Dating Our Children
I was raised as one of five siblings, all of us born within less than a decade of each other. It was fun—I never lacked company—but individual attention was hard to come by. To occasionally...
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Mormonism and the Focus on Sex
I made this comment in a friend’s facebook thread a few months ago. My friend was finally leaving her marriage and was blaming herself for her husband’s infidelity, a theory in which I adamantly...
Guest Post: God the Gardener
By KDS Luke related to Christ as a Physician. Elsewhere He is referred to as the Good Shepherd. But for me, God is a Gardener. I spent a summer during college interning at a...
Can Mormon Women Be Wild Women?
My friends and I managed to scoop up the last six seats for a late showing of Wonder Woman this week. We’re not your typical action flick crowd, but after the previews played, we...
Guest Post: Waiting for the Glass to Shatter
By MJ Eight months before I told my husband that a single man in our ward left me feeling uncomfortable, I noticed that Carl (name changed) was very kind to me in praising all...
Exponent II Fall Issue 2017 Call for Submissions: Gifts of the Spirit
I was in Japan, the sun streaming through the window in my room, and I was in a hurry. I had made a decision that morning. I was going to move back to the...
Say “yes” to gender-inclusive language
Ever since I was a child, I was aware of sexist language being used. We’ve all heard of the generic “he” or even “brother” used to describe a group of men and women. In...
Women and the Mental Load
I went away this weekend for the first time in a year. (To the Rocky Mountain Retreat which was awesome and you should totally go next year but that’s a post for another day)....
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