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Sacred Music Sunday: I Danced in the Morning
I Danced in the Morning, also called Lord of the Dance is a hymn by Sydney Carter written in 1963. The hymn uses dance as a metaphor for the life and ministry of Jesus. I really like the metaphor because it's a reminder that the gospel is supposed to be joyful. Plus, it speaks to me because of my background as a dancer.
The tune has been used in multiple settings. Originally, it was used in the 19th century Shaker hymn Simple Gifts. Aaron Copland also used it as the theme for the ballet Appalachian Spring. It's also the main...
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Sacred Music Sunday: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
One of my favorite hymn composers is Ralph Vaughn Williams. Every tune he pens brings to my mind the majesty of God. Near the top of the list is the hymn tune Kingsfold, which is based on the Irish folk song Star of the County Down. LDS listeners will be most familiar with it as the tune to If You Could Hie to Kolob. My preferred hymn set to Kingsfold, however, is I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say.
The hymn is a summary of some of the main messages from the life and ministry of Jesus: "Come unto Me...
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Guest Post: Mature Trees and Ripe Fruit
By Maureen Edgerly
Dave Chappelle is a comedian who pushes the envelope on social issues. He takes his audience to that uncomfortable place where wrestling is necessary. He recently lamented the saga of his childhood hero Bill Cosby who has fallen from grace to villain. Chappelle recounted the many philanthropic good deeds performed by Cosby over the decades AND the many accusations and recent conviction of rape. You can hear the dissonance and disappointment in Chappelle that his former hero was now guilty of heinous crimes. How do these disparate identities inhabit one person?
Celebrities aside, I suspect we’ve all have...
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Guest Post — The Name Change: Social Expectations, Prejudice, and Jesus
by S.J. Ryan
I was married over a month ago. After months of debating whether or not to take my husband's last name, I finally made a decision. During the process, I made a lot of discoveries and insights that made the process mean a whole lot more than just a means to an end.
So let's talk about names. What's in them? Why do we care so much? I was thinking a lot about this lately before and after the wedding day. Most people expect a woman to take her husband's last name after marriage in the Western world. Culturally,...
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Gender Roles Are a Result of the Fall
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." 1 Corinthians 15:22
In the beginning, God created a world where man and woman were perfectly equal. Both were created in the image of God, neither above the other. There were no gender roles - no "you must do this because you are a man and you must do that because you are a woman."
Then Satan came and threw a wrench into everything.
We talk about the results of Satan's meddling as a "fall". A fall implies a transition to a lesser state. The fall introduced...
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Relief Society Lesson 14 President Hinckley: Losing Ourselves in the Service...
Section 1: Our Lives are to be Used in the Service of Others
President Hinckley gives several really nice quotes in this section. Here are a couple of my favorites:
There is … much of poverty and stark want across the world, so much of rebellion and meanness, so much of sleaze and filth, so many broken homes and destroyed families, so many lonely people living colorless lives without hope, so much of distress everywhere. And so I make a plea to you. I plead with you that with all your getting you will also give to make the world a...
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Women of the Bible Series: The Woman of Canaan / The...
In the scriptures, sometimes the same stories are told by different authors. This serves to expand upon the record of the person or event, and it serves to emphasize the importance of the story being told. Thus, it was surprising to me when I searched LDS.org for thoughts and insights on The Woman of Cannan (Matthew 15: 22-28). She is recorded twice in the scriptures, the second time as the Syrophenician Woman (Mark 25: 7-30). Yet there are just over a handful of references that teach her story in LDS theology. Better still, the verses themselves are not referenced to...
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Young Women Lesson: How can the Savior help me during my...
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Once upon a time, shortly after getting married, I biked across all of Slovenia and most of Croatia with my husband and a few close friends. We would be meeting each other (and starting our cycling journey) in Venice Italy. We all flew standby flights, and none of our phones worked in Europe, so it made the exact meeting time/place tricky to arrange. (For instance, my husband and I thought we would be flying into Pisa Italy, just to fly into Nice France, instead.) Our friends were coming a little bit after us, so we still had time to...
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A few thoughts on Mary, pregnancy, and making room.
I. The night I told my father I was pregnant with my first babe, he had a dream. The tiny child inside of me was a girl who would grow up to be great in the sight of the Lord, and her name would be Sophie. That was the name I had wanted for a little girl for over ten years. I couldn't remember telling my father. The child was born, and she was a girl who I hope will grow up to be great in the sight of the Lord, but I named her Cora, after my great grandmother....
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Guest Post — In Error Pining: Thoughts on Christmas
by Ashley
Despite my love of Christmas, of lights and decorations and holiday traditions and carols, for many years I felt a deep sadness at Christmas. Christmas often seemed to highlight what I didn’t have. My family doesn’t always do well at the holidays and it was frequently a time of stress. When my beloved grandparents died almost seven years ago, I wondered if I would ever be able to recapture my love of Christmas. Six years ago I was mourning their loss, which had also triggered my fear that perhaps I would never marry. I was in my late...
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Exponent II provides Mormon feminist forums for women and gender minorities across the Mormon spectrum to share their diverse life experiences in an atmosphere of trust and acceptance. Through these exchanges, we strive to create a community to better understand and support each other.
Exponent II was founded in 1974 by a group of Mormon women in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These women were inspired by the original periodical, “The Woman’s Exponent,” to create a forum “posed on the dual platforms of Mormonism and Feminism.”
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