All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.