The Sacrament/Communion, Ordination, and Belonging
I’ve probably taken the sacrament/communion more than 1500 times in my life. As a practicing Mormon, I took it weekly for years and as part of Community of Christ, I take it monthly. I...
Category: Relationships
How to Have Difficult Conversations, Part II: Talking to Someone Who Is Unsafe
[Photo by Hristo Fidanov on Pexels] This is the second of a three-part series about how to navigate difficult conversations. Part I discussed how to identify whether someone is safe before determining if...
How To Have Difficult Conversations, Part I: Is the Person Safe?
This is the first of a three-part series about how to navigate difficult conversations. Part I will consist of how to identify whether someone is safe before determining if or how to have a...
Dreams of (and for) my daughter
When my only daughter was not yet two years old, I had a vivid dream. It was soon after the emergence of Ordain Women, and I was trying to sort out my feelings on...
A Love Letter to My Fellow Mo-Fems
I just wanted to send off a quick missive to let you know that I see you, and I love you. I see that you notice the damage that white patriarchy does to people...
Wolf Pack Patriarchy
Earlier this year I helped my 1st-grader make a wolf habitat diorama and discovered that wolves take their pack hierarchy very seriously. Remember Benevolent Patriarchy and Chicken Patriarchy? Today we’re adding Wolf-Pack Patriarchy™ to...
Whiteness Strikes Again
I am a white woman who claims Mormonism (it’s complicated, I do Community of Christ now) and Feminism. This week we saw the a fake news hoax in the Mormon corner of the internet...
Guest Post: Things I would tell my daughter (or son) if she was going on a mission
by Ashley Your mission president is probably a good man, who has been called because he has held many church callings and been very professionally successful. Unless he went to medical school, he is...
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