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After the consolidation of the Relief Society Magazine into the Ensign in 1970, an independent publication calling itself Exponent II was started in 1974 by several Cambridge, Massachusetts-area women, including Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Claudia Bushman. Produced by a non-profit organization unrelated to the LDS Church, this newspaper focuses on the concerns and experiences of some Mormon women from a feminist perspective.[5] During the 1970s, according to Alice Colton Smith, a member of the Relief Society General Board at the time, members of the Board were not permitted to subscribe to Exponent II, yet she and a few others did so under the names of their husband. With the blessing of the Exponent II editorial board, Caroline Kline, Jana ...more

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Guest Post: The Worst 18 Months

Posted August 29, 2026
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Guest Post by Miriam

I hated my mission. It’s been over 10 years, and still that sentence brings with it a sense of shame, a worry of how other people will perceive me.

All my life I had heard that missions are the best years of your life. I even heard a man reiterate that idea in front of his wife, implying that his years of being married to her were not as wonde

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