Courtney L. Rabada

Courtney Rabada {[email protected]} is earning her master’s degree in Religious Studies at Claremont Graduate University, with particular interest in Mormonism, Women’s Studies, and World Religions. Her research on Sister Missionaries is ongoing and she would love to hear from young women about their mission experiences. She is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and earned her BA in English Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington.

A Swelling Tide: Nineteen-Year-Old Sister Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 4

“It was not a self-consistent ideology but a movement—a tremor in the earth, a lift in the wind, a swelling tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might…