Mary Ellen Robertson

Mary Ellen Robertson earned a master’s degree in women’s studies in religion from Claremont Graduate University. Her thesis project was titled: Sub-ordination: Mormon Women’s Historical Relationship with Spiritual Gifts and Priesthood Authority. She spoke about Mormon women’s history at the Ordain Women launch in March 2013 and has been a feminist activist since her undergraduate days at Brigham Young University. The Mormon Women’s Forum gave her the 2014 Eve Award at its annual Counterpoint Conference for her service to Mormon feminism. She served as Symposium Director and Executive Director of Sunstone Education Foundation for six years.

Making Miracles | Phyllis Barber, Parting the Veil: Stories from a Mormon Imagination

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 3

When I was twelve, the youth in our ward did baptisms for the dead in the Los Angeles temple. To pique our interest, our leaders told tales of spirits appearing to the living and thanking…

Why I Didn’t Serve a Mission

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

I turned 21 the summer of 1989 before my junior year at BYU. The missionary I’d written to had come home, and we had gone our separate ways. I started fall semester with no boyfriend,…

Sinnamon Twist | Linda Hoffman Kimball, The Marketing of “Sister B”

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

Mild-mannered Mormon housewife uses her background in chemistry and family science to whip up a batch of tantalizing cinnamon fragrance as a last-minute party favor for a visiting teaching luncheon. Little did Donna Brooks realize…

The Political Is Personal

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 4

As a California native, I have a stake in my home state’s politics, especially on social issues such as same-sex marriage. I was living in Pasadena, California, in 2000 when Proposition 22, defining marriage as…