Commentary: What Mormonism taught me

(Courtesy) Utah novelist Mette Harrison. My bio reads, “I love Mormonism, but I don’t believe in the church.” Recently someone asked me about this, confused. How could these two things be separate? The person also reminded me, we don’t call ourselves “Mormon” anymore.

But I do. I call myself Mormon, though I don’t attend church at the moment. And I love Mormonism as much as anyone.

I love the Mormonism that taught me when I was a child that any untutored young boy (and I thought then, girl, too) could go to a grove of trees and pray and that God would appear to that boy or girl and speak because God would speak to us all if we asked.

The Mormonism of my childhood taught me that being peculiar…