Transfigured by Ash Rowan I climb the mountain, alone: hand    over hand and foot    over foot, with no one to greet me at the summit...

I had my exit interview for my mission in a small church in East Texas. We had driven with our STL’s, and everyone was so excited for me....

A random algorithm played one of your songs today. I listed to it once, twice, three times before I stopped to ask myself why we push on...

I can see now Why I've always felt awkward hugging other women. It felt so good And so shameful. I can see now Why I didn't have a...

“There’s a family moving into the ward.” I look up from my laptop and pull out an earbud. “What?” “They’ve got a daughter, a little older...

And like Anne spelled with an E, she apologized for not being a boy, because that's what I wanted, right? And, no, all I ever wanted was...

When I was growing up in Provo, Utah in the 1990’s, a lesbian couple lived a few houses down the street from my family. My (very mormon)...

When I was a senior at BYU-Idaho I was my ward’s Relief Society president. I had also begun to dip my toe into the coming out pool. At...

I have been wondering how my 2018 was going to pan out. Especially since I have been spending a few months contemplating an essay I...

Sometimes, when I look at Heather, I remember another life. They are fleeting memories, strange in their specificity. She will be...

True Love is no great thing  It's more the wordless gift of a Diet Coke on your bedstand ("Because I just thought you would want it...

Earlier this year a show titled ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ aired on Netflix. I watched the entire series. I am working in suicide awareness...

I often wonder… is there a place for me in the world… (Ash, a short-haired person wearing a hoodie, looks uncertain as they weigh two...

Being an LGBTQ/SSA member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is anything but easy. It is a constant barrage of negative...

Coming out is scary. Coming out is hard and you don’t know how everyone will react. Depending on the nature of how you came out it can...

I remember shutting half of my body down once to tell a gay friend, “Having same sex attraction is comparable to mental illness in the...

November 14, 2015 “I have something I need to say. I like girls. I don't know what I’m going to do. I know I love the gospel, though. I’m...

November 5th, 2015, I was in Denver, Colorado preparing to give a presentation at the Auraria Campus downtown. A presentation that I had...

God sits in my kitchen sometimes. Well, not in mykitchen – in the kitchen of my childhood home, a ‘90s bungalow with white appliances,...

My husband and I named my wife In the corner of a Wendy’s parking lot. Me, scrolling through baby names — Him, eating a cheeseburger....