New book shows LDS women leading ‘At the Pulpit’ from the church’s beginnings

Last November, many Mormons fumed when a writer for Mother Jones magazine claimed Utah women didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because in her view, LDS women are repressed and submissive. Critics have leveled similar charges off and on against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since its earliest days, but in fact women have shaped the way Mormons understand and live their religion since the faith’s beginnings, say the editors of a new book, ” At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women .”