Write your story

I feel like there are thousands of stories inside my head. Some of them are mine. Some of them are yours. Some are real, some feel real, and some are so different I don’t know what they are. I want to write them down, really, I do. It’s just that staring into a blank page

To the Misfits

I know you’re out there. I know what you’re going through. I have felt the pain you feel. I have been alone and afraid, just like you. You have been rejected, you have been dismissed. You have been chastised, you have been broken. They have told you that you are led astray. They have told you

A Year of Grace

When I was a kid I adored the Little House on the Prairie books. The last book is called The First Four Years, and it details the ups and downs of the beginning of Laura Ingalls’ marriage to Almanzo Wilder. At the start of their life together, the newlyweds decided to try farming for three

How Worship Works

Over the past year as I’ve studied Hinduism, I’ve learned about unfamiliar spiritual practices like praying and making offerings to images (statues or portraits) of gods and saints. As a Mormon, I’d have reflexively condemned this practice as worthless and blasphemous “idol worship”.  However, I’ve come to see it quite differently.  In fact, I’d now go