What is the truth about Heavenly Mother? These videos below and the book above explore what God has revealed in this latter-day dispensation. I’m super excited to get a copy of the book above, which is mentioned in the first video below. I know Valerie Hudson Cassler from my La Leche League Leader days. She used to be a professor at BYU as well as a La Leche League Leader, when she lived in Utah. Now she is a professor at Texas A&M University. (See her website here.)

It’s so important we get the truth about women right, which is that women are worthy of respect just as men are worthy of respect. We are all children of Heavenly Parents. Women are not second-class citizens. It has been so easy for women to feel this way because of the way we have been dismissed, disrespected, and discriminated against, probably in large part because of they myths about Eve. I remember growing up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wondering why girls didn’t have a scouting program in the church when boys did. It was certainly easy to feel second class because of that reason by itself. I don’t have an answer for why the gap existed. I am thrilled that the Church finally let go of sponsoring a pack or troop of the Cub and Boy Scouts of America in every unit.

Eve did not make a mistake when she partook of the fruit. Go here for more about that. To receive the highest degree of glory, women and men get to work together as partners. It is a glorious thing to be a mother and a wife, an equal partner with a husband in creating a marriage on earth as a nucleus of creative exalted glory for eternity. My heart grieves for all women who are not treated as equals in their marriage.

Dr. Hudson Cassler tells a little bit of her story here. Below is an excerpt from that article:

“After decades of studying LDS doctrine concerning women (and carefully distinguishing it from LDS cultural understandings and practices, which in quite a few cases contradict that doctrine), I have been liberated as a woman from the erroneous and harmful beliefs about women that haunt those raised in Abrahamic traditions. How remarkable and in some senses ironic it still seems to me to have experienced “women’s lib” by conversion to Mormonism!”

So interesting right? That’s to whet your appetite for what’s in the videos below with presenter Annalee Hawley.

I’ve put the Latter-day Media YouTube Channel summary that’s featured on YouTube below each video.

Summary of Part 1:

“PART 1 (of 3 Parts) Are there deceits to the Doctrine about Mother In Heaven? Or were there misdirections in a culture? Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are unique in knowing that we have a Heavenly Family of origin, as well as Heavenly Parents that we knew in a Pre-mortal world! How glorious this doctrine is! No matter the trials and fractures we experience in this life, we ALL BELONG to Heaven, through our Savior Jesus Christ. Isn’t it interesting that in every language and culture, that our Earth is Female (not that we believe Mother in Heaven IS the earth), but why would she not be included in our Earth Schooling, and in Nature (MOTHER NATURE…yes, in EVERY CULTURE)? These are questions perhaps for another time, but we hope you enjoy a foundational presentation on several aspects we DO know about MOTHER IN HEAVEN. Do we realize that when we pray to “Elohim” (plural for God our Father AND MOTHER) that our Eternal Mother is INCLUDED too? Pray with that in mind, knowing that we all were PRESENT IN THE COUNCILS OF THE GODS….with our spirit-Eternal PARENTS and all the great and noble souls who agreed to come to this Earth in order to 1- Gain a physical body (like our Eternal Parents have), 2- To grow and progress, and to 3) “Experience CREATING our own families, as we all are The Family of God (even if we don’t know it yet. Think of all the great literature that suggest we are ALL joint-heirs in a great Family Trust – Dickens, Bronte Sisters, Jane Eyre, Cinderella stories, David Copperfield, Oliver, just to name a few)… “

Summary of Part 2:

“What do we know about our HEAVENLY PARENTS & FAMILY?
Annalee sets forth important doctrinal points about MOTHER IN HEAVEN, distinguishing where many MYTHS have arisen about her, and what questions have caused women of the Restoration, and perhaps ALL WOMEN concern at times. This topic touches on IDENTITY, HISTORY, and DOCTRINE vs. Ideological differences over time from a perspective of Restored Truths in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.”

Summary of Part 3:

“Do you feel left out of the important telling of REAL HISTORY? Do you wonder about your true identity, hidden from most human beings in so many ways? Fear no more. We have ALWAYS had Divine modeling and connection to our Divine origin. As always, we notice there is ORDER in the Universe and on this Planet we call our home and Earth School. If you wonder why you are here, where you came from, and where you are going, this Series by Annalee Hawley is not only instructive, but inspiring. Keep an open heart, but seek for wisdom. There are many who would deceive (many with good intentions). Let’s see how we can seek for our own ‘Divine Blueprint’ and claim it. Ask for guidance. Clarity counts.”

Want to learn more about Mother in Heaven? Go here.