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ymf podcast: episode 4 – one month later

Join Julia as she speaks with two YMFers, Ally and Keli, about how they are feeling and how they sense things are in the feminist community…

ymf podcast episode 3: American privilege in the church

Join Julia as she speaks with two feminists, Azul in Mexizo and Leone in New Zealand, about American privilege in the LDS Church and how American-centered…

ymf podcast: episode two: body image and garments, a survey

Join Julia as she interviews Nancy Ross and Jessica Finnegan, co-authors of “I’m a Mormon Feminist: How Social Media Revitalized and Enlarged a Movement,” about their…

ymf podcast: episode one

A Skeptic’s Prayer, by Margaret Munk

Is it true
Thou lovest best
Thy meek, unasking children?

Thou hast made us
So diverse, so various,
Yet in the image
Of a Sire
Who filled a universe
With his creative fire.

What father has supposed
His child would grow to manhood
Only hearing and affirming?
What sire could honor such a son?
How could a mind that,
Like a sponge,
Absorbs but never questions,
Doubts,
Or wonders why
Be offspring and apprentice
To a God?

It may be, Lord,
That thou canst never love me
With the calm relief
A father feels
For his obedient child—
The one who’s never any trouble.

But use me
As a bridge
To those more wayward still
Than I.
I cannot give them all the answers;
But they will not ask
The ones who think they can.

Let me speak
To thy lost sheep
As one who,
Understanding how they went astray,
Still loves the Shepherd.