by April Young Bennett · Published December 17, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2019
On the night Christ was born, a group of humble shepherds were blessed with a visitation from a heavenly messenger announcing the glorious news. What were they feeling as they experienced this miracle? Joy?...
Last Christmas, for the second consecutive year, I was charged with creating the Christmas Sacrament Meeting program in my local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) ward as part of my calling...
book review / feminism / history
by April Young Bennett · Published November 9, 2020 · Last modified December 18, 2020
In the first issue of the Woman’s Exponent, the suffrage movement-era feminist journal for which Exponent II is named, Lula Greene Richards wrote: Who are so well able to speak for the women of...
by April Young Bennett · Published October 15, 2020 · Last modified September 27, 2020
After over an hour’s drive from the already remote campsite where we were staying, we arrived at Goblin Valley State Park, Utah. I had fond memories of coming here with my parents when I...
by April Young Bennett · Published September 17, 2020 · Last modified September 16, 2020
Just before last General Conference, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) sent out an email instructing “the sisters” (not the men) to study three sections from Doctrine and Covenants prior to...
Clara Barton eventually became America’s most famous nurse and the founder of the American Red Cross, but she began her career as a teacher. When she was a child, a phrenologist suggested teaching as...
Shortly after publishing my book, Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, I was surprised when emails from middle and high school students started coming in. In retrospect it makes sense,...
Culture / Gospel / history / Relief Society Lessons / Young Women Lessons
by April Young Bennett · Published June 18, 2020 · Last modified August 29, 2020
Last week, the Come Follow Me weekly reading assignment for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) was the sermon of Alma in Alma 5-7. It is one of the...
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