#mofem

[cuteculturechick]

My favorite part of Midwest Pilgrims: the Sunday service with visual aids from crafty Mormon kitsch of the past #midwestpilgrims #mofem #mormonkitsch (at Waycross Camp and Conference Center)

[somethignpoetsomethingsomething]

Since we've been told not to pray to Heavenly Mother...

[j-the-latter-gay-saint]

Given the buzz about John Dehlin facing excommunication, I'd like to take the opportunity to remind or inform people that all disciplinary action in the LDS (Mormon) church--excommunication, disfellowshipment, etc.--happens on a local level. The church leaders in Salt Lake City don't pass down any edicts telling local leaders "yo this guy's talkin' whack y'all gotta do somethin'."

[feministmormonhousewives]

[feministmormonhousewives]

Don’t be scared, trust yourself, lean into the pain. Believe your pain matters. It’s the most important thing of all. It’s the lesson our Heavenly Parents sent us here to learn. Because until we believe our pain matters, we do not believe that we matter. And until I beleive that I matter, I can not love myself, and I can’t truly love anyone else.

fMh Lisa writes about the Power of Pain.

[bigeyedbibliophile]

I could not have said it better myself. Blog post here.This Ordain Women crap is getting out of hand.

[feministmormonhousewives]

“He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem ” Outwitted” ― Edwin Markham

[riotofpassage-blog]

so I'm not here to make a point about gender politics per se, more coming from a religious point of view more than anything else, but I've noticed since Ordain Women started that a lot of people get nervous and say that it is leading to people leaving the church. I can say from an insider perspective that I have seen OW give so many disaffected Mormons a feeling of having a place in the church. It's been astounding and really inspiring to me, it looks a lot like a widening of our stakes for a bigger tent which I think we can all agree is a great thing. Like dang I have so many friends who I was always feeling really sad that they weren't as much a part of my community anymore because they just weren't feeling Mormonism but now that they're being called upon to talk about why they support OW they are also bearing their testimonies in this really public and powerful way and it's been so awesome for me to hear and read and I think it really gives people a chance to find their spiritual truth where they may have felt adrift. 

While I've watched (within the past year) many Mormons feel like they have a renewed religious identity in OW, on the other hand I think things like the Proclamation and the state of gender politics drive so many people away. I know this is hard to think about because we want to sustain our leaders in their capacity for revelation which makes a top-down approach to change in the church seem much more divinely mandated or whatever, but I guess in seeing the way conservative gender politics vs. OW helps the gospel and the church work in peoples' lives keeps me coming back to this scripture, in Moroni chapter 7: "Every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God." 

I guess I just see the love people want to have for God really being blocked by regressive politics of the church and really being enabled by Ordain Women. Of course I have a limited view because of the cultural circles I've been occupying, but I'm trying to know this movement by its fruits and I'm seeing OW be fruitful in a really powerful way.