Our ward mission leader gave the closing talk today. Every single time he talked about the benefits of serving a mission, he spoke in terms of the masculine. Serving a mission makes you a...
I brought an investigator to a Sacrament Meeting where the organist fell asleep at the keys twice creating loud noises during the meeting. The second counselor slept through the meeting. One speaker did an...
When, on my mission, my zone leader demanded that I sing a duet with my companion at the next zone conference. I don’t sing, and I asked him multiple times if I *had* to....
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published July 11, 2019 · Last modified July 9, 2019
My grandmother wrote a manuscript for a book about Emma Smith decades before any of the more recent, honest biographies while she was Associate Editor of the Relief Society Magazine. She was told that...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 15, 2019 · Last modified June 9, 2019
When I was 21 I wanted to serve a mission. I had a timeline for when I was hoping to get a mission call because my parents lived in Russia at the time but...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified June 7, 2019
The general sidelining of Heavenly Mother bothers me, but specifically I was taught at girls’ camp by one of the Young Women leaders that we don’t talk about Heavenly Mother because Heavenly Father is...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published January 27, 2019 · Last modified January 23, 2019
When I was on my mission, a bishopric member in the ward we served in told us, “Now, sisters, it’s great that you’re teaching women and children, but can you please focus on finding...
When I went in for my missionary interview with my stake president, the first thing he said to me was, “Sisters are 10% of the missionary force, but they cause 90% of the problems.”...
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