Bushman, delicious, author of contemporary Mormonism "The warm, delicate and strong poems in Mother’s Milk moved and delighted me. Using her own experience and revelation as well as her wide research, a woman not unlike our own mothers, Rachel recreates the Heavenly Mother many dream of knowing, one who shares our own experience of motherhood.
Claudia L. Praise for mother's milk “in these brief and moving poems, Rachel Hunt Steenblik recalls and reimagines the relationship between the daughters of God and their hidden and distant mother. I am so proud that this book will teach the world what Mormon women know—perhaps uniquely—about God. Joanna brooks, author of Book of Mormon Girl.
Boldly pulling back the curtain of patriarchy to show that “God” is not a boy’s name and that we have never lived in a one-parent family, Rachel reminds us that our Mother has never ceased to nourish and love us. Carol lynn pearson, author of mother wove the morning, and The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy “Rachel Hunt Steenblik is Mormonism's most essential and necessary poet since Carol Lynn Pearson.
But rachel, oh honey, so plainly, so truthfully, few of us do it so openly, so well.
The Book of Laman
Nephi is sometimes an annoying brat, but he is also a real prophet who sees and speaks for the Lord. From the forwardthe central conceit of the Book of Laman—telling the story of 1 Nephi from Laman’s perspective—seems like a perfect device for a funny book. Indeed, bob lewis used it precisely this way in his satirical 1997 novel, The Lost Plates of Laman.
. It does not try to be funny. And in some of the book’s very best scenes, he is touched unexpectedly by grace and God. Harrison’s characters are the sorts of people who might actually have existed in history. And this is important, as it corrects for a reading bias that plagues Latter-day Saints. Laman is neither a comic book villain nor a long-suffering ironist.
He is a flawed human being struggling to live well and usually coming up short. The characters are not simply reversed.
The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
Drawing on a large-scale national study of four generations of current and former Mormons as well as dozens of in-depth personal interviews, Riess explores the religious beliefs and behaviors of young adult Mormons, finding that while their levels of belief remain strong, their institutional loyalties are less certain than their parents' and grandparents'.
Mormon families are changing too. For a growing number of millennials, the tensions between the Church's conservative ideals and their generation's commitment to individualism and pluralism prove too high, causing them to leave the faith-often experiencing deep personal anguish in the process. More mormons are remaining single, parents are having fewer children, and more women are working outside the home than a generation ago.
The next mormons offers a portrait of a generation navigating between traditional religion and a rapidly changing culture. Those who remain within the fold are attempting to carefully balance the Church's strong emphasis on the traditional family with their generation's more inclusive definition that celebrates same-sex couples and women's equality.
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Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry
Not only is it a work of fine art, a carefully arranged series of poems that the poets have used their finest skill and training to create, a work of inspiration, but it is a work of history, and a sacred record of many individuals’ spiritual quest for additional revealed knowledge about Mother in Heaven.
Susan elizabeth howe“this anthology is a shattering summary of poetic revelation, feminist theology, and Mormon history about our Mother God. Over seventy poets speak across time from 1844-2017, describing their visions and yearnings for the divine feminine, like soul mates through the veil. We listened so hard at the edges of the conversation to hear anything—any detail, any dropped syllable.
Like holy scribes, these poets persist, wondering and writing in the wilderness, seeking a promised land where God is home. Maxine Hanks. Phelps, Eliza R. But thanks to the work of the visionary writers and editors who crafted DOVE SONG the Mormon concept of a Heavenly Mother now has so much presence! So many words! May we never lose her again.
The New Testament: A New Translation for Latter-day Saints
New and extensive notes provide alternate translations, commentary upon variant manuscript traditions, and historical insights. The original structure of the New Testament is restored and highlights features such as quotations, hymns, and poetic passages. This translation is readable and accessible for a wider range of readers than the King James Version.
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Third Wheel: Peculiar Stories of Mormon Women in Love
The Burning Point: A Memoir of Addiction, Destruction, Love, Parenting, Survival, and Hope
The burning point will be available from By Common Consent Press on July 1, 2017. Some days took years and were times of transition where we thought we might die, and some years were full of euphoria or rushing release. Sometimes things were just hard. Of what? what if i can’t do it? what if you can? when the call came, when the letter arrived, when the sunlight finally fell on your face—the struggle fell away, and you only remembered the beauty.
Yes, I am. Every day we brought forth our future, every choice we made determined what raw materials would be in the hands of tomorrow. Sometimes, you had to wait for a long time for the sun to rise. It was like childbirth, but constantly, for your whole life.
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
No such opportunity is available to women. Gregory prince says of the ghost of eternal polygamy: “carol Lynn Pearson has hit a home run in her quest to illuminate both the damage that Mormonism’s de facto practice of polygamy continues to inflict, and the route to a better, more humane place. Through her own personal stories, inflicting profound pain and fear, assuring women that they are still objects, harming or destroying marriages, but also haunts the living—hiding in the recesses of the Mormon psyche, bringing chaos to family relationships, those of her ancestors, and the thousands of stories that came to her through an Internet survey, Pearson shows the power of the Ghost of Eternal Polygamy as it not only waits on the other side to greet the most righteous in heaven, leading many to lose faith in the church and in God.
However, polygamy itself has never been excommunicated, Pearson claims, but has an honored and protected place at the table. We gave that up long ago. Not so, claims noted lds poet and author Carol Lynn Pearson, who examines the issue as it has never been examined before. Polygamy?” says the mainstream Mormon Church.
Those who truly hope for eternal polygamy or who resent any call to institutional reform will be upset, but countless others will rejoice that she has shown ‘a more excellent way.
The Sun Has Burned My Skin: A Modest Paraphrase of Solomon's Song of Songs
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
. Laurel thatcher ulrich, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.
From the Hardcover edition. From the author of a midwife's tale, nuanced, winner of the pulitzer prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, drive, and determination.
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Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings
Collecting essays, push for progress and change in the contemporary LDS Church, and prose, Mormon Feminism presents the diverse voices of Mormon women as they challenge assumptions and stereotypes, poems, speeches, and band together with other feminists of faith hoping to build a better world. This groundbreaking collection gathers together for the first time the essential writings of the contemporary Mormon feminist movement--from its historic beginnings in the 1970s to its vibrant present, offering the best Mormon feminist thought and writing.
No issue in mormonism has made more headlines than the faith's distinctive approach to sex and gender. From its polygamous nineteenth-century past to its twentieth-century stand against the Equal Rights Amendment and its twenty-first-century fight against same-sex marriage, roles, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints LDS has consistently positioned itself on the frontlines of battles over gender-related identities, and rights.
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