Segullah's Blog, page 29
March 27, 2020
“After this manner we keep the records”
One day, while reading the Book of Mormon, I realized that I had found a kindred spirit. Verse 9 of the Book of Omni comprises the entirety of the records kept by Chemish: Now I, Chemish, write what few things I write, in the same book with my brother; for behold, I saw the last...
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March 23, 2020
Runaway Bunny
Once there was a little bunny,” Margaret Wise Brown wrote, “who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, “I am running away.” “If you run away,” said his mother, “I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.” There was a time, when my teenaged son and I were at...
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March 20, 2020
Coronavirus: Before Courage, Pausing to Mourn
Coronavirus: Before Courage, Pausing to Mourn Because of the widening coronavirus outbreak, my husband and I have been working from home since March 9th. While there are some inconveniences, we are managing fairly well. At times, I grow frustrated, but then I count my blessings, naming them one by one: we have jobs, running water,...
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March 16, 2020
Corona Sacrament
Yesterday my husband and I – like many of you – were under “house arrest” as far as Church goes. The notice from the Church came in time to tell us that because of efforts to quell the spread of the deadly corona virus/COVID 19, we should have “Home Church” until further notice. Apparently we’ll...
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March 1, 2020
INTERSEX AND MORMON- PART 3: MY GARDEN OF EDEN
Guest post by Green This is the third post in a series about my experience as a diagnostically intersex Mormon. (The first post can be read here and the second post can be read here) This is simply my experience, and not intended as a critique of the church, of-non-intersex people, of intersex people or...
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February 27, 2020
Book Review: Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Extraordinary Women from Church History
I bought the first volume of Girls Who Choose God soon after it was published in 2014 to read with my daughters. At that point in my little mecca of motherhood, my children were ages 5 to 9 and they would snuggle on the couch with me every night for a story. That first book told...
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February 21, 2020
Exercising My Demons at the Gym
I used to exercise about three times a week, but over the last six months, I have increased my visits to the gym so that I’m attending on average ten classes a week. I’m getting to know the instructors and the regulars. I often see another short, blonde, middle-aged woman in the classes I attend....
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February 18, 2020
Book Review: Saints, 1846-1893: No Unhallowed Hand
Until last week, if you had asked me what I knew about church history during the years between 1846 and 1893, I would not have had a lot to say. I would mention a few historical stories, like the miracle of the seagulls and the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Obviously, this was the time when the...
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February 17, 2020
Culture vs. Commandment
Life in the Southern hemisphere affords many blessings. One of which, at least in Australia, means that school starts at the end of January, which is also the end of summer. Like most years, I sat down with my husband and my 2019 calendar, a new 2020 calendar, the annual school timetable, paper, pens, highlighters...
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February 14, 2020
Every Day’s a Love Fest
In July of 1968 the stars twinkled in the night sky over the Bavarian Alps. Our group of participants in The Experiment in International Living – a dozen US teenagers and a dozen German teenagers – had finished eating in the alpine Gasthof. A handsome German boy named Peter – an older “man” of 18...
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