We have a beautiful historic library. The building was built in 1901. The whole bottom floor was built to be the children’s section and it is a wonderful space. Out of all the cities we have lived in this by far the best children’s library that we have ever had. There is a back entrance…
I have had many requests for book recommendations for studying the Bible and women in the scriptures. I have amassed a fairly impressive library over the years and so I thought I’d go through it and just share with you several of my favorites. All of these books will help you dig deeper into the…
A few months ago I got an email from a reader who asked, “I’d like to know if you have a scripture reading system. I ask a lot of people and I’m always so excited to hear what works for them. Do you have a method to your study, or do you just read and…
In the last several days I’ve heard at least 5 people make the statement ” There just aren’t very many women in the scriptures.” Every time it has made me want to jump up and down and yell at the top of my lungs “YES THERE ARE YOU JUST AREN’T LOOKING FOR THEM!”…
I love the Old Testament. I’ve loved it from the first time I read it as a fourteen-year-old struggling through the confusing names, places and stories, but enthralled with the sense of discovering hidden treasures. In the years since I’ve read it at least a dozen times. The more I read it the more the…
Can I tell you a secret? I don’t know how to read Hebrew or Greek. At all. Not even a little bit. Nada. Okay, that wasn’t too much of a secret. But it suprises me how many people assume that I must be able to. So let me tell you my real secret. I use…
I’ve had a goal to learn ancient Greek for a long time. It first began with my high school journalism teacher who loved the language and would often write Greek words on the white board when he taught. My senior year I even convinced him to give me Greek lessons before school started, which he…
This week I taught a mini-class for our weekday Relief Society Meeting on how to improve your personal scripture study. The class went really well and I thought I’d share what I taught with all you wonderful people. Also I would love to hear any more ideas you have about improving your scripture study. I…
There are more than 317 women and groups of women in the Old Testament, and many of those women have names! This is a list of all the women in the Old Testament and the places they are mentioned in the Old Testament, New Testament, The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and The Pearl…
One of the biggest complaints I hear is that there very few women mentioned in the Book of Mormon. Some women feel frustrated or offended that in what Joseph Smith called ” the most correct of any book on earth,“ God would have neglected to mention women. It is true that there aren’t very many…
While working on “Walking with the Women of the New Testament” I looked for a comprehensive list of all the women in the New Testament and surprisingly, I couldn’t find one! Can you believe that? So I thought that it was time the internet had one. This is a complete list of all…
I got a new set of scriptures for Christmas and, even though it has been hard letting go of my old ones, I am loving the adventure of marking up a new set. It is almost like reading the scriptures for the first time again. I am discovering things that I never saw before, and…
Originally posted July 6th, 2009 “She is Come Before Hand’ by Elspeth Young (used with permission) On Sunday I taught a lesson on Women in the Scriptures at our church. My goal with the lesson was to help the women learn how to recognize and relate to the women that are mentioned in the scriptures.…
On Sunday I taught a lesson on Women in the Scriptures at our church. My goal with the lesson was to help the women learn how to recognize and relate to the women that are mentioned in the scriptures. Often times all we get is a name or a brief mention of a wife or…
I just love this quote by Spencer W. Kimball and if you get a chance you should read the whole talk. It is called “The Role of Righteous Women”. “Even though the eternal roles of men and women differ…this leaves much to be done by way of parallel personal development—for both men and women. In…
In college I had a Bishop who was one of the most spiritually in-tune people I have ever met. He taught us to love the scriptures through his own example. Every morning he would get up at 4 AM to study and pray for an hour. He did this no matter where he was, no…
My friend taught me how to knit a few months ago and since then I’ve been knitting in the evenings while my kids fall asleep. The work is repetitive, soothing and gives me lots of time for reflection. My mind wanders but mostly I’ve been thinking about my ancestors and how performing repetitive daily tasks,…
My love of the women in the scriptures began with a simple composition notebook. Motivated by a desire to prove that women weren’t left out of the scriptures I read through the scriptures and wrote down any scripture that mentioned women– women with names, women with no names, groups of women, parables about women, symbolism…
As I was working on one of the presentations that I am giving at the LDS Holistic Living Conference this weekend (you can still register!) I stumbled across this great statement on a Pinterest page. I had the perfect picture to go with it stashed away in my files and so I couldn’t resist putting…