Segullah's Blog, page 24

The Wheat and the Tares

I have always loved the parable of the wheat and the tares. I’ve always been struck with the mercy of letting us ripen. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t make a rash decision about someone or something, you may unwittingly think wheat is a weed and pluck it out. I have also marveled...

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

I realize that it’s September and not February 14th (Valentine’s Day), but time has been pretty loopy for months now, and I can’t even keep track of what day of the week it is, not to mention what month it is. But, as I enthusiastically pass the baton (or torch) to the new co-editorial partnership,...

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Interview with Dr. Farina King

Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is Assistant Professor of History and an affiliate of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma. She received her PhD at Arizona State University in U.S. History. King specializes in twentieth-century Native American Studies. She is the author of The Earth Memory Compass: Diné...

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Nancy Andruk Olson and Her Artwork

It is our delight at Segullah to introduce you to the expressive and skilled artist Nancy Andruk Olson. A prize winner in Segullah’s 2020 Art Contest, Nancy’s vivid artwork (in watercolor and in oils) is bold and transcendent. Her images will grace the banners and cyber-pages of Segullah for our Autumn 2020 season. Let’s get...

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Fall Poetry Offerings

Coventry Cathedral 1944   Broken glass— that once beckoned the pilgrim  to raise her eyes heavenward— now lay mixed among the rubble of beam and mote and prostrate Christ like broken prayers.   A chaplain—an agent of light— surveys the rubble kneels down picks up one red piece then one blue and tucks them into...

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Pinterest, Porn and Politics

I find that it’s easier for me to get along with the world that I build inside of my head. I have been creating imaginary worlds since I walked to grade school.  Don’t worry. It’s not a solitary activity. I have two spectral BFFs: twins named JoDee and NaDee. They accompanied me during my lunch...

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Book Review: An Imperfect Roundness

My daughter made some homemade bath bombs and encouraged me to try them. They were created in a moment of artistic passion- grabbing whatever was at hand, mixing in joyous fervour. Absent of bath-bomb moulds, she used cupcake trays to hold the particles of Epsom salts, baking soda, dried lavender leaves, pink food colouring and...

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The Task of Time Warps

(I post this on the anniversary of a terrible day in US history. September 11th is a painful, tragic, excruciating anniversary of horrible deeds that murdered many. Let us hold in our hearts all of the complexity of that day for a quiet moment before I launch into my own very different musings on the...

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Cataloguing Power in the Book of Helaman

Back in innocent January I wrote about finding lenses to help us read the Book of Mormon. I was excited to teach Gospel Doctrine this year, and one of the very minor but still unfortunate consequences of the pandemic is that I haven’t been able to. Helaman’s exploration of power, one of the lenses I...

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Souls Unmasked

People are crying out here. And dying. Every day, precious new souls strap on tiny, frail bodies and scream at the unfairness of everything different — bright light, cold air, hunger, thirst, mess, texture, noise, pain… Meanwhile, every hour, other souls — too many just as young, some downright old, most in between — slip...

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