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Where Are All the Mormon Retreats?
By
Jana Riess
Last weekend I talked too much, ate too much, enjoyed much-needed laughs, reconnected with friends, reflected more than usual about my faith, and got (a little) more sleep than usual. I was with a group of about 50 Mormon women at Midwest Pilgrims. As always, it was a marvelous retreat. I first went to Midwest…
Mormon Women & Equality, In Stereo
By
Jana Riess
I recently wrote a spirited blog post about Mormon women. I argued that, contrary to two recent assertions by the LDS hierarchy, Mormon women do not have full equality in the Church (even though these women are, as both speakers hastened to point out, “incredible”). The post sparked some vigorous debate on the blog, which…
Mormon Women Are Men’s Equals, Kind Of Sort Of Maybe
By
Jana Riess
There’s a brilliant piece of Mormon satire up at By Common Consent today — all the more brilliant because judging from the initial comments, few people realized that the author, Kristine Haglund, was being satirical at all. Here is the short text of her piece: My children regularly (at my direction) offer prayers and teach…
What Evangelicals Might Learn from Mormons … and Mormons Should Learn from Rob Bell
By
Jana Riess
Rob Bell is my kind of heretic. His new book Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived has been loudly branded as heresy by fellow evangelicals Mark Driscoll and John Piper. That made me inclined to like it already, as Driscoll in particular has never been…
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