About

Welcome! I’m Heather Farrell, a writer, researcher, educator, and speaker with a passion for scripture, history, and the stories of women.

I hold a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree in Bible and the Ancient Near East from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During my graduate studies, my husband, our 6 children, and I lived in Jerusalem for two years, an experience that profoundly deepened my understanding of the scriptures and the world in which they were written.

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.

“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.

Two decades 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’s stories are often skipped over.  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!

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.

I am the author of the Walking with the Women in the Scripture books:  Walking with the Women of the New Testament , Walking with the Women of the Old Testament, Walking with the Women of the Book of Mormon. And yes, I am working on Walking with the Women of the Doctrine and Covenants next!  All three books have been illustrated by my amazingly talented friend Mandy Jane Williams. All three books are available at Deseret Book and on Amazon.

In 2021, I wrote a social media post about how, while men have to go to the mountain to meet God, God comes to women. It went viral and reached millions of readers around the world. In response to the incredible reception the post had, my friend Jen Mabray and I worked together to further develop the idea into a book called God Comes to Women, available at Deseret Book and on Amazon.

My husband and I– plus our 6 children– lived in Jerusalem for two years, from 2021- 2023. We were there for me to do my master’s degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I got my master’s in the Bible and the Ancient Near East and teach Biblical Hebrew classes for Latter-day Saints. If you have ever been interested in learning Biblical Hebrew, I’d love to help you get started!

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. I am passionate about helping women experience pregnancy and birth as spiritual events.  You can read my writings about the spirituality of birth here.

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.

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.