[Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City, Ut.: Signature Books, 1992.]
So, I’m late posting this week’s chapter, “Historic Mormon Feminist Discourse—Excerpts.” Believe it or not, in spite of this chapter’s inordinate length (75 pages when most essays in this book are 15-30), I had it read [...]

I want to pose a hypothetical scenario.
Let us say that a council of Christian leaders convenes for a meeting at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois to discuss the question of Mormonism’s relationship to the historic, orthodox Christian faith and issue a ruling on the matter.1 The Council of Deerfield is attended [...]

(Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part post, and both posts are part of my “Evangelical at BYU” series. How this one fits into the latter series will become apparent in Part 2.)
I penned this journal entry on Friday, March 28, 2003, but it refers to an incident that happened on an airplane on [...]

In the last six weeks, I have written 23,500 words in term papers, essays and exams. I am one exhausted graduate student.
But the good news is, I am done. I’ve completed my second semester of graduate school. Don’t know what my grades will be, but they should all be passing and high enough for credit [...]

[Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City, Ut.: Signature Books, 1992.]
This week is “Empowerment and Mormon Women’s Publications” by Vella Neil Evans. There should be a subtitle for this chapter, and it should say, “How cool the Mormon Relief Society used to be.”
The gist of the chapter [...]

I just turned in a paper related to this topic for one of my classes and I figured that it might be handy to gut my bibliography (with links to online copies of these articles when possible) as a resource for others. If I’ve missed any major published journal articles and book reviews, particularly if [...]

[Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City, Ut.: Signature Books, 1992.]
In the extreme this attitude toward women has led to views such as those in Rodney Turner’s address “Woman and the Priesthood,” delivered at a BYU six-stake fireside in 1966. Turner asserted, “The stewardship of [...]

My ST 5102 (Theology II: Christ, Man, Sin & Salvation) paper is due on Wednesday, May 12 with the final being held the same day. I’m aiming to have my CH 8000 (Christianity in Colonial America) classwork in by Tuesday, May 11—yes, I am quite the slacker for putting it off for this long—and my [...]

[Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City, Ut.: Signature Books, 1992.]
This week we’re covering Chapter 1: “The Mormon Concept of a Mother in Heaven” by Linda P. Wilcox.
Notes

This is a really nice historical overview of the doctrine of Heavenly Mother in Mormon theology. It’s a bit dated due to [...]

Given that there is going to be a discussion at Feminist Mormon Housewives on the first Women & Authority chapter on Heavenly Mother1 sometime in the near future, I think it’s high time I explained why this doctrine just doesn’t appeal to me the way it does to most Mormon feminists. I do have personal [...]