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female ordination Archive
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Unafraid to Ask: Jane Elizabeth Manning James and Ordain Women
Posted on May 30, 2014 | 12 CommentsThere is no more sympathetic figure in Mormon history than Jane Elizabeth Manning James, African-American Mormon pioneer, beloved member of the Joseph and Emma Smith household, and patient, yet relentless, petitioner for LDS temple blessings that remained withheld from her because of her race. Like […] -
Paying it Forward
Posted on March 9, 2014 | 2 Commentsby Gabrielle Crowley Like many Americans, the day-to-day grind has taken a financial toll on our household. We have had to tighten our belts and cut back on non-necessities to help make ends meet. One of those necessities was being able to fly out and […] -
Boys, Safety Patrol and the Priesthood
Posted on November 21, 2013 | 43 CommentsA couple weeks ago, four out of five of us slept through our alarms. I rushed into Stuart’s room to see how he wanted to proceed. Because Stuart gets super anxious when our routine is disrupted or altered, I was going to let […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 7.0
Posted on November 20, 2013 | 4 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post is a depiction of the number of General Conference speakers, by gender, from 1984-2013. Four women spoke in April 1984, when I was 11. Not surprisingly, I don’t remember that at all (again, I was 11). […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 6.0
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 38 CommentsThis week’s “Equality is not a Feeling” post is an illustration of the number of times the phrase “Heavenly X” or “X in Heaven” has appeared in any conference address since 1851 according to corpus.byu.edu. You’ll notice the difference between X=”Father” and X=”Mother” is 9,847 […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 5.0
Posted on November 6, 2013 | 29 Comments–From Laura C. This week’s “Equality is not a Feeling” post is an illustration of the people needed–according to the Church Handbook of Instructions (Volume 1, Section 9)–in order to establish official church units (e.g., branches, wards, stakes). So, I know this might not really […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 4.0
Posted on October 30, 2013 | 12 CommentsAnother illustration of a way to measure (in)equality in the Mormon church (for other measurements, see here, here, and here). Today we’re looking at male-female faculty representation in higher education in general (degree-granting institutions, in the U.S.) versus male-female faculty representation at BYU. […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 3.0
Posted on October 23, 2013 | 10 CommentsHere’s another installment in my series, Equality is not a Feeling–in which I am trying to illustrate, visually, numerous ways in which (in)equality in the Mormon church can be measured. This one is similar to the first one (Equality is not a Feeling 1.0), […] -
Eshet Chayil
Posted on October 22, 2013 | 3 CommentsEarlier this year, I read Rachel Held Evans’s book A Year of Biblical Womanhood and hosted a Mormon Stories Book Club podcast with Rachel, who is fabulous. Rachel is an evangelical Christian blogger, author, and speaker whose expansive and inclusive worldview I appreciate immensely–especially […] -
An Economic Perspective on Female Ordination
Posted on October 21, 2013 | 7 CommentsToday’s guest post is by S. Mark Barnes, an attorney and a university law and economics instructor. He served a mission in Fukuoka, Japan. He comes from Mormon feminist stock, and is a committed supporter of Ordain Women. He has a profile on Ordain Women. […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 2.0
Posted on October 19, 2013 | 34 CommentsI have “equality” on the brain these days. What does it mean? What does it look like? How do you know when you have it and, more importantly, how do you know when you don’t? As Kate Kelly mentioned a couple weeks […] -
Equality is not a Feeling
Posted on October 16, 2013 | 40 CommentsTwo-part proclamation from me: 1. I don’t know what I think about God these days, but this much I know: God is not the author of inequality. I don’t care who claims otherwise. I’m not buying what you’re selling. 2. […] -
Smog-Breathers
Posted on October 1, 2013 | 4 CommentsI just read an amazing book called “Multiplication is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit,an insightful writer whose work I have admired for the last ten years, which is about when I was first exposed to her. I […] -
Ordain Mormon Women
Posted on October 1, 2013 | 5 CommentsDoves and Serpents just received word that the fantabulous Cate has penned a song for the women (and men) of Ordain Women, who plan to stand in line this Saturday, October 5, in order to get into the priesthood session of General Conference. If […] -
Ride to the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Posted on September 15, 2013 | 7 CommentsGrowing up, I only learned the “standard” stuff about the Civil Rights movement. Pretty much just what was in my Texas-state-adopted-history textbooks, which means that I missed a lot. It wasn’t until I began working on my Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction, in […] -
My response to a Letter of Kindly-Intended Correction Regarding My Pro-Female Ordination Stance
Posted on September 9, 2013 | 72 CommentsBy Spunky On October 5th, there are a group of Mormon women who will go to the Priesthood Session of General Conference and request entry. The action is meant to draw attention to the inequality of a male-only presiding priesthood, and draw attention to the […] -
On Men and Heavy Lifting
Posted on April 15, 2013 | 153 CommentsBeing in charge of everything isn't about power or control, it's about service. Men should be grateful that women create space for them to concentrate on doing what God expects of them. -
Redeeming Asherah
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 8 CommentsBy Michelle Wiener (aka, Michelle Mormon) Today at work, the question of God’s gender came up, and I replied that I believed God has both a male and female persona. My colleague proceeded to ask me what the female persona’s name was. I replied, “I […]