Elizabeth McCune

On a visit to see her missionary son in England near the end of the nineteenth century, Latter-day Saint Elizabeth McCune was alarmed to learn that anti-Mormon agitators were skewing conversation with deceptive injections of fear.  

Especially effective was critics’ insistence that if people learned the truth about the Saints living in Utah, they’d understand how oppressed women were within the faith community.

Elizabeth, however, spoke up and provided her own lived experience as a woman in Utah and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

Her voice opened up more productive exchanges and multiplied opportunities to share, helping begin formal sister missionary work in the church.

The Elizabeth McCune Institute is committed to following her example in sharing the lived experience of the faithful, while helping awaken many other future Elizabeth McCunes.