September Visiting Teaching Message- Divine Attributes of Jesus Christ:...
Link to the message on lds.org here. The main story in this lesson is of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead, which admittedly, is some pretty awesome power. However, as I tried to make a list things...
View ArticleComfort Food
Table for Ladies “…..and please bless the refreshments that they will nourish and strengthen our bodies and do us the good that we need……” I smirk silently, roll my eyes beneath piously closed lids and...
View ArticleGatekeepers Anonymous
By Jenny Hi, my name is Jenny, and I am a recovering gatekeeper. A little while ago I had to leave for work at 4:00 pm and my husband wasn’t going to be home until 4:30 pm. I didn’t have time to make...
View ArticleGeneral Women’s Session: Carol F. McConkie
We have a saying in my family, “Do all the good you can…” It is a phrase that I ponder often and it has affected the profession I’ve chosen, the callings I try to fulfill, the way I mother my children...
View ArticleBicycling in the Women’s Exponent
This week, I started reading Our Bodies, Our Bikes and found a quote from 1885 I hadn’t seen before, though it must be somewhat well-known as it’s quoted in the April 1985 Friend magazine in an article...
View ArticleTo Hold In Their Hands
Last fall, I sat in a room on Yale University’s campus, and listened to Terry Tempest William read aloud from her book, When Women Were Birds. There were so many beautiful, meaningful thoughts, but the...
View ArticleA Classic Midrash of “Our women . . . were strong . . . like unto the men.”
Guest post by Bradley J. Kramer Bradley Kramer is a scholar of interfaith studies, particularly the relationship between Mormonism and Judaism. His book Beholding the Tree of Life: A Rabbinic Approach...
View ArticleOrdination and Excommunication Sunday
Ordination of Clare Julian Carbone As the procession of women entered the church I swallowed a gasp. I knew I was attending the ordination of Clare Julian Carbone to the Roman Catholic priesthood...
View ArticleLearning to Follow My Heart
By Jenny I trudged slowly up the hill. I guess you could say I was running, but really I wasn’t moving very fast. Despite the hour that I had already been running, my legs were still stiff. I was...
View ArticleBook Review Series: Mormon Feminism
Today’s review is of Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, edited by Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, and Hannah Wheelwright. Rachel, has already written about this book, but it gets its own review...
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