Why I don’t use the term “TBM”
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...
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A Journal Entry from Many Years Ago, before I Found my Voice
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...
I couldn’t find the history book I wanted to inform my Mormon feminist activism, so I wrote it myself.
“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...
Climate Change Denial is a Prophecy Fulfilled
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...
Nevada is the first American state with a female-majority legislature. Why not Utah?
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...
My eleven-year-old son and ordination to the LDS male-only priesthood
Shortly after my son’s eleventh birthday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) announced changes to the procedure for ordaining LDS boys to the priesthood. Instead of inviting male children to be...
The Annual Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert and Other Star-studded Spectaculars on Temple Square
I love the event formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Annual Christmas Concert. With the road shows of my Latter-day Saint childhood long gone and just recently, outdoor pageants also cut, I am...
The Risks of Giving Birth Early and Often Fall Mostly on Women and Children
During the October 2018 Women’s Session of General Conference, President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), spoke disparagingly about LDS women getting...
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