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Call for Essays 2024: Living the Gospel in our Contemporary World LDSWP Editorial Board

As we study the Book of Mormon this coming year, we invite you to share your perspectives as Latter-day Saint women. We hope to share these essays to further enrich our study, understanding, and devotion to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Essay writers may take a wide variety of approaches to explore LDS women’s relationship […]

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    Call for Essays 2024: Living the Gospel in our Contemporary World

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    December 17, 2023
    As we study the Book of Mormon this coming year, we invite you to share your perspectives as Latter-day Saint women. We hope to share ... (Read More)

    Fireside Series: Cherish – The Joy of our Mother in Heaven

    Mormon Women
    April 9, 2023
    “The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother is a cherished and distinctive belief among Latter-day Saints.” – Gospel Topics Essay “Mother in Heaven, The Church of Jesus Christ ... (Read More)

    Fireside Series: Mandy Green On Divine Womanhood

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    March 18, 2023
    Join us for a presentation from and conversation with Mandy Green as she discusses her research on the life and devotion of Mary Magdalene and ... (Read More)

    Call for Essays: Perspectives on the Life and Parables of Christ

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    January 15, 2023
    As we study the New Testament this year, we invite your perspectives as LDS women. We hope to share these essays to further enrich our ... (Read More)

    Fireside Series: The Art of Rose Datoc Dall, The Faces and Figures of Christmas

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    November 29, 2022
    Join us for a conversation with Rose Datoc Dall as she shares some of her artwork depicting Christ, Mary, and other figures of Christmas. To ... (Read More)

    Fireside Series: Psalms in Praise of Christ

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    August 12, 2022
    To coincide with our study of the Psalms and Proverbs in Come, Follow Me, we are hosting a virtual gathering to celebrate Christ through poetry. ... (Read More)

    Special Series: Call for Psalms (2022)

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    July 31, 2022
    We are seeking Psalms. More specifically, poems in praise of Jesus Christ. The poem can be in any style. The poem must not exceed 150 ... (Read More)

    Fireside Series: Dear Divine Daughter

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    July 23, 2022
    Join us on Wednesday, July 27th for a Fireside Conversation with Amber Corkin and Aubri Robinson about their new book, Dear Divine Daughter: Inspiring Stories ... (Read More)

    Call for Essays: Perspectives on the Old Testament

    Mormon Women
    February 4, 2022
    As we study the Old Testament this year, we invite your perspectives as LDS women. We hope to share these essays in order to further ... (Read More)

    Fireside Series: Heavenly Mother

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    December 29, 2021
    LDS doctrine teaches that we are the children of a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother. Who is Heavenly Mother? What do we know about ... (Read More)

    Fireside: Conversation with Melinda Wheelwright Brown

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    November 5, 2021
    Join us on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 for a Fireside Conversation with Melinda Wheelwright Brown. She’ll be discussing her book Eve and Adam: Discovering the ... (Read More)

    Foremothering

    Heather McLaughlin
    July 23, 2021
    I think the word foremother can be a noun or a verb. A noun, as in a mother who is situated before others, and a ... (Read More)

    Pioneering the Vote: A Conversation with Neylan McBaine

    Mormon Women
    July 17, 2021
    Neylan McBaine is the author of multiple books including Women at Church and most recently, Pioneering the Vote. Neylan will be discussing Pioneering the Vote ... (Read More)

    Collaboration with Refugios Fuertes

    LDSWP Editorial Board
    June 21, 2021
    In 1996, statistics for Church membership indicated that there are now more Latter-day Saints outside the United States than within it. The next milestone in ... (Read More)

    Atonement: Women of the Easter Story

    Rosemary Demos
    April 2, 2021
    Almost two thousand years ago, Jesus met with his disciples in an upper room. There, he broke bread and poured wine for his friends, sharing ... (Read More)

    Season of Change: The LDS Women Project

    Mormon Women
    February 25, 2021
    As the Mormon Women Project enters into its twelfth year, we find ourselves in a season of change. This brings new challenges and excitement. Most ... (Read More)

    A New Dawn of Cooperative Ministry

    Neylan McBaine
    April 4, 2018
    It’s no secret that last weekend’s general conference opened up new possibilities for cooperation between men and women in church administration. The two major administrative ... (Read More)

    A Plea to Our Prophet

    Elizabeth Ostler
    April 3, 2018
    Twice, I stood in my Brooklyn apartment, during the Saturday morning session of conference, to sustain Russell M. Nelson as Prophet, Seer and Revelator (and ... (Read More)

    Equality is not the End

    Meredith Nelson
    April 4, 2017
    Every talk touched me this conference. There isn’t one I would have done away with. In the wake of many flurried conversations over there being ... (Read More)

    Book Review: The Witness of Women

    Meredith Nelson
    January 7, 2017
    Janiece Johnson and Jennifer Reeder. The Witness of Women. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016. Thousands of stories in delicate pointillism convey the grand picture ... (Read More)

    The Morning After the Miracle

    Meredith Nelson
    December 23, 2016
    Several months ago I gave birth to my second child. This Christmas as we celebrate the birth of Christ, I find myself contemplating not just ... (Read More)

    Book Review: Our Heavenly Family, Our Earthly Families

    Meredith Nelson
    August 15, 2016
    McArthur Krishna, Bethany Brady Spalding, and Caitlin Connolly. Our Heavenly Family, Our Earthly Families. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016. To be published August 22, ... (Read More)

    Women in the Scriptures Jeopardy!

    Neylan McBaine
    May 25, 2016
    How well do the women of your Relief Society know the women of the scriptures? One ward in Sandy, Utah recently found out during a ... (Read More)

    What My Son Heard on Mother’s Day

    Meredith Nelson
    May 9, 2016
    I’ve lived now through thirty Mother’s Day sacrament meetings. When I was a child, I loved these meetings because I got to walk up to ... (Read More)

    Welcome to the new Mormon Women Project!

    Neylan McBaine
    May 6, 2016
    This morning, the editorial board of the Mormon Women Project said goodbye to the trusty site that has gotten us through our organization’s first six ... (Read More)

    WATCH: Girls Who Choose God: A Live Interview Broadcast

    Elizabeth Ostler
    October 21, 2015
    We had a wonderful conversation. You can watch the video below or on YouTube. Please join us as we speak with Bethany Brady Spalding and McArthur ... (Read More)

    Choosing God in the Americas

    Elizabeth Ostler
    October 18, 2015
    A book review by Elizabeth Ostler. My personal scripture study over the past year has consisted of reading all of the conference talks given by women ... (Read More)

    General Conference: Feasting on the Words of Women

    Elizabeth Ostler
    April 3, 2015
    By Elizabeth Ostler Last general conference I decided, as my personal scripture study, to read all of the conference talks given by women since 1971. I ... (Read More)

    1980

    Elizabeth Ostler
    November 15, 2014
    Do you remember 1980? A quick Google search revealed that in 1980, affluent men were asking each other for Grey Poupon, prime-time television was asking who ... (Read More)

    Your Part in the Process of Change

    Meredith Nelson
    November 5, 2014
    Last week the Church announced that the General Women’s Meeting will now be called an official “session” of Conference. We had earlier discussed the significance ... (Read More)

    Emulating Millennials

    Elizabeth Ostler
    October 30, 2014
    Gospel Doctrine lesson #40: Enlarge the Place of They Tent encourages Church members to find ways to strengthen their wards and stakes in preparation for the second ... (Read More)

    Lifting Together

    Meredith Nelson
    October 23, 2014
    Elder Wong, in this last General Conference, shared the New Testament story of the man stricken with palsy, who was borne on the shoulders of ... (Read More)

    Individual Worth

    Elizabeth Ostler
    October 15, 2014
    Empowerment can be a divisive word. It is often assumed that in order for an individual to be empowered that someone else has to be ... (Read More)

    The Decisions Made By Women of This Generation

    Meredith Nelson
    October 8, 2014
    Elder L. Tom Perry’s talk in this most recent conference focused on the need to center our families on the teachings of the Savior, to ... (Read More)

    What’s the Big Deal?

    Elizabeth Ostler
    October 1, 2014
    Commentary on Saturday’s General Women’s Meeting has flooded the bloggernacle. Like many others, our Editor-in-Chief, Neylan McBaine shared on her blog some of the things ... (Read More)

    Does Diversity Mean Disunity?

    Meredith Nelson
    September 24, 2014
    This past week the Mormon Channel released a video that has sparked a boiling flood of conversation on Facebook and many LDS blogs. Many women ... (Read More)

    Truth Seekers

    Elizabeth Ostler
    September 17, 2014
    Our mission as Mormons is not solely to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ; it is also to be seekers of truth. Joseph Smith’s seeking ... (Read More)

    To Prove My Love Before I Prove My Point

    Meredith Nelson
    September 10, 2014
    Emotions run raw around gender matters in the church. Some feel all is well in Zion, and accuse those who urge change of being presumptuous ... (Read More)

    Our Stories

    Elizabeth Ostler
    September 3, 2014
    The desire to provide a place for people to share their stories of gender dynamics in the church and what steps they are taking to ... (Read More)

    Sharing the Load in Gospel Doctrine

    Mormon Women
    August 29, 2014
    Women At Church stories are submitted by church members and shared anonymously. One thing I love about our ward is that (at least during the ... (Read More)

    My Sphere of Influence

    Elizabeth Ostler
    August 27, 2014
    We each have the most power for good within our closest sphere of influence. The people whom we impact most profoundly are those who associate ... (Read More)

    My Sisters’ Keeper

    Meredith Nelson
    August 13, 2014
    It can be easy for any of us to dismiss another person’s experiences. Perhaps our own experience has been vastly different from hers, or we ... (Read More)

    Cooperatively Minister

    Elizabeth Ostler
    August 6, 2014
    The Nephites, after being administered to by Jesus Christ, “taught, and did minister one to another; and they had all things common among them, every ... (Read More)

    Pioneering at Church

    Elizabeth Ostler
    July 24, 2014
    Today, we honor the sacrifices made by the early Mormon pioneers. They had the faith, courage and perseverance to leave all that they knew to ... (Read More)
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