All Stories from Segullah
There are currently 156 stories from Segullah.
Elder Bednar’s Promise
I started indexing this year, after my stake president talked about it in conference. It was a steep learning curve for me at first; I felt clumsy deciphering the handwriting and stressed about entering wrong information and wrecking the index for some poor searcher. But I’ve gotten better at it,...
To Be Civilized
Mormon Life says: I would love to have been in this author's scripture class to hear this lesson.
In a scripture class, taught and attended by women in my stake, I was recently asked to read a story written by Paul Sullivan, published in the Reader’s Digest in 1996, about the Cellist of...
Looking Up
Mormon Life says: A good reason to always look up: this author had a run in with a special church leader.
I learned a lesson on Sunday. Actually, I learned a few, and some of them were even during church, but this one happened afterward. I was heading back into the church for choir practice, walking...
Female Friendship at Forty
I’m a female who needs other females. Although I’m blessed to have a husband who’s done a bang up job filling the role of best friend for more than two decades, he can’t (and shouldn’t, imo) fulfill every need I have for companionship, sociability, understanding, sympathy, or fun. Even Angeline...
2011 Whitney Awards Finalists Announced!
It’s awards season. The Grammy are tonight, the Oscars a few weeks from now, and at my house, everyone’s getting ready for a couple months of eating Mac and Cheese from a box while Mom reads for the Whitneys. The Whitneys are an annual set of awards for novels by LDS authors, and the finalists...
Perfect People Not Allowed
Mormon Life says: I imagine we've all felt like this at some point, if not every day!
A few weeks before Christmas I drove past a cozy-looking Protestant church in my neighborhood. I noticed a colorful banner staked into the ground — “Perfect people not allowed!” it read — and I felt...
Song of the Heart
When I was a child, there was a family in our neighborhood who always came caroling on Christmas Eve. They’d sing for us and give us a perfectly round (baked in a soup can) loaf of banana bread, frosted with buttercream frosting and topped with a sprig of holly. Christmas had arrived. As a...
Early Morning Seminary
Mormon Life says: Funny (and insightful) lessons an early morning seminary teacher has learned.
II’ve been teaching early morning seminary for a few months now, and so far I’ve learned a few things: 1-I truly believed before I started teaching that I could get all my prep work done if I gave...
Let it be
Mormon Life says: I am in love with this painting, and what the author has to say about it.
I brought the postcard of this painting home from the Musee D’Orsay. It sits on the shelf above my desk and my heart pings a little every time I look at it. According to my rusty college French, the...
Thoughts on the Next Big Birthday
Mormon Life says: A great post on aging and loving ourselves. What are some goals you want to accomplish by your next big birthday?
I am turning thirty this week. Really. Finally. And I haven’t dreaded it at all. I don’t fear wrinkles. I’m not scared of being older than I have been. I like to think I am the type of person to...
Boo Humbug
Mormon Life says: And this is for the Halloween Scrooges (or those interested in commiserating about the challenges of the holiday).
For many many years, I was ashamed to admit this, ashamed that it would reveal me as a party pooper or (worse) an uptight reactionary or (even worse) a selfish adult who can’t enjoy a holiday...
Discovering Jane
Mormon Life says: Isn't it great when a good book can change the way you see the world? The best part about this is that when the author discovered Jane Austen, her books were still relatively unpopular.
I remember it like it happened yesterday. I was 5 months into my first pregnancy, a semi-newlywed and carrying a full load of classes, among them English literature. This particular semester I was...
Teaching Your Child to Fail
Mormon Life says: The author makes a really good point about teaching children it's okay to lose sometimes.
It’s a beautiful fall afternoon: the sun is shining in an impossibly blue sky, the wind is whipping through the trees, and out on the field, six five-year-olds are chasing after a soccer ball....
Milk before meat
Mormon Life says: Well-written essay on the importance of considering spiritual maturity.
Our family joined the Church the summer when I was fourteen, my brother was ten, and my sister was six. We grew up in Connecticut as a churchgoing family, but after church was over at 10:15 on...
Remembering Chieko Okazaki
Mormon Life says: Includes some great quotes from Sister Okazaki.
Sister Chieko Okazaki, a beloved LDS leader, teacher, writer, and speaker, passed away on Monday, August 1st. She served as First Counselor to Relief Society President Elaine L. Jack from 1990 to...
