

She taught that making and keeping covenants to serve God and His children helps us feel His love and find joy and peace. Parkin, Relief Society general president from 2002-2007, wanted women to feel the love of the Lord daily. Now you can come to personally know those women through their own inspiring words. Jenny Reeder Feeling God's Love Daily Bonnie D. We know that women were there every step of the way from Palmyra to the Salt Lake Valley and beyond. Share women's experiences and testimonies in lessons, talks, and at home.Gain greater understanding from their insights about Jesus Christ, revelation, priesthood, the temple, education, and other timeless topics.Learn to handle adversity by seeing how they coped with severe trials.Draw on their witness of the Book of Mormon and experiences with the Prophet Joseph Smith to strengthen your own conviction.As you read their words, you'll be able to: Through short, first-person experiences and testimonies helpfully organized by topic, readers will now be ale to learn directly from women who witnessed and participated in the Restoration. Teachers, parents, gospel scholars, and every member seeking a connection with the women of our past will relish discovering the vital role that women played in the Restoration. The Witness of Women helps accomplish that. Latter-day Saint women actively participated in the Restoration, and their voices and testimonies need to be included in Church history. Reeder also works on the editorial board of Mormon Historical Studies. She serves on the executive committee of the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team. She has worked with the Roy Rozenzweig Center for History and New Media at GMU, the Center for American Jewish History, the Gilder Lehrman Collection at the New-York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New York Universalist-Unitarian church, and the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History. Her master’s degree is from New York University in history, archival management, and documentary editing. LDS women over the entire history of the church, complete with important historical context provided by Holbrook and fellow co-editor Jennifer Reeder. Her dissertation, “Doing Something Extraordinary: Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past” explores the material culture used to commemorate the first fifty years of Relief Society and is pending publication. She has a PhD in American history from George Mason University, with an emphasis in women’s history, religious history, memory, and material culture. Maxwell Institute | BYU.Jenny Reeder is a nineteenth-century women’s history specialist on the web team at the LDS Church History Department. The post Women at the Latter-day Saint pulpit, with Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook appeared first on Neal A. They are also members of Mormon Women’s History Initiative. Together they edited At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women. Kate Holbrook (right) is the department’s managing historian for women’s history. About the Guests Jennifer Reeder (left) is the nineteenth century woman’s history specialist at the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook, who edited the book, join us to talk about it at the Church History Library of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City.

The book is called At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women. A new book from the Church Historian’s Press highlights LDS women speaking from the church’s founding in 1830 to the present day. Few Christian churches today abide strictly by that admonition, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many scholars believe this passage made its way into the Bible sometime after the death of Apostle Paul. For it is a shame for women to speak in the church” ( 1 Corinthians 14:34–35). And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husband at home. But they are commanded to be under obedience, as also say the law. There’s a famous passage from First Corinthians: “Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted into them to speak.
