Vol. 41 No. 3 - Winter 2022

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“The Best of Both Worlds: The Paradox of the Cosmic Mundane”

“Be in the world, but not of it.” *The human body shares many similarities with the earth it inhabits. For example, water comprises more than half of both the human body and the earth’s surface. This lifeblood of the earth flows through vein-like rivers and streams. But the body shares more than mere similarity with the earth. The air we breathe into our lungs comes from the exhalation of trees. The food in our bellies comes from seeds in the dirt. We are more than sustained by the earth’s bounty — we are entirely made up of it. It is impossible to […]

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"A Priest Wearing a False Moustache" by Shannon Bryn Soper

“A Priest Wearing a False Moustache”

God does not shroud this truth in disguise. Rather, God spreads the good news of salvation through Christ with the clarity of a trumpet.

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“Train Up a Child”

It was our first family gathering since the outbreak of the pandemic. No social distancing now as fourteen of us squeezed elbow to elbow at the fully extended dining table that had seen many family gatherings since my father purchased it at auction over 50 years ago. My then nine-month-old twins, fifth-generation Mormons on a family tree laden with pioneers, had their first Thanksgiving there, demanding “mo” turkey with chubby fists smeared with mashed potatoes. Through the years additional family members would gather for holiday meals, each one beginning with prayer to our shared Mormon god. Our religion anchored us […]

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Highlights from the Blog

Weaponizing The Word Strong: A Black LDS Woman’s Guide to VulnerabilityBY RAMONA MORRIS | AUGUST 12, 2021the-exponent.com/weaponizing-the-word-strong-a-black-lds-womans-guide-to-vulnerability. . . As a twenty-four-year-old convert, the word “strong” super-glued itself onto my entire existence as a saint of color . . . Despite its definition in any dictionary, the s-word isn’t a friend for women of color in the church. . . . Instead, the s-word is violent. It’s problematic. It forces us to be something that we’re not sure we can be and binds us into a contract with people’s expectations of the person that they assume we should be. . . […]

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“Swimming in the Wind of This World”

I have to learn alone/to turn my body— Adrienne Rich*I wasn’t born in the boat, but within its long shadow. Not like my friends, who talked about the boat and told me I was strange for not living on it. Or the boys who came in pairs some Sundays with tiny envelopes for us to put money in, or the two men who knocked on our door every December to tell us that Jesus wanted us to come to church. I didn’t know they saw me as a drowning person, flailing with my parents and sisters in ice-cold, shark-infested waters. On […]

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"Shallow Waters" by Megan K. Palmer

“Shallow Waters”

The shallow waters tip me over Make me sway and bend and fall I try to reach out but they pull me down I think they will guide me But shallow waters only run so deep I lay in shallow waters far too long Then I wrote a poem — how cliché The waters held me prisoner Because I wouldn’t stand up I let them guide me Because I thought it would be enough I thought it would be enough But shallow waters can drown you: Stay in the water And let go No use holding on You are not […]

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"No Success Can Compensate For Failure in the Home" by Jessica Sagers

“No Success Can Compensate For Failure in the Home”

Some people are so fatalistic and so neurotically attuned to our own bodies that we are certain every new sensation means that we are dying. Each stuttered heartbeat is a latent blood clot; every twitching muscle warns of early-onset ALS. Others, like my husband, live blithely in the face of our inevitable doom. David manages to wake up early, make coffee, and complete the New York Times crossword puzzle without losing three hours to researching signs and symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer. I ask him how he does it and he says he does not know. The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t helped […]

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“Lightwork”

LIGHTWORK I didn’t know until after Grandma died that daisies were her favorite flower. Daisies on her coffin. Daisies in the pallbearers’ boutonnieres. Daisies arranged with Hershey kisses, another of her favorites.Daisies belong to the Asteraceae or sunflower family. What looks like a single flower at the end of a stem is actually manifold individual flowers, sometimes ray flowers, sometimes disc flowers, sometimes both. Asteraceae, I learn, is the largest plant family in the world. There are so many varieties, Grandma — Oxeye, English, Subalpine, Arctic, Blue — which one, in particular, or is the answer: all of them? Grandma’s Daisy FloretsMANY […]

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