Segullah's Blog, page 16
November 12, 2021
Bless My Palpitating Heart
Bless My Palpitating Heart When I first felt “called” to join the Church decades ago, I – a Midwesterner – was a freshman at an Ivy League college. I was already a devoted Christian regularly reading the scriptures and intent on walking Christ’s path. My first LDS Sunday School teacher was a C.S. Lewis scholar...
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November 1, 2021
Seeing Clearly and Clearly Seeing Prayer
It took me decades -literally decades- to finally be assessed for surgery. A car accident in my late teens left me with a broken nose and emergency-room refastened (stapled) eyelids. My husband never knew me to look any differently, but I knew. I knew my nose used to be straight and I could wear sunglasses...
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October 30, 2021
INITIATE
I had been preparing for months for the trip of a lifetime. I saved fifty percent of everything I earned so my just-graduated daughter and I could make regular payments to the tour group. I exercised six times a week at the gym to make my legs stronger and my airline weight less. I read...
INITIATE I had been preparing for months for the trip of ...
INITIATE I had been preparing for months for the trip of a lifetime. I saved fifty percent of everything I earned so my just-graduated daughter and I could make regular payments to the tour group. I exercised six times a week at the gym to make my legs stronger and my airline weight less. I...
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October 15, 2021
Elder Kopischke: Prayer Alone Cannot Address Many Mental Health Needs
When General Conference weekend is approaching, some members will make lighthearted speculations about announcement or subjects for talks. For example, I say one woman share a Tweet she sent prior to conference with a far-fetched (so she thought) prediction that Rexburg, Idaho would get a second temple. Sometimes I make lighthearted predictions; sometimes I hope...
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October 3, 2021
Fall 2021 Journal Editorial and Table of Contents
I spent several months this year recovering from a fire that sent smoke billowing through my house, coating our belongings in a layer of soot and infusing everything with the smoky aroma I used to associate with pleasant memories of summer camping trips. My life was fragmented as I juggled living in a hotel, parenting,...
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An Interview with Louise and Tom Plummer
From the Archives (January 11, 2011): SEVERAL MONTHS AGO I emailed Louise Plummer to see if I could interview her and her husband, Tom, for our “Inside and Outside Marriage” issue. “Sure,” she responded, “but I’ll tell you right now, I’m not sure how much truth you’ll get out of us.” I was intrigued because...
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2021 Fall Poetry
phototropism peat moss swells with water ready for new life seeds are placed, labeled carefully a lesson from the year of twelve yellow tomato plants left to rest. no light needed little sprouts begin to appear a wisp of green surrounded by darkness sprouts grow until they are ready for a...
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October 1, 2021
Book Review: Beyond the Mapped Stars by Rosalyn Eves
Beyond the Mapped Stars(Knopf, 2021), by emerita Segullah staffer Rosalyn Collings Eves, captures the paradoxes of being a contemporary Latter-day Saint woman and places them in a historical setting: 1878 Utah, Wyoming, and Denver. Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, of leaving her rural polygamous home and her mother’s expectations in Monroe, Utah,...
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September 29, 2021
Rebecca Klundt’s Artist’s Statement
I am a native of Salt Lake City where I live with my husband Kevin. In 2012 I went back to finish the degree I began 20 years ago at Brigham Young University, and graduated in August 2014. My art is a product of 3 characteristics of my personality that drive me. First is my...
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