Call for Guest Posts: Working Women

I have noticed for many years now that the narrative we tell about women and work in the Church does not reflect the reality I see around me. Women are encouraged to get an education and to develop their talents and skills, but we are also told that women who have children should make mothering [...]

Exciting Mormon Women Project events

We love the thoughtful interviews that the Mormon Women Project publishes every week. Some weeks they make us laugh, other weeks they warm our hearts, sometimes they make us cry, and they always make us think deeply about what it means to be a woman in this worldwide church. So we are thrilled to announce [...]

Guest Posts: Mormons and Disability

This month’s issue of Segullah journal focuses on the experience of living with disability. In her lovely introduction to the issue, Laura Niedermeyer describes how the essays and poems describe the tension between our comforting knowledge of physical and mental disability as a temporary, temporal condition and the hard realities of day-to-day mortal life. For [...]

A Transformation in Leadership, Too

Alongside the changes in Segullah’s publishing format, we’re also making some big changes in staffing. We’d like to first of all thank Kathy Soper, our beloved Cap’n since Segullah was first conceived 8 years ago, begun through a series of emails and phone calls and solidified at a McDonald’s PlayPlace. There’s no quantifying the dedication, [...]

Not Your Mother’s Salon

A “salon” is defined as a gathering of eminent people, held to increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. The Mormon Women Project is holding their second annual salon event entitled, “Crafting a Deliberate Life: Making Choices That Are Purposeful, Personal, and Powerful” on Saturday November 5th, 2011 in the Joseph Smith Building in [...]

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