From the Backlist: Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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...
Author: April Young Bennett
When the Church asks the ladies to study (male-only) priesthood before General Conference
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...
The Winding Career Path that Led Clara Barton to Become America’s Most Famous Nurse: WHO Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Clara Barton eventually became America’s most famous nurse and the founder of the American Red Cross, but she began her career as a teacher. When she was a child, a phrenologist suggested teaching as...
Come Follow Me: 3 Nephi 8-11 “Arise and Come Forth unto Me”
These Book of Mormon chapters describe the appearance of Jesus Christ in the Americas after his resurrection. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught that this “constituted the focal point, the supreme moment, in the entire...
Exponent’s Church Lesson Plan Archive is Now Searchable
The Exponent has been writing lesson plans for Relief Society and Young Women classes since 2006, and now boasts a lesson plan archive of about 500 lesson plans. As you plan your own home...
Come Follow Me: Alma 53-63 “Preserved by His Marvelous Power”
Speaking Truth(?) to Power The chapters included in this lesson all take place during a time of war between the Nephites and the Lamanites. This is a high-stress situation where the stakes are high—literally,...
The 2020 #LDS Youth Music Festival was delightfully multicultural.
I watched this 2020 Youth Music Festival of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints drive-in movie-style in our church parking lot as a social-distancing ward activity. I was pleasantly surprised at how...
Educated, Activist Women Who Opened College Doors for the Rest of Us
Shortly after publishing my book, Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, I was surprised when emails from middle and high school students started coming in. In retrospect it makes sense,...
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