Our special series provide a platform for LDS women to share their lived experiences, wisdom, and artistic expression within the context of a specific topic.
If you’d like to suggest a topic or contribute to one of our series, please email us at specialseries@ldswomenproject.com.
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, very few lives have been left undisrupted. Amidst the suffering, Latter-day Saints are unable to worship in the temple and find comfort and revelation there. As we await the end of this public health crisis and the resumption of temple worship, we hope these stories of women's experiences in the temple will provide our readers with hope and inspiration.
Although we frequently hear birth stories and pregnancy stories, rarely do we talk about the tenderness, joy, confusion, pain, completion, gratitude, and seeking that often permeate the end of childbearing. These stories are a generous and vulnerable offering by courageous women sharing how they navigate questions of faith, revelation, cultural expectation, physical challenges, marriage, fertility, mortality and eternity, and choice.
Psalms are poems, songs, chants of the sacred. These psalms are written by LDS women in praise of and gratitude for Jesus Christ.
In this collection of stories, women share their experiences of journeying away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and returning to it again. For some leaving the Church was a simple choice; for some, relationships and life circumstances made it more complicated; some were disfellowshipped or excommunicated. All chose to return. These are their stories, their reasons, their testimonies.