Family

Emeritus blogger East River Lady shares her experience receiving her temple endowment as a black member of the church.

Trigger warning: Discussing of domestic violence Note: In this I will be using female pronouns to discuss abuse victims and male pronouns to discuss perpetrators.  However,...

Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month! Blogger Nicole Sbitani shares some amazing AANHPI Mormon stories...

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.

Oh mothers of sorrow, wherever you are, They know what it is to grieve what you cannot change.

My heart is broken because we champion motherhood so much in the church, but the church shows so little understanding about the intimate details of how a woman and her needs actually change with motherhood.

"A pain I can’t describe washed over me, as I cuddled and cared for my sweet child, fulfilling what this church has taught is the highest honor of women, unable to ignore the stark contrast between the closet-sized space for the mothers, and the big, comfortable room used by the men. Broader gender disparities I try not to focus on suddenly felt illuminated in floodlights. I felt for the other moms pacing in the halls who didn’t have access to this space."

"Shortly after my baptism when I found my biological father, my birth mom found her biological father too. As I and friends took these biological family names to the temple, their messages were loud and clear: You were not an accident. The Lord sent you here at this prescribed time. We love you. We are aware of you."