Belief / feminism / Gospel / women
by Guest Post · Published November 27, 2022 · Last modified November 12, 2022
Guest Post by Brittany Manjarrez. Brittany currently lives in France with her family. You will most likely find her chasing sunsets and toddlers. She is passionate about women’s issues in the LDS church and...
Like most children of the ’80s, I was fascinated by outer space and wanted to be an astronaut. Unlike most children, I was raised primarily on classical music. My dad is a huge classical...
This past week was the solstice – summer for the northern hemisphere and winter for the southern. I live in the middle of a hot desert, so summer makes me cranky. There’s an oppressive...
We’re about 6 months in to COVID-restricted church and with Fast Sunday coming up this Sunday, you may be needing a pick-me-up from Zoom Testimony Meeting. Have no fear! We all know the best...
Perhaps, like me, your ward is meeting via Zoom or on a similar platform. Our ward doesn’t sing hymns together anymore and I miss it. However, none of the songs really capture the flavor...
I love big, bold brassy hymns, and anything written by Ralph Vaughan Williams tops my list. One of my favorites is For All the Saints, written to the tune Sine Nomine, which means “without...
Come, We That Love the Lord is a short hymn by Isaac Watts. I rarely hear it sung in LDS services, but it’s lovely and I wish we would sing it more often. The...
Earlier this summer, I attended a small local feminist Catholic mass and one of the hymns we sang was Carolyn Winfrey Gillette’s God of the Women. It was extremely touching to sing this with...
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