My Personal Rubicon
April 19, 2018Living in our nation’s capital during the recent ERA controversies has been a learning experience for me. After the turmoil of the 1975 IWY Conference in Utah, I spent a good deal of time trying…
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Mary Fielding Smith: Her Ox Goes Marching On
April 19, 2018I should preface these remarks by establishing two things. First, I am no blood relation to Mary Fielding Smith, although, like all of you, I proudly claim her for a spiritual sister; second, my subject…
Getting Unmarried in a Married Church
April 19, 2018My earliest memory of my Bluebird class in Primary is cross-stitching a sampler: “I will light up my home.” Our teacher admonished us to embroider carefully because we would want our samplers to hang in…
Women and Ordination: Introduction to the Biblical Context
April 19, 2018Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 60–69
THE QUESTION of whether worthy women could be or ought to be ordained to the LDS priesthood has not, until recently, been considered seriously in the LDS community.
Women and Priesthood
April 19, 2018Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 48–59
I smiled wryly at the cartoon on the stationery. The picture showed a woman standing before an all-male ecclesiastical board and asking, “Are you trying to tell me that God is not an equal opportunity employer?” I thought to myself, “Yes, that is precisely what women have been told for centuries.”
Mormon Women and the Struggle for Definition
April 19, 2018Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 40–47
I am sensitive to that steadying hand as I attempt to identify and define what for an earlier generation of women identified and defined them as women—their relationship to the Church.
The Pink Dialogue and Beyond
April 19, 2018Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 28–39
Some time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make history, I would have taken minutes or at least passed a roll around, but of course I didn’t.
A Ten-Year Kaleidoscope
April 19, 2018The young son of one of my friends was recently heard to say, “Mormon women all look alike. They have pretty faces and good teeth and most of them are overweight.” Just a sea of…
Clay County for Young Readers | Dean Hughes, As Wide As the River
April 19, 2018Twelve-year-old Joseph Williams and his family have settled in Clay County, Missouri, following their expulsion by mobs in Jackson County. Robbed of his strength by a brutal beating, Joseph’s father, Matthew Williams, fights an unrelenting…
Not Quite a Butterfly | Cheryl Ann Baxter, The Cocoon
April 19, 2018A book as personal as Cheryl Baxter’s The Cocoon can’t help but evoke a very personal response. I share with the main characters of the book a career as a teacher, an abiding interest in…