Category: motherhood

May 13, 2013

Truth Eternal Tells Me I’ve a Mother There

From our Separating Culture from Doctrine series, an ongoing series addressing ...

May 12, 2013

The Power of Mothers and Babies

When I was a little girl I just knew that I ...

May 12, 2013

Mother’s Day Epiphanies

Even though Mother's Day comes every year, and some mothers have ...

May 11, 2013

What Would Marjorie Do?

Published long ago in a galaxy far, far away... A week or ...

May 10, 2013

Becoming Mother

This guest essay by Mary C. Stelter was submitted for our series on ...

May 9, 2013

Relating To God and All People

One of the most often-quoted scriptures in the Church is Moses ...

May 9, 2013

How Do We Show Mothers Their Value?

Potted flowers and chocolate are popular gifts given to women on ...

May 8, 2013

Other Mothers

The sacred calling of mother is conferred upon women by both ...

May 7, 2013

Learning to Be Okay With (and Maybe Love) Mother’s Day

"I hate Mother's Day." I did not say this, but I have ...

May 7, 2013

What’s A Slacker Mom To Do?

Someone, I won't name any names, submitted this question which is ...

May 7, 2013

The Mother Well

Our friend and frequent guest author Stephanie Dibb Sorensen joins us ...

May 6, 2013

The Gift of Giving Life

For the next week we are sharing essays on motherhood in ...

May 4, 2013

Adult Parenting

My oldest daughter graduates from high school in less than a ...

April 18, 2013

We Are Daughters of Influence

When our children were young, we used to play a made-up ...

April 5, 2013

Family is the Plan of Salvation

This is the fifth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One.  Understanding that Satan's ...

April 5, 2013

Sex as a Sacrament

This is the fourth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One.  The gospel of ...

March 25, 2013

The Unequal Burden of Women

Economic disparity between men and women has been well-documented.  Equal pay ...

March 22, 2013

Is College Education for Naught When You Just Stay Home?

A while ago I was talking to a BYU student in ...

March 19, 2013

A House of Learning

... Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; ...

March 18, 2013

The Highest Education We Can Achieve

This is the first in a mini-series on education running this ...

March 15, 2013

Covenant Motherhood: A Review

Our friend Stephanie has written a beautiful, accessible treatise on the ...

March 8, 2013

An Interview with the Author of “Covenant Motherhood”

Today we're publishing an interview with author Stephanie Dibb Sorensen, whose ...

March 7, 2013

Modesty & Breastfeeding

Like many Mormons I grew up in a very modesty-minded family. ...

March 7, 2013

Divine Motherhood, Earthly Realities

If you've ever been in a class of 9-year-old people reading ...

March 6, 2013

Enough with the Finger Pointing, Let Me Love My Kids!

This is a post from Jen's personal blog, June 2012 that ...

February 28, 2013

Part 4: Why Does a Word Matter?

This essay is the fourth in a series about Gay Marriage and ...

February 23, 2013

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is from Melissa Horsley.  The ...

February 22, 2013

Understanding Schizophrenia

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is written by Judy ...

February 21, 2013

Understanding Bipolar II Disorder

This essay in the Peculiar Minds series is by Tresa Edmunds, ...

February 17, 2013

Understanding Asperger’s

Today's guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Kathy ...

February 17, 2013

The Diagnosis

This guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series, is anonymous. I'm sitting ...

February 11, 2013

What Will I Regret?

When I heard President Uchtdorf's talk in October, I liked it. ...

February 7, 2013

Gospel Protection in a Poisonous Culture

I came to conference this time hoping for real answers to ...

January 10, 2013

Why I Think We’re Having the Wrong Conversation

Last year Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project, rocked ...

January 3, 2013

A Stream of Testimony

As the old year ends and the new begins, the editors ...

December 6, 2012

Forgetting What It Means To Be a Kid

There was a television show a few years back entitled Kids ...

November 29, 2012

Motherhood – Service of the Highest Order

The most service I ever do is my day in and ...

November 26, 2012

Bearing the Vessels of the Lord

In our recent stake conference, Elder Dallin H. Oaks concluded his ...

October 27, 2012

Our Matriarch

My maternal grandmother is 90 years old. She has been a ...

October 23, 2012

Does God Need Me?

I sat doubled over in the temple dressing room stall sobbing ...

October 22, 2012

Venus & Mars and the Empty Bucket

I can never remember if I’m from Mars or my wife ...

October 13, 2012

In Elder Oaks’ Office

Fifteen years ago my father-in-law was called to be a mission ...

September 29, 2012

Helping the World

I never feel I can do much for the world. I ...

September 28, 2012

The Simple Pleasures of Home

His hand grips the glass of cool, creamy milk. ...

September 20, 2012

On Parental Controls

First, my credentials:  I’ve been a parent for over 31 years, ...

September 19, 2012

Letting Go

I am a quitter. Over the course of my life, I have ...

September 16, 2012

A Summer Cottage in Babylon

Merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along... Yup, that was me ...