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by Amelia · Published August 21, 2011 · Last modified January 26, 2016
Last Friday Modern Mormon Men featured two alternative viewpoints on patriarchy: “modern patriarchy” and “reluctant patriarchy.” I was wary of reading the piece on “modern patriarchy” based on a couple of quotes I’d already seen...
Recently I was listening to Krista Tippett’s On Being (a favorite public radio show of mine); her guest Kate Braestrup (a chaplain to the game wardens in the parks and forests of Maine) made...
A few years ago, my dear friend J’s father, D, died. He was a very sweet man and his children wanted to honor his memory at the funeral. D had grown up in rural...
Power, prostitution, sex, revenge, and . . . a Mormon bishop? I was intrigued. How could a romance, complete with explicit sex, involve a Mormon bishop as its hero? I confess that was the...
A few weeks ago, Sybil began a new podcast meant to give voice to and explore the issues important to Mormon women: Daughters of Mormonism. She has modeled her project in part on Mormon...
In the last month I’ve read a couple of opinion pieces about the sexualization of our young girls. In “Parents, Don’t Dress Your Daughters Like Tramps,” LZ Granderson, an ESPN columnist and CNN opinion...
This week The Washington Post’s “On Faith” ran a series about women’s role in religion as it pertains to sex discrimination. They asked a wide variety of religious figures to respond to this conversation starter:...
by Amelia I have a long history of struggling with the church, but recently I have felt much more peace in my relationship with it. Until the last couple of Sundays. The last two...
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