In celebration of Exponent II’s 50th Anniversary, we are featuring three of the most viewed blog posts since the blog started in 2005.
Three excerpts from blogs featured this quarter.
Excerpts from three Exponent II blog posts about celebrating the everyday.
The Exponent II blog recently featured the series “Menopause and Me.” Art by Lauren Walke, an illustrator living amongst the folklore and trees of Appalachia.
The following are excerpts from the Exponent II blog.
These are excerpts from the Exponent II blog. Visit exponentii.wpenginepowered.com/blog for the full posts and more from our bloggers and guest writers.
Where’s Huldah? Missing (Female) Prophet in Come, Follow MeBy April Young-Bennett | Published July 14, 2022God’s chosen people fall into apostasy. The prophet warns them that wickedness leads to destruction. They counsel with the prophet and repent. They follow the prophet. This is a favorite narrative of the authors of the Church’s Come, Follow Me curriculum. But what if that same story could also be written this way? God’s chosen people fall into apostasy. A woman warns them that wickedness leads to destruction. They counsel with a woman and repent. They follow a woman.. . . I [have] now studied three […]
The following are excerpts from the Contemplating Heavenly Mother series on the Exponent II blog. Visit the-exponent.com for the full posts and more from our bloggers and guest writers.Mormon Fundamentalist Women Know Heavenly MotherGuest post by Dr. Cristina Rosetti | May 5, 2022From the time I entered Mormon spaces, I became used to hearing about Heavenly Mother. I was told about “a Mother there;” I even sang the infamous line in hymn #292. Of course, as a Roman Catholic who prays the rosary every day, I knew I had a Mother.But, as my time in these spaces increased, I noticed […]
Weaponizing The Why Heavenly Mother is Essential: Part 2 of 7BY MCARTHUR KRISHNA | NOVEMBER 4, 2021https://www.the-exponent.com/guest-post-why-heavenly-mother-is-essential-part-2/I knew some things about Heavenly Mother before I started digging into this topic. . . But I started to wonder about other ways that Heavenly Mother and Heavenly Father interact and found a model that was literally life-changing. . . Susa Young Gates said, “The divine Mother, side by side with the divine Father, [has] the equal sharing of equal rights, privileges and responsibilities.” The divine model is EQUALITY. . . Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife said, “Partnership in marriage does not mean dividing up tasks equally. Real […]
Weaponizing The Word Strong: A Black LDS Woman’s Guide to VulnerabilityBY RAMONA MORRIS | AUGUST 12, 2021the-exponent.com/weaponizing-the-word-strong-a-black-lds-womans-guide-to-vulnerability. . . As a twenty-four-year-old convert, the word “strong” super-glued itself onto my entire existence as a saint of color . . . Despite its definition in any dictionary, the s-word isn’t a friend for women of color in the church. . . . Instead, the s-word is violent. It’s problematic. It forces us to be something that we’re not sure we can be and binds us into a contract with people’s expectations of the person that they assume we should be. . . […]
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