Why LDS Women Will Not Be Ordained to the Priesthood
Over the last year, a small but growing movement within the LDS church has emerged to promote women’s ordination. After the launch of the savvy and visually appealing site ordainwomen.org last March,...
View ArticleJustice and Fairness
It’s been interesting to follow discussions about gender and priesthood during the last several months. One theme lately has caught my attention: the idea that women’s ordination is required for the...
View ArticleOrdaining Women Is Not Going Away for LDS
The issue of women’s ordination in the LDS church is at least in its fourth decade. In the 1970’s, and especially in the 1980’s after the expansion of the priesthood to all worthy males in 1978, LDS...
View ArticleNo More Strangers
One of my most familiar childhood religious memories is waking up at the end of the General Conference broadcast, sprawled full-length on the floor with the marks of the carpet in my cheek. “This has...
View ArticleEmma, My Daughter in Zion: A Preliminary Study of D&C 25, Part 1
This and the post following it (part 2) are pieces I wrote a few years ago as a guest blogger at another Mormon-themed blog. I’ve reworked them a bit, but I’ve largely left them as I originally wrote...
View ArticleEmma, My Daughter in Zion: A Preliminary Study of D&C 25, Part 2
In the preceding post (part 1), I work through a set of exegetical preliminaries to any theological engagement with D&C 25, the revelation to Emma Smith. I take as my task now to begin addressing...
View ArticleJunia The Apostle and Mormonism’s Priesthood
Most Mormons don’t know it yet, but Romans 16:7, “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives who were in prison with me; they are prominent among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was,” may...
View ArticleNo, Mormon Women do not Oppose Female Ordination, and Here’s Why That Matters
When the topic of ordaining Mormon women comes up, one of the most common responses from top Church leadership as well as more orthodox members is that Mormon women are, in an overwhelming majority,...
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