Carol Lynn Pearson Pt. 5 - The Divine Feminine and Final Thoughts on Faith | Ep. 177

Carol Lynn Pearson is the author of a 1986 memoir, Goodbye, I Love You, about the death of her gay husband from AIDS.

Her musical, My Turn on Earth, is among the most successful Mormon musicals of all time.

Carol Lynn is an advocate for women and LGBTQ+ Mormons. Her 2007 book, "No More Goodbyes," tells the stories of gay Mormons (and those of other faiths), coping with family, religion, and, occasionally, suicide.

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Show Notes:

Goodbye, I Love You: The True Story of a Wife, her Homosexual Husband, and a Love that Transcended Tragedy by Carol Lynn Pearson

No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved Ones by Carol Lynn Pearson

Contact Carol Lynn Pearson

"Power," by Carol Lynn Pearson

"Position," by Carol Lynn Pearson

"Millie's Mother's Red Dress," by Carol Lynn Pearson

"The Steward," by Carol Lynn Pearson

"A Motherless House," a poem by Carol Lynn Pearson about the erasure of Mother in Heaven from LDS discussion

"Pioneers," a poem by Carol Lynn Pearson about her Mormon identity

Beginnings and Beyond by Carol Lynn Pearson

Mother Wove the Morning, a one-woman play by Carol Lynn Pearson, portraying 16 historical women who could only conceive of God as female

In Dog Years I'm Dead: Growing Old (Dis)gracefully by Carol Lynn Pearson

The Lord Is My Shepherd: Inspiration for Couples by Carol Lynn Pearson

The Lesson: A Fable for Our Times by Carol Lynn Pearson

Embracing Coincidence: Transforming Your Life Through Meaningful Coincidence by Carol Lynn Pearson

"Patriarchy and Matriarchy,” a February 1, 1980, address by Hugh Nibley to the Women’s Conference at BYU

Jesus Was a Feminist: What the Gospels Reveal About His Revolutionary Perspective by Leonard Swidler

The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Daughters of God," Gordon B. Hinckley, General Conference October 1991, in which he admonished against praying to Mother in Heaven

Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights by Martha Bradley-Evans

Feminist Mormon Housewives

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