Elizabeth Ostler

ELIZABETH OSTLER {[email protected]} is an adjunct professor of English at CUNY Lehman College and of English and Public Speaking at LIM College. She is a managing editor of the Mormon Women Project. Liz is a working theater-maker, specializing in directing and puppetry, in Brooklyn, N.Y. and the founder and CEO of Life’s Echoes.

Baring Imperfect Human Truths | Holly Welker, ed., Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 2

We all know the Sunday School answers, but life rarely, if ever, plays out like a seminary video. So what do love, sex, and marriage look like in the lived experience of Mormon women?

Journalist, poet, and “spinster who thinks and writes a great deal about marriage” (1) Holly Welker has compiled a collection of essays that unapologetically reveals the intersection of Mormon theology, culture, individuality, and relational living in her latest book, Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage.