Tag: Heavenly Mother

  • Book Review: Shall I Have Pleasure?: An Answer for Sarah

    Book Review: Shall I Have Pleasure?: An Answer for Sarah

    Within a religious context, “pleasure” is a complicated sensation. Author Zachary McLeod Hutchins intellectually, artfully, and faithfully weaves the concept(s) of pleasure from that which is forbidden to that which is righteously fulfilling, beautiful, and good. It seems that the ironic is a place where Hutchins is comfortably positioned: as a professor trained in the

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  • Covenant Travelers: A Journey to Our Heavenly Parents

    Covenant Travelers: A Journey to Our Heavenly Parents

    “We are, all of us, travelers on a journey with a divine trajectory toward our heavenly home and heavenly parents. You and I are covenant travelers!” -Tamara Runia Tamara Runia served as first counselor in the General Young Women Presidency. This quote is from a talk given at the 2024 BYU Women’s Conference, “We Are

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  • Celebrating Heavenly Mother: A Reflection on Women’s Identity

    Celebrating Heavenly Mother: A Reflection on Women’s Identity

    “Women are created in the image of Heavenly Mother. President Spencer W. Kimball instructed a group of women, ‘You are daughters of God. You are made in the image of our heavenly mother.’ (Conference Report, Mexico City and Central America Area Conference 1973, 108.) At another time he said, ‘God made man in his own

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