“I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if they come directly from God, they can have monumental impact on our psyches, our spirits, our hearts, and… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“Optical Illusion" Time is a stage magician Pulling sleight-of-hand tricks To make you think things go. There Eclipsed by the quick scarf A lifetime of loves. Zip— The child is man. Zip— The friend in your arms Is earth. Zip— The green tree is gold, is white, Is smoking ash, is gone. Zip— Time's trick goes on. All things loved—… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share
“We can think a healed thought and speak a healed word, speak of and to the two who are One, our MotherGoddessFatherGod. The hopeful but misty thought that "I've a Mother there" will give way to the experience that "I've a Mother here." We will know Him, Her, Them, Us, the Divine Family unbroken, bringing part to whole and whole… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share
“And Whoever is in charge of all this will walk with us, and will help us to sort out the mysteries and help us to complete the healing. Walls will fall and we will see each other more clearly - all of us, the Mormons and the Catholics and the Jews and the Moslems and the straights and the gays… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share
“In April of 2006, the Church-owned Desert Morning News, in a remarkable week-long series on suicide in Utah, reported: "A former surgeon general who recently spoke in Utah about suicide prevention said he was impressed with the state's warm and friendly people...But, he added, 'In New York, we kill each other. In Utah, you kill yourselves.'" The newspaper gave the… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share
“There's an old Jewish saying: An enemy is someone whose story you do not know. (22)” — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“I experience Mormondom to be a warm and beautiful and well-appointed home in which you suddenly find you're in a Patriarchy Funhouse that features crazy, rippling distortion mirrors built to magnify maleness and diminish femaleness. It's males who sit in the seats of authority, from God in his heaven on down to the leadership in Salt Lake City and out… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share
“I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you now stand… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“Today's science should also relieve us of the fear that our children are at great risk to be recruited into homosexuality. I believe that… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“When Heaven has an earthquake you fall to your knees and feel through the rubble to find the pieces of God. When my eternal,… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if they come… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“Being treated with politeness, consideration, even respect is different from being treated as an equal.” — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
