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Holly Welker

Holly Welker is the editor of Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage. Her poetry and prose have appeared in publications ranging from Seventeen to Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought to Bitch to the New York Times.

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Religion Dispatches

Mormon 'Humorist' Robert Kirby Is Butt of His Own Dirty Joke

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?
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LDS Church Disavows “Mormon"-ism

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
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Meet the New (Straight White American Male) Mormon President

On Tuesday, Russell M. Nelson, a 93-year-old retired heart surgeon, was announced as the seventeenth prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As Peggy Fletcher-Stack notes ( via…
Holly Welker
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