Welcome to Currents, a new feature to encourage your engagement in the work and worth of Big Ocean. This month we focus on being women of faith and what that may look like. Shelli shares her poetic gift with words using a stack of blankets at an art exhibit while Aleisha highlights the power of…
When Marisa Hoover first learned about Big Ocean, she did what she always does: conducted some research and then jumped in with both feet. At the time she was a freshman at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She and a friend were drawn to an Instagram post inviting young women to apply to be…
The first tenet of Big Ocean Women is “We believe in God and are women of faith.” We don’t, as an organization, have expectations of what faith tradition our members espouse. We only recognize that there is and has historically been a high percentage of women who identify with some faith, and we also find…
The Salt Lake Valley cottage is tried and true, steady and strong. Forged in the early days of Big Ocean by Dana Robb, this cottage shines like a beacon. As other cottages cycle through high and low tides, it retains a constant current of good works and fellowship. You will note that they involve their…
Ingvild Segersam is the president of Haro in Sweden, a group formed to support parents. Haro’s purpose is to promote the family as a natural, cultural, social, and financial entity. “One of the most important things we can do is to help one another become better parents. We need to empower parents to put their…
In 1923, Alice Paul, who was a crusader for women’s equality and heroically influential in the passage of the 19th Amendment (“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”), wrote a proposed amendment to the…
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