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Private Ritual
This Thanksgiving, after all the eating and football and more eating (etc) our family had a bonfire. (We do that. A lot.) Once the initial 20 ft conflagration (yep, we use gasoline) had turned into a...
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A year ago this month, mr. mraynes and I were driving home from a trip to Costco where we had stocked up on what I hoped would be some of the last diapers we would ever buy. Our two children were about...
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United We Stand
Several weeks ago I was witness to a horrific act of spiritual violence. A leader in my ward called three women to speak on marriage but used their life stories to represent a telestial, terrestrial...
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Feeding the Multitude
Feeding of the Multitude, Duc de Berry This past fall, our stake president introduced me to a new way to look at the miracles of Jesus feeding the multitude, which I wanted to share here. The feeding...
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A Valentine Invite to Dish: Crazy Things We Do in Love
Have you ever been so twitter-pated that you did something silly? Or embarrassing? Or crazy? Or all of the above? Tell us, because even feminists fall in crazy love… I’ll go first: My visa to move to...
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What the heart wants
It was a small gesture I had seen hundreds of times before, my father pausing for a brief moment to appreciate a thing of beauty. This time it was an arrangement of lilies that he had stopped to smell...
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To Speak Openly, Frankly, and with Love
“Emily, you have to let him preside in the home. He should be the one to lead prayer, call everyone to Family Home Evening, and direct things in matters of the priesthood in general. If he’s not...
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Guest Post: Penny of Time
by Sheila Sheila has been completing small acts of service with her children every day for a month and journaling those experiences on the “Pennies of Time” blog. A month ago, I decided to complete a...
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Relief Society Lesson Chapter 15: Faithful, Energetic Service in the Kingdom...
I love the title of this lesson, but I’ll admit that I felt a little deflated when I saw that it was primarily about missionary work. I do not want to do missionary work if it’s only about bringing...
View ArticleRelief Society Lesson 21: Loving God More Than We Love The World
If I was teaching this lesson, I would begin with the video clip from Elder Holland’s talk (embedded on the left), “The First Great Commandment.” Then, ask: Why is loving God the first and great...
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Birth/Rebirth: Becoming a LGBT Ally
January to April of 2012 was rough. My co-editor, Aimee, and I were compiling Exponent II’s LGBTQ-themed Spring issue. It was heart-breaking. These stories, more than we could publish, kept me up at...
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Birth/Rebirth: From God, Who Is Our Home
“And by the vision splendid is on [her] way attended; at length the [wo]man perceives it die away, and fade into the light of common day.” William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Five years after the birth of my...
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Birth/Rebirth: My Work/My Glory, Or The Work Of A Midwife
My name is Kayte. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I am a student midwife at the Midwives College of Utah. I began my path to midwifery first under the inspiration of my...
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Relief Society Lesson 4: Strengthening and Preserving the Family
By Amy Cartwright Amy is a blogger for Young Mormon Feminists My childhood was spent watching far too much television. While I would never admit this to my schoolmates, one of my favorite shows was...
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Valentine’s Day: Love and Blood and Water
A version of this essay first appeared at Segullah.org “But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of...
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Voices from the Exponent Backlist: Planning a Child’s Baptism
Last year about this time, I began planning my almost-eight-year-old’s baptism. I’m a huge fan of religious rituals that welcome children into the community–I love a Jewish bar or bat mitzvah, a Roman...
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From the Backlist: Comforting Those that Stand in Need of Comfort
A couple of weeks ago, I was having a down day between my relationship with the Church and Mormon feminism. I vague-booked out to my “Rogue Mormon” Facebook list and quickly after, my bishop and fellow...
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Guest Post: No More Fear-Driven Faith for Me!
We’re delighted to showcase some of Exponent II’s founding mothers and long-time contributors in the upcoming days and weeks. We look to them, those who have seen and weathered periods of apostasy...
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Young Women Lesson: How can I be in the world but not of the world?
Kathy is a writer living with her family in Phoenix, Arizona. INTRODUCE THE DOCTRINE Photo Credit: MartinaK15 Flikr 1. “We should be in the world but not of the world.” The lesson suggests asking the...
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RS Lesson #1: Love the Lord
Chapter 1: The Great Commandment—Love the Lord Click for French Translation/Traduction en français Click for Spanish Translation/Traducción española por Denisse Gómez President Benson defined loving...
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