by Dayna Patterson Dayna Patterson is the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). She is the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, a former managing editor of Bellingham Review, poetry editor for Exponent II, and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon …
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Adoption: A Triangle of Shame
By Christy Crowe Hughes THE CONCEPT OF adoption is very old—it is part of our earliest Judeo-Christian myths (Moses for example). Although it is an essential social mechanism for taking care of vulnerable populations of children, adoption is fraught with deep shame and trauma that affects all three parties in the adoption “triangle”: the birth …
The Family Forum: Changing the Family System
By Michael Farnworth Changing an established family system is a difficult thing to do: the system is hidden and has an energy of its own that resists control; it has set up safeguards to defend and maintain itself against change. This is true of all systems—social, political, and corporate. Not even the Church’s organization is …
Living on the Edge
By M. E. Or right-click here to download the audio file: Living on the Edge THE FIRST TIME MY oldest child made a frantic telephone call to me occurred on a crisp autumn afternoon when he was thirteen. I sat in a row of parents watching my daughter chase a soccer ball …