Belief / Culture / Gospel / women
by Caroline · Published November 5, 2022 · Last modified November 6, 2022
About twenty years ago, I was lucky enough to come into the orbit of the great LDS sociologist Armand Mauss. We were a group of young adults connected to UC Irvine, and we invited...
Belief / Gospel / Policy / women
by Caroline · Published September 4, 2022 · Last modified September 3, 2022
I was elated to interview Nadine in 2015 for my dissertation on Mormon women of color navigating issues of race and gender (now a book). As an older professional Southern Black woman and somewhat...
Intro question: There are two books in the Bible named after women. Today we’ll be looking at one of them. What are they? Our focus today is the book of Ruth. This is a...
Last year my Relief Society presidency decided to devote a meeting every couple of months to teaching the Addiction Recovery Program (ARP) to the women. A Relief Society counselor asked me to be the...
I didn’t grow up doing Family Home Evening. In my small, less-than-orthodox family with a widowed mother and one brother, having a formal night of churchy lessons probably struck my mom as superfluous. My...
A few years ago, I was conducting an oral history interview with a Mormon woman from South Africa, now living in the U.S. Samantha’s* life story was fascinating, as she reflected on issues of...
Last Sunday before church, my 14-year-old son was complaining about needing to arrive at church 25 minutes early to prepare for the sacrament (alone). Apparently, he is often the only Teacher who arrives early,...
Recently my husband decided to start subscribing to the paper versions of all the church magazines. Out of curiosity I took a look, and I’m happy to report that the Liahona and Friend did...
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