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Mormon Women Get Upper-ity: This Week’s News & Commentary
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Jana Riess
Whew! Lots of Mormon items in the news this week, but here are my three favorite stories from around the Bloggernacle. 1) The intrepid Cynthia L., who had that great BCC post a couple of weeks back raising the issue of why Mormon women don’t pray in General Conference, posted this snippet from the Provo…
Mormon News & Commentary, from General Conference to The Bachelorette
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Jana Riess
Lots of news to report this week. First, hooray for new temples in South Africa, Colombia, and the D.R.C. as well as two in the American West. Apparently the prototype at left is the preferred redesign among my Facebook friends for the Provo Tabernacle/Temple. I think it will play well in Utah County. I confess…
Becoming Gods: What Mormons Won’t Hear in This Weekend’s General Conference
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Jana Riess
This week, the cover story in the Christian Century is one I was asked to write about the “Mormon Moment” in America today, and all the attention given to the LDS faith in the wake of Broadway’s Book of Mormon musical, the presidential runs of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, and the polygamous family of…
Mormon Women Advance through Retreating
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Jana Riess
I’m coming off a weekend high: a fabulous New Hampshire retreat with my peeps, an opportunity to try out scenes from my forthcoming book Flunking Sainthood on a new audience, and a chance to hang out with three of my best friends from the Princeton days, who moved heaven and earth to be there for…
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