“Our Mother-Goddess Gleaming Bright, a Hymn”
Our Mother-Goddess gleaming bright,
Shine on us with thy perfect light,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
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Our Mother-Goddess gleaming bright,
Shine on us with thy perfect light,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, women are not ordained to priesthood offices. The established pattern is assumed to be from God, and thus, must be overturned by God — if at all.However, there is no explicit divine direction to deny priesthood offices on the basis of gender, and the temple endowment currently grants priesthood power to all genders. Here, I explore ten common explanations for women’s exclusion from priesthood offices, and argue that none of them adequately justify current gendered divisions.1. Modern leaders have stated that there has been revelation that women aren’t eligible for ordination […]
Eight years old. Two pairs of bare feet stomped on the dock, stopped for a moment, and sprang — one girl diving perfectly, the other flopping on her belly awkwardly, feeling weighed down by the jealousy of not being allowed to wear a two-piece.
Now that I’m a parent, my framework for God is colored by my everyday life.
Our firstborn baby, years too early and six days late…
I am the CEO in a male-dominated industry and have five children under the age of 12.
Every Needful Thing… [reads] like the ultimate FAQ readers wrestle with on a regular basis…
My place in the Patriarchal orders of the Priesthood has been suspended, likely never to be reinstated. I am a transgender woman, one who has set aside her temple recommend and authorization to exercise the Priesthood by embracing who she is, medically and socially.
The poems grapple with women’s roles in Shakespeare and also in Mormon culture.
. . . I’m especially struck by Patterson’s compelling, revisionist lens.
Dear H. & S.,Hung high on your grandparents’ living room wall is a grainy photograph taken 36 years ago in Vietnam, the origin of one of the worlds I inhabit. Standing in a sunny courtyard with checkered tile in front of a blossoming tree are a young, thin, and pleasant Ông Ngoại (my father) and Bà Ngoại (my mother), a confident eleven-year-old Cậu Hai (my oldest brother), a cautious six-year-old Cậu Ba (my second brother), and — nervously and cautiously hiding behind Cậu Ba — a three-year-old girl: me. Later that night, we boarded boats that would take us to […]
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