Letter From a Doubter
Dear Church Leader, Allow me to introduce myself: I’m a millennial, part-time-work-at-home mom of 3 young kids, married in the temple to a returned missionary. Based on the outpouring of messages and firesides directed...
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by Violadiva · Published April 19, 2019 · Last modified April 26, 2019
Dear Church Leader, Allow me to introduce myself: I’m a millennial, part-time-work-at-home mom of 3 young kids, married in the temple to a returned missionary. Based on the outpouring of messages and firesides directed...
Belief / Family / Gospel / Journeys / Relationships / women
by Jody England Hansen · Published April 8, 2019 · Last modified September 19, 2019
By Jody England Hansen My life as a Mormon does not include a fear of Sad Heaven. It does include hearing from many who struggle with seeing something that is beyond their own...
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by Violadiva · Published April 5, 2019
In November 2015, the church issued an exclusion policy regarding LGBTQ+ families and their children. You may remember the perspectives of queer women, women in mixed-orientation-marriages, women who are daughters of queer parents, and...
Culture / Family / feminism / Gender / Journeys
by Violadiva · Published March 15, 2019 · Last modified March 14, 2019
As part of our Toxic Mormon Masculinity series, we are featuring guest posts from men who share their experiences of operating within the masculinity culture unique to Mormonism. (Introductory post here.) We are happy to...
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by Violadiva · Published February 1, 2019
Patriarchy in Mormonism negatively impacts men and boys by afflicting them with shame, anxiety, and unrealistic expectations. I term this “Toxic Mormon Masculinity.” When I’ve written about a particular effect that our patriarchal church...
By Maureen Edgerly My grandmother, Catherine, was born in 1884. I saw her almost daily for most of my childhood until her death in 1980. Gramma had a daily prayer practice that I occasionally...
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