Book Review: Baring Witness
Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage is a collection of personal essays that you’d never hear at a sacrament meeting. These are not your average Fast Sunday testimonies....
Category: Relationships
Memories, Prayers, and a Healing Blessing
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...
Mormon Mean Girls
The Mormon Mean Girls won’t quit. Lonely, betrayed, and isolated women keep showing up to my Utah based maternal mental health practice bereft over their toxic interactions with rejecting and unkind Mormon women. The...
Facts of Life for LDS Teens
Several years ago I was lucky enough to find a useful reference work in the discard pile at the Institute building. I have never regretted acquiring About Life and Love: Facts of Life for LDS Teens by...
You Can Leave the Church, but They Won’t Leave You Alone
The church promised me that I would be happy if I was living according to the Gospel, but I wasn’t. It didn’t work for me the way it did for so many around me. There...
Guest Post: Why Is “Preside” in the New Sealing Ceremony?
[Photo: Oscar Wilde, “An Ideal Husband”] By Emily Belanger When I heard about the changes to the language of temple ceremonies, I made plans to attend as soon as possible. Curious, with only a...
Don’t Forget About Us
By Blaire Ostler Dear Mormon feminists, I’m glad to see so many women happy about the latest changes to the temple endowment. I’m genuinely moved by how things have improved for cisgender,...
Sisters Speak: Changes in the Temple – Part IV
The Exponent blog is sharing guest and reader responses to the news of the changes to the LDS temple endowment and other temple ordinances announced 2 January 2019. We welcome your contributions in the...
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