Sharon Eubank, the director of Humanitarian Services and LDS Charities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a standing ovation on 8 August during a speech titled “This Is a Woman’s Church” during the 2014 FairMormon Conference in Provo, Utah. Eubank’s remarks addressed recent press reports that allege “the Church is sort of oppressive, or that it’s stodgily conservative, or that it might somehow be a toxic environment for women to participate in.”
To see her full address from the FairMormon Conference, click here.
“My experience in the Church as a woman has been incredibly empowering,” she said. Eubank, a former member of the Relief Society general board, was not speaking on behalf of the Church.
“What you are hungry for, what you want most, is in this Church,” she emphasized to women. “The doctrine and the practice of the Church, for me as a woman, [have] given me things that I care more deeply about than anything else in my life.”
The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, Inc., or FAIR, was founded in 1997 as a nonprofit organization by a group of Latter-day Saint apologetics. The name was changed to FairMormon last year.
To see her full address from the FairMormon Conference, click here.
sueAugust 14, 2014
I have seen this and it is a great talk. So important that, Marcel Kahne, my friend from Belgium, who translated the Book of Mormon into French, for the church, sent it to me on FB and told me- "You have to listen to this..." A friend of mine had posted it the day before and the transcript the next day. Having two women in our Ward who are somewhat involved in OW, I am so happy to have listened to it- much meat in it and now I want to study it.