Hello Ladies.

Welcome to the new year at New Christian Woman! Last June we formally launched this site and as we look to enter our first full calendar year, I’m excited to give you all a glimpse at how we’re fairing and a chance to influence where we may go.

First, I’m delighted to introduce our Writing Team for 2016. You can check out all their beautiful faces here. These 22 lovely ladies are a diverse bunch. They herald from five different countries, are located in 13 locations around the world and range in age from teenage to 70s (with the majority in their early 30s). I am so appreciative of their commitment to this project.
Continue reading 7 months and 5800 views later… →

I got into trouble recently. A group of women from my church were having a conversation on work-loads and job-divisions and I decided to bring up the idea of a marriage of uses–a partnership of duties between a husband and wife–as described in Conjugial Love 176. I had only gotten a few sentences into the idea when my comments sparked an explosion from another woman on how women should not be forced to remain at home and how the Heavenly Doctrines are so out of touch with our modern times!

Now I am as conflict-averse a person as they come, so instead of finishing my point or clarifying my idea, I ducked my head and ran away (figuratively).

The scenario bothered me for weeks. Mostly because I knew I had hurt my relationship with a friend but partially because I recognized this as an example of a cultural mindset I battle: everyone is painted as an extremist–no one seems to recognize that a person can agree (and disagree) with multiple “sides” of an issue. One little comment and you are instantly boxed into one of only two possible and incompatible options.
Continue reading Don’t Box Me, Please! →

The current General Church Central Office appears to be focused on Small Groups as the answer to outreach, church health and world peace. This obsession seems unwise to me… Continue reading Tearing Down Those Sacred Small Groups (sort of) →