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Gratitude in the time of swim suit season

Shopping for swim suits is depressing. There is nothing like standing mostly naked under fluorescent lights in a cold dressing room in front of a three-way mirror to make one fully aware of the flaws of the human body. Your human body. Or, for the purposes of this post, *my* human body, as I found...

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What I learned from my mother

My mom’s atypical. We love to hear the story when she was thrown out of the BYU pool in the 1960’s for wearing a bikini. Scandalous! She loved wearing miniskirts, too. She sat barefoot at the feet of Peter, Paul, and Mary — I grew up singing “Lemon Tree” to my front yard lemon tree....

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If You Only Knew… Another Side of Infertility

I wanted to start IVF sooner rather than later, and had begun to nag my husband, B about it. We were both over 30 when we married and weren’t getting younger.  Now that I was a wife, I desperately wanted to be a mother. He desperately wanted a life together, with a family and, in...

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In Memoriam: Rachel Held Evans

Segullah joins the Christian community in mourning the loss of thinker, writer, and humorist, Rachel Held Evans. May her work continue to inspire our action, as expressed by our own, Heather Harris Bergevin, in her poem written yesterday:   May 4, 2019 The day that Rachel died, my son was on his third or fourth...

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Geese and Goodness

I stood in the kitchen of my new (to me) townhouse– all mine, and all alone. It was life-giving and very quiet. The duality was not lost on me, but with every new noise and new sight I felt a soft knowing that my new surroundings would also shape my own interior. Moments later, a...

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The Lost Percent. Early Returning Missionaries.

I got a text message yesterday asking for prayers for my friend’s missionary daughter. She is having some cognitive dissonance about the church and some doctrines and my friend is in a panic. My friend texted that her daughter’s position is “a difficult and dangerous spot for a missionary.” She’s worried. Her daughter is having...

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2018 Whitney Awards Finalists: General Fiction

The Whitney Awards evolve every year depending on trends in Mormon publishing; this year, the general fiction and historical fiction categories were combined since apparently neither had enough nominees to be a strong category on their own. Although this results in a category with a wide range of books—from Biblical fiction to a contemporary religious...

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Beauty for Ashes

During Easter weekend, a women’s choir I sing with, called Incanta, performed in downtown Salt Lake City at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Our repertoire included some traditional hymns, broadway tunes, gospel spirituals with a bit of bluegrass (yep there was hand clappin’ and toe tappin’), and some original compositions by our director, Kendra Lowe. One...

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Those Little Hearts

I don’t very often write publicly anymore. When my children were small, I felt I somehow ‘owned’ their lives and stories and they they felt like my stories to tell. I created and mildly curated a darling little life that involved funny anecdotes and poignant learning moments, with a proper amount of spiritual growth and...

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2018 Whitney Awards: Middle Grade

Today’s post is by guest blogger, Melissa M. Fox, who lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband and two of her four daughters. (The other two are away at universities.) Melissa has a great love of books, which is evident because she belongs to several book clubs, works in an independent bookstore, takes classes in...

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