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Today marks both the founding of the Relief Society on March 17, 1842, and the launch 10 years ago of the Ordain Women website. Once again, we’d like to think our 19th-century foremothers would...

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Ordain Women supporter Abby Maxwell Hansen originally wrote this post for the Exponent II blog. It was published on August 15, 2022, and is cross posted here with permission.   I think that wome...

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This post was originally published on the Exponent II blog on February 8, 2022 by Abby Hansen I had several favorite speakers and authors growing up as a teenager in the nineties. One of them was...

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Each Christmas, Ordain Women publishes a wish list of policy changes that would brighten the holiday season for all Latter-day Saints who seek gender equality. Lightheartedly sung to the tune of...

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As General Conference approaches, women are still watching for substantive signs that our leaders are listening to our pleas for a more inclusive and equitable church. We note several welcome cha...

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Each Christmas, Ordain Women publishes a wish list of policy changes that would brighten the holiday season for all Latter-day Saints who seek gender equality. Lightheartedly sung to the tune of...

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“When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.�...

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“You sisters do not hold a second place in our Father’s plan for the eternal happiness and well being of His children. You are an absolutely essential part of that plan.” President Gordon B...

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It’s that time of year again! As General Conference approaches after months of fear, loss, and social distancing, Ordain Women aspires both to lend hope and encouragement to our religious commu...

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Two years ago, Ordain Women Executive Board Chair Bryndis Roberts invited us to “spend some time listening to Stand By Me,” a song “born out of the Black gospel music tradition” and, like...

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*“I am a . Hath not a eyes? Hath not a hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the...

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Mormons were told last October that this weekend’s General Conference, which marks the bicentennial of the First Vision, would be unique. Little did we know then just how unique. As Conference ...

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