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Sunstone 2010 – A Feminist Recap

Mormon Heretic August 17, 2010community of christ, conferences and symposia, feminism, history, Mormon, polygamy, Priesthood, women 8 Comments

I really enjoyed the last day of Sunstone, since I was able to attend all day, rather than a session here or there. Don Bradley …

Hanging Out with Apostles at Sunstone

Mormon Heretic August 6, 2010apostles, community of christ, conference, conferences and symposia, Early Christianity, history, Leaders, Mormon, Restoration Groups, women 10 Comments

Sunstone has been going on since Wednesday here in Salt Lake City. It ends tomorrow, and I thought I would give a few words about …

A Horrific Tale of Forgiveness

Mormon Heretic June 29, 2010books, catholicism, christ, christianity, death, Holocaust, international, racism, women 9 Comments

I really miss my book club, but I am participating in the Stay LDS Book Club. The first book that we have decided to read is Left …

Mormon Marriage Ref: Bikinis, Garments, & Facebook

AdamF June 25, 2010Culture, diversity, Humor, marriage, Mormon, patriarchy, sexuality, women 34 Comments

WARNING: Sophisticated readers have described The Mormon Marriage Ref as a painfully artificial and repellent reality TV way of solving arguments, as using incredibly silly …

Time to Study the Old Testament…Again – Part 8 – The Names

Jeff Spector June 18, 2010Jews, Scriptural translation, scripture, women 16 Comments

One thing that has always intrigued me about the English version of the Old Testament were how the names, the Hebrew names, were modified away …

The Mormon Therapist on “I don’t feel safe talking to my husband about sex.”

John Dehlin June 16, 2010LDS, love, marriage, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, religion, sexuality, women 27 Comments

Natasha Helfer Parker is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist and a member of the Church with 13 years of experience working with LDS …

A Closer Look at that Virtuous Woman

Bored in Vernal May 27, 2010LDS lessons, Mormon, women 14 Comments

OT SS Lesson #20 Sometimes I wonder how women in the Judeo-Christian tradition got stuck with the gender role identifications they have. The Old Testament …

Feminist Musings on the story of Jephthah

Bored in Vernal May 20, 2010feminism, LDS lessons, Mormon, scripture, temple, theology, women 24 Comments

OT SS Lesson #19 You are going to talk about the Biblical Judges in this week’s Sunday School class, and the lesson’s got it pretty …

Rachel and Leah: A Modern Perspective

Mormon Heretic March 28, 2010books, Jews, marriage, metaphor, Mormon, polygamy, resolutions, women 27 Comments

Last year, I posted a topic about Marriage Fitness. The author is Mort Fertel, and he makes no illusions that his method is a quick …

Our Voices, Our Visions: A report from the road

John Dehlin March 24, 2010books, Mormon, women 7 Comments

Monday night in Claremont, California, we kicked off the Our Voices, Our Visions Mormon Women’s Literary Tour in the company of an audience of 30 …

Ask Mormon Girl hits the road: the Our Voices, Our Visions Literary Tour

John Dehlin March 22, 2010community of christ, women 3 Comments

This week, I’m putting the Ask Mormon Girl column on vacation while I set out for adventure in the great Book-of-Mormon Belt. The Our Voices, …

The Relational Definition of Sin

Bored in Vernal March 17, 2010conferences and symposia, doctrine, feminism, Mormon, theology, women 31 Comments

One of my favorite experiences at the BYU Studies Symposium was listening to a set of two talks on the subject of sin. That might …

A Marital Confession

Aaron R. aka Rico March 16, 2010accountability, children, Culture, feminism, Mormon, Priesthood, repentance, women 27 Comments

A recent visit at FMH and John Dehlin’s Mormon Stories interview with fmhLisa (Butterworth) has made me realise something about myself that I am not …

The Virgin and the Whore: Thinking Beyond Dinah and Potiphar’s Wife

Bored in Vernal March 10, 2010adultery, Bible, feminism, LDS lessons, Mormon, righteousness, scripture, sexuality, women 26 Comments

OT SS Lesson #11 Lesson 11 in the Old Testament manual employs several stories from Genesis 34-39 to develop the theme of sexual morality. Joseph’s …

From Patriarchy to Eternity

Bored in Vernal February 3, 2010families, feminism, marriage, Mormon, women 103 Comments

I am going to put this as simply as possible, and let’s start with a definition. Patriarchy is a social system in which the father …

Interfaith Marriages by guest Madam Curie

guest January 30, 2010accountability, apostasy, apostles, Bloggernacle, Charity, children, christianity, Culture, curiosity, doctrine, doubt, faith, Happiness, inter-faith, LDS, love, marriage, Mormon, mormon, questioning, salvation, women 30 Comments

A recent post by Cr@ig on Main Street Plaza caused me to reflect on the strength of interfaith marriages. I had hoped to generate a …

A Child Is Born In Bukavu

Faithful Dissident December 15, 2009abuse, children, christ, christianity, civil disobedience, fear, international, Jesus, love, meekness, mercy, pacifism, Peace, violence, war, women 39 Comments

A Christmas message, by today’s guest poster, mormongandhi. A child is born in Bukavu A child is born in Bukavu, and sadness fills his mother’s heart… …

The Single Mormon Girl and the Priesthood

single mormon chick December 7, 2009church, Culture, doctrine, eternity, faith, families, fear, feminism, general, Happiness, LDS, love, marriage, Mormon, Priesthood, religion, salvation, temple, testimony, women 32 Comments

Everybody blogs, right? Why not me? Looking for my niche, my angle, and the one thing that seemed to make me stand out in my …

Brother Brigham Brother Young

James December 6, 2009abuse, adultery, Anti-Mormon, apostasy, apostles, baptism, blacks, burdens, Charity, christianity, church, Culture, curiosity, death, depression, Discrimination, doubt, eternity, excommunication, faith, historicity, LDS, Leaders, marriage, media, Mormon, Mormons, obedience, ordinances, polygamy, Priesthood, prophets, race, repentance, salvation, tesimony, thought, Utah, women 6 Comments

Recently I drove up Little Cottonwood Canyon with my brother and nephew. This is the canyon in which many of your ancestors pulled out the …

Perspective

single mormon chick November 26, 2009BYU, children, church, missionary, Mormon, Mormons, sacrament, women 14 Comments

Everybody blogs, right? Why not me? Looking for my niche, my angle, and the one thing that seemed to make me stand out in my …

Romantic Paternalism

guest November 17, 2009BYU, feminism, LDS, Mormon, questioning, temple, women 130 Comments

Mormon Matters welcomes our newest guest poster. Kate Kelly graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Political Science. She served a mission for …

Women’s Studies at BYU: Parity or Parody?

Bored in Vernal November 6, 2009BYU, women 31 Comments

When I first discovered that BYU had announced the closing of their Women’s Research Institute, I was appalled, as were many interested parties both on …

Trading Polygamy for Statehood

Mormon Heretic September 27, 2009civil disobedience, history, marriage, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, politics, polygamy, temple, Utah, women 67 Comments

If one searches around the bloggernacle, you’ll find a snarky comment about how the church traded polygamy for statehood, or that the church just wimped-out …

LDS Grass-Roots Interpretations of the Eve Archetype

Bored in Vernal September 22, 2009doctrine, feminism, Mormon, symbols, temple, theology, women 21 Comments

Since Eve is one of the most powerful archetypes for women, it’s not surprising that this story is at the root of many discussions of …

Common Scriptures in Review: Gender & the Sermon on the Mount

Ray August 15, 2009Beatitudes, Bible, christ, christianity, Culture, diversity, doctrine, feminism, marriage, meekness, mercy, plan of salvation, prophets, repentance, righteousness, Sermon on the Mount, spiritual progression, women 12 Comments

I absolutely LOVE the Sermon on the Mount. It is my second favorite passage in all our recorded scripture – right behind the Intercessory Prayer. …

mothers really are the primary nurturers

AdamF July 8, 2009children, families, love, Mormon, women 31 Comments

I have long been dismayed by the seemingly arbitrary idea that mothers should be first in charge of nurturing their children, with fathers there to …

Bushman’s Take on Polygamy

Mormon Heretic June 20, 2009history, joseph, marriage, Mormon, polygamy, women 110 Comments

A few weeks ago, here at Mormon Matters, I posted on My Perspective on Polygamy (with a longer version found on my blog.) I hinted …

My first time at Young Womens Camp

Brian Johnston June 19, 2009Bible, Devil, Mormon, obedience, service, women 14 Comments

This week I volunteered to help as the “priesthood” on staff for a couple days at Young Women Camp. Perhaps this is all old hat …

Women are from Venus, Men are from Kolob

Hawkgrrrl May 27, 2009abuse, adultery, Asides, burdens, children, church, Culture, curiosity, doubt, faith, families, feminism, Humor, LDS, Leaders, Logic, love, marriage, mormon, Mormons, orthodox, polygamy, questioning, religion, salvation, sexuality, theology, thought, women 75 Comments

Based on my experience, I would guess that the majority of LDS women under age 65 would say that polygamy is NOT an eternal principle …

My Perspective on Polygamy

Mormon Heretic May 17, 2009Bible, christianity, history, LDS, marriage, Mormon, polygamy, questioning, racism, smith, theology, women 149 Comments

I have long avoided talking about polygamy on my blog. It is a source of tremendous discomfort for me, but it keeps coming up, so …

Interfaith International British DJ

James May 13, 2009apologetics, Bible, Bloggernacle, book of mormon, books, burdens, catholicism, Charity, children, christ, christianity, church, Culture, curiosity, death, Discrimination, diversity, evangelicals, faith, families, fear, Folklore, general, God, Happiness, history, Humor, inter-faith, international, introductions, Jesus, LDS, Leaders, liberal, Logic, love, marriage, media, missionary, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, news, orthodox, parables, Peace, plan of salvation, podcast, polygamy, prayer, questioning, resolutions, scripture, Sermon on the Mount, service, spiritual progression, spirituality, television, theology, thought, women 10 Comments

OK Paul technically isn’t exactly an international DJ, not unless you consider that you can listen to his interviews on line.

Mother’s Day

Mormon Heretic May 10, 2009children, christianity, Culture, death, depression, families, women 5 Comments

As you know by know, I often like to talk about history. So, I thought I would try to learn a little about Mother’s Day. …

Are we going to be Eunuchs after this life?

James April 27, 2009abuse, book of mormon, burdens, Culture, curiosity, Discrimination, diversity, doubt, education, eternity, faith, families, fear, Folklore, general, General Authorities, General Conference, God, Happiness, history, Humor, Jesus, joseph, Logic, marriage, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, obedience, orthodox, prophets, questioning, religion, resolutions, salvation, scripture, sexuality, smith, spiritual progression, spirituality, tesimony, theology, thought, women 79 Comments

My home teacher (who is very cool) came by yesterday to drop off some starter cables for my car and as one does in that …

“Out-of-Wedlock” Is No Longer “Illegitimate”

Ray April 15, 2009children, christianity, Culture, families, feminism, gay, homosexuality, love, marriage, Mormon, race, religion, sexuality, women 37 Comments

In a recent CNN.com/living article (“Out-of-wedlock births hit record high”), the discussion centered on the fact that the birth rate outside of marriage in the …

Families Forver Naked and Not Ashamed

James April 6, 2009abuse, adultery, Anti-Mormon, apostasy, Bible, Bloggernacle, burdens, BYU, children, christ, christianity, church, civil disobedience, Culture, curiosity, diversity, education, environment, faith, families, fear, general, Happiness, history, Mormon, religion, righteousness, sexuality, theology, thought, women 311 Comments

Mormon Matters Motto is Exploring Mormon culture in a balanced way- so bare with me on this one (excuse the pun).

Memo To YW Leaders: Thanks, But No Thanks

Shawn Larsen April 1, 2009feminism, LDS, Leaders, Mormon, Priesthood, women 31 Comments

In our current callings, my wife and I spend a lot of time digging through Church instruction manuals. I teach both the 12/13 year old …

Big Love -Big News

James March 10, 2009abuse, adultery, Anti-Mormon, apologetics, apostasy, baptism, Bloggernacle, book of mormon, burdens, Charity, children, christ, christianity, church, Culture, curiosity, Discrimination, diversity, doubt, education, faith, families, fear, FLDS, general, God, Happiness, history, inter-faith, Jesus, joseph, marriage, media, meetings, Mormon, Mormons, movies, news, obedience, ordinances, orthodox, polygamy, Priesthood, prophets, religion, resignation, RLDS, salvation, scripture, spirituality, television, temple, testimony, theology, thought, Utah, women 33 Comments

Filtered Visions by guest Reuben Collins

James March 2, 2009apostasy, baptism, Bible, Bloggernacle, book of mormon, books, christ, christianity, church, Culture, curiosity, death, diversity, doubt, education, faith, families, fear, Folklore, general, General Authorities, historicity, liberal, Logic, love, marriage, Mormon, Mormons, obedience, prayer, religion, sacrament, salvation, spirituality, temple, tesimony, theology, thought, Trinity, women 9 Comments

I’ve been thinking about Levi Peterson’s The Backslider lately (SPOILERS AHEAD).

Zero Population is the Answer, My Friend . . .

Hawkgrrrl February 9, 2009Asides, children, church, Culture, curiosity, depression, Discrimination, diversity, doubt, families, feminism, Happiness, LDS, love, marriage, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, questioning, religion, theology, thought, women 16 Comments

Thought I’d catch your attention with that line from “Saturday’s Warrior,” the bane (or bastion, if you don’t know what you’re talking about) of Mormon doctrine.* …

Abstinence= Don’t think the colour red! Don’t think the colour red!

James January 11, 2009books, burdens, BYU, christianity, church, curiosity, Discrimination, education, faith, families, general, General Conference, liberal, marriage, Mormon, Mormons, obedience, orthodox, sexuality, tesimony, women 59 Comments

“The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health” (Add Health), Found that conservative and evangelical Christian teenagers are more sexually active than mainline Protestants, Jews, and …

The Unsung Hero of the Nativity

Hawkgrrrl December 16, 2008Asides, Charity, children, christ, christianity, church, curiosity, doubt, faith, feminism, Happiness, history, Humor, Jesus, joseph, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, obedience, parables, questioning, religion, thought, women 13 Comments

As I was setting up our nativity scene this year, I noticed the wisdom and cultural/racial diversity of the Magi, the docile farm animals (not …

Virtual RS/PH #20 – A Heart Full of Love & Faith: The Prophet’s Letters to His Family

Hawkgrrrl November 9, 2008burdens, Charity, children, faith, families, history, Humor, joseph, LDS, love, marriage, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, polygamy, Priesthood, prophets, questioning, religion, smith, women 12 Comments

This lesson discusses the written correspondence Joseph sent to Emma during his frequent absences. IMO, this is a tough lesson for many reasons, so read …

5 Cool Things I Wish the LDS Church Were Doing

Clay Whipkey October 15, 20085CT, education, meetings, missions, mormon, music, Priesthood, sacrament meeting, service, spirituality, surviving, women 64 Comments

This post is another installment in my “5 Cool Things” series. Today I’m giving a list, again in no particular order, of some things I …

5 Cool Things About the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Clay Whipkey October 8, 20085CT, feminism, history, news, politics, race, women 35 Comments

This post is another installment in my “5 Cool Things” series. Today I’m giving a list, again in no particular order, of some things that …

The Other Half of the Circle

Clay Whipkey August 21, 2008church, community of christ, curiosity, diversity, feminism, General Authorities, inter-faith, Jesus, Leaders, Mormon, Priesthood, prophets, women 29 Comments

I am an over-analyzer. As a musician I listen to music in a different way than a lot of folks. I pick apart each instrument …

I’m Okay; You’re Okay

guest July 27, 2008Asides, church, Culture, curiosity, death, doubt, eternity, faith, families, inter-faith, LDS, love, marriage, missionary, missions, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, questioning, religion, salvation, temple, thought, women 102 Comments

I have one component to my life that prompts little discussions from the lowliest church member to most recently the temple president and I really …

Paul: Apostle, Misogynist?

Hawkgrrrl July 8, 2008Asides, christianity, curiosity, feminism, history, Humor, inter-faith, LDS, Leaders, marriage, missionary, missions, Mormon, mormon, Mormons, obedience, orthodox, prophets, questioning, religion, scripture, sexuality, testimony, theology, thought, women 24 Comments

“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” Jessica Rabbit Plenty of criticism is heaped on post-restoration church leaders. There seems to be a tendency …