Ordain Women
Mormon church challenges legality of leaked documents
By Kimberly Winston — March 15, 2017
(RNS) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints finally takes notice of MormonLeaks.
Kate Kelly joins hundreds outside Mormon headquarters for mass-resignation event
By Benjamin Wood — July 27, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) With a signed letter in hand, Stephanie Engle joined roughly 100 current and former Mormons -- including Ordain Women co-founder Kate Kelly -- at a mass-resignation event a block from the church’s downtown headquarters.
Where do feminist Mormons stand, a year after excommunication?
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — June 23, 2015
Many Mormon feminists experienced Kate Kelly’s excommunication as a harsh slap felt around the world.
Mormon Kate Kelly ‘happier’ and ‘invigorated’ after excommunication
By Thomas Burr — April 27, 2015
NEW YORK — “The men who (excommunicated me) literally think they kicked me out of heaven,” Ordain Women founder Kate Kelly said. “Luckily, I do not think that. … Out of this experience, I’ve realized that men don’t get to control my happiness."
Mormon critic John Dehlin appeals LDS excommunication
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — March 11, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) In a letter to LDS President Thomas S. Monson, John Dehlin wrote that he "never taught my questions or doubts as Church doctrine."
Ordain Women’s Kate Kelly loses last appeal; husband to resign from Mormon church
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — March 1, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Kate Kelly appealed the decision to the church's highest authority, the First Presidency. With the rejection, her husband, Neil Ransom, plans to resign his Mormon membership. The couple now lives in Kenya.
Mormon podcaster, known for airing dissent and doubt, faces church discipline
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — January 16, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) John Dehlin, known to support same-sex marriage and the Ordain Women movement, said he expects "either disfellowshipment (i.e., official censure) or excommunication."
Kate Kelly appeals her excommunication from Mormon Church
By Nate Carlisle — July 25, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) In her argument, Kelly contends her lay leaders never asked her about women holding the priesthood -- a point the leaders disputed in the letter excommunicating her.
Mormon bishop: “I wasn’t going to excommunicate anyone”
By Jana Riess — July 14, 2014
There’s a lot Bob Rees didn’t know when he was first called to be a Mormon bishop. But he did know one thing: he was not going to excommunicate anyone.
Kate Kelly, Mormon women’s group founder, excommunicated from church
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 23, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) A panel of judges has moved to excommunicate Kate Kelly, a founder of the group Ordain Women, on charges of apostasy.
Mormon higher-ups hold keys to excommunication process against two activists
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — June 18, 2014
(RNS) If Mormon higher-ups want disciplinary actions against two activists to stop, they could do so. They've done it before.
Mormon women seeking priesthood to be shut out of Temple Square
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — March 18, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) The Mormon Church rebuffed Ordain Women’s second push for entrance to the priesthood session and urged the grass-roots group to “demonstrate” instead outside Temple Square.
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