Tag: Marianne Hales Harding
Mansplaining the Temple at BYU’s Education Week: Examining charges of sexism
When my sister and I attended Brigham Young University's Education Week this year, we weren't expecting mansplaining and sexism to be part of the...
Talking about marriage at church: Another sucky thing about being single...
I can’t think of a time when I have walked out of an LDS Sacrament Meeting. I have thanked my lucky stars for a...
On not doing the first-day-of-school happy dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7PhtsycH0
We are on the cusp of what I am told is the best time of the year. Not the weekend. Not your birthday. Not...
Country Mouse visits the city: New York City with children
This is and is not about New York City. I’m on an airplane right now, flying back to Salt Lake City after spending three...
Mommy guilt? I just don’t buy it. I just don’t.
Dear Chana Joffe-Walt,
Ira Glass was right. You did pick the very worst person to ask, but not for the reason he cites. In the...
The feminist and the fireside: Gender issues in Mormon dialogue
Every time we go to a Young Women/Young Men fireside, a periodic inspirational meeting for youth in the LDS church, I have a chat...
The Independent: continuing to grow and challenge ourselves for you
Three months ago, I took the reins as managing editor of The Independent. Anytime a publication changes editors, more changes are sure to follow....
Trumping the 2016 presidential election
I’m supposed to have an opinion. Generally, when writing an opinion column, that’s the case. And certainly as an educated person with strong feelings...
Grief in a Mormon community
It still seems unreal to me. I look at the snapshot taken on Thursday, March 10, and try to convince my brain that within...