By Jana on Jan 5, 2008 in Ordinances, Women's Issues | 45 Comments
Today my family attended a Bat Mitzvah service in a reconstructionist congregation. Before the service began, the rabbi explained that the prayers in the service were amended from the traditional ones to be gender inclusive. Also, when a prayer offered a blessing on the Jewish people, a clause was added to extend the […]
By Jana on Nov 12, 2007 in Dissent, Ordinances, Ritual, Women's Issues | 48 Comments
Just spied this article about two more women who were ordained as Catholic priests. They are being threatened with excommunication for their heretical activities.
My question:
Does anyone know of any groups/movements within Mormonism that’ve tried ordaining women to the priesthood? If there are such groups and there was any public demonstration of such (as […]
By Elise Eggett Johnson on Jan 20, 2007 in Faith, Ordinances, Ritual, Rotation, Spirituality | 7 Comments
Our Orange County Mormon Studies Group got together on Wednesday and discussed our views and experiences about the sacrament. We talked a bit about doctrines and read 1 Corinthians 11:24-34. We also talked about the culture of the LDS sacrament. Kids who are so loud that their parents (and pew neighbors) miss the entire event; […]
By Stephen Carter on Oct 22, 2006 in Family History, Humor, Ordinances | 6 Comments
The theme for today’s sacrament meeting was family history. It was better than I had expected. Instead of a run of guilt trips describing our poor ancestors languishing in spiritual prison while we fritter our time away doing hometeaching and member missionary work, going to the temple, laying away our food storage, spending quality time […]
By John Remy on Oct 17, 2006 in Ordinances, Ritual, Rotation, Sunstone, Women's Issues | 30 Comments
Mormons have a abundant ritual life. Some observers of Mormonism say that it lacks a ritual richness outside of the temple (especially when compared to traditions like Catholicism or Islam), but I think that it does. In addition to the sacrament, there is the ritualistic recitation of testimonies on Sunday, closing each affirmation […]
By Stephen Carter on Sep 7, 2006 in Humor, Ordinances | 13 Comments
McKye was excited to go to Utah. He was excited about the post-baptism party, complete with pizza, Doritos and a piñata. He put on his white shirt, his Sunday pants, his new tie. We drove to the church.
Then dislodged him from his seat with the aid of a crow bar.
By Stephen Carter on Aug 27, 2006 in Ordinances, Rotation, Sunstone | 11 Comments
Forgive me if this is too personal.
I’m supposed to baptize my son on Saturday.
Those bored people who have followed my brief career as a fabulously overpaid writer of essays and blog posts probably know that much of my writing time is spent trying to figure out why my relationship with the Church seems to much […]
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