Praying To Be Powerless: The Church’s New PR Strategy For Women

[Everybody Wang Chung]

I gave the church the benefit of the doubt and assumed this was just a fake Reddit meme. Sadly, my faith in the church's marketing department was misplaced. This is 100% real. This is an actual image from the Liahona, the church's official publication, encouraging women to use prayer as a tool to avoid the sin of exceeding their authority. It’s a bold, but completely idiotic strategy to stop women from currently leaving the church in droves. Honestly, the church couldn’t be this tone-deaf if they tried their hardest. This is a masterclass in how to alienate women.



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[I Have Questions]

Is the advice just for girls and women? This is the article the picture refers to, it’s from the January 2026 magazine.

Another key principle is to avoid exceeding our authority or assuming roles we don’t have. These mindsets deceive us into thinking too highly of our own opinions, which naturally occurs when we think too lowly of the teachings of prophets and apostles. Condemning prophets and apostles, including those of the past, obviously exceeds our authority, as the Lord reserves this ability to Himself. I am fully confident that our all-knowing, loving, and merciful Savior has addressed or will address and eagerly forgive any mistakes or imperfections of the past, as we hope He will do for us in the present.

Another example of exceeding our authority is to presume to direct prophets and apostles as to what actions the Church should take or how it should be governed. That is the Lord’s role, not ours (see Doctrine and Covenants 28:2–7). However well-intentioned we may be, condemning and presuming to direct prophets and apostles both flow from pride and lead to deception and failure to follow prophetic authority.

It’s very much telling members to STFU, stop complaining, stop agitating for change, pay/pray/and just obey. It’s an article by a Seventy who obviously wants to draw the approval of the grown ups and signal to them that he’s Apostle material.

[Everybody Wang Chung]

Is the advice just for girls and women?

Given the specific color palette and the current trend of women distancing themselves from the church, it seems this is probably directed to women. Apparently, the Savior felt it was high time they were reminded of their rightful place and value within the church.

[Tom]

I noticed that Corbitt made the same points in his 2024 FAIR Conference address, “Prophets of the Past, Faithfulness in the Present.”

[Everybody Wang Chung]

I noticed that Corbitt made the same points in his 2024 FAIR Conference address, “Prophets of the Past, Faithfulness in the Present.”

Good Lord! Is Elder Corbitt serious? Calling this activism "abuse" feels like a deflection and gaslighting from the fact that the hoax only worked because so many Mormons were genuinely starving for a sincere apology for almost 200 years of blatant racism, that the church still refuses to give.

A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune illustrated this very point of race manipulation. It cited the case of a modern-day, dissident, former Latter-day Saint who made a fake Church website to deceive Black members into thinking Church leaders had apologized for the priesthood ban.

He convinced a Black member to publish it on social media – he appointed him to speak from his tower.

Despite this dissident’s abusing Black people in this way and seemingly manipulating them as a weapon against his former Church on the very morning of the First Presidency’s historic meeting with national officers of the NAACP, the article states his justification was to “start a conversation.”53

You see, he did it for Black people.

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[Marcus]

Is the advice just for girls and women?

Given the specific color palette and the current trend of women distancing themselves from the church, it seems this is probably directed to women. Apparently, the Savior felt it was high time they were reminded of their rightful place and value within the church.

It's an excellent example of the passive aggressive approach so commonly used. Imply something but preserve deniability.

[Philo Sofee]

I gave the church the benefit of the doubt and assumed this was just a fake Reddit meme. Sadly, my faith in the church's marketing department was misplaced. This is 100% real. This is an actual image from the Liahona, the church's official publication, encouraging women to use prayer as a tool to avoid the sin of exceeding their authority. It’s a bold, but completely idiotic strategy to stop women from currently leaving the church in droves. Honestly, the church couldn’t be this tone-deaf if they tried their hardest. This is a masterclass in how to alienate women.



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Of course it's real. They do the same thing with men. Their whole schtick is authority, and they have it, you don't..... certainly not as much or as powerful as the leaders! Crimany, that's how religion enslaves... It's a small group club, and you ain't in it.