This workshop will feature a sermon followed by a group discussion session aimed at tackling the contours of the faith journey, its inevitable transitions, and the dynamics of healing. Lisa Butterworth, Fatimah S. Salleh
Speaker: LISA BUTTERWORTH
Around The Table: Increasing Unity And Community Among Mormon Women
How can Mormon women who care about gender issues transcend cultural tensions that hamper positive change? In January 2011, The Round Table launched a conversation about Mormon women’s identity among representatives of various organizations. In their panel presentation, participants will highlight the tangible and intangible products of their separate and combined projects and discuss what …
Mormons And Maternal Culture
Motherhood and homemaking receive a lot of lip service within Mormon culture, but when women use the internet (and other venues) to descant on their lived experience with this noble calling, people do not hesitate to ridicule domestic minutiae, sneer at discussions of poop, and condescend to crafters. This reaction to the nuts-and-bolts of child-rearing …
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Can Mormons talk, write, and read candidly and nabashedly about sex? Is there a Mormon literature open to appreciation of sensuality in the daily living of a rich and fulfilling existence? Can the erotic be accommodated in the weave and texture of LDS understanding, culture, and theology, while maintaining a recognizably essential Mormon core? This …
SL10333: The Role of Feministmormonhousewives.org in the Maturing of Mormon Feminism
The Salt Lake Tribune religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack asked, “Where have the Mormon feminists gone?” The answer came back: to the Internet. But does online feminism translate into change in the real world? What strides have we made, and how far do we still have to go? Is discussing gender concerns in a public …
SL10373: Men and the Priesthood: Taking on the Feminine
Some feminists insist that they want equality in the priesthood while others just want to have a say in their culture. Before we brand an all-male priesthood as inherently bad, let’s step back and take a second look at some possible positive aspects of an all-male priesthood—as well as some of the drawbacks of such …
SL09174 Panel: Counting to Infinity: How Blogging Helps Process the Travails and Triumphs of Motherhood [Partial]
The term “Mommy Blog” has been used to define as well as cordon off writing about motherhood from “serious” blogging. Nonetheless, blogs about mothering flourish as an online medium where women write about, process, and compare notes on the experiences, challenges, and joys of mothering. Why has this focus in blogging taken off and kept …
SL09275 Panel: Bridging Stereotypes Through Blogging
Picture a Mormon woman. Many specific traits come to mind, some profound, some superficial. Even if many of the stereotypical traits fit, they don’t fit everyone, and sometimes they fit in unexpected ways. Blogging helps to break down stereotypes because superficial barriers like age, race, economic class, and geographic location are stripped away, and people …
HOW EFFECTIVELY DOES THE ‘BLOGGERNACLE’ REPRESENT MORMONISM?
HOW EFFECTIVELY DOES THE ‘BLOGGERNACLE’ REPRESENT MORMONISM? Recent years have seen massive growth in the community of LDS blogs, often called the “bloggernacle.” These blogs draw thousands of readers and offer many potential benefits, from real-time, interactive analyses of current events to interviews with scholars and celebrities. Media outlets from the Salt Lake Tribune to …