I’m a lawyer in solo practice in the southwestern United States. I cover a large state and parts of surrounding states, representing disability claimants before the Social Security Administration. And the patriarchy makes my...
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by Bryn Brody · Published April 14, 2021
In a religion that names and renames, that blesses with names at birth and in all our sacred spaces, that repeats those names in whispers, this religion is built on a tradition that tore the names from women, buried them in the desert along with their whispered stories, their prayers and visions. Silent and silenced, our nameless matriarchs have become a pillar of salt.
It has been many years since I have read the Book of Mormon on a regular basis, but in the last few months I have returned to studying it as part of my spiritual...
by Mindy Farmer · Published February 12, 2020 · Last modified December 30, 2020
by Mindy May Farmer When someone excitedly shared Anthony Sweat’s painting, “Relief Society Healing” in the Exponent II Facebook group a couple of weeks ago, I only wanted to feel joy. The image depicts...
by Miriam Cut Grass Sometimes I’m like green grass Growing millimeters At a time. But just as I reach the heights, There comes the lawnmower– Loud, menacing. In straight, orderly rows I’m shorn, Hot...
Belief / Body / feminism / Gender / Journeys / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published October 4, 2019 · Last modified October 2, 2019
by Anonymous “You served us crumbs, you see, and we hungered for our own bowls of bread and milk,” wrote Linda Sillitoe, punctuating her indignant sadness in the poem, “An Elegy in Lowercase (For...
When I began to read Tad R. Callister’s book, I honestly could not place what Callister’s intended audience was. As it is a “case” or argument for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon,...
On November 12, 2000 then-President Gordon B. Hinckley gave a talk to the youth and the single adults at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This talk is more commonly known as...
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