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November 2013

November 01, 2013

Making Room for Difficult Mormons and their Friends

I began my Halloween by reading the much talked about article in Meridian Magazine--a terribly...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

The Prodigal (from a mother’s perspective)

A certain woman had a son. They were not wealthy, but she had given him...

October 26, 2013

Death of the Organist

I once learned how to play several stanzas of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. I played them...

October 24, 2013

My Fantasy Class

Black History through Film and Fiction Yes! I will propose it. Add or critique. I'm...

October 24, 2013

That “Third” Conversation? Never, No Never!

Fourth grade can be terrible. Not only do you get introduced to hard math, but...

October 08, 2013

Dad at the Graves

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud BY JOHN DONNE Death, be not proud, though some...

October 07, 2013

Who are These Three Women?

Who are the three women in J. Kirk Richards's painting of the lepers? They do...

October 04, 2013

Caves, Cloisters, and Temples

Part I: Caves A year ago, I visited J. Kirk Richards's studio. I saw a...

October 02, 2013

My Prayer upon Opening the Internet

Dear Lord, I am about to enter the world-wide internet, where good people can use...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

“Margaret Young has Weighed In.”

These words, beginning my friend Russell Stevenson's one-sentence summary of one of my blog posts,...

September 27, 2013

A Few of my Sisters

This is Augustina Choc and her family. It's not a great picture. You can see...

September 26, 2013

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

This was one of the last posts I did when I blogged at By Common...

September 20, 2013

Learning to Talk Past Our Differences: Hello Fellow Feminists!

When my family moved to Utah from Illinois, I spent the last month of fourth...

September 18, 2013

Fifty Years Later: Swimming with Dad

The photo on the right was taken this morning. My brother, Dell, took it. That's...

September 14, 2013

I Return to “Ordain Women,” where Angels Fear to Tread.

Yes, it is foolish to rush in yet again after the reception my initial blog...

September 12, 2013

September 12–after my daughter was cast as Annina in La Traviata at Indiana U

I am re-posting something I wrote several years ago, because of the wonderful news we...

September 09, 2013

Priesthood Restrictions–Shall we Protest?

June 8, 1971—an important day. Three black men, Ruffin Bridgeforth, Darius Gray, and Eugene Orr...

August 2013

August 11, 2013

The Trip: Prologue

"Not Knowing Beforehand the things which I should Do" It’s because I’m a Blair. My...

July 2013

July 14, 2013

Intersections

Mel Hamilton is one of my heroes. He spoke on July 13th about his experience...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Imagination and Faith

There is no faith without imagination. One reason I choose Mormonism as my religious framework...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

Wedding Rehearsal Revisited

My husband and I celebrate twenty-eight years of marriage today, May 17th. Bruce, as most...

May 10, 2013

I Think I’m In The Wrong Room

I prepared my conference paper with a particular audience in mind—the one I know: Mormons,...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Letter to a Struggling RM

He could be anyone. I might have made him up. Or this might be the...

April 25, 2013

Darius Gray and a Wish List for BYU

I wrote some of this in 2013, but it has additional relevance today, so...

April 22, 2013

For My Friend, Who’s Going through the Temple for the First Time

Dear Ms. C: I received this in an email from a Congolese friend, Aime Mbuyi,...

April 17, 2013

We Are All Your Children

If you don’t want to get involved with a charity to help a poverty-stricken child,...

April 15, 2013

Len Hope–in his own words

This is the story of Len and Mary Hope, black converts to Mormonism. Len was...

April 11, 2013

Bruce Loves Margaret (and visa versa)

Our courtship is slightly famous. Bruce gives his students copies of the essay he wrote...

April 01, 2013

A Public Confession to my Bishop

Dear Bishop: I just did a bad thing. I didn't mean for it to get...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

I Broke Down at the Veil

In this post, I'm going to include something I wrote for By Common Consent in...