About

I started this website right after the birth of my first child. He was born at Christmas time and I found myself feeling a deep sense of kinship with Mary, the mother of Christ. I marveled at her faith, her courage, and that fact that she went anywhere on a donkey at nine months pregnant! After my son was born I started to search the Internet for more information about women in the scriptures. What I found was surprising– there was hardly anything!

When I was younger I struggled with women’s apparent silence in the scriptures, but in college I took a class on women in the scriptures by Camille Fronk Olson which opened my eyes to all the women I’d never heard about. Learning their stories healed my heart and answered my questions about my role in God’s plan. Knowing how important their stories were to me, I found it surprising that so little had been written about them on the the internet.

“Someone really should write about the women in the scriptures,” I thought.

“No, Heather, “ the spirit whispered, “You should write about them.” 

And so I did.

More than 12 years later, I have written on hundreds of women and haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of all the amazing women hidden within the pages of the scriptures. There are more than 500 hundred women and groups of women in the scriptures!

I’ve discovered that the problem is not that women are left out of the scriptures, but that women are not studying their scriptures. We are not learning the stories of our ancient heroines, we are not sharing their stories with our daughters and sons, we are not letting the archetypes and lessons of their stories permeate our lives, we are not claiming the rich spiritual heritage that we have been given. We need to claim our heroines! #claimourheroines

I have spent years compiling information and resources about women in the scriptures on this website. I hope it will open you eyes and help you discover women you never knew about. Mostly though, I hope that you will be inspired to open your scriptures and start discovering these women for yourself. They will become your friends and, if you let them, they will strengthen you, teach you and guide you on the path of discipleship, they will lead you to Jesus Christ.

1. I am the author of three books on women in the scriptures. Walking with the Women of the New Testament , Walking with the Women of the Old Testament, and most recently Walking with the Women of the Book of Mormon. And yes, I hope to write Walking with the Women of the Doctrine and Covenants next! All three books have been illustrated by my amazingly talented friend Mandy Jane Williams. We LOVE to do presentations together about women in the scriptures. If you are interested in having us come speak to your group, please see my speaker page.

2. I have six children. If that seems like a lot, you are right! I am in the summer of my life, and am thoroughly enjoying the craziness and fun.  I am a firm believer in the power of family and believe the world’s greatest treasure is human life. I am grateful for all of my treasures!

3. I am an active member of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and share women’s stories from The Book of Mormon and Latter-day Saint Church history. If you are unfamiliar with The Book of Mormon (or if all you have ever seen is the musical), I’d encourage you to read it. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ and has deepened my appreciation and understanding of the Bible.

4. I am a co-author of the book, “The Gift of Giving Life: Re-Discovering the Divine Nature of Pregnancy and Birth” and once upon a time worked as a doula (before I had six children). I am passionate about helping women experience pregnancy and birth as spiritual events. It is a time when women are co-creators with God and are portals between heaven and earth. If women are prepared and receptive birth can be a transformative spiritual experience.  You can read my writings about the spirituality of birth here.

5. Five of my children have been born at home, and one in a free standing birth center. You can read their birth stories here.

6. I graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a degree in Public Health (hence my love of birth education and doula work). I am hoping in the next several years to complete a Masters in Biblical Studies and Hebrew, though we will see!  I’ve learned that my life is a tree, not a path and that there are many ways to education and wisdom.

7. My husband and I homeschool our children. It is awesome– most of the time.

8. I love to dance and do any type of exercise that does not require you to wear shoes– yoga, swimming, modern dance. It is my opinion that once you take your shoes off it is no longer work, but fun.

9. I believe in the power of women. I don’t identify with the label of “feminist”, there are just too many assumptions that come with that label, but the truth is that if you cut me open I bleed pink. My heart is SO full of love for all women– women of the past, women of the present, and women of the future. If I had to classify myself I’d say that I am a maternal feminist. You can read all my thoughts about feminism and cooperation between men and women here.

10. Typos and misspelled words are my tragic flaw. The only argument in my defense is that I often write with a baby in my lap. So if you find one, please look past it and love me anyway.