Product Description
Authors: Hollie Rhees Fluhman and Camille Fronk Olson
About Product: In our complex world, it’s easy for modern Latter-day Saint women to feel they don’t fit the mold, especially in a culture that often focuses on traditional values and picture-perfect families. A Place to Belong is filled with distinctive stories written by more than twenty-five modern women of faith who show there’s more than one way to be a believing and contributing woman in the Church. This collection celebrates the diverse lives that women lead, and it shares how they navigate their twin commitments to both women’s issues and faith. For some people, faith and feminism seem incompatible, yet A Place to Belong illustrates how they can actually complement one another.
The women within this book, some well-known and others lesser-known, address a variety of topics, including
• finding their testimonies
• balancing faith, family, and career;
• finding love and belonging as women within a culture that sometimes seems to misunderstand women’s issues;
• grappling with our history in a way that strengthens faith;
• faithfully dealing with “hard sayings” that can challenge
testimonies;
• navigating an ethnic or cultural background that doesn’t seem to fit within the cultural core of the Church; and more.
About the Authors: Hollie Rhees Fluhman grew up in Utah. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University, followed by continued post- baccalaureate studies. Hollie and her husband, J. Spencer Fluhman, are the parents of four children, some of whom have struggled to reconcile their faith with their progressive ideals, but were aided by candid conversations with their parents.
Camille Fronk Olson recently retired as a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, where she served as chair of the Department of Ancient Scripture for six years. As one who married much later in life, she is familiar with practices in our culture that sometimes negate the usefulness of a woman who is not a wife and mother. Camille earned an MA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and a PhD in the sociology of the Middle East from BYU. She is a popular speaker and writer whose published books include Women of the New Testament; Women of the Old Testament; Mary, the Mother of Jesus; In the Hands of the Potter; Mary, Martha and Me; and Too Much to Carry Alone. Camille and her husband, Paul, reside in Provo, Utah.
Pages: 208
Deseret Book
