Expert Textperts

It's been a while since I opened blogger for any reason other than deleting spam comments, but I've just come out of Ad Astra and I need to talk about it. No... I need to write about it. I blam...

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Today is Palm Sunday and I have been meditating on the significance of Christ's entry into Jerusalem. I have read that in eastern traditions, a king who rode into a city on a horse was declaring ...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2018/03/a-palm-sunday-prayer.html

Author's Note: This post is about miscarriage. If that's not a thing you can read about, you should probably skip it. First things first: Thank you. It may not be fair to claim, but I think m...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2017/10/my-sorrow.html

Well, it's #LDSconf weekend and Mormon Twitter is out in full force, tweeting how spiritual everything is, and occasionally calling out crap we hear from the pulpit (*coughcoughOakscough*). But...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2017/09/god-didnt-do-this-to-me.html

Author's Note: This is a long-overdue follow up to this post I wrote back in 2015, a personal update, and includes a modified version of a short speech I gave at the We Brave Women Lecture Serie...

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of reading Third Wheel: Peculiar Stories of Mormon Women in Love by Melissa Leilani Larson. The book contains two plays, both of which feature a Mormon woman...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2017/07/love-and-mormons-review-of-third-wheel.html

To my friends, enemies, general public, and specific readers of this blog: racism is everywhere. Seriously. Newsflash: Even you, reading this right now, are almost certainly a little racist. ...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2017/06/guess-what-youre-racist.html

Last night I joined a few hundred people at the Salt Lake City airport to protest Donald Trump's ban of Muslims from a number of Middle Eastern countries. I won't delve into the technicalities of...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2017/01/the-church-wont-save-anyone.html

Hi everybody, Casey here. A few months back I wrote about the future of this blog, which is definitely not dead yet (we've even managed to pump out a few posts since!) Meanwhile, our creative ...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2016/10/uhh-we-have-podcast-and-its-good.html

If you attend the mainstream LDS church and you go to Gospel Doctrine for Sunday School, then you're probably in Alma right now, close to the Corianton chapters. If you have no idea what I'm talk...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2016/08/corianton-mormons-and-sex.html

Today was a hard day. Mother's Day is hard not because of my mother or my mother-in-law. They are both fun, strong, sweet women and I'm lucky to have them. No, what makes today hard for me p...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2016/05/on-hard-day.html

Today's guest post comes to you from Eliza N. She is an editor who lives and works in Salt Lake City. She grew up in the Midwest and misses the cornfields. When she's not working, reading, or wat...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2016/03/we-are-not-alone-eliza-r-snow-and.html

A friend of the blog since before she was born, today's contributor Madelyn is Brooke’s baby sister. Madelyn is in her second year of college and spends most of her time working and singing in ...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2016/01/you-have-two-big-strong-hands-that.html

The internet is buzzing about the newest Star Wars movie. Don't worry, I promise I won't reveal anything plot-wise in this post, so all I'll say is that I liked it and it fits solidly into the gr...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/12/toys-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus.html

It's been a tumultuous couple of weeks in the world (especially if you live in Paris , Beirut , Japan , Mexico , or Baghdad , or if you are LDS ) and after a couple of weeks of watching my Faceb...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/11/some-thoughts-on-shame.html

The Princess Bride is easily one of the best movies of all time. This is not an opinion; this is fact. For any plebs who haven't seen it yet, it is a love story that makes Romeo & Juliet look lik...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/11/the-pit-of-despair.html

Well, by now you're probably heard: The LDS Church really, really dislikes gay families . So much that they won't allow children who live with gay parents to be blessed or baptized. Sorry, joint-...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/11/10-ways-to-feel-better-about-lds-church.html

Recently, a few bloggers who are smarter than I  am have undertaken to write about the Letter to a CES Director , a document that collects and sums up dozens of thorny historical and theologi...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/11/10-lessons-about-history-i-learned-from.html

As I write this post, the United Nations estimates that up to 300,000 people have died in the ongoing Syrian civil war. Around 12 million people have been forced to flee Syria as refugees, makin...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/10/does-lds-church-have-anything-to-say.html

An unedited sample of comments on the Mormon Newsroom's Facebook link to the church's statement on the Boy Scouts' decision to allow openly gay leaders: > "I will as well support the dec...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/07/mormons-react-to-bsa-allowing-gay.html

This Independence Day, I've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom is an abstract concept and easy to twist to whatever your personal definition may be, but bear with me as I play with the de...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/07/on-freedom.html

Okay, first things first, my disclaimer: BEWARE, ALL YE WHO READ THIS. I would like you to read this because I believe it is important, but please consider what you read for a few minutes before...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/04/baptism-is-not-wedding-prep-for-little.html

Faithful Latter-day Saints and good Christians everywhere know that The Family is under attack as it has never before been. Indeed, The Family is in such dire straights that people struggling wit...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/03/are-you-defending-family-enough-take.html

You and I both know the Mormon Newsroom as America's real journal of record, but despite so many high-quality press releases descending on its pages as the dews of Carmel, I feel like there are ...

http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/03/10-mormon-newsroom-headlines-we-all.html

At the outset of this year I made one New Years' Resolution, and I'd like to share it with the faithful readers. For my resolution I have chosen two people whom I greatly admire and would like to...

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