by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 16, 2009 | Mormons
The Mormons have a program for teenage girls called Personal Progress. It allows girls to set and carry out challenging goals in several areas of personal development. In some parts of the program, they choose their own goals. In others, they carry out goals set for...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 14, 2009 | Frequently Asked Questions
Mormon women are regularly asked why they don’t demand to hold the priesthood, which is given only to worthy boys and men. This is sometimes seen as proof that Mormon women are not considered equal in the church. The truth is that faithful Mormon women devote...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jan 12, 2009 | Mormon Scriptures
Abish was a woman who worked in the palace where Ammon, a popular Book of Mormon missionary, was temporarily serving the king as a shepherd. She had been converted but no one else in her community believed in the church and she had to keep her own testimony private....
by Moira T | Jul 25, 2008 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
Adversity is the refiner’s fire that bends iron but tempers steel. (President James E. Faust, Ensign February 1988, “The Blessings of Adversity”) These past several weeks have been very challenging ones for our family. For awhile, it felt as if we came through one...
by Alison P | Apr 25, 2008 | Home and Family
There are so many demands on a woman’s time. We live in an age which has taught us that women can be anything that they want. Quite honestly, it’s instilled another belief as well. Not only do women feel more empowered to be anything they had somehow gotten the notion...
