[…] that some LDS women are attempting to create a “style of their own” and influ-ence others to buy into that style. Women have organized and par-ticipated in ward and stake “modest fashion shows,” as […]
[…] say about some contemporary philosophical, social, or political issue. Where should a Mormon thinker begin? Consider the counter-example of Catholic intellectuals. Faced with such a question, they have the luxury of a rich philosophical […]
It is a great pleasure for me to be here with all of you Cambridge veterans and to be asked to represent the huge cohort of LDS women who have sat in these pews—those […]
[…] church and others who pushed for the proposition adduced as part of their case for the proposition. 3. Because, all things considered, I will almost always side with any proposition or referendum that involves […]
[…] counting the apples picked from our three backyard trees and asked myself how long it would take to deal with all of them. This year I was determined not to let any go to […]
[…] and Jean Georges, all those billing hours to make partner. I let myself go. I can’t even buy pants off the rack anymore. My knees are shot. If I could go back, I’d be […]
[…] part of the Mormon foundational narrative, the plates have a peripheral place in Mormons’ ordinary discourse. Take, for example, the 1989 Primary songbook.According to the index, there are sixteen songs about being reverent in […]
[…] literature that includes the full range of Mormon experience: ‘struggles and frustrations; apostasies and inner revolutions and counter-revolutions . . . counter-reactions . . . persecution days . . . rapture.’” I love that […]
[…] from 1970s Mormon feminism in Boston to the present and imagines what needs to be part of the future. She identifies five areas for Mormon feminism: theology, institutions, racial inclusion, financial independence, and spiritual independence.
[…] but a beige Ford Taurus station wagon, clean and well-maintained, the kind of car my dad would buy. A small photograph in a plastic frame hung from the rearview mirror. A woman in a […]