Mormon feminists experience what most feminists of faith have heard at some point. Utter dismissal of the possibility of their existence. We know several variations: You can’t be Christian and feminist. There’s no such thing as a Catholic feminist. You… Read More ›
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Faith Doesn’t Need Walls: A Conversation with Kate Kelly by Kate Stoltzfus
When Kate Kelly faced excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in June 2014, much of the world took notice. The D.C.-based human rights lawyer garnered wide-spread attention for founding Ordain Women, a movement to push for… Read More ›
Supporting Gender Equality in the Church Results in Excommunication by Gina Messina-Dysert
It is unnerving to think that excommunication is still a real threat in the 21st century. Within both the Catholic and Mormon Churches members continue to be bullied into submission with such threats. Today, speaking out against gender injustice seems… Read More ›
Making Inequality Visible: Mormons Seeking Women’s Ordination are Turned Away from Priesthood Conference by Aimee Hickman
Earlier this month, nearly 150 women were turned away from listening to the leaders of their church. The first weekend of October in the Mormon (LDS) Church is set apart for church members world-wide to hear messages from their leaders…. Read More ›
Mormon Feminism and the Need for Ritual and Practice Creation by Caroline Kline
In the past year, Mormon feminist activism has exploded. Wear Pants to Church Day, Let Women Pray, and Ordain Women are three recent projects which encouraged Mormon feminists to agitate collectively and put pressure on the institutional LDS Church to… Read More ›
Pantspocalypse: It’s Time for Conversation about Mormon Gender Norms by Caroline Kline
A little over a week ago, hundreds if not thousands of Mormon women across the world participated in Wear Pants to Church Day, a movement orchestrated by some feminist Mormon women in an effort to bring attention to issues of… Read More ›
Fanpire by Tanya Erzen
A girl treats the Twilight series as a holy book, emulates the behavior of the vampire family at its center, and makes a pilgrimage to Forks, WA, the setting of the books. This could just be a run-of-the-mill Twilight fan. … Read More ›
Tonight I Mourn for the Woman I Might Have Been by Caroline Kline
A few days ago, as I attended a conference on women in the LDS Church, I realized something about my Mormon feminist community: many of these Mormon women in the audience have felt called to ministry. Many came to this… Read More ›
Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother: Why I Stand By Her by Caroline Kline
Unlike the amorphous God of other Judeo-Christian faith traditions, Mormonism’s Heavenly Father is literally, anatomically male. He is the god Mormons pray to, worship, and reference. However, within the Mormon tradition are teachings about Heavenly Mother, an embodied, perfect goddess,… Read More ›
Do Women Disappear When Women and Men Integrate? A Mormon Case Study by Caroline Kline
Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Harvard professor, and Mormon feminist, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, recently gave a talk in which she examined the history of the LDS Relief Society, Mormonism’s women’s organization. In her talk she documented the rise and decline of… Read More ›