Pioneer Mother
November 11, 2022[…] the history of the Soviet Union and the fallout of its dissolution—something I witnessed while wearing a black name tag. The study of history is so often filled with painful topics. To study history […]
[…] the history of the Soviet Union and the fallout of its dissolution—something I witnessed while wearing a black name tag. The study of history is so often filled with painful topics. To study history […]
[…] to the top of the Gap, we were greeted by an incredible view of Little Tahoma, a black pyramid peak silhouetted against the rainbow of the early morning horizon. “It is so beautiful,” Sterling […]
[…] Religion, quickened Gene’s conscience. Gene confesses that he, as a young student, accepted the traditional reason for Black members not having the priesthood and temple privileges, until Brother Bennion encouraged him to reexamine his […]
[…] salve. When I say of the earth, I mean all my children—animal, vegetal—reflected in my multihued skin: black, pink, blue, grey, red. So pass me from hand to hand at the table. I’ll preserve […]
[…] and look out is what I create— that moment of descending into something unknown with limitless possibility. Black calla lilies and thick root webs and lithe olms and the young coyotes with protruding ribcages. […]
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I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/ Community of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph Smith than my […]
[…] muddy berms months molder into years as the new crop germs until one day from black soil this heavy seeds these become a sapling wish an orchard, a forest ripe […]
[…] rakes around each rose, making brittle beds of insulation against the winter cold. Frost turns tender stems black. Rootstalk retreats inside itself. Late petals fall to the ground, bruising. I don’t know which way […]
[…] is especially important for Latter-day Saints, given our own history with tragically mistaken thinking on this topic: Black Saints were once denied access to the priesthood on the false and immoral premise that they […]