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Authority, Scripture, and Social Location
By Margaret Olsen Hemming Over the last couple of years, I’ve described The Book of Mormon For the Least of These to lots of people. “It’s basically a social justice readers guide to the Book of...
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Book Review: Antelope Woman
“They dance together in a line, murmuring in swift, low voices, smiling carefully as they are too proud to give away their beauty. They are light steppers with a gravity of sure grace.” Antelope...
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Mother’s Day for Me & Those Not Like Me
By Sara Katherine Staheli Hanks Over the past few years, I’ve thought a lot about how I’m exactly the sort of woman that Mormonism is supposed to work for. I have pretty much every kind of privilege a...
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Book Review: Becoming Cliterate
I’ll start with saying this book is not my style, but that definitely doesn’t mean I don’t recommend it. I don’t care for her chirpy prose and thought the book read a lot like the internet courses I...
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Book Review: The Holy Invitation
This booklet (it’s small and very short- easy to get through in a day) was okay. I expected to not like it, so “okay” might be a glowing endorsement. The “Meh” The book didn’t solve my issues with the...
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Book Review: Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats
There are pithy, erudite things a reviewer could say to impress a reader regarding one’s grasp of literary devices. It makes for a pretentious, boring review though. Suffice it to say, Peck...
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That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith & Family
Things I loved about this book: Tom Christofferson’s recognition that his path is not the path for everyone, and this book should not be held up as the “one right way” to be a gay Mormon. I loved Tom’s...
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Tears We Cannot Stop – Book Review
Alright, folks! I have never really done a book review, and so I’m not confident that I will do a good job doing this book justice. But it is a book, I feel all white folks should read, even more all...
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Spiritual DNA and Thinking Errors
I’m reading “Why Therapy Works, Using Our Minds, to Change Our Brains” by Louis Cozolino for a class I’m taking. One section talks about genotype (the set of genes that make up our DNA ) and phenotype...
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Book Review: Worth The Wrestle
I was sent an advance copy of Worth The Wrestle by Sheri Dew to review. The book is not a long book- I read through it in a couple of sittings. The artwork is by James C. Christensen, who recently...
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Book Review: The Assertiveness Guide for Women, By Dr. Julie de Azevedo Hanks
Often, in the name of being “nice” we drift into passive aggressive territory. Perhaps it becomes so natural to us that we don’t even notice we’re doing it. I read this book a few months ago and...
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Mormon Girls and Sex
As part of my training to become a clinical social worker, I’ve been reading about sexuality. It comes up a lot in working with couples, and quite often with individuals. One of the biggest things...
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Review: “Out of Sorts” by Sarah Bessey
I just read Sarah Bessey’s latest book, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith. It’s a beautiful work, complex and sincere and able to tap into a wide number of concerns with great honesty....
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The Fetishization of Motherhood
by Kathryn Phillips Often when I talk to people about my current art project which focuses on exploring visual representations of the fetishization of motherhood they get tripped up on the word fetish....
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Book Review/Round Table Discussion: Planted
Deseret Book occasionally hosts round table discussions with the author of books they have published in order to help publicize. This morning I met with bloggers and journalists to discuss the book...
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...Forgiveness is a gift from thee, we seek with pure intent… On Sunday afternoon, I had one of those sweet, peaceful feelings during Sacrament meeting. The kind that reminds me of the goodness and...
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Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon
By Bethany Brady Spalding For three years, I have had an on-going war waging inside my head: public school or home school for my three young daughters? Our neighborhood public school is a lovely place....
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Fifty Shades of Grey Does Not Depict a Healthy BDSM Relationship: No Shit,...
I keep seeing these posts about how Fifty Shades of Grey is giving BDSM a bad name…how it’s not accurately depicting a healthy BDSM relationship. To all the critics who are of this opinion, I offer...
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A (Feminist) Guide to the Gospels
By Julie M. Smith Admin’s note: fMh is delighted to congratulate Julie M. Smith on the second edition of her work Search, Ponder and Pray: A Guide to the Gospels. As an owner of her first edition, I...
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The Crucible of Doubt
I attended a round table discussion with Fiona and Terryl Givens last week, about their book, The Crucible of Doubt. Terryl explained the idea behind the book, that it came to be because a close family...
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