Check out the Exponent’s discussion of the ban at the 2015 Exponent article, “Can Mormon Women Count Money?” Now, let’s keep working on gender parity for the rest of the male-only financial callings listed.
by April Young Bennett · Published December 17, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2019
On the night Christ was born, a group of humble shepherds were blessed with a visitation from a heavenly messenger announcing the glorious news. What were they feeling as they experienced this miracle? Joy?...
Last Christmas, for the second consecutive year, I was charged with creating the Christmas Sacrament Meeting program in my local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) ward as part of my calling...
book review / feminism / history
by April Young Bennett · Published November 9, 2020 · Last modified December 18, 2020
In the first issue of the Woman’s Exponent, the suffrage movement-era feminist journal for which Exponent II is named, Lula Greene Richards wrote: Who are so well able to speak for the women of...
Come Follow Me / Gospel / history
by April Young Bennett · Published November 3, 2020 · Last modified November 2, 2020
The Sacred Practice of Remembering Leaving a written legacy Ida B. Wells’ Legacy When civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was in her later years, a younger woman approached her with an awkward question:...
by April Young Bennett · Published October 15, 2020 · Last modified September 27, 2020
After over an hour’s drive from the already remote campsite where we were staying, we arrived at Goblin Valley State Park, Utah. I had fond memories of coming here with my parents when I...
history / In Memory of / Policy
by April Young Bennett · Published September 19, 2020 · Last modified September 21, 2020
April Young Bennett: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been a role model for me about how to move change forward in a world that isn’t quite ready. She has always been uncompromising in expressing her...
by April Young Bennett · Published September 17, 2020 · Last modified September 16, 2020
Just before last General Conference, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) sent out an email instructing “the sisters” (not the men) to study three sections from Doctrine and Covenants prior to...
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