Church Mormon Phrases When Skylar moved to Utah in 2016, he basically had to take a Utah-immersion course just to understand basic life. He'd occasionally wander into the house and say
Grandma Sweet Tea and Facebook Live Momma's got a few things for you today. First, I found the two worst movies of all time. I'm serious. We can stop searching now. These
Church Forever? A few years ago I started having ongoing debates with a friend about whether the existence of an afterlife is scarier or less scary than there being no afterlife. She
Church Worlds Collide Palau is so much more beautiful than I remembered. I knew it was breathtaking. At least, that's how I described it when people asked. But coming back here
Church To Be Seen I kept myself busy throughout my life as a coping mechanism. If I was too busy to stop and think, I would be too busy to be afraid. If I
EMBARRASSING Voicemail Surprise It was 2007 and my roommate, Quinn, had a birthday coming up so I decided that I should throw him a little birthday party. I was going to make a
Church A Text Gone Wrong Hola--Before we get to today's story, please enjoy Part 2 of our series on cringeworthy classic Mormon movies. This week we look at films about family. Isn'
Church The Mormon Coffee Rumor Meg is mad at me about coffee. I didn't actually do anything wrong, but homegirl is taking all of her anger out on me anyway. It started a
Church Mormon Films, Part I: Gender Roles For a little while I've been wanting to do a series on the cringiest and most memorable Mormon films from my childhood. There were a whole bunch of
Church Conversion Therapy My state has been debating a bill that would try to ban conversion therapy. As you could guess, this is a topic about which I have some thoughts. I'
Gay Better or Worse I woke up on Saturday morning to tweeted videos of boys from a Catholic school taunting and mocking elderly indigenous people. If you somehow haven't seen this yet,
Gay 2018 I sit at my desk at home on this snowy Sunday in Salt Lake City. Two dogs are wrestling at my feet, occasionally humping one another even though both are
Church Mormon Mothers Skylar told me last night that he thinks "scolding" is a super power of Mormon mothers. I had never heard this opinion from him, or anyone, but I
Rebecca A Thing I Decided I Want You To Know I'm pretty gay. I know. You're all shocked. NO ONE guessed this. I'll give you a moment to recover. This is something I just
Church A Kentucky Clerk Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you've probably heard more than you ever wanted to hear about a Kentucky county
Church Kirtland A friend had told me that Cleveland is apparently only like 20 minutes from a town called Kirtland and when I heard this I acted like I had won the
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions This week I ventured off to Cleveland. Before doing so Bob and Cathie informed me that I would certainly die. I didn't take this very seriously because they
Church The Mormon Crisis and the "Gay Question" A few years ago the nation recognized a new phase for my community. They called it "the Mormon Moment." Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, a number of significant events took place that put Mormons in the spotlight, largely in a very positive
Church Pioneer Day You guys. I know you are all very excited and you've hardly been able to sleep lately. You've made paper chains counting down the days. You've spent all of your time in the last few months trying to
Church The Mormons Be Talkin' The Mormon world is abuzz this week at the announcement that two high-profile church members are apparently facing church discipline. For those unfamiliar with how this works or why this matters, I'll attempt to give a very brief and hopefully accurate explanation
Church Palau Meets Salt Lake City Last week my worlds collided. And it was really strange. One of the boys from Palau, whom I got to know very well working with the church kids for one
Church Disney Films are Making Your Kids SUPER Gay People are freaking out about the movie Frozen. They are saying that it is a sneaky way to tell children not to hate themselves for being gay. They are angry about this. As though teaching a gay person that finding peace within over something
Church Feed the Birds There's a popular movie out right now called "Saving Mr. Banks." It's about the making of the Mary Poppins film with Julie Andrews. I don't tend to go see movies very often in the theater because
Church The Gay People Are Getting Married For the last many years there has been a huge fight in America about marriage equality. How do I know about this? Because I've seen people scream about it on Facebook since at least 2008. In recent weeks the issue of marriage
Church Still Here At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to share some thoughts with you. And forgive me that these thoughts are coming from the deepest part of my soul and might sound awkward and are sort of uncomfortable for me to
