Carol Lynn Pearson Carol Lynn Pearson is an advocate for LGBTQ rights (see her book Goodbye, I Love You) and feminist theology (see her book, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy) and a regular contributor...
For the second time, the case of Lavina Fielding Anderson has demonstrated that the church discipline system of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), especially the draconian practice of excommunication, protects...
Sometimes at the blog, we get comments that seem a little off, like the commenter didn’t read the OP (Original Post) before they started typing. I often respond to such comments by asking “Did...
What the heck is a TBM? In progressive Mormon circles, TBM is shorthand often used to describe members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) who attend church regularly, follow church...
I recently rediscovered this journal entry that I wrote several years ago, before I started analyzing church policies and advocating more equitable changes, before I had ever been interviewed by a reporter about gender...
“Remember this, and hand it down to your children’s children for them to wonder at and laugh over in the good time coming,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton told the younger suffragists in her audience. “At...
Biblical prophets predicted troubling times in the future. “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven,” said Malachi of the Old Testament. (Malachi 4:1) “For when they shall say, ‘Peace and...
Four years ago, I took my nine-year-old daughter with me on a visit to the Utah state capitol building. She took a look at the photos on the Senate and House rosters and asked...
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