Dear Heavenly Mother
April 12, 2022[…] my own babies into the world. Yet, I looked past you. Now, I see how my self -proclaimed “daddy’s girl” attitude has been shaped by the patriarchal system that hid you from me in […]
[…] my own babies into the world. Yet, I looked past you. Now, I see how my self -proclaimed “daddy’s girl” attitude has been shaped by the patriarchal system that hid you from me in […]
[…] is not defined by gender or channeled only through administrative practices. It is something that is ever -present in our everyday lives. Within Latter–day Saint theology, Heavenly Mother and Heavenly Father provide a clear […]
[…] maternity models (who I suspect might not even be pregnant) who now populate my computer screen’s pop -up ads. Nonetheless, it expands, inch by inch, week by week, straining veins and skin, with my […]
Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 119–135
As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints moved away from the plural marriage revelation, a marital system that created the cosmological backdrop for the doctrine of Heavenly […]
[…] over the nature and meaning of sex and gender for persons both human and divine in Latter -day Saint discourse and practice? Though she has achieved acceptance in Mormon theology and culture, Mother in […]
[…] justifies the moral necessity of conquering and oppressing Indigenous peoples and stealing their lands so that settler -colonial society could persist in perpetuity. By itself, this is abhorrent, but moving beyond that and choosing […]
[…] of Jesus Christ (A of F 6) because the rest of Christi anity had become “corrupt” (JS -H 1:19). The LDS temple endowment is likewise regarded as a restoration of ancient temple ordinances that […]
[…] 23, 1983, a groundbreaking ceremony for the only temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints built behind the Iron Curtain was held in the city of Freiberg, in the German […]
[…] 34.1 (Spring/Summer 2001): 87
However, the temple has maintained its central role in the lives of Latter -day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between human desires for righteousness and […]
[…] So whether you’re talking about verbal language or visual representation, abstraction is the first step in meaning -making. Within that logic, theology is itself an abstraction. Religion is, at its foundation, a meaning–making structure. […]