“Fundamentalist”

I haven’t heard from her in years— and even then only to decline invitations to my daughters’ weddings but I’m willing to listen. She begins with her heart, her email brimming with testimony— God, Christ, forgiveness, the Book of Mormon but as she continues paragraph after paragraph wrests and whips what’s “of utmost importance” to her bands of scripture fuse with harsh decrees a painful forcing push, a mind-lock hammering my faith— Mormonism, healing blessing after a confusing childhood— a religion she declares to be in an “apostate condition,” “moving closer to Babylon” without “fidelity to God,” “no closer to […]

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“How Do You Say Thank You?” by Cynthia W. Connell

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