Belief / Body / Culture / Gospel / Intersectionality / Relationships
by Nancy Ross · Published September 18, 2022 · Last modified September 17, 2022
This is a blessingTo remind youWith strength and gentlenessThat your body is a templeWhole and beautifulWorthy and unique.You need no special documentationTo inhabit itOr possess itBecause it is entirely yoursSanctified by a GodWho knows...
Belief / Journeys / Relationships
by Nancy Ross · Published August 21, 2022 · Last modified August 20, 2022
I will hold you gentlySqueeze your arm with warmthAnd remind you of your belonging.Together we will reach out andTouch that ancient stoneAnchoring self and communityTrace its hard and unseen edgesFeel our names forever etchedOn...
This past week I was at a Community of Christ family camp in the mountains of Northern Utah. It was a hot and dry week and the campground was green with trees. At any...
book review / feminism / Gospel / Intersectionality / Journeys / women
by Nancy Ross · Published June 19, 2022 · Last modified June 18, 2022
After realizing that I could not stay in the LDS Church, I was interested in Community of Christ because it still held the Book of Mormon as sacred scripture. I read the book many...
I could not give up anything for Lent this year. The last two years were full of sacrifices and situations beyond my control. Instead I chose to repeat the phrase “you are enough” daily...
Belief / feminism / Gender / Gospel / Intersectionality / Journeys
by Nancy Ross · Published February 20, 2022
I have experienced and witnessed many Mormon women in stages of questioning their faith begin to search for Heavenly Mother, Mormonism’s feminine divine. We read Sue Monk Kidd’s Dance of the Dissident Daughter, inhale...
Belief / Body / book review / Culture / feminism / Gospel / Relationships
by Nancy Ross · Published January 16, 2022
In March of 2020, I was taking a class titled Justice and Reconciliation at Luther Seminary and the professor assigned Desmond and Mpho Tutu’s The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves...
Belief / Body / feminism / Gender / Gospel / Intersectionality / Journeys
by Nancy Ross · Published December 19, 2021
This post is dedicated to everyone who is sitting in Sunday School today wishing that the Christmas lesson was not on the Family Proclamation. In denominations that use the Revised Common Lectionary, today is...
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