2019 Exponent Blog in Review

Happy New Year, everyone! It is my New Year’s resolution this year to do this review (I forgot last year! Eep!)

New Bloggers

We’ve had some new bloggers this year and last. Check out their posts!

• Abby Hansen
• AdelaHope
• AmeliaChristensen
• ElleK
• Jody England Hansen
• LMA
• Risa
• Tirza

Series of 2019

We’ve hosted a couple series of posts this year, in addition to adding posts to the RS and YW lesson plan series.

• #hearLDSwomen, a series of posts about leadership needing to listen to what the women in the congregations are saying
• #EqualAccess, about disability and accessibility in the Church

Top 5 blog posts of 2019

Here are the 5 most-visited posts of the year by visitor stats!

5. Violadiva‘s The Harms of Projecting the Mormon Male Gaze Onto Young Women

4. Guest Post by N. Christensen, I’m not Celebrating

3. April Young Bennett‘s Lesson Plan: Beloved Daughters (The New Young Women Theme) by Bonnie H. Cordon, Young Women General President

2. Chiaroscuro‘s So You Want Me Back at Church?

1. Guest Post by Taylor, The Silent Pain of Mormon Women

Most commented-on posts of 2019

Which posts had the most engagement in the comments? Here’s where the chatter happened!

5. Guest Post by N. Christensen, I’m not Celebrating

4. Guest Post by Kathy Bence, Doctrinal Inconsistencies — Relationships, Sex, Sin

3. Violadiva‘s Toxic Mormon Masculinity: How Patriarchy Poisons our Men and Boys

2. Guest Post by Anonymous Re-defining My Relationship with the Temple Garment

1. April Young Bennett‘s My eleven-year-old son and ordination to the LDS male-only priesthood

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I’d like to point out that 2 of the top 5 posts and 3 of the top 5 commented-on posts were guest posts. We love getting guest posts and they generate a lot of discussion! If you have something you’d like to share, you can submit it here! That also goes for lesson planss- if you are a Relief Society or YW instructor and would like to share your lesson plan based on a General Conference talk or the Come Follow Me manual, please do!

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