Whiter My God to Thee
“Does this dress make me look darker?” queried my mother as she got ready for church. This was a routine question in my home. Some colors of clothing could make brown skin look darker....
Author: April Carlson
Mormon Mean Girls
The Mormon Mean Girls won’t quit. Lonely, betrayed, and isolated women keep showing up to my Utah based maternal mental health practice bereft over their toxic interactions with rejecting and unkind Mormon women. The...
He Calls Me Honey Hole
Names are important. What we call someone or something frames our perception and impacts the meaning in our minds. It offends God when we use the wrong name or nickname as President Nelson recently...
Why Does She Stay?
An early version of this talk was given as part of a panel: Staying, Caring and Hoping at the 25th Anniversary Counterpoint Conference on October 6, 2018. I like to think of myself as...
Disclosing Child Sexual Abuse: What Mormons Should Know
Disclosing abuse is hard. For adults. For adolescents. Especially for children. Most child victims of sexual abuse experiences will delay or never disclose the abuse to friends, family or authorities. Slightly more than half...
The Greatest Commandment
In Matthew 22:36-40 (New International Version) we are given the greatest commandment: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart...
April Visiting Teaching Message
This month’s Visiting Teaching Message includes quotes from women in a message for women! Three out of four months in 2017 with the representation of female voices is a vast improvement. The lesson on...
March 2017 Visiting Teaching Message
March brings to us our first visiting teaching message of the year with no words from women or about women. In the month that we celebrate the founding of the Relief Society, the absence...
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