When Mother's Day Sucks
Dreamcatcher Sheila, has been doing a series on her personal blog about what she’s learned from infertility. This essay is a version of one of the Fertility Quest posts. Mother’s Day, May 11th, is...
View ArticleStanding on the Shoulders of Giants: a Mother's Day Talk
by EmilyCC This isn’t a cheery talk. (My husband, Nate: “I think people are going to want to shoot themselves afterwards.”) But, my points in this talk are twofold: we all can mother (Jesus and...
View ArticleMothers Day Gift from Bishopric to Women?
by Chidi Okoye Mothers Day is a hard day for a lot of Mormon women. I myself have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I think it’s refreshing to listen to talks and lessons that actually focus on women....
View ArticleAnnouncement: Submission Request for Fall 2010 Exponent II Issue
Exponent II’s Summer issue is on its way to layout and is slated for publication this June. We’re now looking for personal essays, poetry, book reviews, fiction, art and other writing for upcoming...
View ArticleWomen Validating Women: Celebrating Mother’s Day and Teacher Appreciation Week
I’ve been in a rotten mood this week because I want to know who’s idea it was to make National Teacher Appreciation Week the week before Mother’s Day? In a profession that is dominated by women and in...
View ArticleThe Best Mother’s Day Primary Songs
I was the ward primary chorister for a long time—a very, very long time. A great annual challenge I faced was selecting a song for the children to sing on Mother’s Day. Father’s Day was less difficult....
View ArticleThat Perfect Mother’s Day Gift
Looking for that special gift for Mother’s Day? Habits of Being: Mormon Women’s Material Culture is Exponent II‘s first book published in over 30 years. A variety of Mormon women write about objects...
View ArticleFavorite Exponent posts about Mothers
Here are some of our favorite posts about motherhood in 2011 and 2012: *Guest post by Pandora about being a new empty nester *April blogs about Primary’s best Mother’s Day songs *Spunky writes about...
View ArticleMother’s Day Wars
There is probably not a holiday more volatile for Mormon women than Mother’s Day. While some love the talks and chocolates and pansies, some haven’t been to church on Mother’s Day for years. There are...
View ArticleA New Kind of Mother’s Day
This last Mother’s Day was new to me. In the past few months, we unexpectedly found ourselves in the lucky position of increasing the numbers in our household, with the end goal/hope/prayer to...
View ArticleSacred Music: How Firm a Foundation
It was a few years ago, when I lived an hour’s drive from the nearest church branch (we joked that it was a “twig”), that I started to download and listen to General Conference. It seemed rather...
View ArticleGuest Post: Why I’ll Be Fasting on Mother’s Day
by Aimee In 1870, in the wake of the United States’ bloody Civil War and the start of the Franco-Prussian war, Julia Ward Howe (American abolitionist, suffragist, pacifist, and author of the well-known...
View ArticleAre we living up to Christ’s example of justice for women?
By Danielle Mooney Danielle has lived in Boston since graduating from Wellesley College. She loves her husband, her dog, and soft serve ice cream cones. Within the Gospels, we find stories about the...
View ArticleHeavenly Mothers Day: BYU Heavenly Mother Art Show, May 8, 2015
Guest Post by Katie PayneKatie just graduated with an MFA from Brigham Young University, and is about to move across the continent to start a new adventure with herhusband. She loves art, dill pickle...
View ArticleHeavenly Mother’s Day: Sunrise on a Yearning Female Soul
Guest post by Domestic Philosopher Sunrise on a Yearning Female Soul Cold bears down. I fall upon my knees in prayer. Enduring, hollow winds that fill these my broken bones and empty spaces. I grieve...
View ArticleThat Perfect Mother’s Day Gift
Looking for that special gift for Mother’s Day? Habits of Being: Mormon Women’s Material Culture is Exponent II‘s first book published in over 30 years. A variety of Mormon women write about objects...
View ArticleFavorite Exponent posts about Mothers
Here are some of our favorite posts about motherhood in 2011 and 2012: *Guest post by Pandora about being a new empty nester *April blogs about Primary’s best Mother’s Day songs *Spunky writes about...
View ArticleSacred Music: Eliza R Snow and A Mother There
This image is one that will be in the upcoming EXPONENT II COLORING BOOK (look for it later this year). It is Eliza Roxcy Snow writing her famous hymn: “O My Father”. Eliza had many roles and callings...
View ArticleHeavenly Mother’s Day: Dreaming of the Divine Feminine
Putneypics from Flickr Guest Post by Maxine Hanks My encounter with the divine feminine began in dreams, when I was a teen; yet, a sense of Her was there before, in the love of my mother and the...
View ArticleMother’s Day: What to Say (and Not Say) to Adoptive Mothers
A short time ago I was introduced to my new visiting teacher at a Relief Society activity. This was our first face-to-face meeting, and it shortly became clear that she was unaware that I am a mother...
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