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SquareTwo
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SquareTwo is a forum for those building upon "square one," the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Please remember to like, share, and subscribe.
Episodes
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Women, Power, And Authority, And The Church: We All Know More Than We Are Saying
Two sets of keys, turned jointly and unitedly in mutual purpose, is what we should be envisioning when we think of our Heavenly Parents and Their work together.
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Why Heavenly Mother Is Essential For Women Understanding Their Eternal Destiny
General Conference April 2022 confirmed Heavenly Mother is our doctrine. Further, it was stated that the specifics of the Church’s doctrine on Heavenly Mother could be found in the Gospel Topics Essay. This was exciting!
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The Octopus And The Doctrine Of Dreams
Dreams are highly valued as a source of revelation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but do we have a clear doctrine on dreams?
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Has Heavenly Mother Distanced Herself From This World?
As a teen convert to the Church, I was taught that we have a Heavenly Mother, but She was being protected by Heavenly Father from the fallen-ness of our world and so we did not pray or speak about Her. The idea, as I understood it, was that if no one thought or spoke about Her, somehow She would…
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Embodiment As A Core Doctrine
Embodiment is one of the two great doctrines restored by the First Vision. When Joseph Smith entered the Sacred Grove in 1820, he learned two great truths contrary to Trinitarian Christianity. First, he learned that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father are separate beings. Hence, we do not believe in...
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The Despairing Historicism of Latter-day Doomers
A strange dynamic sometimes animates conversations on the subject when certain members of the Church take part. For example, someone mentions a recent increase in violent crimes in their city. The hypothetical Church member involved in the discussion, upon hearing this, might shake his head and…
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Apostasy And Abuse
Apostasy from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has become increasingly common in recent years. I wish to say a few words about how the apostasy of a close family member has impacted my life.
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Seeking The Matrimonial Order
In the temple we are taught that we must enter into a specific order to claim our divine inheritance: the Holy Order of Matrimony. Might this be the holiest Order of God, the one which Priest- and Priestesshood are patterned after? Heaven would then be governed by an order which consists of...
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A Framework For Suffering
Throughout mankind’s existence, and especially during times of crisis, conflict, and confusion such as we see now with COVID and the war in Ukraine, one universal question seems to echo the loudest across time and space: “If there is a loving God, why is there so much suffering?!”
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The Matriarchal Order And The Ordinances Of The Flesh
One of the most glorious truths that has been restored in this fullness of times is the knowledge that men and women are meant to be equal partners, uniting with Christ in our complementary differences to fulfill the measure of our creation.
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The Great Global Birth Strike
When I teach my graduate course where we examine the ways that the lives and choices of women affect international relations, my students always have a moment of clarity near the end. They reach a point where they passionately wonder how it is that women, having obtained civil rights and property...
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Building Zion - A Practical Approach
As far as we know, only two religious societies have successfully built Zion: the City of Enoch and the people in the Americas after Christ’s visit. There are good reasons for this paucity of perfect societies: building a Zionistic society of “one heart and one mind” requires sacrifice and a...
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Temple Types and Sacred Blood: How divine patterns guide young women to Christ
The symbolism of the blood of the womb echoes in the ordinances of salvation, temples ancient and modern, and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. As we rediscover sacred feminine truths that have been neglected through the ages, we develop a clearer understanding of women and their distinctive purpose...
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Eve and Her Mother: The Importance of the Female Gaze in Our Art
The male gaze, I assert, has hovered over the world of women like the giant eye of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings.
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Goddessess
For some time I have been curious about ideas of what a woman is, and where those ideas have come from. I have also been fascinated by the images of ancient goddesses, and wondered how their images have influenced thoughts about women through the ages and whether goddess images have any influence...
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Opening The Pandora's Box Of Polygamy In Utah, 2020
I ask that question especially of the orthodox CoJC members, of which there are many, in that legislature. What were they thinking when they voted for this disastrous bill? Were they dreaming of their polygamous mansions above? Or somehow vindicating their polygamous ancestors? Did they think of...
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Embodied Sociality as the Meaning of Divinity
What would happen . . . if we thought that matter is more like the fields of energy that animate the whole cosmos rather than incredibly small particles held together by external forces? What would happen if we thought of matter as the stuff that makes relationships possible, including our...
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Harlots And The Great And Abominable Church
As a child with limited exposure to blatant evil, in my perspective, a harlot was the pinnacle of wickedness. I'm not sure if I was ever explicitly taught this in church, but this term was used to describe women who preyed on men with their insatiable lust. This fits well with another false…
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Women Deaconesses In The Primitive Church
That women served as deaconesses in the early church is not really in dispute. Paul writes about women deaconesses as early as the sixth decade, about 30 years after the death of Christ. The presumed earliest mention of women deaconesses is in Romans 16:1, where Paul specifically refers to Phoebe...
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Hidden In Plain View- Mother In Heaven In Scripture
Heavenly Mother is prominently present in scripture. She plays all the roles we would expect a divine mother to play. While her presence has been obscured by the loss of plain and precious parts of original texts, her extensive involvement in the lives of her children is nevertheless still…
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The Two Churches Of Apostasy
If the center path—the straight and narrow one—is the true and safe path each LDS member is enjoined by the Savior to follow, then these other two paths, one slightly to the right and one slightly to the left of that central path, are the two apostasies of which I wish to speak. They are so close...
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The Two Trees- An LDS Revisiting Of The Garden Of Eden
After decades of studying LDS doctrine concerning women (and carefully distinguishing it from LDS cultural understandings and practices, which in quite a few cases contradict that doctrine), I have been liberated as a woman from the erroneous and harmful beliefs about women that haunt those…
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Book Review: A Time Of War, A Time Of Peace
The thesis of the book is simple: Latter-day Saints have a unique interpretation of national security in this fallen world. A reference familiar to me relates to the material in the book. It is President Spencer W. Kimball’s article, “The False Gods We Worship,” in the June 1976 Ensign. He writes...
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Priestesscraft In Boise, Idaho
Priestesscraft includes, at a minimum, the selling of eggs and the selling of gestation. The Church strongly discourages both practices, and that is not because it just hasn’t “caught up with the times.” The Church strongly discourages both practices because you should not sell these sacred…
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The Eternal Heavenly Mother
Shattering a Sacred Silence Through An Examination of What Church Leaders Have Taught About Her In Mark Sullivan’s novel, Beneath A Scarlet Sky, he describes the difficulty of researching the Nazi occupation of Italy during WWII: “I was also hampered by a kind of collective amnesia concerning…
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GET THIS- The Gate To Women’s Country
Did we women make it worth the loss here so that there might be a place of eternal sanctuary for women in the universe, a refuge where no man can enter who does not love, respect, and honor women? Where the keyword for a man’s entry is actually a woman’s name? My sisters, are the pearly gates in...
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Book Review- Girls Who Choose God
McArthur Krishna, Bethany Brady Spalding, with illustrations by Kathleen Peterson (2019) Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Extraordinary Women from Church History, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
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BOOK REVIEW- The Next Mormons
The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church. Riess, Jana. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, 2019. 312 pages. Reviewed by Ashley Alley and Kenneth Jeng.
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An Example Of Life In Polygamy In Utah
My great-grandfather, Samuel Bateman, was born in Manchester, England in 1832, converted to the Church, and came to Utah in 1850. He met Marinda Allen, my great-grandmother, in 1853 as he ferried her across the Jordan River and married her the following year. He was 22 and she was 16. In later...
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Motherhood=Priestesshood
Motherhood is authorized Priestesshood.
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Updating My Old Lists! The Status Of Diarchy In The Church
It was in 2013 that I first penned a list of things I thought would change in the Church as we moved towards the diarchy that surely exists in the celestial kingdom. I’ve periodically updated and added to it in subsequent writings. Recently, I’ve been reminded it’s time I updated the list for...
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Teaching Peace Makes Any Subject Sacred
A reporter recently described the United States as being in a civil cold war. At the most prosperous time in history, in the most prosperous nation in the history of the world, in a digital world where we can truly know each other, the popular view is that hate and discord are everywhere.
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One Woman's Thoughts On Plural Marriage
A 2002 Mormonad in the New Era magazine showed an ice cream sundae with a cockroach in the ice cream. The caption read, “It’s great, except for . . . the bad parts.” [1] Although a commentary on questionable media, I also saw it as a commentary on the gospel because the beautiful ice cream sundae...
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Love In The Void- Where God Finds Us
Somehow over the course of my life, I stumbled across the name Simone Weil, but knew next to nothing about her. This introduction to her thought, published in 2018, came highly recommended, and at 105 pages, it seemed a gentle enough introduction to tackle on a recent flight to DC.
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“12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos”: Many Good Things, One Big Fat Hairy Bad Thing
Peterson’s 12 Rules is a prosaically titled book that has already been deemed a modern classic by his followers. However, in addition to that very helpful cultural rediscovery, Peterson introduces into his work one big fat hairy error which threatens all the good he had hoped to accomplish.
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The Father and Mother: An Adaptation by V.H. Cassler
"The Father and Mother: An Adaptation by V.H. Cassler from an October 2018 General Conference Talk by Elder Brian K. Ashton," In the premortal world, we were born as spirits to Heavenly Parents and lived with Them as a family.
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Book Review: The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith
This book, one of their best, centers around the experience of doubt. The introductory chapter of the book notes that people often have preconceptions, misunderstandings, and beliefs that cause difficulty for them. History abounds with such mistaken beliefs...
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Utah Women And Mental Health
The Utah Women & Leadership Project has a series of Utah Women Stats research snapshots with the goal of providing specific, timely data on a series of issues relevant to Utah women.
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My Story: Lessons Learned Counselling with My Bishop While Experiencing Domestic Violence
He never hit me, not in 24 years. But for most of those years he hurt me.
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Developing A Primary Lesson On Black LDS History
As a mother of Latter-day Saint children in the twenty-first century, it is important to me to teach my children about the evil that is racism, including racism within our own church history.
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Navigating Transitions for Women: Finding New Calling and Purpose
Through the years, I have had hundreds of LDS women talk to me about feeling lost—lost in terms of their direction in life. Most have testimonies of the Gospel and serve faithfully in Church callings, but many of these sisters are going through transitions in life and feel a “void” that they…
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Sealing of Living Women to More Than One Husband: Has There Always Been a Third Option?
It has not been very many years ago that the idea of a woman being sealed to more than one man was a foreign subject.
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Book Review: The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us
Book review of The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us, by Bruce Feiler. New York: Penguin Press, 2017. 306 pages.
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Lost
There is a theme in almost every book, chapter, and verse of scripture that is not specifically articulated and only tangentially understood. It is “lostness.”
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Church Policy Changes Regarding Victims of Abuse are a Positive Step
On March 26, 2018 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a revision regarding a bishop’s responsibility when dealing with victims of abuse.
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Women’s Suffrage in Utah: The Almighty’s Great Leveler
In April of 1895, the Territory of Utah was all abuzz about woman’s suffrage: would the new constitution of the proposed State of Utah grant women the right to vote?
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"By Study and Also by Faith": SquareTwo and Scholarship in Light of the Restoration
John Mark Mattox emeritis of the editorial board delivers an exposition of the aims of SquareTwo. This article was originally published in SquareTwo, Vol. 4 No. 3 (Fall 2011.
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