Segullah's Blog, page 31
January 5, 2020
Forest Fires and Christmas Cards in Australia
As I write this, I am sitting at my desk in my home, looking out at the Australian horizon. The sky is grey – smoke from fires that are hundreds of kilometres away have made a haze of the normally sunny summer sky. News programs report constantly on the fires, the heroes, and introduce me...
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Forest Fires and Christmas Cards in Australia
As I write this, I am sitting at my desk in my home, looking out at the Australian horizon. The sky is grey – smoke from fires that are hundreds of kilometres away have made a haze of the normally sunny summer sky. News programs report constantly on the fires, the heroes, and introduce me...
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January 3, 2020
Find Your Lens: Book of Mormon Come, Follow Me 2020
I am delighted, excited, thrilled–practically giddy–about studying the Book of Mormon this year for Come, Follow Me. This is because I get to teach it this year in Gospel Doctrine. I’ve been anticipating this through two humbling years of teaching the Bible. While teaching the Bible, I felt like I needed to be far more...
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Find Your Lens: Book of Mormon Come, Follow Me 2020
I am delighted, excited, thrilled–practically giddy–about studying the Book of Mormon this year for Come, Follow Me. This is because I get to teach it this year in Gospel Doctrine. I’ve been anticipating this through two humbling years of teaching the Bible. While teaching the Bible, I felt like I needed to be far more...
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December 31, 2019
End at Start, Light with Dark, Holiday or Ho Hum, Go and Come
The holiday season can be joyous, but it can also be jarring. Voices raise in harmonic “alleluias” or in discordant disagreements. Thoughtful, generous giving can elevate giver and receiver, but keeping-up with others’ expectations can break or badly bruise budgets. Family gatherings draw loved ones closer into togetherness … or conflict. Loneliness lengthens into life-altering...
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December 30, 2019
End at Start, Light with Dark, Holiday or Ho Hum, Go and Come
The holiday season can be joyous, but it can also be jarring. Voices raise in harmonic “alleluias” or in discordant disagreements. Thoughtful, generous giving can elevate giver and receiver, but keeping-up with others’ expectations can break or badly bruise budgets. Family gatherings draw loved ones closer into togetherness … or conflict. Loneliness lengthens into life-altering...
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December 29, 2019
Review of TITANIA IN YELLOW by Dayna Patterson
If you need some warm color in the middle of this cold, dark winter, open the small poetry collection Titania in Yellow by Dayna Patterson. She is a master of weaving themes and language. The theme of this book is Shakespeare. Familiarity with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It or the Merry Wives...
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Review of TITANIA IN YELLOW by Dayna Patterson
If you need some warm color in the middle of this cold, dark winter, open the small poetry collection Titania in Yellow by Dayna Patterson. She is a master of weaving themes and language. The theme of this book is Shakespeare. Familiarity with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It or the Merry Wives...
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December 23, 2019
Shepherds, Joseph Smith, and Divine Reality
I invite you to read and savor with me two poems, both by Darlene Young (and both available in her excellent book Homespun and Angel Feathers). Take a minute out of your Christmas preparations; they are worth your time. I: Shepherds: Don’t tell me about rose-cheeked Arcadian youth gathering daisies on a hillside piping tunes...
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December 17, 2019
Book Review: Let’s Call it a Doomsday
I have been a fan of Katie Henry’s books since her first novel, Heretics Anonymous, released last year—it was one of the best depictions of religion I’ve seen in nationally published young adult novels. I ordered her sophomore novel, Let’s Call it a Doomsday, without knowing anything about it besides the author. Thus, it was with...
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