known as “The Faithful Dissident.” For the past three years, I’ve been...
2March 22, 2011
Magnolia

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) shows us (to use David Lynch’s words:) people ‘in trouble’. Like Altman’s Short Cuts, the...
9March 10, 2011
Talents: Addition and Multiplication

This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of...
15March 4, 2011
The Fountain

How much recompense can mythology — or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body — provide in the...
13March 3, 2011
Celebrating the Man As Well As His Cause

A guest post from a reader, Debra. Names matter. They do. My life experience has taught me this. Names are...
1February 14, 2011
Valentine Crush

Valentine’s Day is for amore and what more perfectly embodies amore than a crush? Our friend Course Correction channels the...
213February 14, 2011
Playing Valentine

Legend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed...
6February 10, 2011
Bearing a Burden

It sounds corny, but by carrying around her belongings (two pairs of sturdy shoes, a box of office supplies, a...
5February 1, 2011
The Golden Rule

[UPDATED] I am bound and cannot escape. I live in shadows and mists along the edges of that magical world of...
15January 29, 2011
Scapegoats

“Don’t blame it all on the devil” seems a reasonable enough point for mature minds. Maybe too obvious a point?...
6November 8, 2010
Enough is enough

Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken...
15November 2, 2010
15 Favorite …

Personally, I’m a sucker for these lists. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of resisting them, even though they’re hardly...
34October 9, 2010
Forgotten

Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul laments Humbert Humbert. The recollection of Lolita draws...