Author: Julie M. Smith

RadioWest hosted a discussion about Mormon Women and the Priesthood this week.  It is worth a listen.

I can’t think of anything quite like this video being done before.

Many discussions about women and the priesthood get muddled because they don’t pay attention to the fact that “priesthood” involves multiple doctrines and practices, with different rationales, functions, and histories.  I thought it might be helpful if I separated the strands of priesthood and thought about them separately. 

This collection of essays based on the interviews in the Claremont Oral History collection is well worth reading for anyone who wants a better understanding of modern LDS women.

I saw two examples of church-produced media in recent weeks; one was nearly perfect in every way and the other was . . . the opposite.

Read all about it here.

Me to husband:  “Stake conference this weekend.”

This is one of the teaching outlines from the new youth Sunday School curriculum for February.  I thought I’d share how I plan to teach this lesson.  

Rosalynde here expresses some of the concerns that I have about the methodology of the Wear Pants and GC Prayer efforts.  I want to add a few more thoughts:

So it looks like All Enlisted (the people who brought you “Wear Pants to Church Day”) is now starting a campaign to have a woman pray in General Conference.  It prompted this repost from BCC which references this piece from Rosalynde Welch.  I want to look at just one line from Rosalynde’s essay:

The church has a new website today: Mormonsandgays.org.

Several things I thought were interesting, with no unifying theme:

I suspect that John G. Turner’s Brigham Young:  Pioneer Prophet will be the definitive biography of Brigham Young for the next few decades.  Overall, this is a good thing.