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10 transgender people you should know about

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility, and what better way to raise visibility than to list some influential transgender people who have, in various ways,…

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Recently, I’ve noticed transgender issues a lot in the news and on social media. On the one hand, it’s a good thing! Over the past couple…

dear mormon allies, now what?

When we saw the “Day of Apologies” initiative a few days ago we thought it sounded like a pretty cool idea. It was in direct response…

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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.