young women Archive

  • Why Language Matters: A Side-by-Side Look at a Lesson from the New YW/YM Manuals

    Posted on October 12, 2012 | 79 Comments
    Text in pink is only in the YW version; text in blue is only in the YM version. It's more than just taking one lesson and adding/subtracting priesthood to it. The language differences are subtle, but telling.

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  • Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut

    Posted on June 20, 2012 | 24 Comments
    Last week I read this comment in an online Facebook group: “My daughter’s handout from Young Women’s today: Your greatest role in life is to be wife to your “sweetart” and mom to your “sugar babies.”   Along with accompanying candy. I get it! Mormons […]

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  • 28 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Cognitive Dissonance 101

    Posted on April 30, 2012 | 19 Comments
    I have remarked more than once that Mormons are often able to juggle contradictory ideas without, apparently, even being aware of the internal tensions. . . .

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  • Unforgettable Images

    Posted on April 11, 2012 | 21 Comments
    Many Mormons (adults included) don’t watch R-rated movies.   The oft-cited rationale is that once you see those images (“those images” = depictions of violence or sexuality), you’ll never get them out of your head.   They’re seared into your brain forever. I for one […]

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