So the next time you hear an LDS woman saying she’s so grateful to *not* hold the priesthood and worry about the responsibilities that the
A common theme among the comments was that I’d left off an important point. I’d neglected to say that women could work just because they
In the Young Women program I often heard phrases like, “you’ll want an education, but only so you can fall back on it if your
We hadn’t eaten breakfast, it was lunchtime, we had 35 minutes to get to the temple, and the drive would take roughly 25 minutes. If
Men are more than priesthood vessels, providers, and presiders. Men should not be defined by their religious roles but by who they are.
Imagine a sentence that starts, “As a disciple of Jesus Christ, every man in the Church is given the responsibility to…” and it’s easy to
I know that Jesus won’t need to ask me, “Are you a boy or a girl?” He’ll just say, “Come here my child, and sit
Like the majority of us who grew up queer in the LDS church, I assume Charlie carries a lot of scars. But he also has
As things are currently organized I cannot serve as a Ward Financial Clerk. I can’t help prepare a deposit of tithing money. I can’t process
omen haven’t been theologians? This was not true at the time Elder Maxwell wrote it, and it isn’t true now. What is true, however, is
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