Gospel Topic Essays: 007: Mother In Heaven - Mormon.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother. This understanding is rooted in scriptural and prophetic teachings about the nature of God, our relationship to Deity, and the godly potential of men and women.1 The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother is a cherished.
Now for the Mormon this isn’t “big news” and shouldn’t cause alarm to anyone reading their daily dose of Mormon propaganda. What is startling is how the Mormon Church doesn’t give the readers or members the truth of a heavenly mother or as the Bible says “queen of heaven”. Mormons have long maintained the Mormon god is a polygamist and each person here on earth is a product of a.
Publications unofficially associated with the Church—such as Exponent II (a Mormon feminist blog and magazine) and Sunstone (an intellectual magazine)—have published numerous essays about Heavenly Mother. Online discussion boards from the same timeframe show a multitude of posts discussing Heavenly Mother and sharing questions and beliefs about Her which go beyond the official doctrine.
Wikipedia definition (as of May 10, 2013): In Mormonism, Heavenly Mother or the Mother in Heaven is the mother of human spirits and the wife of God the Father. Those who accept the Mother in Heaven doctrine trace its origins to Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. The doctrine was not widely known, however, until after the movement's succession crisis upon Smith's death.
But this is not the same for our Heavenly Mother. For, at this point, although the doctrine claims Her having a rightful, honored position in the structure- that space in not fully realized or received fully in our tradition. The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother is a cherished and distinctive belief among Latter-day Saints. Distinctive, no. Inferred, yes. Cherished, unable. At least, not yet. We.
Mormon essay addresses history of women in the priesthood. The latest essay from the Mormon Church in a series exploring their contemporary issues looks at women and priesthood.
The A Mother Here Art and Poetry Contest (2014) aimed to counter Mormonism’s cultural silence about the Mother, to inspire thinking about the Divine Feminine, and to show that Heavenly Mother is a valued part of the Mormon religious tradition by encouraging artistic and literary portrayals of Her.