Heidi Doggett
Heidi Doggett graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater and a minor in Anthropology. She dedicates much of her time to research and writing on the topics of feminism and the LDS church, as well as running No Dead Beetles; a blog she named after a nature show where a mother beetle worked herself to death trying to feed her offspring. She lives in California with her spouse and two children.
It sounds so zen: losing my pants helped me find myself.
I felt guilty, zipped snug inside my tent wearing a short thin nightgown, with the lack of covering for my bottom half bringing such a reprieve. You see, due to a forgotten suitcase and an incident with the lake and a zip-line, the one pair of jeans I’d brought to girls’...
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Let’s talk history for a minute. Family history.
Or rather, the history of families.
Throughout most of history, any mother wealthy enough to dedicate all her time to raising her children hired other people to do it for her. Many parents, both rich and poor, would send their children away at a young age to be apprenticed or work...
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Why couldn’t God forgive us without Christ’s Atonement?
Is God so inhuman, His experience so far different from our own, that Jesus was required to learn humanity and experience the weight of our sins in order to inform Him of the need for mercy?
How is it just or merciful to require that one person suffer tremendously in...
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What We’re Reflecting
By Heidi Doggett
At first I didn’t know what to think of her–this visitor who, when asked what we could do to get inactive members to come to church, stood up to make a long comment on the importance of smiling at everyone. Her words rolled forth; casual, warm, and unhurried. Something you...
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By Heidi Doggett
“Heavenly Mother” entered my religious vocabulary sometime during Middle School. She was a thing that might exist, nebulously up there doing stuff, but not stuff related to me, because that was God’s job. He didn’t want us talking to her, because she wasn’t God. Or maybe because He wanted to...
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