In my twenties I decided that if I ever left my faith I would become a Presbyterian minister. I’ve always gravitated toward leadership of whatever I’m doing and of all the possible realms of leadership what mostĀ appealed to me was to lead souls to Christ. I am LDS and my faith doesn’t ordain women. At […]
January 11, 2013
Last year Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project, rocked the Bloggernacle by making a presentation at FAIR about equality between the sexes. While her data on “the crisis” (her words) in the Church regarding women and leadership opportunities is drawn from a narrow sampling of vocal agitators for change (analysis here), she made […]
August 15, 2012
Two young men are camped out in my family room, staying with us during a week-long visit from my prairie homeland while they attend education week at BYU. Tonight one of them asked if he could ask me a question. I was delighted and encouraged him to do so. “In my family, my father asks […]
July 5, 2012
Jonathan Stapley has written an interest-piquing review of a forthcoming book, The Beginning of Better Days with essays by Sheri Dew and Virginia Pearce, that has me thinking again about the democratic resurgence of personal revelation in the church. The book, which has been provided to a number of other writers (sadly, not me) who […]
June 26, 2014
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