“Wear Pants to Church” Sunday Brings Attention to Women’s Issues At a time when LDS leaders affirm that God created men and women with “complementary relationships and functions” (Ensign, Oct 2004, 84), a new wave of Mormon feminists seem ready to challenge LDS traditions and policies that they interpret as signs of institutional inequality. …
Category: Issue 170
Suffrage: A Play
By Jenifer Nii Suffrage was commissioned by Plan-B Theatre Company (Salt Lake City, Utah) and receives its world premiere 4–14 April 2013, directed by Cheryl Cluff and featuring April Fossen as Frances and Sarah Young as Ruth. Visit planbtheatre.org for details. Jenifer Nii has previously premiered her plays Wallace and The Scarlet Letter at Plan-B. …
Passive-aggression among the Latter-day Saints
By Michael J. Stevens I HAVE BEEN teaching higher education courses in organizational behavior, leadership, and group psychology for nearly 20 years, and the topic of conflict resolution has been a common theme in most classes I teach. As a way of introducing the topic, I often use a self-assessment exercise called the “Behavior Description …
Roundtable: God Does Not Do “Small Talk”
By Fiona Givens, Joanna Brooks, Jana Riess, and Dan Wotherspoon This is an excerpt from the Mormon Matters podcast, “A Beautiful Vision of Mormonism”—a conversation about the richness of Mormon theology prompted by the release of, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life, written by Terryl and Fiona Givens (Deseret Book, 2012). …
People
Supportive. First Presidency Counselor DIETER F. UCHTDORF, 72, of a plan that would create a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. After an 8 March meeting with Barack Obama and 13 other faith leaders, Pres. Uchtdorf, an immigrant himself (albeit documented), said that Obama’s outline for immigration reform “was …
Singer and Saint: An Interview with Jeevan Sidhu
By James Goldberg Although best known for his work in the very modern medium of Bollywood film, Jeevan Sidhu is also a poet with a deep and abiding investment in his culture’s literary past. He has worked as a playback singer on films such as Pardes, Veer/Zaara, Dil Se, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, and …
Sharing Vulnerability after a Change in Beliefs
By Adam Fisher and Mary Fisher Or, right-click here to download the audio file: Sharing Vulnerability after a Change in Belief In this life the heart is going to be injured.1 Robert Hass ROBERT FROST ONCE said that love is an “irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”2 Psychologist Kent Hoffman added …
The Family Forum: Changing the Family System
By Michael Farnworth Changing an established family system is a difficult thing to do: the system is hidden and has an energy of its own that resists control; it has set up safeguards to defend and maintain itself against change. This is true of all systems—social, political, and corporate. Not even the Church’s organization is …
ECG: Poetry
By Charles Sabukewicz Many years he lived with a whisper in his blood, a cloudy, troubling hiss in the knocking in his chest. Waiting for sleep he’d listen to his heart repeat “I am” with heroic imperfection, a lisp in a scarred valve. Now he’s apprehensive of fault lines on a graph, an instrument …
Clothespins: Poetry
By Jacqueline de Weever Wash-day once commanded these after heavy suds had massaged the clothes. Heaped in the wicker basket, they yield to the curtain’s shadows coloring them honey, grey, pale lavender. Who can guess the power of their clip when the wind grabbed shirts by the cuffs made them wiggle their tails, …