Mormon Women in the Ministry
April 28, 2020[…] For years, we have watched men expand their roles in leadership callings. It comes as no surprise that there are LDS women who feel called by God to practice pastoral care in ways that […]
[…] For years, we have watched men expand their roles in leadership callings. It comes as no surprise that there are LDS women who feel called by God to practice pastoral care in ways that […]
It began in such a Mormon way: with a question. I asked a single daring question of my mother, and it turned into many. The questions began on a typical Sunday night, which is […]
In this issue, Armand Mauss looks back over the decades since his book The Angel and the Beehive was published, with its seminal theory of LDS assimilation and retrenchment, while Fred Gedicks looks forward to project what kinds of assimilation might be possible for Mormonism over the next several decades. Carmon Hardy looks back at the long history of polygamy and its shadow, while Taylor Petrey takes first steps towards a post-heterosexual Mormon theology.
[…] explain my wrestle with them. And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that […]
[…] Hemisphere” and “longitude” seemed foreign and out of place, as if from some other universe or dimension —so other that they had no real truck anymore in her mind, and it took effort to […]
[…] odd that an experienced fornicator like Bode Carpenter would get the girl pregnant in the first place —particularly because he carried a condom in the watch pocket of his jeans on that fateful evening. […]
[…] the men, but I noticed the women, all in white, all smiling. My eyes filled with tears —something I wasn’t used to at age sixteen. The tears were embarrassing, and I tried to hide […]
[…] our protagonist, a crabby aging mother and professor, drives from Salt Lake City to her father’s birthplace —Safford, Arizona—to visit an infant’s gravesite. Year: 2016. Grandma Anderson said one of the best things about […]
[…] standing on the front lines of Mormon feminism for more than three decades. I know you all —as Mormon feminists— have questions for her about feminist issues in the Church, and her thoughts about […]
[…] out of knowledge and authority from heaven, and was anxious to finish it. He had a vision —at least in the down-to-earth sense of a “goal”—of all Saints being educated in the knowledge prerequisite […]