Empowering Women in Priesthood to Protect our Children
One of the most common arguments against women’s ordination is that the church works just fine as it is now. All is well in Zion so why do we need a change? The argument goes that the women are only seeking to benefit or aggrandize themselves, since there are no...
The Fantastic Elder Silver Fox: Part 2
Part 1 of this series of posts on Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s Saturday Morning Session talk can be found here. Sister Leah did an amazing job in Part 1 articulating so many of the great things about this talk. The purpose of my post is not to detract from but to build...
How to Swim in a Burqa
How to Swim in a Burqa 1. Update your will. 2. Don said burqa. 3. Proceed to the deep end of the pool. 4. Say farewell to family and friends. 5. Dive in! 6. Enjoy your last, surreal moments as you helplessly sink straight to the bottom – the billowing black...
Ordain Women October 5th Action as told in GIFs
I did a guest post over at Expert Textperts for the OW Action this evening. It is a GIF based history of the action, condensed for viewing by even those of us with the least of these attention spans. You can view it here for your enjoyment pleasure.
If the Sisters Should Have Faith to Heal…
Conference begins tomorrow, and there has been a lot of talk about the Ordain Women movement. My intent is not to dwell on that, since I believe it has been covered better elsewhere (like HERE and HERE and of course you’ll want to check out http://ordainwomen.org/). ...LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.
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