“Quick! Grab her!” The woman was pulled from the river, battered and bruised from the treacherous rapids. Nearly drowned, she gasped for breath. But before she could get more help the rescuers were back...
The Abrahamic covenant is a key part of Mormon doctrine. We believe that by making and keeping our covenants, we can receive all the blessings that Abraham was promised even if we are not...
A woman raised her hand in Relief Society class. Prefacing her comment with, “I have never done this, but I have a friend who…,” she went on to tell us about a mother of...
Guest post by Genevieve Demos Kelley. Genevieve recently posted on the Exponent Blog about her experience of rape at BYU. This post is cross posted at http://loveliestyear.blogspot.com/ In a recent post at my personal blog,...
Guest post by Genevieve Demos Kelley, cross posted from loveliestyear.blogspot.com In 1997, during my last year at Brigham Young University (BYU), I was raped just off campus by a stranger who approached me and...
Michael Otterson, managing director of Public Affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, Mormons), reaffirmed the church’s hostility toward advocacy yesterday in response to a question from Kate Kelly, who...
My mother is a brave woman who dared to speak out about being raped on multiple occasions by a brother-in-law during her childhood, although recounting such experiences caused her personal pain and in spite of...
It was deadly silent in the Young Women’s room where I was sitting as a Laurel some twenty years ago. The Young Women president, whom I loved dearly, was reading a letter. It was...
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