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Traditions of Their [Mothers]: Girls Should Be Passing the Sacrament
A little over two years ago, I wrote a post explaining that our current rule that only priesthood holders can pass the sacrament has no basis in scripture. D&C 20:58 explicitly says that teachers...
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Shelter-In-Place and the Sacrament
CDC/Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAMS. Public domain. Just over a week ago, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve announced that the church was (temporarily) suspending meetings...
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Excluding Our Fellow Saints From the Sacrament
In Illinois, we’re now halfway through our sixth week under a stay-at-home order (and my family’s seventh week at home). And the stay-at-home order looks like it’s going to last at least another month...
View ArticleWithout compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever: D&C 121 and 132
Laura Brignone (PhD, MSW) is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley where she studies technology and domestic violence. This is Part 3 in a six-part series on the domestic...
View ArticleShe shall believe or she shall be destroyed: D&C 121 and 132
Laura Brignone (PhD, MSW) is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley where she studies technology and domestic violence. This is Part 4 in a six-part series on the domestic...
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“Lead Out in Abandoning Attitudes and Actions of Prejudice”
Note: between when I drafted this post and when I scheduled it to go live, Bro. Wilcox apologized for his statement. And it’s a real-deal kind of apology, not a squishy avoiding-blame one; in fact,...
View ArticleBrad Wilcox and Institutional Problems, Part 2
Monday night, I saw a clip on Twitter of Young Men general presidency member Brad Wilcox making a tremendously racist statement in a youth fireside. I posted about it yesterday and, in the comments,...
View ArticleGirls Should Be Passing the Sacrament. Full Stop.
I’ve written about this twice before, but this time I’m going to be completely blunt: the church needs to allow women and girls to pass and prepare the sacrament. Like yesterday. The Doctrine and...
View ArticleDeliberate Policy Choices
It’s a new year at church! And, among other things, that means that a new crop of kids has graduated from Primary! Boys and girls who turn 12 in 2024 are now attending Young Men and Young Women. The...
View ArticleStassi Cramm called as Prophet-President in Community of Christ
On January 17, 2024, Community of Christ called Stassi Cramm to be the next Prophet-President of the church; a call she has accepted pending a vote by the body of the church in their 2025 World...
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