‘Mormon Land’: What LDS women want — in the wake of a controversial ‘priesthood power’ speech

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On this week's 'Mormon Land' podcast, Latter-day Saint women discuss the recent speech by J. Anette Dennis about women holding priesthood power and authority, even more widely than faith that actually ordain women.

They’re speaking up and speaking out by the thousands, but will all this talk lead to change? And what should that change look like?

Dennis went on to say that “other faiths ordain women to roles like priest or pastor, but those individuals represent a small minority when compared to the total number of women within their congregations.” On this week’s show, discussing this speech, the overwhelming response it generated and the role of women in the church, are Julie Hanks, a Latter-day Saint therapist in Utah, and, a Latter-day Saint middle school humanities teacher in Oakland, California, who created the Women on the Stand letter-writing campaign in the wake ofWhat LDS women are saying about priesthood — and how they supposedly have it — after a controversial...

 

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