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11 Signs You’re Dating an RM from the 19th Century…It Took Me a Minute to Get...
The Mormon dating world is rife with expectations and standards. One of the most golden ones has been that women should seek out an RM (returned missionary) for any worthwhile long-term relationship....
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Playing Defense
Despite warnings from other leaders that emotional sentimentalism “should never be leaned upon as a substitute for spirituality,” 1 Elder Holland used up a good couple of minutes of his April 2014...
View ArticleWandering in the Wilderness
It has now been 9 years since I first listened to the Mormon Stories podcast with Darius Gray and Margaret Young on blacks and the priesthood and temple ban. In it they put the priesthood ban into...
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WHAT OF WOMEN AND THE PRIESTHOOD?*
On Friday, October 23, 2015, the Mormon internet world blew up with the release of two new Gospel Topic Essays. I will be addressing one aspect of the essay entitled, Joseph Smith’s Teachings about...
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Why Should I Trust the Church?
So, how about this new policy? Haha. So today Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm drew my attention to a heated battle of words that was being waged over all this. I’m sure we’re all witnessing the same...
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90: Top Ten Books in Mormon History – Pedestals and Podiums
One event or movement that is still in the memory banks of many Mormons or just outside of the memory of the younger generation is the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) of the 1970s and...
View ArticleDONALD TRUMP HATES MUSLIMS… AND MAYBE MORMONS?
Most of you are familiar with Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim proposal from December 2015: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our...
View ArticleThe Mormon Women Speak Podcast: The Erasure of Black Women in Sam Young’s...
Why are People of Color absent from progressive Mormon movements like Protect LDS Children? Are black women overlooked when it comes to issues of ‘Mormon Me Too’? Why must we be sensitive to how trauma...
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The Stone-Campbell Movement and the Restoration of the Primitive Church
In rural Bourbon County, Kentucky stands the Cane Ridge Meeting House where Presbyterian minister Barton W. Stone preached from 1796-1812. A key site in the development of the Second Great Awakening, a...
View ArticleAre The Temple Changes Good? Mormon Women Speak (Episode 19, 340)
Are the recent temple changes good? What has the response been from the Mormon Feminist community? Are apologies necessary for this issue? Is there further marginalization that has occurred because of...
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