All is Not Well in Zion; But God is Still At the Helm I’m looking forward to this weekend’s General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with mixed feelings. There is both an outpouring of joy and anticipation as well as some sorrow and anxiety. On the one hand, I’m gathering at Conference with my extended family for some very tender celebrations. On the other, I’ve been feeling burdened by the pain of a growing body of women who I imagine will attend with weary hearts, leery of hearing messages that tell them to stay in their place. Not that I think that's a message that our leaders will be trying to deliver. But their hearts are sore, and it can be hard not to hear what we fear. Two weeks ago, thousands of those women reacted to a Church Instagram post with unexpected fervor. The post quoted a snippet from Sister J. Annette Dennis` March 17th address, “There is no other religious organization in the world, that I know of, that has so broadly given power
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