By Mette Ivie Harrison I had wanted the diagnosis. I had been waiting for it for months. And still, it hit me hard. It rocked my world and my sense of self. In January of 2017, I was given a formal diagnosis of “high-functioning autistic” (though some people still use the term “Asperger’s,” it …
Tag: Heavenly Mother
The Mystical Body of God the Mother
By Edward Jones III Art by Galen Dara The apostle Paul taught that Christ has not only a physical body but also a metaphorical body: the church.1 This metaphorical body has been called Christ’s “mystical body” because the church is more than the sum of its parts, which is a mystery.2 Paul emphasized three important …
SLC 2013 Symposium/ Session 265: The Need For Heavenly Mother in LDS Theology
Rachel Hunt Steenblik, Doe Daughtrey and Chelsi Archibald present their topic on August 1, 2013. [powerpress]
SLC 2013 Symposium/ Session 254: Mother in Heaven Embodied
Nancy Ross, Edward Jones and Karen Smyth present their topic on August 2, 2013. [powerpress]
Heavenly Motherhood: Silences, Disturbances, and Consolations
By Margaret Toscano Or download the audio file here: Heavenly Motherhood: Silences, Disturbances, and Consolations It was many years after I embraced feminism in the 1970s before I felt drawn to the Heavenly Mother, before I felt any emotional connection to even the idea of her. Priesthood first stirred my desire, a desire …
Guest Editor’s Afterword: In Our Prayers and In Our Lives
By Holly Welker One reason Robert A. Rees’s call for a feminist Mormon midrash is so important is that it can help us create a more nourishing, expansive idea of Heavenly Mother. As the essays from Janice Allred and Margaret Toscano make clear, she is presently a source of at least as much discord and …
The One Who Never Left Us
By Janice Allred To what shall we attribute the silence surrounding the Mother in Heaven? Is it the silence of holiness? Is it the silence of fear? Are we awed by the weight of eternity, or do we take sacred things lightly? Do we listen for revelation, or do we disregard it? Can the silence …
The Garment and the Veil
An earlier version of this reflection was published 13 January 2011 on the Exponent blog, www.the-exponent.com, and is reprinted here with permission. With snow-white veil and garments as of flame, She stands before thee, who so long ago Filled thy young heart with passion and the woe From which thy song and all its splendors …