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How MWEG Members Engage
Throughout the year members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) have been engaging in proactive advocacy, attending rallies, sending emails and making phone calls to their representatives, writing op-eds to their local newspapers, and more! The women of MWEG have included their family members and friends in their efforts to serve in their communities. No matter how big or small the contribution, our members are doing magnificent work. Take a look at some of your successes from the spring and summer: Many of you have been gathering with members of your state chapters and building relationships with state and federal representatives. For example, members of the Nebraska chapter met…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Pursuing Peace on the Train
About a week ago my family and I were stuck on a very overcrowded train on a holiday weekend in a foreign country. People were behaving badly. There weren’t enough seats on an inadequately staffed train, and the descent into chaos was quick, with many individuals refusing to honor the seat assignments of others. There were fights, and some punches were actually thrown. Long story short, in spite of having pre-booked the journey and paid for reserved seating, my family of six was left standing for much of a seven-hour journey. We were understandably a bit stressed and peeved. A few hours in, we were able to get into some…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Discernment
My third child has an artist’s soul. Her world is full of color, music, and words. She lives to create; it is her passion. Her fingers and mind are in constant motion. This consuming need to create also has led to a great deal of frustration when projects fail to meet her high standards and vision. I can only imagine her levels of stress as a young girl, working on her masterpieces with inexperienced fingers, unable to perform as she desired. Tears, many tears, were a constant in our home as she struggled, learning to be patient. One evening as I was fixing dinner, she came to me with her…
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Sabbath Devotional :: “You cannot do what I need you to do in anonymity.”
“You cannot do what I need you to do in anonymity.” These were the exact words that came to my mind, leaving me both perplexed and a little afraid. I was struggling to know whether to step forward into an opportunity that would require more of me than I felt ready to give. I much preferred to just continue to work quietly behind the scenes, collaborating with other talented women and shielded a bit from both praise and criticism. As I continued to think and pray to fully understand those words that had come with perfect clarity but fuzzy application, I realized that this answer was not just for me,…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Alma and Amulek — Joining Together to Make a Difference
After serving as the chief law-giver and judge of the people for nine years, Alma the Younger became increasingly distraught with what he observed among his people. People were growing prouder and vainer, focusing more on “riches and upon the vain things of the world,” becoming “scornful, one towards another,” and persecuting those who believed differently. There were “great contentions among the people” as well as “envyings, and strife, and malice” — and this division, this conflict, this hate existed not only outside of the church but inside it as well, festering like a cancer among people who had outwardly professed to have adopted the doctrine of Christ. The “wickedness…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Letter from the Founders
The following Open Letter from the founders of Mormon Women for Ethical Government will appear in the Sunday edition of the Salt Lake Tribune and then again in Meridian Magazine (https://ldsmag.com) on Monday. Please join us in an MWEG-wide fast and mighty prayer tomorrow (Fast Sunday) for our Church leaders (who will be meeting with President Trump on Monday), for Robert Mueller and his team, for our elected leaders, for an enlightened citizenry, and for our country. Have a blessed Sabbath, all! * * * Dear Mr. President, We welcome you to our beautiful state. You probably do not know much about Mormons, so let us take a minute to…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Six Month Anniversary
“Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart.” (Deuteronomy 4:9) This past Wednesday, July 26th, 2017, marked the six month anniversary of Mormon Women for Ethical Government. The milestone passed with little fanfare, largely because we were all so focused on ensuring that the most vulnerable people in our country not be stripped of life-saving healthcare as a result of reactionary partisan politics. In other words, we were busy doing exactly what MWEG was established for. I do want to take a moment today, though, to be still and to sit with…
