bishops

Guest Post: Who Has the Power in 2024?

Guest Post - March 28, 2024

This year– in the year 2024– my bishop asked my husband First Before extending a calling to me.

We Love Women as Bishops! (As Long As They Aren’t LDS Bishops)

Abby Maxwell Hansen - September 22, 2022

Last week a new Episcopalian bishop was ordained here in Utah, with full news coverage from various media outlets such as church-owned KSL: The Episcopal...

Women Should Be Bishops

Abby Maxwell Hansen - August 15, 2022

I think that women (not just men) should be called as LDS bishops. In fact, I think women should be bishops more often than...

Guest Post: Bring Back the Young Men Presidencies

Guest Post - November 1, 2020

by Anonymous Note: All the opinions within this post are mine and not my husband's. In January of 2020, ward Young Men presidencies were eliminated, with...

Guest Post: On Advocacy in the Church #MormonMeToo

Guest Post - April 13, 2018

by Anonymous Recently, our ward executive secretary asked my husband if the Bishop could meet with us at our home. My husband set a time...

Guest Post: Bishops Need To Be Better; But So Do We

Guest Post - February 16, 2018

by L.A. Maya Angelou said, “When you know better, you do better.” I sat in front of my bishop, sobbing after sharing my secret. Cautiously, I...

Voices from the Exponent Email List: Meeting With the Bishop

Caroline - November 7, 2012

Here at the Exponent, we have some interesting conversations on our blogger email list. We decided that it could be fun to do a...