Category: Mother in Heaven

The Brethren Want Us to Shut Up About Heavenly Mother Already, Again

Family / Feminism / Heavenly Mother / Mormon Doctrine / Mother in Heaven / Motherhood / Sex and Gender

March 11, 2022

The Brethren Want Us to Shut Up About Heavenly Mother Already, Again

Discussions are proliferating among liberal Mormons on social media about recent efforts by the Brethren to let the Saints know that they better stop talking about Heavenly Mother, ASAP. Here’s a good early summation...

doctrine / Family / Feminism / Mother in Heaven / Motherhood / Patriarchy / Sex and Gender / Women

August 27, 2014

Deciphering Ballard

M. Russell Ballard begins a talk (given at BYU August 20, 2013) reprinted in the September 2014 Ensign and titled ‘Men and Women in Priesthood Power” with this In what I say, please keep...

Earthly father, invisible mother, sort of like our Heavenly Parents?

Family / Marriage / Mother in Heaven / Motherhood / Parenting / Women

January 30, 2013

Earthly father, invisible mother, sort of like our Heavenly Parents?

There’s a new video on the YouTube Mormon Channel comparing earthly fatherhood to Heavenly Fatherhood, and I generally agree with the sentiments about the importance of fathers, but a few things really bother me....

Mother in Heaven / Sex and Gender / Women

January 20, 2013

Is sweetness next to Goddessliness?

The topic of wet dreams came up with a never-Mormon friend, and I told him, “You’ve just got to check out this ridiculous talk one of the Church leaders gave in the 1970s!” I...

Arts / Feminism / Mother in Heaven / Motherhood / Race / Sunstone

July 5, 2012

SUNSTONE’S Motherhood Issue

This entry is cross-posted at Self-Portrait As. I recently edited issue 166 of SUNSTONE magazine, aka “the motherhood issue.” I am proud and happy to announce that it is SUNSTONE’s most popular and best-selling...