Archive for ‘December, 2012’

why I will NEVER stop teaching sunday school (even if they try to release me…)

Guest post by Elyssa When I was a young 19 year old in college (at BYUI), I was called as a Sunday School teacher. I love…

pantsgate 2012

Guest post by Curtis Penfold, member of All Enlisted, on the inside of Pantsgate 2012 As a Mormon feminist, sometimes you talk and talk about how…

asriel and alex share notes from 2012 counterpoint conference (part 2)

Asriel: The Counterpoint Conference hosted by the Mormon Women’s Forum held at the University of Utah was a great event, with lots of thoughtful presentations. I…

A Skeptic’s Prayer, by Margaret Munk

Is it true
Thou lovest best
Thy meek, unasking children?

Thou hast made us
So diverse, so various,
Yet in the image
Of a Sire
Who filled a universe
With his creative fire.

What father has supposed
His child would grow to manhood
Only hearing and affirming?
What sire could honor such a son?
How could a mind that,
Like a sponge,
Absorbs but never questions,
Doubts,
Or wonders why
Be offspring and apprentice
To a God?

It may be, Lord,
That thou canst never love me
With the calm relief
A father feels
For his obedient child—
The one who’s never any trouble.

But use me
As a bridge
To those more wayward still
Than I.
I cannot give them all the answers;
But they will not ask
The ones who think they can.

Let me speak
To thy lost sheep
As one who,
Understanding how they went astray,
Still loves the Shepherd.