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Mormon Women Get Upper-ity: This Week’s News & Commentary
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Jana Riess
Whew! Lots of Mormon items in the news this week, but here are my three favorite stories from around the Bloggernacle. 1) The intrepid Cynthia L., who had that great BCC post a couple of weeks back raising the issue of why Mormon women don’t pray in General Conference, posted this snippet from the Provo…
Mormon News & Commentary, from General Conference to The Bachelorette
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Jana Riess
Lots of news to report this week. First, hooray for new temples in South Africa, Colombia, and the D.R.C. as well as two in the American West. Apparently the prototype at left is the preferred redesign among my Facebook friends for the Provo Tabernacle/Temple. I think it will play well in Utah County. I confess…
Mormon Women & Equality, In Stereo
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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
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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…
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