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I dream of temples that are more inclusive and welcoming to both our own members and to the world, where all pilgrims could benefit from coming to in their search for connection with one another and divinity. I think this kind of temple would do a better job strengthening our struggling LDS communities, helping us retain more of our young people, and strengthening people outside the Church and on its margins.
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When I learned about the early Church’s use of blood oaths and blood atonement it didn’t bother me. In fact, it made sense to me. 
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While counting blessings can be a helpful exercise, it can also prevent someone from fully engaging with the complexities of emotional or spiritual struggles.

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If you're stressing about what to give this holiday season that supports women's voices, I've got you!
I’m going to try to do a better job holding multiple truths about Mormon women’s experiences at once with care, including wisdom gained from my North American-specific feminist awakening, and the recognition that many wise and experienced Latter-day Saint women of color around the world are focusing on priorities and using approaches that have meaningful and understandable distinctions from mine. 
I can’t pinpoint the year or occasion that I switched to filling the space of cards and letters with lists of qualities I love about the recipient or expressing pride in their achievements. It makes me feel like I’m celebrating them for who they are rather than focusing on what they need to do.
Sure, we could eliminate political discussions from our workplaces, from friendships, from our families. But then we’re left with only superficial relationships where we don’t hold space and empathy for people who have experienced the issues at hand. We need to listen to people's stories. We need to come to these conversations with empathy. We need to leave these conversations with impetus to make things better. Politics is personal.
For Family Caregivers Month, blogger Nicole Sbitani writes about the crucial, often unpaid and unrecognized labor of family caregivers: a role that often falls to women worldwide.
"The worst part of the entire process was my interview with the general authority.... [He] was nice enough, and he had a tidy office with lots of light. My husband and I sat down on a couch opposite the general authority’s desk. I felt guilt build inside me when he asked how often I read my scriptures, because I read them but I wasn’t always consistent about doing so daily. His reactions to my answers didn’t give anything away. Toward the end of the interview, he asked me this: “If a female student comes to you with worries about how women do not have the priesthood, what will you say to her?” Would he have asked me that if I had been a man? I understand that BYU is an LDS school, but asking one woman to justify to another woman why they both have so little power in the church is very frustrating."
When the Church tells you how to vote, do you obey?
In Ether 12, Moroni recounts a sermon by the prophet Ether about faith and hope, and then adds his own witness of faith, hope and charity. Likewise, in 1996, the General Relief Society Presidency, led by then-president Elaine L. Jack, devoted the women's session of General Conference to faith, hope and charity,
In the four decades from 1984-2024, women have been allowed to preach in General Conference in contrast to all but a few exceptions in prior Church history. Has this resulted in genuine progress towards gender equity at the highest levels of power in the LDS hierarchy, or is this just an example of tokenizing in sensitive times?