Latter-day Saint apostle Dale G. Renlund warned recently against speculation about Heavenly Mother, but many still wonder why they can't pray to her.
that “if men do not understand the character of God, they do not understand themselves.” So if Latter-day Saint women “do not understand the character of God the Mother,” Steenblik wonders, “do they understand themselves? More significantly, if life eternal is to know the only true God, asstates, is their salvation at stake? To me, it becomes a matter of identity and salvation.”
About 1988 or so the Wasatch chapter of Affirmation, an LGBTQ support group for Latter-day Saints, “began including Heavenly Mother in prayers,” says Connell O’Donovan. “I found it personally very moving and healing to acknowledge the divine feminine. I had always really struggled with the image of a benevolent ‘father’ but my maternal grandmother had always been so unconditionally loving toward me.
Given the example for how to pray that Jesus set, encouraging or even just allowing prayers to a female deity would seem to be un-Christian to those outside the faith, at a time when the Utah-based church is already looked upon as outside the umbrella of Christianity.
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