Holly Welker

Holly Welker is the editor of Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage. Her poetry and prose have appeared in publications ranging from Seventeen to Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought to Bitch to the New York Times.

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Religion Dispatches

'Always Pray to the Father': Mormon Leader Calls Desire for Knowledge of Heavenly Mother 'Arrogant and Unproductive'

In 1995, in a document called the Family Proclamation , leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made explicit what had long been an oft-discussed but little documented element of…

Holly Welker

April 13, 2022

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Religion Dispatches

Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely... But Only by Coincidence

“What is the Church’s stance on feminism?” This is the question addressed in a brief anonymous statement (four paragraphs, thirteen sentences, 224 words) published in January’s issue of the New Era, a…

Holly Welker

January 15, 2020

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