Indiana, After a Storm April 28, 2023

“Before we knew each other, we knew of absence…”

The Secret April 12, 2023

“By prioritizing gun culture, we’ve criminalized our kids. We make them wear clear backpacks or no backpacks; some go through metal detectors; some get searched every day… And all of them, every one, goes to school with the knowledge that today might be their turn to die.”

“New Rituals, Ancient Legacy” January 11, 2023

“My pioneer ancestors stored food like a repository of matrilineal love. As their rearguard, my life pulses with the seasonal flow of home canning

“I Would Gift Us” December 14, 2022

“These are the gifts I would give us, and this is the way I would gift them. Jezebel served a goddess…”

“Today is the Day” November 21, 2022

“Today, people will send thoughts and prayers. Today, people will plead for unity. And tomorrow, we’ll have another mass shooting.”

“Anxiously Engaged” November 9, 2022

“God has told us to ‘be doers of the word, and not hearers only,’ and, trusting him to guide me, I engage in the work of changing systems to better meet the needs ‘of the least of these.’”

“Another Monument of Another Dead White Man” October 12, 2022

“We know too much of the masculine and not enough of ourselves. We have lost more than I can bear.”

“Of Porn Shoulders and Other Nasty Behavior” September 5, 2022

“I know what they say in ward council. I know what they say because I, too, used to sit there and say that.”

“The Body is Political: Part 4” August 10, 2022

“I’m proud of my genderqueer and gay children, those born to me and the bonus kids who have come into my life. I’m proud of my extended family who have brought their spouses into our lives and made us all richer. I’m proud of the BYU students who light up the Y and the campus with their beautiful out and proud selves. But I am not proud of my church.”

“Apologists Facilitate Sexual Assault Coverups” August 8, 2022

“TW: child rape, mention of suicide. Children are highly vulnerable. They have little or no power to protect or provide for themselves…”

Wounded, Broken, Not Yet Defeated June 28, 2022

“We have been wounded. But we are not yet conquered. We fight, but we do not fight alone.”

Out and Loud Representation June 14, 2022

“When it comes to historically oppressed communities, not all representation is good representation.”

The Body is Political: Part 3 June 6, 2022

“My mother needed a bank account. Her husband, my stepfather, frequently spent their income before the end of the month, leaving us with little food and no money for the mortgage. So she set aside a few dollars out of every shopping trip for lean times. In the 1990s, though, many banks wouldn’t give an account to a married woman without her husband’s signature.”

The Body is Political: Part 2 May 25, 2022

“Giving consent one time, or to one thing, doest not mean consent every time, or to everything. What works for you today may not feel ok tomorrow, and that’s ok.”

The Body is Political: Part 1 March 9, 2022

“Who has the right to own and control another person’s body? While wife beating is currently illegal in many countries, in reality a vast number of women continue to experience IPV.”

This Bridge Called My Back February 14, 2022

“I told my husband once, in the midst of little children and their constant, unsatisfiable needs, that I could go entire days without seeing another woman. I felt, often, like I was standing on a corner, stiff and silenced, unseen. “

Silence is Violence February 10, 2022

“Choosing silence, for whatever reason, is how supremacy maintains its stranglehold on all of us.”

Blessing Circle January 2, 2022

“You step from Eden, that sheltered and safe home, into a new life. Like the first birth, this birth feels like death. The void yawns before you. Fear seizes you. The unfamiliar threatens to engulf you. Your steps falter.

Beautiful girl, you can do hard things. 

Beloved child, you have done hard things.”

“Radical Love Manifesto” December 8, 2020

“This manifesto we’ve begun isn’t very orthodox. And yet, I feel it’s more orthodox than any rigid checklist of vague and ill-formed virtues could be. It leaves God open to being God, without restricting Divinity to any religious strictures or human definitions. And it leaves us open, too–to hearing new stories, incorporating new voices, growing into ourselves in authentic and Godlike ways.”

“An Open Letter to My Baby Brother” November 11, 2020

“I mourn the loss of you. I mourn then damage you will inflict as you move through the world, confident that what your leaders tell you is more real than what people you claim to love experience.”