Heavenly Mother
Heavenly Mother, are you really there?
By Jana Riess — May 6, 2022
(RNS) — I worry that Elder Renlund's advice not to speculate about her will result in some LDS church members thinking that it’s not permissible to speak of her at all.
Mormon founder turned over priesthood keys to women, says Deseret Book author
By Jana Riess — June 21, 2016
Fiona Givens, a Deseret Book author and popular Mormon speaker, says early LDS women were given priesthood keys -- and that there is historical tradition linking Heavenly Mother to the Holy Ghost.
A new Mother’s Day song for Mormons
By Jana Riess — May 8, 2015
A Mormon Primary president wasn't happy last year with the Mother's Day song options, so she gave her chorister an assignment: Go write something better.
Mormons for a platitude-free Mother’s Day
By Jana Riess — May 2, 2014
Well-meaning people, in the face of the pain that litters the minefield that is Mother’s Day, often resort to generalities and platitudes. But this is a mistake. What can save the Mother’s Day church experience are flesh-and-blood stories of broken people doing their very best.
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