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August 2026

August 28, 2026

I Revised Section 132

You're Welcome. If any woman has fulfilled her obligations in marriage, i.e....

March 2025

March 26, 2025

“Woke” as a shibboleth

We all learned more than we wanted to about political signals over the past while....

October 2023

October 02, 2023

After Death: My Suspicions and Speculations

I remember going to the hospital to see my mother-in-law, Ruth, who had just passed...

June 2023

June 08, 2023

What is June 8th to Mormons?

The new kids on the block (those born after 2000) have no sense of...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

Renewing Our Imaginations

When I've taught creative writing, I have asked my students to look at the world...

August 2016

August 02, 2016

The First Vision–beyond words

It was years afterwards that Joseph Smith made his first attempt to describe what we...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

Birthday Thoughts

On June 7, I turned sixty-one. My two best friends, Jackie Selck Clegg and Elizabeth...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction, Part 6

Blessed be the name of my God, for his Spirit hath not altogether withdrawn from...

May 20, 2016

Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction, Part 5

1 John 2:16 - For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the...

May 10, 2016

Salvador: The Truth behind the Fiction, Part 3

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken....

April 2016

April 28, 2016

On a Day When I Miss My Dad

I put a photo of an ultrasound into Dad's coffin on February 27. The viewing...

March 2016

March 11, 2016

Robert Blair Obituary, Part 4: The Story Teller’s Last Stories

Note: This post includes a photo of Robert Blair's lifeless body in the last part. ...

March 10, 2016

Death of a Latter-day Saint

Embedded in this post is a youtube link to my father's funeral. This is something...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Risen and Rising

My fundamental belief as a Latter-day Saint is that we are continuously in process of...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

The Future of Mormonism (the Next Five Years)

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith in America:...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

Christmas Church in China

“Do you actually believe in GOD? Do you PRAY to him? Do you think he...

October 2013

October 24, 2013

That “Third” Conversation? Never, No Never!

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

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...

July 2013

July 14, 2013

Intersections

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

May 2013

May 17, 2013

Wedding Rehearsal Revisited

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

April 2013

April 15, 2013

Len Hope–in his own words

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

February 2013

February 11, 2013

White Lady Speaks to the Genesis Group

Preliminary explanation, because inevitably somebody doesn't get it: This is one of those risky posts--a...