Mormon mystics and managers: The traces of Joseph and Brigham in us
I love the idea that our church had its roots in the spiritual raptures and visions of a mystic. Mystics have a vast spiritual intuition and are truly gifted in working out the tangle of cosmic...
View ArticleSpeaking Confidently of Motherhood Memes
This week some geniuses from the LDS.org meme department published advice to women about how we can better relate with each other. It was in the form of a graphic featuring very young women...
View ArticlePaying the Price For Patriarchy
Firstly to my sisters, and brother allies in arms; You have not wept, cried nor raged alone today. To Kate Kelly: Your pain is our pain. The letter calling you to your religious trial was sent to...
View ArticleThe Importance of Religious Heresy: Recent Contemplations
So lets talk apostasy. It might surprise some people but I’ve actually been accused of apostasy on several occasions and I’m frequently asked to leave the church. Interestingly none of this has come...
View ArticleRoom For All In This Church
We face a difficult and pivotal moment in Mormonism as LDS leaders and church members wrestle more openly with complicated aspects of our faith, its doctrine, and its history—often in spaces afforded...
View ArticleBurying Shirley, Unexcommunicating Kate
My mother-in-law, Shirley, died a week ago. At the same time as we have been processing her death and all that it means to our family, hovering over me has been the shadow of a different kind of death...
View ArticleSaving Zion from America: Theorizing in the aftermath
I’ve been thinking about Zion. I am one of a few fortunate Mormon feminists, I have a bishop and a Stake President who are first and foremost disposed toward love and mercy before judgment and...
View ArticleChurch Leadership and the Dilemma of Dementia
Towards the end of Ezra Taft Benson’s life I recall him being very unwell. I have a lasting image of his being seated in General Conference wide-eyed, bewildered and confused. I thought at the time,...
View ArticleGrowing Bold Mormon Daughters: The Impossibility of Emma Watson and Jacinda...
If I had a daughter I hope she would be Emma Watson. I don’t have any daughters. I have always wanted daughters, but unfortunately I can’t make them and nobody has given me any. This is a shame...
View ArticleThe Temple View Saga: A Podcast
Temple View is a small Mormon village on the outskirts of Hamilton New Zealand and lies at the foot of the temple. The village grew up around both the temple and Church College of New Zealand, a school...
View ArticleWhy Leaving the Church Often Means Leaving God
This guest post is by New Zealander Mike Cammock who is originally from Christchurch. Mike has served a mission in Taiwan, and currently resides in Windsor, Vermont. He and his wife Chris are the...
View ArticleThe 15 Ailments of the LDS Church (With a hat tip to Pope Francis)
While Mormons are asked to, required to, strong armed into ‘sustaining’, not questioning, obeying etc. every male above their own station (including it would seem the invisible worker bees in Church...
View ArticleDigesting the Dehlin Drama: Thoughts in the wake
I’ve spent the last couple of days percolating the latest excommunication drama, waiting for the heavy weight of it on my heart to lighten somewhat. It hasn’t. It was sadly inevitable that John was...
View ArticleMormon Internet Trolls, Cyberbullies and Doxing
I’ve been in the blogging game for three years now. I’m used to trolls and comment preachers who call me to repentance for my wickedly evil ways, blah blah blah. I don’t really mind if they name...
View ArticleFreedom for all, except people who disagree with me
This guest post is by Nicola Ward Petty, a convert from Catholicism, a returned missionary and a former Stake Relief Society President. Nicola and her husband Mark are the parents of two sons and the...
View ArticleThe Foolishness of the Calderwood Excommunications
Last night Marisa and Carson Calderwood were excommunicated at a Church Discipline held at their Maple Valley, Washington stake. Marisa and Carson are cradle Mormons who had done everything they were...
View ArticlePolygamy – It’s in our bones
Ganesh Cherian, a former bishop from Wellington, New Zealand joins KiwiMormon once again as a guest blogger. Any good sculptor will tell you that if you want to replicate the human form you have to...
View ArticleChoosing NOT to Serve a Mission
This guest post is by 21 year old Isaac McCluskey - my son. Raising children to be LDS is always difficult, particularly if they are male. To go on a mission is the epitome, the crowning glory of...
View ArticleThe Letter from the Office of the First Presidency that Never Came
The Office of the First Presidency Somewhere on Temple Square Salt Lake City, Utah USA 19 June 2015 President Everywhere Stake All continents To be read at Sacrament Meetings Worldwide: On the...
View Article50 Shades of Grey: Mormonism’s Accidental Allegory
The truth is we can thank the Mormons for 50 Shades of Grey. Stephanie Meyer’s sexually frustrated adolescent romp that saw her brooding ancient vampire hero hold onto his virtue long enough to...
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