feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 9, 2019 · Last modified June 6, 2019
My bishopric forces me to go through them to ask permission for every little thing for my calling, and they often say no and more often never respond at all. I’ve sent the bishopric...
Belief / Family / Gender / Journeys / Relationships / women
by AdelaHope · Published June 8, 2019 · Last modified July 1, 2019
It’s easier to pretend that this is what i wanted.My life is good. And I did dreamOf this.I dreamt, too, of more. But when people ask, I say “I’m very blessed”, because I...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 7, 2019 · Last modified June 6, 2019
At the time of Kate Kelly’s fight for women to have the priesthood, I served on our ward’s Ward Council. I am pretty vocal and at one particular meeting shortly after Kate’s excommunication, a...
by Elle Mae “The Sermon on the Mississippi” I will look elsewhere for God. I don’t know if She is here anymore. But I remember seeing Her in the flickering fireflies swirling around my...
Belief / Culture / feminism / Gender / Gospel / Journeys / women
by Jody England Hansen · Published May 31, 2019 · Last modified May 30, 2019
About 30 years ago a Utah Valley area authority was giving a talk to a large audience. He spoke of attending a sacrament meeting where a newly baptized family, consisting of parents and several...
Culture / feminism / Gender / Gospel / women
by Abby Hansen · Published May 20, 2019 · Last modified April 12, 2019
I first had laser corrective eye surgery at age 21. (I’d saved money up for a mission, but purchased Lasik instead when I got married.) It was really easy to know the surgery would...
Belief / Body / feminism / Gender / Gospel / Journeys / women
by Nancy Ross · Published May 19, 2019 · Last modified May 18, 2019
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to lead a welcoming ritual at the opening of a Mormon feminist retreat. I left things to the last minute and ordered feminist theologian Rosemary Radford...
Belief / Culture / Family / Gender / Intersectionality / Journeys / women
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...
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