Other Publications

BOOKS:

Finding Joy in the Grief Cycle: Your Guide to Navigating Grief by Becky Beck, edited by Marci McPhee.

Life is not for the faint of heart. Very few of us make it through being a human without being beaten down by grief. It doesn’t matter if your loss occurred last week, last month, or several years ago; you don’t just “get over it.” But you can “get through it.” You will be okay. You will move forward. And you will find joys you didn’t realize were possible as you learn to embrace The Grief Cycle.

The Grief Cycle includes mourning, lamenting, gratitude, and celebrating. Each area supports each other, so you can access joy—no matter how difficult and heavy your current circumstance may be.

Whether you are grieving the loss of someone you love, or any life experience that didn’t go as planned, stepping into The Grief Cycle offers guidance and support so you can find peace, healing, and joy even through grief.

Gay LDS Crossroads: My Journey, Your Journey, and a Scripture-based Path Forward, by Evan Smith, edited by Marci McPhee. Free navigable e-book, and paperback on Amazon, with all proceeds benefitting LGBTQ charities. Read more here.

Fifty-Five Days of Faith by Marsha Jane Lavin, edited by Marci McPhee, in paperback and e-book on Amazon.com and paperback on BrighamDistributing.com.

Would I join a church in which only half of my children could fully participate because of their African lineage? Dick and Marsha Lavin made that tough decision on April 14, 1978. After searching for years, their family, including their two biological children and their two adopted black children, felt right about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, at that time, the church did not allow blacks to hold the priesthood. The Lavins decided to exercise faith, join the Church, and pray for a revelation to change the policy. Dick offered a particularly fervent prayer the morning of June 8, 1978. Later that day, the revelation on priesthood was announced, making all worthy male Church members worldwide, age twelve and older, eligible for priesthood ordination. Read reviews of the book here by Cathy Stokes, Margaret Blair Young, Romane Armand, Paul Furse, Jacqueline Nagy and Marilyn Nelson.

Girls Camp: Ideas for Today’s Leaders, edited by Marci McPhee and Julia B. Blake, available on Amazon.com, DeseretBook.com and wherever LDS books are sold.

• What’s it about? Read the teaser here!
• What are people saying about this book? Read reviews here!
• Who are the contributing authors? Here‘s the lineup!

A portion of the proceeds supports immigrant children to go to summer camp through Waltham Family School in Massachusetts.

ARTICLES:

• “No End: Life Lessons from Antarctica,” in Wayfare Magazine, August 20, 2024 – also in audio and YouTube on BYU Radio.
• “Opinion: As Latter-day Saints, we must take community service more seriously,” an OpEd in the Salt Lake Tribune about JustServe’s largely unrealized potential.
• “Go Far, Stay Long, Look Deep,” about my volunteer experiences in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, in San Antonio, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, published by the LDS Women Project. Also in Spanish: “Ir Lejos, Mantenerse Largo, Mirar Profundamente.”
• “Tropical Christmas,” about my Christmas in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, published by Mormon Heritage Association.
• “Today I Hear the Benches Singing,” a prose poem about not singing in church during COVID, published in Exponent II, Summer 2021, vol. 41, no. 1.
• “Confederate holiday fuels oppression,” a guest op-ed in San Antonio Express-News, February 3, 2021. Confederate Heroes Day 2021-02-03
• “When Stepparents Divorce, How Many Kids do you Have?” in StepMom Magazine, March 2020, 29 stepmommag.com
• “A Beginner’s Guide to Burying/Cremating Me,” aka “Getting My Affairs in Order,” in AO50 (Active Over 50), Dec. 2019, 23-24.
• “Teaching the Whole Person – Breakfast, Religion, Trauma and All” in TutoringMadePersonal.com, October 2019.

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• “His & Hers Duplex: The Side-by-Side Stepfamily” in StepMomMagazine, Oct. 2019, 8.
• Chocolate Chips and Charity: Visiting Teaching in the Real World, page 7 and 38 (Cedar Fort, 2012).
• Raspberries and Relevance: Enrichment in the Real World, pages 16, 46, and 107 (Cedar Fort, 2013).
• Apple Pies and Promises: Motherhood in the Real World, “Just Your Typical Mormon Family” and “Birth of a Grandmother” (pages 64 and 84, Cedar Fort, 2014).
• Muffins and Miracles: Church Service in the Real World, with two stories that are attributed to pseudonyms (Cedar Fort, 2013).
• Candy Canes and Christmastime: Enhancing the Holidays in the Real World, “Where Does the Angel Go?” and “The 12 Days After Christmas: How to Survive Christmas Vacation Especially If There Is No Snow” (Cedar Fort, 2014).
• “Questions & Answers” about community service, Ensign, June 2007, 74.
• “To Wives of Pornography Addicts,” Exponent II, Winter 2008, 14.
• “Alone in the Rainforest,” International Educator, March/April 2009, 64.
• “How Do I Develop Affirmative Gratitude?,” with Rosalea McIntire in The Arms of His Love: Talks from the 1999 Women’s Conference Sponsored by Brigham Young University and the Relief Society, 179-182

BLOGS:

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