Emily: Being Divorced in a Family-Centered Church

Emily talks about how her expectations were seriously challenged because of traumatic experiences in her childhood. She also discusses how her difficult divorce and the judgments that accompanied it caused her to create complex versions of both faith and charity. Emily’s story is told with both sweetness and wisdom, and she’ll teach you how to see your own suffering and the suffering of others through a unique, insightful lens.

Further Reading in Faith Is Not Blind:

“[O]ur memories of Kirtland can be enriched by our later, perhaps more turbulent experiences. The very meaning of our earlier witnesses will grow richer with the perspective of both time and complexity. . . That we once saw so clearly is our witness that we can again see clearly, now with even greater depth, in the very midst of —or perhaps because of—our afflictions.”

(Faith Is Not Blind, Chapter 8 “When Will the Angels Come?” p. 68)