They should do a “charity” version for Mormons and other fans of the King James Version.

I’m an atheist, and I approve this message.  via Andrew Sullivan.

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This week’s Music Monday selection comes to us by way of one of my favorite swearing Mormon feminist friends, mfranti of feminist Mormon housewives and Excelling at Mediocrity. Many thanks!

Full disclosure: mfranti is related to Michael Franti of DHH, which is a full disclosure of awesome.

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This one’s for you history-lovers and Anglophiles out there. I swear this brought a lump to me throat:

via The Daily Dish

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When it comes to my English-speaking Mormon friends, few things amaze me more than their aversion to the use of profanity.  Some will spend hours patiently defending systemic racial discrimination or a father’s attempt to slit his son’s throat in God’s name, but will recoil at the use of a common word for excrement.  For […]

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People like to pick on bloggers. I guess I can see where they might be coming from. Compared to the thoughtful essays I wrote to impress my Poli Sci or Religious Studies profs, or the stories and reflections I’ve written for contests and print publications, my blog posts are hastily written and poorly thought […]

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Love Makes a Family, originally uploaded by waiting line.

From wren, and worth spreading around all of blogdom.

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I’m now in Salt Lake City for the annual Sunstone Symposium.  Jana and I agonized over whether or not to honor our commitments in the light of Jana’s recent health crisis.  After our meeting with the surgeon last Tuesday, and considering what a social/spiritual break from our current trials Sunstone would be, we decided to […]

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I realize that I spend way too much time in gather and horde mode.  I do this somewhat with material stuff, but I do it even more with information.  I have stacks of magazines, shelves of books purchased and borrowed, more podcasts than I can listen to 24/7 regularly downloaded into iTunes, and sites, blogs […]

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Emerson said that sometimes “a scream is better than a thesis,” and tonight I want to scream, but how do you convey a cry across a keyboard and into the ether? How can you type a suppressed sob, or a yell that lies dormant in the pit of your stomach?

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This morning, between me and my daughter, aka CatGirl.  This is pretty typical of our exchanges:
CatGirl: What’s that?
Me: This? Cream of Wheat.
CatGirl: More like Cream of Weird.
Me: You mean Cream of Awesome.
(I italicize my words when I talk.  It’s a rare talent.)
CatGirl: You know, I don’t think I’ve ever tried Cream of Wheat.
Me: Here’s a […]

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