She is gifted at rallying women to see beyond the mental boxes they sometimes place themselves in and awaken to the power they have in their covenants. What she calls for is for women to arise to the privileges they have because, she says, a converted woman can change the world. In this area, she admits, “I feel incomplete.” As one who is neither a wife nor mother, no one can accuse her of not understanding what it feels like to be left out when she asserts the divine importance and eternal significance of wife and mother. As the president of Deseret Book, she has exercised leadership skills and has hit a pinnacle of career achievement.

As a former member of the Relief Society General Presidency, she has worked with the highest councils of the Church and come to know firsthand that her voice and ideas matter.

The righteous woman’s strength and influence today can be tenfold what it might be in more tranquil times.’Ĭlick to buyThough this book is a personal essay, Sheri can speak with the authority of unique experience. To be a righteous woman during the winding-up scenes on this earth before the second coming of our Savior is an especially noble calling. Kimball, “to be a righteous women is a glorious thing in any age. Yet, she is also not afraid to ask hard questions and give illuminating answers in this book which returns to core doctrine as it invites women to arise to the spiritual mantle that has been placed on them in these latter-days.

Author Sheri Dew is quick to say what she doesn’t know, including why women don’t hold the priesthood and why we don’t know more about Heavenly Mother. Women and the Priesthood: What One Woman Believes has a modest title.

Women and the priesthood by sheri dew