Blog Tag: policy
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Acknowledging a bit of progress announced in the RS broadcast
A woman who wants to be endowed is dependent on persuading multiple male authority figures that she is worthy to make temple covenants. But at least she can now argue that she has met all the church sanctioned requirements so that she can get endowed in a time frame that makes the most sense in her life.
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My Experience With The Newest Temple Changes
I started to hear that the temple ceremony had been updated - again. My friends were saying that Christ was more prominently featured and that things were explained more clearly. I heard an older woman in my ward saying, “I wish we’d had this all along. Everything would have been so much easier to understand.
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Guest Post: Springtime in the Church
Guest post by Maria Mortensen-Davis. Maria Mortensen-Davis is a poet, amateur naturalist, and currently an at-home parent in her family. She lives in Utah County with her husband and four children, where she spends as much time outside as possible.
I've spent many hours this week preparing my garden beds for the season. I don't enjoy gardening during most of the year, a fact that I manage to forget every spring for a few weeks in a feverish obsession with new growth and sunshine. Easter was last week, spring is on my mind, and it’s time to work in the...
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Guest Post: Luke Skywalkers
Guest Post by Anonymous.
Many of society’s complex problems can be simplified with math. Criminal justice, for example, is essentially a problem of false positives and false negatives. In an ideal world, the criminal justice system would label each defendant’s guilt correctly: always imprison the guilty and never imprison the innocent.
But in the real world, two types of errors will inevitably occur: false negatives, in which one fails to identify someone as a legitimate risk, and false positives, in which one incorrectly labels someone as a risk.
Richard Berk, a professor of criminology and statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, has...
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Guest Post: The Doctrine Does Change
Guest Post by Nicole Sbitani. Nicole is an adult convert, a non-Black woman of color, and a professional diplomat. She blogs at nandm.sbitani.com and writes microfiction @nsbitani on Twitter. The content of this post does not represent the views of the U.S. Department of State or any other U.S. Government agency, department, or entity. The thoughts and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and in no way should be associated with the U.S. Government.
I’ve recently had several difficult conversations with members regarding the stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on same-sex marriage....
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4th Wave Feminism and “Being Like Mother Eve”
Guest Post by Kajsa Berlin-Kaufusi. Kajsa is a bibliophile who previously worked for five years as faculty with BYU's Ancient Scripture department, as well as three years with the University of Utah's Global Learning office. Her research interests are Biblical Studies, Feminist and Liberation Theology, alternate historical narrative and the conflict between orthodoxy/orthopraxy and lived experience. She will be starting a PhD this fall. She and her husband have three children and two stinky dogs.
Recently I saw a post on Facebook from the LDS church’s social media platform that shared a talk given by President Nelson that encouraged women...
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How the Oakland Stake Center now has Gender-Neutral Bathrooms
If you've ever been to the Oakland, California temple, you may recall there being two large buildings: one is the visitor's center, and the other is a large, misshapen building that looks and is a basically a bunch of rooms aggregated upon many winding hallways. It's a multi-stake center. It contains 2 chapels, a large assembly room, 2 gyms and stages, multiple stake and ward offices, and a big auditorium where stake conferences or cultural events take place. There is almost no rhyme or reason to the layout. You'll notice oddities like, "Where are the coat hooks?" There are...
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Guest Post: Sitting in the Dark
By ElleK
A woman I know was told years ago by her husband that she wasn’t to open her own doors because he wanted to open them for her as a sign of respect. Throughout the years of their marriage, he has opened her car doors before she enters and exits the vehicle. Once, I drove with this couple somewhere in a large, full SUV. We arrived at our destination and piled out of the car and were halfway across the parking lot when we realized the woman was missing. I ran back to the car and saw her still...
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Poems of Exclusion
The new Exclusion Policy was leaked to social media on November 5, 2015, which labels same-sex married couples as apostates and prohibits baptism and other ordinances for their children. EmilyHB and I wrote poems soon after the event that discuss the impact of the policy on our personal lives. Today we are sharing them with our readers to commemorate the anniversary of this terrible day.
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my Mormon dream, and getting over it.
by EmilyHB (written 13 Nov 2015)
my dream is gone and with it went my plan
to stay the course and be there for the dawn
of some great thing. but I don’t think...
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what the bishop said
Although my brother will no longer come to church with me,
and neither will my sister (notwithstanding that respectively
they gave, until a certain point, their time, their money, and their hearts—
their open, open hearts—their tender, nascent, fledgling, open hearts),
there is some consolation in the fact that, if my brother pushed his way
along the pew (why are these benches so insanely close?) to sit with us, Jay
(his spouse, his husband of six years) and he would be quite welcome.
Or so the bishop said. With open arms, he said, they would be welcome.
If my sister were inclined, I was assured,...
What is Exponent II?
Exponent II provides Mormon feminist forums for women and gender minorities across the Mormon spectrum to share their diverse life experiences in an atmosphere of trust and acceptance. Through these exchanges, we strive to create a community to better understand and support each other.
Exponent II was founded in 1974 by a group of Mormon women in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These women were inspired by the original periodical, “The Woman’s Exponent,” to create a forum “posed on the dual platforms of Mormonism and Feminism.”
For 50+ years, Exponent II has shared women’s voices in its quarterly magazine, and members of the community have convened at an annual retreat. Our reach has expanded as technology has advanced: the blog, founded in January 2006, has reached millions. As we look to the future, we are focused on growth and building a more inclusive community.
