Category: Beliefs & practices
“I may be excommunicated from my church for asking for equal rights”
Read a June 16, 2014, column by Kelly in The Guardian about her situation.
“Temporary reprieve for Mormon activist facing disciplinary hearing”
Read a June 16, 2014, Reuters story about a postponement of the excommunication hearing for Dehlin.
Kathryn Skaggs
Kathryn Skaggs is a Southern California woman who helped found Mormon Women Stand. She has a popular blog called A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman, on which she has been critical of Ordain Women. Contact via Twitter, @LDSNana.
Angela Fallentine
Angela Fallentine is a co-founder of Mormon Women Stand, a group that does not favor women’s ordination. Contact via the organization’s media contact page.
Claudia Lauper Bushman
Claudia Lauper Bushman is a professor of American studies at Columbia University in New York City and an expert on the history of Mormon women. She co-edited Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays From the Claremont Oral History Collection.
“LDS spokesman sends open letter about Mormon women”
Read a May 29, 2014, Deseret News article about a letter released by Michael Otterson, senior spokesman for the LDS church, in response to online discussions about women in the church.
“Mormons and Mormonism”
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life posts resources about Mormonism and Americans’ attitudes toward Mormons.
“The Case of the Mormon Historian”
Read a Nov. 1, 2012, article at Slate.com about Michael Quinn, one of the six Mormons excommunicated in 1993.