“Men” Doesn’t Include Women (Except When It Does)
A few weeks ago, a man gave a talk in a sacrament meeting I was visiting. He spoke on a Come Follow Me lesson that included the book of Numbers. He said that Numbers...
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Guest Post: Seeking the Mother, Reclaiming the Father
Guest post by Katy Stovall, a lover of nature, baking, reading, and learning. She lives in upstate NY with her amazing husband, two lovely stepchildren, busy twin toddlers, and a neurotic rescue dog. I...
Guest Post: Upon Finding Mother Eve in a Bornean Jungle #ReconstructingFaith
Guest post by Janine Weaver Chase. Janine graduated from BYU in communicative disorders and education. She has an extensive background in integrative, holistic therapies and has worked in that field for 30 years. She...
Staffing Seminary
I am a member of the Relief Society Presidency and a few weeks ago we got an assignment from the Bishopric to “think of someone who could sit in on Seminary lessons” in order...
How the Patriarchy Makes My Job Harder
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...
Tell Me Her Name
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.
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...
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...
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