Carol Lynn Pearson
In Mormonism, yesterday’s heresy is today’s orthodoxy
By Jana Riess — February 25, 2022
(RNS) — In 1973, Mormon author Carol Lynn Pearson's feature article for the 'Ensign' magazine was pulled at the last minute, and she was banned from writing about women for Church publications. What was controversial then has become the party line.
Protest grows against Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing at Trump’s inauguration
By Jana Riess — December 24, 2016
As backlash gains momentum against the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing at Donald Trump's inauguration, guest blogger Carol Lynn Pearson asks, "What would Jesus do?"
LGBT Mormons are out and proud in Provo art exhibit
By Jana Riess — September 21, 2016
Mitch Mayne is one of about two dozen LGBT Mormons whose faces grace a new art exhibit -- telling the world, and particularly LGBT Mormon youth, that it's possible to be gay and fully integrated into Mormon life.
Polygamy lives on in Mormon temple sealings
By Jana Riess — August 3, 2016
While plural marriage has officially been banned by the LDS Church for more than a hundred years, the truth and lived reality for many modern Mormon women is actually far more complicated. Tracy McKay-Lamb is one of those women.
Mormon women fear eternal polygamy, study shows
By Jana Riess — July 20, 2016
Carol Lynn Pearson's new book argues that many, if not most, Mormon women feel pain and fear at the prospect of sharing their husbands with at least one other wife for all of eternity. Even if polygamy isn't currently practiced, it's "alive and unwell" in Mormon doctrine and temple sealing practices.
Protests mount against Mormon-themed TLC program “My Husband’s Not Gay”
By Jana Riess — January 5, 2015
When the denial of a person’s sexual identity leads to the extreme measure of taking on a “straight” marriage in order to remain fully in the fold, it is, ironically, damaging to the family, the very institution that the LDS Church claims to be defending.
Is heaven polygamous?
By Jana Riess — March 20, 2014
Will there be polygamy in the celestial kingdom? Do men and women have equal access to sealing blessings and cancellations? A new survey aims to take the pulse of Mormons today.
Gay Mormon characters step out of the shadows
By Kellie Moore — May 22, 2013
(RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America.'' A lot's changed since then, fueled by the church's role in Prop 8 and its efforts to build bridges to gays and lesbians.
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