Continuing our retrospective of the first decade of the Exponent blog, here are the most discussed posts of 2012: Mormon
About two months ago I wrote post about a letter I’d written to Boyd K. Packer. Many people wanted an
There has been a great deal of talk about Boyd K. Packer’s recent talk at the worldwide leadership conference. Many,
It’s time we stopped making excuses and ordained women to the priesthood—the obvious kind of priesthood.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, women are not ordained to priesthood offices. The established pattern is assumed to be from God, and thus, must be overturned by God — if at all.However, there is no explicit divine direction to deny priesthood offices on the basis of gender, and the temple endowment currently grants priesthood power to all genders. Here, I explore ten common explanations for women’s exclusion from priesthood offices, and argue that none of them adequately justify current gendered divisions.1. Modern leaders have stated that there has been revelation that women aren’t eligible for ordination […]
When I read some of the changes to the For the Strength of Youth standards, they seemed like a move in the right direction. I wondered, however, will the reduction in explicit rules create unwritten rules that the youth are somehow supposed to figure out and live by? Or will they be given the necessary leeway to make their own choices and still find belonging at church?
Guest Post by Laura. I am a writer, teacher, wife and mother who loves to read all kinds of books.
Guest Post by Jennifer Crow. Jennifer Crow studied gendered religious experiences through a Mormon feminist lens while in graduate school.
Jethro educates Moses on the power of delegation In Exodus 18, we see Moses take on some more prosaic leadership
In 2015 I went to the new Payson, Utah Temple open house on a complete whim one day. My husband
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