mormonwomen Archives - Women in The Church of Jesus Christ

This is a Woman’s Church – Sharon Eubank talk

by Women Seeking Christ | Aug 14, 2014 | What We Believe, Women in the Scriptures and God's Plan | 0 |

Sharon Eubank (bio here), director of LDS Charities, spoke at the FAIR Conference and received a standing ovation. Eubank is quick to note that she speaks from personal experience and perspective, but we think many of our...

Pondering Mormon Women and Priesthood

by Women Seeking Christ | Jun 30, 2013 | What We Believe, Women in the Scriptures and God's Plan | 9 |

“Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.” – Eliza R. Snow, in Daughters in My Kingdom, page 45 In her 2013 BYU Women’s Conference address, Sister...

Faith of Our Fathers, Faith in Our Father

by Women Seeking Christ | Jul 18, 2010 | What We Believe | 1 |

I trudged on the treadmill, gritting my teeth, fighting tears. The workout wasn’t pushing me to my limits. Life was. I could almost feel physical sensations of my soul being stretched. I reached up not only to God within...

Family Fridays: Date Night!

by Women Seeking Christ | Feb 12, 2010 | How We Live, Latter-day Saint Family Life | 3 |

by Julie Pettit My husband and I love to have fun and we enjoy spending time together. Over the last few months we were having a hard time getting out of the house, so we started instituting “home dates”. We have...

First Person: Be Still

by Women Seeking Christ | Feb 2, 2010 | Articles and Talks | 4 |

~ by Ginna Some of my friends have thoughtfully picked out words or quotes to inspire them for the New Year. I think this is a fun idea, though I hesitate to pick one for myself. I don’t know why. Maybe I’m just not...

First Person: Testimony of Tithing

by Women Seeking Christ | Nov 19, 2009 | Articles and Talks | 0 |

~by Laurie Over the summer, I really gained a stronger testimony of tithing. I’ve always had a testimony of it, but there were a few instances this summer, that made my testimony even stronger. In July, my husband’s...

Ask a Mormon Woman: What is the Mormon health code? How can I hold to such standards if my spouse’s standards are different?

by Women Seeking Christ | Nov 9, 2009 | Ask a Latter-day Saint Woman | 3 |

We received this question from one of our readers: I am a Mormon woman with three kids and my husband is not a member of the Church. I get sidetracked a lot; I love coffee and I used to smoke. What advice do you have for me? We...

Links We Like: Chapels and Temples — Glimpses inside each, and how they differ

by Women Seeking Christ | Nov 7, 2009 | Links We Like | 1 |

Have you ever wondered what goes on inside of the meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? See this LDS Newsroom story that explains more about our buildings and what kinds of meetings we hold in them....

Family Friday: ’twas the first day of school

by Women Seeking Christ | Oct 2, 2009 | Latter-day Saint Family Life | 1 |

Editor’s note: Ginny is a mother of five young children, including a set of busy toddler twins at the tail end of the family. To appreciate this poem all the more, you should know that she and her husband are two of the...

Mormon Women Create through Quilting

by Women Seeking Christ | Jul 30, 2009 | How We Live | 2 |

Glimpses is a Sharing Our Voices feature that shares bits of Mormon life through photos. We invite all of you Mormon women to think about photos you could send in! Today, we share some photos of quilts Mormon women have made....

Rachel Esplin, LDS Harvard student, shares thoughts on her faith

by Women Seeking Christ | May 12, 2009 | Articles and Talks | 3 |

Perhaps you have seen this video; we thought it was worth sharing. Hear a young adult’s perspective on her faith as she pursues her studies at Harvard University. Day of Faith: Personal Quests for a Purpose – 3....

Portraits of Mormon Women: Centennial Lessons: Church History for Women, Lesson #8

by Women Seeking Christ | Apr 21, 2009 | Portraits of Latter-day Saint Women | 0 |

Here is Lesson #8: Winter Quarters to Great Salt Lake Valley. This is another in the series of Church history lessons that were created in 1930 for the women of the Relief Society by A.G. Pack, who was a missionary in England....