Mormon Reflections from the Antipodes
I woke up this morning with a sigh. I don’t every morning. But today I did because it’s Sunday, and on Sunday I go to church, and sometimes church makes me sad. But I do recall one wonderful Sunday, when I was about 23. I was volunteering with a local disability support service and [...]
I once belonged to a ward where the personality of said ward was defined by a long standing rift between two women, then in their 80’s, who had, decades before, determined that they couldn’t stand the sight of each other. I shall henceforth refer to one of the women as Sister Stick (who was my [...]
After a one month summer hiatus its time to hit the New Year with more unwanted opinion from the antipodes! What better way to kick 2013 off than with a bit of serious silliness? Sitting around our dinner table last night was our usual contingent of diminutive masculinity, but we were joined by three young [...]
Last week one of my readers invited me to participate in the ‘Wear Pants to Church’ Sunday campaign. She gave me a link to the Facebook page so I could get a sense of what this was all about. I smiled to myself and thought it sounded like a bit of a giggle. And then [...]
A couple of weeks ago Joanna Brooks (via Skype) and I gave a public lecture at the University of Canterbury entitled ‘What if Popular Culture Changed Religion?’ in the ‘What if Wednesday’ series. While the title of this post is slightly tongue in cheek, we traced the relationship between Mormonism, the public, and the [...]
Heterogamy: refers to a marriage between two individuals that differ in a certain criterion. Homogamy: a marriage or union between partners that match according to that criterion. (wikipedia) I grew up in a home managed by my Mormon mother and my Catholic step-father. While I have said before that this has given me a more [...]
I’ve only been blogging since the beginning of the year but in that time I’ve had hundreds and hundreds of comments from readers. On a regular basis I get messages from well meaning folk who have questions about my level of observance, some gently call me to repent, some have even urged me to leave [...]
I had determined that I had said all that I was going to say about Romney – I wasn’t going to dignify the man with any more attention, nor give his groupies yet more fuel to respond with their ‘correctives’. But I’m too gob-smacked at the moment to be restrained. Firstly, I don’t know where [...]
As I gaze on with admiration as my friend Joanna Brookes becomes Mormonism’s media darling in the US I’m both thrilled and excited about this moment in our religious history. Joanna’s love of a faith that we share, combined with her take no prisoners honesty about its complexities, inconsistencies and fractures is a rare compound [...]
I remember the day I first wrote the word ‘girl’. I was five years old and in Mrs Brunsden’s Primer Two class at Bamford Primary School. Of course I always knew that I was a girl, but there was something in the writing of it that gripped me so much that to this day I [...]
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