Category: Issue 166

Sunstone’s Motherhood issue on KRCL

If you missed the live discussion of Sunstone’s special issue on Motherhood, the recording is now available. RadioActive host Troy Williams interviews guest editor Holly Welker, artist Galen Dara, contributing author Rachel Mabey Whipple, and Sunstone executive director Mary Ellen Robertson. Check it out here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1930379/RadioActive/RadioActive!.May.11.Heavenly.Mother%27s.Daypodcast

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Guest Editor’s Foreword: The Power of the Goddess

By Holly Welker Like the art? Click to visit our Cafe Press store. Anyone who has ever attended a sacrament meeting on Mother’s Day has heard motherhood celebrated as a source of joy and meaning. The more confusing, heartbreaking aspects of motherhood don’t always get the same attention over the pulpit—even though the suffering involved …

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Transitioning

By Tiffany Singer In every way it was a typical baby shower: we played a few games, ate finger foods, and watched the mother open gifts. We admired a handmade baby quilt and cooed over adorable Baby Gap onesies, tiny booties, and the like. Eventually the planned activities gave way to chatter. I listened to …

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Poem: Invocation

By Edward R. Snow   May the weary, sighing for God’s embrace, feel themselves cradled in her arms.   May those who desire to know their Mother and are not satisfied with less know joy.   May those who give themselves away to know her dwell in Wisdom’s home.   May those who desire her …

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Poem: Standoff

By Judith Curtis   She, perched on platforms, short silk dress stretched tight, the glimmer of a sneer, every inch of visible skin blaring her youth; the I-dare-you-to-say-anything arrows striking me dead on.   I glare back at her, this inverse self, this opposite of clone, this obstreperous kite battling the wind she needs to …

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A Testimony Birthed of Pain and Hope

By Rachel Mabey Whipple Just past the seven-month mark of my first pregnancy, I was diagnosed with pregnancy-induced hypertension and put on bed rest—lying only on my side. Clint, my husband, was doing lab research to finish his undergraduate degree, earning a paycheck as a short-order cook, and traveling to interview at different graduate schools. …

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Poem: Harrow

By Anita Tanner   After the plow’s deep churning comes the spreading work, roots and remnants of years’ crops turned over in the soil. Harrow spikes and teeth begin the fine thin line of mud-caked script read and reread every year until time slows for each foot to meet the corrugated stair of the last …

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