My Top Ten Gifts of Mormonism*

*That you don’t lose when you leave the church

1. A magical worldview
2. A willingness to be weird
3. An outrageous origin story
4. An outsized perspective on the transience of earthly matters
5. A family tree stretching forward and backward in time and spanning the width of the world
6. A language for the divine
7. A love of knowledge for its own sake
8. A big stupid courage and enough of it to die for what is right
9. A host of heroes and the wild notion that I can be one too
10. An ego the size of a planet and a drive strong enough to make gods