“Three Degrees”
The holy of holies does exist, although I have never heard it discussed on a Sunday. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
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“Shifting Sands”
But what makes Lake Michigan sacred isn’t just the water or the lighthouses or the memories. I found my name, myself, on its shores.
“Peter—In that Instant”
In that moment, before he looked down, before Thou art the Christ, before the cock crowed,
“Tabernacle of Flesh”
my body is the wilderness I wander in, searching for my daily sustenance from on high. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
Vol. 42 No. 2 — Fall 2022
Friendship
“An Unabashed Love Letter” by Rachel Rueckert
We wanted to make space in this issue to center friendship as an essential part of our lives.
“Proximity/Affinity”
The first time I met Stephanie, I was exercising. I was dripping sweat, my face flushed and red, when I heard a knock at the door. I paused my dance video to see a family standing on my porch. “We just moved in and heard you were in our ward!” the husband said. “Sorry, I’m really…
Excerpt from “Contradictions of Friendship”
II. Remnants Leaves alight with flame from dying rays split by rocky silhouettes. Another world nestled amongst clouds, guided by a one-way road. Wind whips through our hair as unfamiliar music shouts and you laugh without reservation. I’m holding on to beautiful moments, Cupping…
“Compassionate Conversation: Tips and Techniques”
The following is adapted from a Relief Society lesson. One of the best compliments I’ve ever gotten is, “I keep forgetting you have a husband.” I’ve trained my speech over years to use the first-person plural “we” only when strictly necessary, in part because I find it alarming h…
“After We Spoke”
1. After We Spoke After we spoke, on the road to Canada, I remembered when we saw god in a cloud behind the east wall of Provo. That mountain god, visible but far. That god who will be best found in a grove of trees. The eager messenger forever Lifting a trumpet to Provo, on the …
“Tripp”
Puppies are agents of chaos, in a Manhattan apartment especially so. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
“Breaking the Silence” by Katie Ludlow Rich
Book Review of I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders (edited by Kerry Spencer Pray, Jenn Lee Smith) As a tradition that both “elevates the hetero-nuclear family to the level of a saving ordinance” (3) and routinely denies female sexual des…