“Falling”

"Falling" ritual

There is no such thing as original sin there is only burgeoning wildness and wonder daring us to see staring us in our faces — Colm Mac Con IomaireI stood in front of a roomful of Primary children leading them through a bellowing round of “Follow the Prophet” when the world unmistakably stopped working the way it had worked for thirty years; I seemed to split in two. One moment I was born-and-raised LDS me, fluent in Mormon-ese, and the next I was an outsider, a foreigner, stepping into this religion for the first time. I didn’t lose my Mormon […]

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