Segullah's Blog, page 25
August 30, 2020
The Truth, and nothing but the Truth, for Today.
Here’s the truth: Today I was supposed to put up the Words Fall In podcast. I reached out to an author who had expressed interest, but she never returned my phone calls or texts. I don’t know why. Maybe she is feeling the same thing I’m feeling (see below). Maybe she got covid. Maybe her...
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August 21, 2020
Witnessing the Work of Grandmothers
As a college student, I noted the work of grandmothers when my Grandma Viola (Hanks Dick Hemming) would mail me a dozen of her famous raisin-filled cookies that were inexplicably fresh and delicious despite the journey from Rexburg to Provo. During that same time, I watched my Grandmother Dorene (Layne Peterson Webb) cook amazing dinners...
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July 27, 2020
Unmasked
Perusing my Facebook feed these days is a reckoning. I can’t help but think of Luke 12: “… that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.” Thanks to the housetop of Facebook, I know a lot more about the politics of my friends and my friends know...
July 24, 2020
Good Pioneer Stock?
Although I grew up in the Church, I don’t remember hearing the phrase “good pioneer stock” until I came to Utah for college. I didn’t like the phrase then, and I still don’t. It carries a whiff of faulty, outdated ideas about heredity, “good breeding”, and eugenics. I’m a logical thinker and still can’t understand...
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July 23, 2020
Holiness in High Places
Yesterday morning my oldest daughter and I woke at 5:30 AM so we could be on the road by 6. As we drove up the canyon, a flash of golden light burst through the clouds, illuminating a small patch of eastern sky. By 6:40, we had slid on our packs and were hitting the trail....
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July 17, 2020
Publication of the Discourses of Eliza R. Snow
Earlier this month, my nineteen-year-old daughter asked me to recount the personal histories of two of her 19th Century ancestors. My daughter is named after women who immigrated to the US–one from England and one from Prussia. Clarissa finds inspiration in hearing how her ancestors managed physical, financial, emotional, and spiritual obstacles. We do not...
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July 10, 2020
Making the Best of a Worst Case Scenario
I’m trying to chip marshmallow goo out of my pathetic pandemic hair – the aftermath of a S’mores dessert on a lovely summer night. We’ve had our germ posse with us essentially since mid-March. Our gang includes a 3-year-old and a 6-month-old, their parents and their other set of grandparents. Some of our crowd have...
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July 9, 2020
Book Review: Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
“The negro . . . should serve the seed of Abraham; he should not be a ruler, nor vote for men to rule over me nor my brethren. . . .” –Brigham Young, January 5, 1852 Reading Joanna Brooks’ newly released and coincidentally timed book, Mormonism and White Supremacy, I felt like Republican House Speaker...
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Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
“The negro . . . should serve the seed of Abraham; he should not be a ruler, nor vote for men to rule over me nor my brethren. . . .” –Brigham Young, January 5, 1852 Reading Joanna Brooks’ newly released and coincidentally timed book, Mormonism and White Supremacy, I felt like Republican House Speaker...
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July 6, 2020
Book Review: Taylor Petrey’s Tabernacles of Clay
Tabernacles of Clay offers a comprehensive look at sexuality and gender during the period of post-World War II “Modern Mormonism” and amidst a “religious revival” (Petrey 6). While I was surprised, maybe even initially disappointed that “plural marriage” syntax from the 19th century was not included, it is not needed. More than enough sexual, gender,...
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