Holly Welker

Holly Welker

Holly Welker is an award-winning poet and essayist living in Arizona. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Best American Essays, Religion Dispatches, and other publications. She is the editor of Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage.

LDS Church Rescinds Hurtful Marriage Policy Without Apology

Holly Welker

Given the ease with which the discontinuation of this policy was accomplished—two pages, three signatures—it’s worthwhile to ask: why now?

LDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children

Holly Welker

While LDS leadership rescinded its prohibition on baptizing children of LGBTQ parents, they bizarrely claim that neither the church's nor God's will have changed. You can all but hear them say, “Look, don’t blame us for the fact that God finds your gayness abhorrent! We’re just messengers!”

Changes in Role of Mormon Women Can’t Be Discussed—But Let’s Discuss Them Anyway

Holly Welker

It’s gaslighting, moral cowardice, and yet another betrayal to deny women’s anger and pain, only to go and make some of the changes women have sought while still explicitly denying that women ever had any sort of legitimate complaint.

Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism

Holly Welker

I strongly suspect that what Senator Orrin Hatch found so objectionable about the Kavanaugh hearing was that women were allowed to ask questions of a man.

Mormon ‘Humorist’ Robert Kirby Is Butt of His Own Dirty Joke

Holly Welker

The problem, he writes, is that he “misjudged how she would take [his] sense of humor.” Really? Does he normally get a good response to asking women he’s just met to pretend they’re prostitutes?

LDS Church Disavows “Mormon”-ism

Holly Welker

I doubt that Latter-day Saints are any more likely in 2018 to renounce a practice ingrained over lifetimes than they were in 1982.

Holly Welker

LDS Church Rescinds Hurtful Marriage Policy Without Apology

LDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children

Changes in Role of Mormon Women Can’t Be Discussed—But Let’s Discuss Them Anyway

Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism

Mormon ‘Humorist’ Robert Kirby Is Butt of His Own Dirty Joke

LDS Church Disavows “Mormon”-ism

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