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Author: Elona K. Shelley Publisher: Brigham Distributing ISBN: 9780981869278 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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How can the gospel be the plan of happiness if I feel so miserable trying to live it? In Confessions of a Molly Mormon, Elona debunks many of the faulty beliefs that led her down a path of deepening despair as she struggle to make herself and her family good enough to someday enter the celestial kingdom. During her darkest hour, God sent comfort in an unexpected way and set her feet on a glorious new path of freedom and joy. Learning how to stay on that path, and helping others discover it, has become Elona's quest.
Author: Elona K. Shelley Publisher: Brigham Distributing ISBN: 9780981869278 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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How can the gospel be the plan of happiness if I feel so miserable trying to live it? In Confessions of a Molly Mormon, Elona debunks many of the faulty beliefs that led her down a path of deepening despair as she struggle to make herself and her family good enough to someday enter the celestial kingdom. During her darkest hour, God sent comfort in an unexpected way and set her feet on a glorious new path of freedom and joy. Learning how to stay on that path, and helping others discover it, has become Elona's quest.
Author: Brenda R. Weber Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478005297 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 297
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From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.
Author: Emma Tennant Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1448210623 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 149
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What do older women want? And older than what, anyway? Love, flattery, an end to baby-sitting, a night out without falling asleep? Or the very last chance of gratifying desire, of finding a soul-mate - even if it means paying over the odds...? Confessions of a Sugar Mummy provides the hilarious answer to the most pressing questions for women who have reached a certain age: am I past it? Why is the pursuit of happiness an acceptable goal for all members of the human race except Old Bags? Money, as so often, turns out to be the solution. And when a sixty-something with frankly limited prospects, finds her flat is worth a fortune, she jumps at the chance of entering the world of property with the glamorous younger Frenchman, Alain. Until, to her horror, she realises she can't turn back until the final question is answered: can money buy me love?
Author: Nicole Hardy Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 1401342906 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 207
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When Nicole Hardy's eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy's essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of thirty-five, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nicole had held absolute conviction in her Mormon faith during her childhood and throughout her twenties. But as she aged out of the Church's "singles ward" and entered her thirties, she struggled to merge the life she envisioned for herself with the one the Church prescribed, wherein all women are called to be mothers and the role of homemaker is the emphatic ideal. Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin chronicles the extraordinary lengths Nicole went to in an attempt to reconcile her human needs with her spiritual life--flying across the country for dates with LDS men, taking up salsa dancing as a source for physical contact, even moving to Grand Cayman, where the ocean and scuba diving provided some solace. But neither secular pursuits nor LDS guidance could help Nicole prepare for the dilemma she would eventually face: a crisis of faith that caused her to question everything she'd grown up believing. In the tradition of the memoirs Devotion and Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin is a mesmerizing and wholly relatable account of one woman's hard-won mission to find love, acceptance, and happiness--on her own terms.
Author: L. Steen Publisher: ISBN: 9781481885683 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 102
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The eclectic thoughts of a woman with too much time on her hands, and a die-hard member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Or, Mormon.
Author: Nicole Hardy Publisher: Pier 9 ISBN: 9781743361405 Category : Ex-church members Languages : en Pages : 295
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Until her twenties Nicole Hardy retained absolute belief in the Mormon faith she'd been brought up in. By her thirties, however, she was struggling with the way her religion exalted motherhood above all else as a woman's destiny. As a strong-willed, adventure-seeking, creative woman, Nicole found it impossible to meet a Mormon man who'd accept her hopes and desires. But it was also a struggle to meet other men who'd be happy to respect her faith and its tenets, including chastity before marriage. Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin chronicles Nicole's attempts to reconcile her emotional and physical needs with her spiritual life, from flying around the country in order to meet men on a Mormon dating website to taking salsa classes and moving to an island where she became an enthusiastic scuba diver. A cross between Eat, Pray, Love and Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, this witty, fascinating and entertaining memoir will resonate with anyone who's ever wanted to find a better balance between social acceptance and personal happiness.
Author: Steven Fales Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 156
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“What a rare and skillful thing isConfessions of a Mormon Boy,Steven Fales’ engrossing, funny and often quite harrowing tale. A fine writer and actor.”—Chicago Sun-Times A hit at New York’s Fringe Festival, Steven Fales’ true-life story has become a smash across the country. Now playing off-Broadway, it continues to dazzle audiences with its honesty and wit as the author recounts his story of being excommunicated from the Mormon church for being gay, leaving his wife and children, and his subsequent descent into the dangers of sex and drugs.
Author: Jana Riess Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019088522X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 320
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American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood. In The Next Mormons, Jana Riess demonstrates that things are starting to change. Drawing on a large-scale national study of four generations of current and former Mormons as well as dozens of in-depth personal interviews, Riess explores the religious beliefs and behaviors of young adult Mormons, finding that while their levels of belief remain strong, their institutional loyalties are less certain than their parents' and grandparents'. For a growing number of Millennials, the tensions between the Church's conservative ideals and their generation's commitment to individualism and pluralism prove too high, causing them to leave the faith-often experiencing deep personal anguish in the process. Those who remain within the fold are attempting to carefully balance the Church's strong emphasis on the traditional family with their generation's more inclusive definition that celebrates same-sex couples and women's equality. Mormon families are changing too. More Mormons are remaining single, parents are having fewer children, and more women are working outside the home than a generation ago. The Next Mormons offers a portrait of a generation navigating between traditional religion and a rapidly changing culture.
Author: Elona K. Shelley
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