Segullah's Blog, page 12
August 8, 2022
Summer 2022 Editorial
featured image by Alyce Bailey, “Germaine” When I first read a draft of Elizabeth Cranford Garcia’s essay “An Apology for Speculation”, my mind turned to words I associated with “speculation”: spectacular, perspective, speculum, spectacles. Over the past few centuries the term has taken on negative connotations that associate it with straying into unwanted territory—‘speculating’ on...
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August 6, 2022
Summer 2022 Poetry
“Evandale,” featured image by Alyce Bailey Enjoy this archival podcast featuring some of today’s most relevant LDS poets: IT’S THE 12TH EPISODE of the Segullah Podcast “Words Fall In,” and I am so happy to have interviewed the four winners of our 2019 Poetry Contest. Please see the Journal tab to read their poems or...
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An Apology for Speculation
featured image by Alyce Bailey, “Gumnuts and Buttons” I once had a BYU religion professor who said, “If we don’t know the answer, we can make it up!” Naturally as a fresh-faced nineteen-year-old who had gleaned a natural tendency from my upbringing to nip speculation in the bud—I was shocked! This is the slippery slope...
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July 18, 2022
Finding Room at the Table
The tension was palpable as I entered the Relief Society room after finishing playing the piano in Primary. It was clear I was walking into a lesson that had been hijacked. One sister was asking, “But what do YOU tell the Bishop?” Another tried to put that to rest with a firm, “I think that...
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July 15, 2022
Inspiration in a “Vocation”-al Setting
Earlier this week, I spent three days at a retreat for educators where forty-plus attendees discussed ethics, mission, and the vocation. While I do enjoy congregating with my fellow saints each Sunday, I found it invigorating to meet with a variety of people in an interpath effort. (Interpath is more inclusive than interfaith because it...
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July 11, 2022
Tasmanian Artist Alyce Bailey: “All God’s Critters…”
In late March I saw the glorious LDS International Art Competition in the Church’s Museum of History and Art in Salt Lake City, UT. It was and is splendid, diverse, and breathtaking. As the Church’s website explains: This year’s competition invites viewers to explore the powerful gospel message that “all are alike unto God” (Book...
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July 4, 2022
Happily Dependent
As it is American Independence Day, I’ve been pondering about what to write along that theme. Since I don’t live in the United States, I was kinda coming up…. blank. After much thought, I finally rested upon the term “Independent.” “Am I independent?” I mused to myself. Well, I am certainly unique. Maybe even weird....
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Happily Dependant
As it is American Independence Day, I’ve been pondering about what to write along that theme. Since I don’t live in the United States, I was kinda coming up…. blank. After much thought, I finally rested upon the term “Independent.” “Am I independent?” I mused to myself. Well, I am certainly unique. Maybe...
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June 17, 2022
Loving a Person with NPD: Can You Hug a Porcupine?
Over the last few weeks, I have opened Twitter to find trending content relating to trial featuring Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. While I am not qualified to assess the mental disorders that these celebrities might be manifesting, their issues have given me cause to think about how I deal with people who exhibit traits...
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June 10, 2022
Sitting with Jesus at the Corner of Yin and Yang
Sitting with Jesus at the Corner of Yin and Yang by Linda Hoffman Kimball I have no personal ties to Uvalde, TX, but I’m a mother. I’m a human. I cried and cried and cried when I heard the news. I have lived long enough now to know that this will not be the last...
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