Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women

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The twelve essays in this anthology providea refreshing array of female perspectives, personalities, and circumstances.Along with an introduction by JamieZvirzdin, the essays invite readers to recognizeand own their personal struggles, gifts, faults, and desires and to accept wherethey stand on the spectrum of humanity.”Fresh Courage Take”demonstrates that theroad to heaven is not a conveyor belt poweredby a checklist of religious obligations, cooked casseroles, and a collection of children.If anything, it is a complex networkof interchanges and decisions includinglong, often solitary paths.

The authors span a wide range ofviews and situations in life: politicallyconservative to progressive, single tomarried with many children, highly educatedto working-class, stay-at-homemoms to the professionally successful, ofEuropean or African heritage, religiouslyorthodox to heterodox. In short, theydefine, from their diversity, what being aMormon woman means and what typeof path they feel they must take to be trueto themselves and their beliefs.
Authors include Carli Anderson, Rachael Decker Bailey, Erika Ball, Rachel Brown, Karen Critchfield, Ashley Mae Hoiland, Sylvia Lankford, Marcee Ludlow, Brooke Stoneman, Camille Strate Fairbanks, Colleen Whitley, and Jamie Zvirzdin.”