Mary – 2000 years of scrutiny
When I got to the part where Mary was told to name her child “Jesus,” my kid gasped. “What?” she said in complete disbelief, “Mary couldn’t even choose the name of her own son?”
Category: Gender
I Won’t Beg!
Somewhere in LDS culture, it has been ingrained into the minds of young single adult women that our lives never truly start until we get married. Until then, it appears that we are to live in a perpetual state of limbo, jealously seething from the sidelines as friends, foes and floozies run off to the temple at the speed of light.
The Majority . . .
I sat in a ward council meeting and listened to men fret about statistics, about the percentages that represent the dwindling numbers of youth who remain in the church. “Sixty percent of missionaries come...
Guest Post: I Dated a Sexual Predator
Guest Post by Sabra. Sabra is an avid English and Spanish speaking, world traveling, Netflix watching, body liberationist, yogi who loves haggling, listening to podcasts and contributing to news literacy. Once upon a time,...
Things I wish I knew before my 11 year old girls became “Young Women”
My twin daughters turned 12 years old at the end of October. Under the previous way of doing things in the Youth program this would be their first week in the Young Women organization....
Temple Matron: No Husband Required
I was working my way through Saints, Volume 3 when I stumbled across this bombshell in Chapter 15: “…Armenia Lee had an interview with apostle George F. Richards and her longtime stake president, Edward...
Guest Post: First Halloween
Guest Post by Alma. Alma is a transgender stay-at-home mom, still exploring what being a woman means to her. Halloween, throughout my life, has been my most hated holiday. Every year involved hastily thrown...
“Latter-day Struggles”
An early contributor to the Exponent said that reading the magazine is like “getting a long letter from a dear friend.” Almost 50 years later, that is my experience. In the Spring Issue, I...
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