Archive for ‘January, 2013’

feminist filmgoer: let’s talk about movies

I am a huge film buff. I watch one almost every day, and I take them seriously as art, not just as passing entertainment. One of…

how the relief society got its name

A summary*, by Hannah Wheelwright Nauvoo Lodge Room, March 17 1842 (you should also read the actual minutes found here) Sister Whitney, Second Counselor: Let’s call…

asriel and alex share notes from 2012 counterpoint conference (part 3)

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…

gatekeepers of zion

I haven’t had very many good home teachers at BYU. And when I say “good,” I mean “made contact with me at all during the semester…

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.