Vol. 44 No. 1 — Summer 2024
Navigating tension appears to be the heart of this open-themed collection.
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Navigating tension appears to be the heart of this open-themed collection.
One day will we meet in heaven? Will you condemn me or embrace me? I hope we can hold each other — in sadness, in joy, in fullness.
I can already see how my daughter’s body is barreling toward its inevitable conclusion, like my body barreled before hers and my mother’s body barreled before mine and her mother’s body barreled before hers
<divJust as the Savior’s efforts to heal were focused on those at the margins of his society, so our efforts at inclusion should focus on all of our Heavenly Parents’ children, but especially those who
Tell her who she is
slap a sticky label
around her humble head
shroud her ankles
Having tasted a greater fullness of joy, I hope to live each day with courage, not fear — in honor of the pain and lost years it took to get to where I am —
Eve was a serpent
until she tasted fruit.
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