by Melody Newey | Jul 8, 2013 | Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured |
Next month I have the opportunity to participate as a panelist at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City. The panel will address the issue of being a “Borderlander.” Until very recently I’ve never really thought of myself in those terms. I’d...
by Melody Newey | Jun 24, 2013 | Agency, Featured, Feminism, Old Testament, Poetry |
Something hissed in my ear that day, made it hard to hear Father say He loved me and I had done no wrong. I was His shining star, His brightest daughter. But when it happened, I tell you, I felt dimmed– I didn’t know this was my desire unto my...
by Melody Newey | Jun 10, 2013 | Featured, Modesty |
After I read this fantastic post I started thinking again about modesty in the context of our lives as Latter-day Saints. Heaven knows, the Mormon blogosphere has been fascinated with the subject for some time now, but for the sake of the conversation, and partly to...
by Melody Newey | May 20, 2013 | Featured, Feminism, Heavenly Mother, Mother in Heaven, Poetry, Revelation |
In the heav’ns are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare! Truth is reason; truth eternal tells me I’ve a mother there. ~ Eliza R. Snow . Part 1 The Motherless Child My first concrete experience of the divine feminine happened about twenty...
by Melody Newey | May 6, 2013 | Featured, Feminism, Poetry, Uncategorized |
Mother’s Day is coming. I’ve heard it called Mothering Day and I like that better. We each experience mothering differently. Some of us don’t have children, yet we mother. Some raise children born to other mothers. Some of us are motherless children...
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