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Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month! Blogger Nicole Sbitani shares some amazing AANHPI Mormon stories...
Who makes it possible for men to sit at the feet of Jesus? The Marthas of the world. And yet they can still be chided for not setting all aside as Mary did. They can still be expected to keep everything running in the background, keep everyone fed, organize, support, and sit on auxiliaries and still not be enough; still not do enough.
Blogger April Young-Bennett writes, "Midwife Patty Sessions was a paradox, a careerwoman and a spiritual leader, publicly faithful while privately mourning how polygamy wreaked havoc on her marriages. Fanciful illustrations capture these paradoxes in a new graphic novel."
Blogger ElleK writes, Girl math is sitting in a bathroom stall, looking at your pad that is two-thirds saturated with blood, not having 50 cents to buy another one, and wondering if the remaining fraction of pad will be enough to get you through the next three hours. (It won’t.)
If there is an argument about joy that this book makes, it's this: take it. It's yours. It belongs to you. Don't wait for it. . . God is big enough, whether or not the church is.
Blogger Abby Maxwell Hansen writes, "I knew long before I met or married anyone that my future husband’s education would take priority over mine. If we ever had to choose, he would get a degree and I wouldn’t. If only one of us could get a graduate degree, it would be him. If we were both working and he needed to relocate for a work opportunity, I would quit my job and follow him. And once we had children, it was without question that I would be the one to stop working while he continued building his career."
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