Blog

Requests To Meet With Local Leaders

Ordain Women supporters walk to the priesthood sessionDuring the weeks preceding and following the recent Ordain Women action,  several Mormon feminists, including me, were contacted by our stake presidents or bishops. These local leaders requested meetings with us to discuss our concerns about male-only priesthood.  To my knowledge, most of these meetings resulted in good conversations.  I hope this is an indication that the Church intends to honor the statement its spokesperson made at the event, “These are our sisters and we want them among us.”

April Young-Bennett
April Young-Bennetthttps://askasuffragist.com/
April Young-Bennett is the author of the Ask a Suffragist book series and host of the Religious Feminism Podcast. Learn more about April at aprilyoungb.com.

3 COMMENTS

  1. I said both good and bad though actually I’m talking about the same experience because I feel ambivalent. Maybe it is just the sobbing jag that preceded what turned out to be fairly benign. I thought I was going to a regular calling-related meeting but fortunately the Young Women President felt she should call me and tell me the other agenda item (me) in advance because she felt it would be unfair and wrong to spring something on me. I am grateful to her, but I still cried and worried and felt like garbage. So while the meeting was okay and he was kind and genuinely interested, the summons felt like an executioner’s call.

  2. I have never been called in, but I have asked to meet with bishops about feminist concerns. They’ve always gone well, but I should note that I don’t make appointments with bishops that I don’t think will take my ideas well.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Click to subscribe for new post alerts.

Click to subscribe to our magazine, in circulation since 1974.

Related Posts

Excommunication and Listening to Silenced Voices

When I was a teenager my dad was excommunicated. He'd always held a less orthodox view of the church and as a long-time seminary...

Equal in Faith: Salt Lake City

On Monday I fasted. I fasted for the first time in years. It was completely different than I remember. I remember fasting being about...

Conducting a baptismal interview

I recently had a very rare opportunity for a woman in the church – I got to help carry out a baptismal interview.  My in-laws...

#hearLDSwomen: When I Asked a General Authority About the Temple Changes, He Told Me it Wasn’t Important and That It’s Dangerous to Doubt the...

I had a general authority (70) come to my Young Single Adult ward just this past February. I was the Relief Society president in...
submit guest post
Submit a Guest Blog Post
Announcements
Announcements
subscribe to our magazine
Subscribe to Our Magazine
Social Media Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com