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It was in 2013 that I first penned a list of things I thought would change in the Church as we moved towards the diarchy that surely exists in the celestial kingdom. I’ve periodically updated and added to it in subsequent writings. Recently, I’ve been reminded it’s time I updated the list for 2019—and boy, oh boy, are there a lot of updates to make!

A reporter recently described the United States as being in a civil cold war. At the most prosperous time in history, in the most prosperous nation in the history of the world, in a digital world where we can truly know each other, the popular view is that hate and discord are everywhere.

A 2002 Mormonad in the New Era magazine showed an ice cream sundae with a cockroach in the ice cream. The caption read, “It’s great, except for . . . the bad parts.” [1] Although a commentary on questionable media, I also saw it as a commentary on the gospel because the beautiful ice cream sundae of the Plan of Happiness held for me one depressing, cockroach-like thought: polygamy was part of God’s eternal plan.

Somehow over the course of my life, I stumbled across the name Simone Weil, but knew next to nothing about her. This introduction to her thought, published in 2018, came highly recommended, and at 105 pages, it seemed a gentle enough introduction to tackle on a recent flight to DC.

Peterson’s 12 Rules is a prosaically titled book that has already been deemed a modern classic by his followers. However, in addition to that very helpful cultural rediscovery, Peterson introduces into his work one big fat hairy error which threatens all the good he had hoped to accomplish.

"The Father and Mother: An Adaptation by V.H. Cassler from an October 2018 General Conference Talk by Elder Brian K. Ashton,"

In the premortal world, we were born as spirits to Heavenly Parents and lived with Them as a family.

This book, one of their best, centers around the experience of doubt. The introductory chapter of the book notes that people often have preconceptions, misunderstandings, and beliefs that cause difficulty for them. History abounds with such mistaken beliefs...

The Utah Women & Leadership Project has a series of Utah Women Stats research snapshots with the goal of providing specific, timely data on a series of issues relevant to Utah women.

He never hit me, not in 24 years. But for most of those years he hurt me.

As a mother of Latter-day Saint children in the twenty-first century, it is important to me to teach my children about the evil that is racism, including racism within our own church history.