And Woe Unto Them That Are With Child In Those Days
April 30, 2018[…] the size of her family, but by how she makes use of her total endowment as a human being? They have a point. Having children is one thing; raising them is another. What good […]
[…] the size of her family, but by how she makes use of her total endowment as a human being? They have a point. Having children is one thing; raising them is another. What good […]
[…] of usefulness for the benefit of society at large. In following these things they but answer the design of their creation. In time we would discover the complexity in Brigham’s statement (after all, a […]
Dialogue 16.3 (Autumn 1983): 68–69
I would like to discuss teh social experience of historical Latter-day Saint single women in the context of five questions: (1) Does she have an acceptable reason for being single? (2) Can she provide for her own economic security? (3) What place does she occupy in her family of origin? (4) Can she contribute to her community in a way that she will be rewarded for? (5) What was the emotinoal life of a single women in past generations?
[…] children, both living and unborn. Mormon theology posits a Heavenly Mother as well as a Father. All human beings are her spirit daughters and sons, having been born and having lived with her and […]
Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1991): 75–96
IMMEDIATELY UPON THE PASSAGE of territorial legislation enfranchising Utah’s women in 1870, almost fifty years before the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to American women, arguments erupted between the Mormon and non-Mormon community over the reasons behind this legislation.
[…] “free-floating” in the sense that it is not in the control of church leaders or any other human agency. It is connected with the Holy Spirit, which the Gospel writer tells us is like […]
[…] the faith but nevertheless as conditioned by culture. Therefore the scriptures must be tempered by reason and human experience. During Wallace B. Smith’s presidency several major changes were instituted in the RLDS church that […]
[…] Society were more like that meeting. Women stood up and bore testimony while expressing genuine emotions and human reaction. There was a lot of love in that room. We sang songs and said prayers […]
[…] the need for mortal life with its pain and was willing to be the vessel of the human race. But French feminism (and traditional Mormon feminism) are not without problems. As many before me […]
[…] by placing them in Anglo homes where they could be “with the more favored portions of the human race.” Reséndez also goes on to state that: “Mormons who adopted Indians had to strive to […]