The Reification of Women in the Book of Mormon
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...
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Guest Post: Art, Authority, and Institutional Sexism
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...
Guest Post: Cut Grass
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...
Guest Post: Crumbs Are Not Enough
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...
Book Review: A Case for the Book of Mormon / Callister
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,...
Reclaiming my body from the Patriarchy
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...
Guest Post: Special Helper
by Alan Buys I once had a conversation with an elementary school librarian. She told me about the difficulties of getting some of the rowdier children to be quiet and respectful in the library...
Guest Post: One Man’s Experience with the New Temple Endowment
By Bryan Much has been written about the January 2nd changes to the temple endowment to make it more equitable for women. I have thoroughly enjoyed the perspectives that have been shared on...
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