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by Guest Post · Published May 16, 2019 · Last modified May 15, 2019
By a Mormon Human Some are calling it the latest whiplash from the LDS Church Newsroom. Some expected an announcement like this to counterbalance any positive or LGBTQ affirming message anyone might have inferred...
Belief / Culture / Family / Journeys / Relationships / women
by Libby · Published May 14, 2019 · Last modified May 18, 2019
There’s a lot of social pressure in the LDS Church: to conform, to be a good missionary, to do things the “right” way, to follow the party line. Here’s my top 10 list of...
The Quilt written by Kathleen Powers, May 2003 I love how this poem uses quilting as a metaphor. We might have been dogmatic and precise, even ripping apart our efforts if they did not...
Family / Journeys / Relationships / women
by Allemande Left · Published May 12, 2019 · Last modified May 1, 2019
My mother was an excellent knitter, especially with mittens, hats and sweaters. She often wove pictures into the sweaters. When my daughter was in her Madeline phase (“In an old house in Paris that...
By Ariel Wootan Merkling Anna Jarvis was forever changed by a simple prayer offered during Sunday School by her mother Ann. Her mother, an activist who organized around maternal and infant public health, stated...
The Ogden Temple in the 1970s, before its modern makeover. Hooray for positive changes! I was married in the Bountiful Temple 16 ½ years ago, and it was a relatively small event as far...
Family / feminism / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published April 25, 2019 · Last modified April 27, 2019
My bishop told me if I’d hearken to my husband, he would feel better about himself and stop abusing me. I literally told my bishop that the phrase was to hearken to the counsel...
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