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TGIF afternoon poll
Poll below the fold. Filed under: Gender & Sexuality, Mormon, Polls, Theology, Doctrine & Policy, Women Tagged: Mormon, ordination, priesthood, women
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The Eighth Day
Today, I will press my hands on my son who was born eight days ago and I will bless him. This blessing will not replace the formal naming and blessing ritual scheduled for later this year after my...
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A Tale of Two Infographics
Here is an infographic the church’s Newsroom put out to explain the structure of our local lay leadership. (sorry for lack of embedding, I don’t want to hotlink their image, and mine is a PDF) Newsroom...
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Gospel Doctrine Lesson 25: Priesthood: “The Power of Godliness”
[Notes, commentary, and questions for LDS Sunday School teachers using the ‘Doctrine & Covenants and Church History’ manual. Feel free to share your thoughts or ideas regarding the lesson in the...
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“Don’t Let’s Ask for the Moon; We Have the Stars”
“No priesthood session for you.” When the Ordain Women movement was planning to attend the Priesthood session, my first response was passively supportive. I felt it was overreaching, but that...
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Many Are Chosen, But Few Are Called
In a well publicized pre-emptive move, the church issued a statement last week that women seeking tickets to the April 5 Priesthood session would be relegated to the “free speech zone,” traditionally...
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Blessed are the Divorced
Many of us have recently participated in the “Eternal Marriage” lesson from the Joseph Fielding Smith manual. The lesson’s final section carries the heading “As a husband and wife faithfully observe...
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Fascinating Priesthood
A book sits on our shelf in our home: Helen Andelin’s infamous tome on marital manipulation, Fascinating Womanhood. The book details for women how to get a man (if they don’t have one) and how to...
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Ski Lessons with E. Stevenson #ldsconf
Dude, Where’s My Car Keys? Elder Stevenson starts his talk by sharing a rather banal incident of getting back to the car after a day of skiing to find the keys to the car missing. He then describes...
View ArticleOmit the Sexual Details
The first time I heard the word “masturbation,” I was 12 years old and sitting in my bishop’s office. I believe we were discussing a limited use recommend for an upcoming temple trip. I remember the...
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Women Don’t Cast Sustaining Votes?
My sister Cheryl called me this morning, annoyed at a procedure her Indiana stake just used to call a new counselor in her Stake Presidency. An old counselor had moved and been released between...
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Where Can I Turn for Support? abuse.lds.org
Laura Brignone Bhagwat is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley where she studies technology and domestic violence. Her dissertation tracks a public health intervention in...
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The Presiding Authority of President Eubank
Photo from Church News profile of President Eubank. President Sharon Eubank gave a masterful sermon this morning on being Christlike. She effortlessly spoke with power and authority, quoting scripture...
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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,...
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