How Shall this Be, Seeing I Know Not a Man? #CopingWithCOVID19
When Mary is told that she will give birth to a son, she responds logically with “How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” (Luke 1:34) Fair question. Rather than chide her...
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by Trudy · Published August 3, 2020 · Last modified July 31, 2020
When Mary is told that she will give birth to a son, she responds logically with “How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” (Luke 1:34) Fair question. Rather than chide her...
I woke up on Saturday morning with Stars and Stripes Forever stuck in my head. That immediately reminded me of a record full of silly songs I had as a kid. One of them...
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by Violadiva · Published May 9, 2020
I’ve written before about how Motherhood may be hazardous to a woman’s health. In this post I’ll discuss how fertility privilege functions in Mormon systems of power to disadvantage childless women and what...
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by Violadiva · Published October 19, 2019 · Last modified October 20, 2019
LDS teachings on motherhood are incomplete. Here’s what I wish I had been taught before having children. As a struggling parent to a newborn and a toddler, I visited the home of a friend...
So often at church, womanhood and motherhood are seen as synonyms. There’s no concept of a woman who is not a mother. The concept of a non-mother woman is so foreign that people feel...
It was more than a decade ago, and I was in a new branch, and just called to be a Relief Society Teacher. I wasn’t thrilled. I had only recently found the Exponent Blog...
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by Spunky · Published August 16, 2016 · Last modified August 3, 2016
In the scriptures, sometimes the same stories are told by different authors. This serves to expand upon the record of the person or event, and it serves to emphasize the importance of the story...
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