Church Disciplinary Councils: Scriptural, But Not Revelatory
When you read Doctrine & Covenants section 102 as part of your Come Follow Me readings this week, take a moment and pause at the first word. No, I’m not talking about the word...
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I Wish Sonia Johnson Were Irrelevant
I recently read Sonia Johnson’s memoir From Housewife to Heretic: One Woman’s Struggle for Equal Rights and Her Excommunication from the Mormon Church. The book made me furious. Captain Marvel in flames mad. Why?...
From the Backlist: Thoughts on Disciplinary Council for Natasha Helfer
Risa: As a fellow mental health professional I’m exceedingly alarmed that a Stake President would take it upon himself to discipline a mental health therapist practicing within ethical guidelines using research-based evidence and modalities to...
Natasha Helfer, LCMFT, is called to a church disciplinary council for her professional opinions
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...
Excommunication and Listening to Silenced Voices
When I was a teenager my dad was excommunicated. He’d always held a less orthodox view of the church and as a long-time seminary and gospel doctrine teacher, he moved beyond Sunday school answers...
Guest Post: Breaking Bread on the Sabbath–A Hope
by Ashley I have been thinking the past few days about a woman named Lavina Fielding Anderson. I do not know her personally, but I thought about her a lot five years ago when...
The Unholy Practice of Excommunication
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...
Let’s put it this way: 2014 was a hard year.
Late at night after the Priesthood Session of General Conference in spring of 2014, I was simply too sad to sleep. It had been a rough day for me as an Ordain Women advocate....
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