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Caroline

May 7, 2023

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Making Mothers’ Day Better at Church

As many people know, Mothers’ Day at church can be a hard day for women. Women might feel inadequate and depressed when speakers’ over-the-top rhetoric about mothers’ selflessness, goodness, and spirituality don’t feel achievable, realistic, or healthy. Also, women who have had difficult relationships with their own mothers or children might feel alienated by this discourse. And of course, the very many women who never have had and never will have children might feel painfully excluded if rhetoric in talks emphases motherhood as the most important role/duty/relationship in a woman’s life. Nevertheless, I do see potential for Mothers’ Day as an...

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May 6, 2022

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Guest Post: “As My Mother Hath Taught Me”: A Mother’s Day...

Guest post by Elena Hirst Call, who enjoys expressing creativity through cross stitching, LEGOs, writing, and music. Our Heavenly Parents are united in purpose. As Sister Susa Young Gates explained, “the divine Mother, side by side with the divine Father, the equal sharing of equal rights, privileges and responsibilities” (The Vision Beautiful) Because of that unity in purpose, I want to examine: “I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me” (John 8:28) from the perspective of “I do nothing of myself; but as my Mother hath taught me.” Christ elaborates, “The Son can do nothing of...

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Abby Maxwell Hansen

May 12, 2021

Family feminism Gender Relationships women

Mother’s Day: The Manliest Day of the Year

Sunday was Mother's Day. As it sometimes can, it brought up feelings of frustration for me. While we pay lip service to mothers and may give them breakfast in bed or a chocolate bar at church, we do almost nothing to recognize any of their power, authority, or divinity. We tell moms that their hard work on earth is seen and appreciated, yet we continue to absolutely ignore them in the eternities.The first thing I saw on my social media newsfeed Sunday morning was a Mother's Day message from Russel M. Nelson, already shared, liked and commented on by...

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