The Woman’s Exponent supported women’s suffrage, but it didn’t seem to have a lot of faith in what women would do with it. For example, the 1 August 1872 issue explained why women would be unable to vote wisely. If women voted, it said, they should be able to “form a clear and irreprehensible judgment; …
Tree Pose For a minute or two, we’ve created our own sacred grove—twenty of us swaying in the sweaty breeze of the gym fan, arms drawn heavenward. Our left legs are lifted off the floor, knees swung wide, heels propped against the inner thigh of our standing legs. I feel a slow burn in my …
In 1999 my husband and I met with an attorney who had offered to advise us pro bono on what to do about the fact that, since he had no birth certificate, Göran couldn’t convince the U.S. passport office that he was a citizen. He’d submitted written requests and processing fees to the bureaus of …
In August 2016, our family moved to Belgium for a year-long sabbatical. We had already participated in the Utah primary caucuses, and we used an overseas ballot to send in our vote well in advance of Election Day. We are eight hours ahead of Utah, so when we woke up on the morning of 9 …
I will never forget the moment when I knew he had won. The look on my wife’s face. 8 November 2016. I had driven up to Salt Lake to see a play about Joe Hill, the labor organizer, and his preposterously biased trial and conviction (and eventual execution) in a Utah court. My wife said …
I was angry. Angry that George W. Bush stole Al Gore’s election. Angry that the Supreme Court, divided on ideological lines, had stopped the Florida recount. Angry that the ideal of “family values” was being used to justify laws that I believed ultimately hurt American families. And I was angry at how Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” …
The air is cold, but that isn’t why I’m shaking. The text came while I was picking an outfit for a job interview later that day. “Did you hear about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?” my friend asked. I was confused. We were both Mormon, so what could the MoTab have possibly done to make her …
I didn’t stay up the evening of the election. I decided that, whatever happened, I would be better prepared to deal with the results with a good night’s sleep. Sadly, that sleep evaporated at about 4 a.m. When this kind of thing happens, I tell my body, “Look, I’m always battling sleepiness when I try …
I attended three worship services one Sunday: an LDS service, a Community of Christ service, and a heavy metal concert. Turns out, all three together helped me understand each one individually. This very odd but cathartic Sunday began at the Kirtland Temple for an LDS young single adult testimony and sacrament service, followed by hearing …
We and the prophet have no language in common. To us the moral state of society, for all its stains and spots, seems fair and trim; to the prophet it is dreadful. So many deeds of charity are done, so much decency radiates day and night; yet to the prophet satiety of the conscience is …
