Benediction
April 12, 2022Podcast version of this piece. Here’s the truth: My faith remains tepid. Lukewarm as summer rain. Spew -worthy. A compass in fragments, I saved pieces: base plate, arrow, needle. Reassembly is beyond me. Millennia […]
Podcast version of this piece. Here’s the truth: My faith remains tepid. Lukewarm as summer rain. Spew -worthy. A compass in fragments, I saved pieces: base plate, arrow, needle. Reassembly is beyond me. Millennia […]
[…] literal book on a plinth of filigreed gold, and an angel standing as sentinel at heaven’s needle -eye entrance, who’s not to say our names appear etched on its pages, un–erasable. Maybe no church […]
Podcast version of this piece. won’t you agree with me the heart’s a glorious organ moon jelly a ghost heart throbbing in oceanlily bulb an earth heart humming undergroundbear a furred heart curled up in cave’s dark I’m…
[…] is not defined by gender or channeled only through administrative practices. It is something that is ever -present in our everyday lives. Within Latter–day Saint theology, Heavenly Mother and Heavenly Father provide a clear […]
[…] my own babies into the world. Yet, I looked past you. Now, I see how my self -proclaimed “daddy’s girl” attitude has been shaped by the patriarchal system that hid you from me in […]
[…] prophets” and “Where’s the female authority on Heavenly Mother?” I wonder what praying to Her would look like in the first place. Is reaching out with my heart too prayer -like? If it is, […]
[…] creation of the world and humankind, Heavenly Mother was nowhere to be found. Creation was an all -male endeavor. I sobbed in the celestial room as I realized that this was a Motherless house. […]
[…] maternity models (who I suspect might not even be pregnant) who now populate my computer screen’s pop -up ads. Nonetheless, it expands, inch by inch, week by week, straining veins and skin, with my […]
<i>Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 119–135</i><br>As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints moved away from the plural marriage revelation, a marital system that created the cosmological backdrop for the doctrine of Heavenly […]
[…] 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 […]