The New York Times recently featured an article about Mormon women’s garments, featuring interviews with brave and smart Latter-day Saint women. If you haven’t read it yet, you should. But the New York Times...
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by April Young Bennett · Published July 15, 2021 · Last modified July 13, 2021
After a year of pandemic quarantines, I was feeling emotionally drained. So when my stake of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints (LDS) announced that they would be hosting emotional resilience groups, I...
When I was a full-time missionary, my busy companion and I met a much less busy senior missionary. She was literally waiting in the hall while her husband was working in a nearby office...
by April Young Bennett · Published April 15, 2021 · Last modified April 16, 2021
I am sorry to report that another Latter-day Saint woman has been called to defend herself before a male disciplinary council as a punishment for expressing her opinions. Natasha Helfer, a marriage and family...
Several years ago, one of my first assignments as a new Primary Presidency member was to create a certificate for newly baptized children to hang on their wall. It would be a meaningful reminder...
I am always on the lookout for religious feminist role models, so I was thrilled by the opportunity to attend a screening of the new documentary film Rebel Hearts at the Sundance Film Festival,...
by April Young Bennett · Published January 21, 2021 · Last modified January 25, 2021
After Moses communed with God on Mount Sinai, he returned to his people carrying two stone tablets listing the Ten Commandments, which were “written with the finger of God.” (Exodus 31:18) This story is...
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?...
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