Goddess Worship?
Searching for the Heavenly Mother ... Divine Woman Festival
A group photo of the women who attended the Divine Woman Festival at Thanksgiving Point, in Lehi, Oct. 17, 2025
By Ciara Hulet - Published October 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM MDT
On a crisp October day, dozens of women gathered in a conference room at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, for the first-ever Divine Woman Festival.
Latter-day Saints worship a Heavenly Father, and the theology recognizes a Heavenly Mother. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints don’t talk about her much, but in recent years, there’s been a surge of interest in connecting with the divine feminine.
The festival was a passion project for the organizers, and it wasn’t affiliated with a particular church. Many of the women present were Latter-day Saints, but some had left the church or were on the fence.
Luisa Duran was in the crowd because she’s having a faith crisis — the role of women in the LDS Church has been bothering her.
“Maybe I just feel like sometimes the church makes me feel like men are more than women,” she said. “So part of me is like craving this connection with a divine feminine. And I really wanted to connect with other women.”
In the opening discussion, some said they found an instant sisterhood, while others spoke about how they haven’t felt like they could speak openly about Heavenly Mother. Another attendee, Crystal Schultz, said there aren’t a lot of tools to find her.
“The more freedom we have to know her, the more freedom we have to know ourselves,” she said. “Honestly, it's changed my entire life.”
Women participated in a meditation at the Divine Woman Festival, Oct. 17, 2025
There’s more interest than ever in talking about the divine feminine, said Margaret Toscano, and not just among Latter-day Saint women. Toscano, a University of Utah professor of classics and comparative studies, is working on a book about Heavenly Mother. She believes the spike in interest is connected to distress over the state of the world.
“I think people are longing for some method — even if it's just a sort of artistic, symbolic way — that they can find a larger way of dealing with all of these problems,” she said.
Toscano has seen depictions from LDS artists of Heavenly Mother as a tree with roots in the earth and branches reaching up to heaven.
“The earth is in trouble,” she said. “And she is this connector between heaven and earth that can help us heal on every level, on a spiritual level, a psychological level, an ecological level.”....
Op-ed by Admin:
Interestingly, some women of the LDS church as well as some other secular feminists are 'Searching for the Heavenly Mother at Utah’s first-ever Divine Woman Festival'. As it says in Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 - That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us.
This is 'Ancient Mystery Religion' referring to a religious system associated with idolatry and the worship of various goddesses, often linked to ancient practices from Babylon (Ishtar) and other cultures. This system is believed to have influenced many modern religions, incorporating elements of mother-goddess worship! For our ancestors, the embodiment of the divine feminine was the Earth itself. The ancients, who had more direct contact and a greater relationship with nature viewed the earth as this gigantic female, Greek (Giaia - Mother Earth) being who gives birth and continuously creates life.
Goddess worship is straight up Blasphemy, there is NO mention of 'Mother God' anywhere in the Bible or for that matter the Book of Mormon. Neither is the Holy Spirit, ever referred to as female in Bible, the Holy Spirit is often referred to using masculine pronouns in Christian texts!
Any form of Feminine Worship is a very clear attempt by Satan to cause people to be deceived, and stop them from worshipping the One True God! Exodus 20:3-5 - “You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.