I'd like to bear my testimony.

It is not often that I pick up Vogue anymore. You see, it used to be a huge part of my life.

I would stand in the line at Zupans in high school, fingering the glossed pages for some semblance of glamor that I could soak up.  This was during my I want to live in New York and be really fashiony go to Sarah Lawrence phase. Vogue, W, and WWD (Women's Wear Daily) provided me with a sense of what I wanted to become, and what I thought was my goal.  As I have developed into adulthood my future vision for myself has changed, again.

I never thought I would open up the pages of my old friend, Vogue, and find a story so close to something that I feel I know, struggle, and am blessed with.  Balancing this life, carefully.  Being LDS is not like being Catholic, I know, because I used to be Catholic.  When I was Catholic I went to mass on Sundays, but forgo-ed any of the "rules/standards" the church had.  When you're LDS you adopt not only a faith, but also a culture.  It is hard to balance and find middle ground between both "worlds."  I am a sorority girl, and I am temple worthy.  This means that I am a word of wisdom following Latter-day Saint and a non-drinking Greek. 

Like Kristina, I have had to learned to, as she puts it, "[dip] a toe in both ponds- a nice alternative in an era when many women still grow up believing they need to choose one pond and either sink or swim" (p. 424).

Granted there were things about the article I did not like.  But I am not going to lie, any great PR out there on the Church is wonderful.  I want to see more positive images of LDS people in the public eye, and as we all gear up (and hold our breaths) for what will result of Mitt Romney it is nice to see that the world has caught on.  Mormons are really cool, savvy, intellectual.  I mean, we are some of the best looking people out there (there is not denying it), not to mention smart, devout, wealthy, and a whole long list of positive attributes! HAHA

I really urge you all to go out and pick up a copy. I've searched high and low and cannot find an online link to the article in whole, otherwise I would of pasted it on here.  I have no idea if they will talk about this on Segullah, but we shall see.

Kind of reminded me of CJane's post on Sunstone (which I just discovered about a month ago).

Comments

[Keya]

Seems like an interesting article, is that in the latest issue of Vogue

[Jamie L Melin]

I'd love to check it out, too. I have had a post brewing in my head for quite sometime now about how I keep running into old BYU friends and acquaintances online, and most of them have left the church. And it's mostly the ones I admired so much because they were so good at walking the fence (we were all very into music and sarcasm, etc...playing in bands, writing for the Student Review, startign up radio stations...I guess for some of us rebellion became a career rather than a college hobby). It seems like the old nursery rhyme--when I run into old college friends they are either "very, very good" but "when they are bad they are horrid"--at least in their attitudes toward the church. I often wonder what's different for me. I know my experience in the church has been nothing like those of friends who have left. I'll have to write that up sometime. Anyway, yes, I think the fact that the gospel is true and universal is going to start sinking in for some people soon. There is a lot about the culture that I have never been able to embrace, but there is nothing in the doctrine that hasn't made my life better in every way.

Anway...that was quite the rant! I just wanted to say that your hair is DARLING and I hope we get to meet up on your Utah adventure! I am down there at the very least quarterly, so you'll have to keep in touch! thanks for the comments on my blog. Holidays are soooo magical with kids, and Christmas is AMAZING in Montana. Yes, please, do come here when you get married! Better yet, marry a Montana boy! Mine is AWESOME! ;)

[t.r.b]

i just read that as well and i share your sentiments about the....decline in vogue mag....i was fashion journalism all the way (my senior thesis was on coc chanel, had a bookshelf of town and country, vogue, and elle lined just like carrie's on satc, except my move to new york phase involved barnard instead....that article was really good, a little insight into a mormon woman's life. i'm not mormon, but i've been following the faith for a time now....and i've been partial to mitt romney for my vote in 08 since the beginnning...even though i'm not of the religion, i respect enough of the basics to adopt them for my own life-everchanging as it is;)