Mother in Heaven
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The Seeking Heavenly Mother Project: Understanding and Claiming Our Power to Connect with Her
If power is the ability to act, then creation is the ultimate manifestation of power. A creator is an engineer of something new, an artist of something never before seen, a musician of what has…
Dear Heavenly Mother
Podcast version of this piece. Dear Heavenly Mother, You have been lost to me, hidden from my view behind a veil of professed sacred protection, but I am searching for you—pulling you into the light.…
Guides to Heavenly Mother: An Interview with McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding
When Dialogue asked us to write a personal article about our process of writing A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother (D Street Press, 2020), we were delighted. The work Dialogue does is so important that…
In Defense of Heavenly Mother: Her Critical Importance for Mormon Culture and Theology
Introduction Does the existence of the Heavenly Mother in Mormon theology promote heteronormativity that marginalizes gender nonconforming individuals? If so, why does the divine female, but not the divine male, bear the bulk of the…
The Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood
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…
Toward a Mormon Theology of God the Mother
1994: Janice Allred, “Toward a Mormon Theology of God the Mother,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 27 No. 2 (1994): 15–40. It would seem that Mormons who have believed for over a hundred years in the…
The Need for a New Mormon Heaven
1988: Melodie Moench Charles, “The Need for a New Mormon Heaven,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 21 No. 3 (1988): 73–85. Although she is great and good and wise and omniscient and perfect, it is not…
If I Hate My Mother, Can I Love the Heavenly Mother?
A series of questions began to occur to me: If I hate my mother, can I love the Heavenly Mother? If I hate my mother, can I love myself? If I hate God, can I…
How to Worship Our Mother in Heaven (Without Getting Excommunicated)
2008: Kevin Barney, “How to Worship Our Mother in Heaven (Without Getting Excommunicated),” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 41 No. 4 (2008): 121–147. In this essay, I shall begin by describing what we can learn about…