Praying on Gravel
April 24, 2021Not yet March, already weedsbring me to my kneeswith trowel and bare fingers. Under the loblollythe hellebore are in bloom,a periwinkle or two. The weeds are in the white gravelof the walk. My son has…
Not yet March, already weedsbring me to my kneeswith trowel and bare fingers. Under the loblollythe hellebore are in bloom,a periwinkle or two. The weeds are in the white gravelof the walk. My son has…
Taipei, ’97. I walk past side -street vendors selling lychee nuts and black rice cakes, to an acre of bare dirt, concrete pylons lifting a cloverleaf. A grizzled man by a beat–up Buick throws […]
[…] She looks down at the floor. “She died of quinsy.” Something doesn’t feel quite right to eight -year–old me. “What’s quinsy?” “It’s a sore throat.” Grandma walks into the next room. I ask Mama. […]
In 2008, I turned forty -five, Wall Street collapsed, California voters banned gay marriage, and I lost my virginity. The financial system’s meltdown changed the air I breathed, in the same way fire distributes […]
[…] feel the Spirit in these episodes. That may sound blasphemous, but it’s true. Most of my mixed -state experiences are channeled into a prayer to my Heavenly Father, to please send help, please take […]
Melissa Dalton -Bradford presents the 82nd Dialogue Gospel Study. Melissa Dalton–Bradford is an author, public speaker, and co–founder of two non–profits: Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG), a nonpartisan organization focused on watchdogging political leadership and […]
Jennifer Finlayson -Fife is a relationship and sexuality educator and coach, as well as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois with a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. She wrote her dissertation […]
Ramona Maile Cutri (she -her) is an associate professor of teacher education at Brigham Young University. In her teaching and research, Ramona promotes intellectual and emotional engagement with diversity and inclusion as an integral […]
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[…] the angels are subject unto them.” D&C 132:20 The doctrine of Heavenly Mother is cherished among Latter -day Saints. She is birthed from necessity in a physicalist theology. Though she has feminist roots, her […]