Reason Stares
April 29, 2020Brigham is boiling inside
at the audacity of the prophet
who said that God was once
a man.
DiaBLOGue
A Found Poem
April 29, 2020The girl
spotted a pretty pile
of colored sand
Women in Workplace Power
April 29, 2020Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 143–157
Women’s work has always been multifaceted and applied across all aspects of human experience. Women have filled many roles: queen, mother, inventor, artist, healer, politician, caretaker, prophet. Women’s voices have been loud and quiet, sometimes invisible but always present, on the vanguard or on the margins, leading, pushing, making change.
Mormon Women in the Ministry
April 28, 2020Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 129–142
Interview with Brittany Mangelson who is a full-time minister for Community of Christ. She has a master of arts in religion from Graceland University and works as a social media seeker ministry specialist.
Women in Dialogue
April 28, 2020I am very happy to see the publication of a new issue of Dialogue edited by Exponent II women. I have had dealings with both publications for more than forty years and know the positive…
“For the Power is In Them”: Leonard Arrington and the Founders of Exponent II
April 28, 2020This essay builds on a talk I gave at Utah State University on July 12, 2017 at a conference honoring Leonard J. Arrington, the first credentialed academic to serve the Church of Jesus Christ of…
The Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood
April 28, 2020Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 99–107
Elder Oaks clarified that priesthood is the authority and power of God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to give it a name. Not the Order of Aaron, that great Old Testament wingman to Moses, or the Order of Melchizedek, mentor and life coach to Abraham, but the Order of Eve, a matriarchal priesthood, in honor of the mother of all living.
The Stories We Tell—And What They Tell Us
April 28, 2020Stories are a binding force in families, a fact Mormons have known for a long time. A study at Emory University tried to identify what could strengthen families and help kids be more resilient. Their conclusion: “The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: develop a strong family narrative.”
Faith and Power of an Unbroken Woman
April 28, 2020I am outside running, playing, and dancing to musical beats from our neighbor’s house. It is a bright sunny day, and, just as on other beautiful days, I am on top of the world, where…
The Blessing I Took
April 28, 2020I never wanted a son.
I feel the heavy ugliness of those words like rough stones in my hands, taste them like shame on my tongue. Children have always been alien creatures to me, even when I was a child myself, and boy children, especially, have proven foreign and unrelatable.