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What partnership looks like in Mormon marriages is shifting – slowly

  • Written by Caroline Kline, Assistant Director of the Center for Global Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University
imageWhat should a marriage look like? Religious leaders' ideas have shifted for centuries.davidf/E+ via Getty Images

Discussions about women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS church or Mormon church, often revolve around one question: Will they ever be ordained?

Latter-day Saint women may serve as leaders of women...

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