Mormon 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 girls now acknowledge Heavenly Mother, but boys do not
By Jana Riess — November 18, 2019
(RNS) — If young Mormon boys were to explicitly acknowledge Heavenly Mother every week in a devotional way, like the girls now do, that would be an attribution of power — to a woman.
A progressive Mormon’s top 10 highlights of this weekend’s LDS General Conference
By Jana Riess — October 7, 2019
Holy Harry Potter! From changes to women's roles to a new youth program, announcements came fast and furious.
Mormon Heavenly Mother featured in Deseret Book best-seller
By Jana Riess — September 13, 2016
The #4 best-seller at Deseret Book this week is a picture book that takes the Mormon doctrine of Heavenly Mother seriously: She's not a fragile wallflower, but a goddess in might and dignity.
The life-changing magic of tidying up Mormon theology
By Jana Riess — January 19, 2016
Kolob, polygamy, and six other still-on-the-books Mormon beliefs that we could say good-bye to once and for all if we adhered to the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
Teaching the Mormon Heavenly Mother: “Women want to know her”
By Jana Riess — June 8, 2015
Missy McConkie recently convened a Relief Society event about the Mormon Heavenly Mother. She says that if we don't start teaching about her and asking questions, we won't add to whatever knowledge we already have (though we actually know more than many Mormons think we do).
5 reasons why conservative Mormons would win from having Heavenly Mother be the Holy Ghost. Wait for it.
By Jana Riess — February 27, 2015
Today on Speculative Theology Day: Having Heavenly Mother and the Holy Ghost be one and the same isn’t some left-wing feminist program to empower women. It's actually a brilliant conservative strategy. Here are five semi-serious reasons why.
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