'Cruising to the Bahamas with women who are interested in Mormon history? That’s basically a dream come true for me,' Jana Riess writes.
at Brigham Young University. But when the funding for that group ended, they found they still wanted to continue meeting — hence the cruise, which they’re opening up to other women beyond their core group.This interview has been edited for length and clarity.In academia, we have traditional ways to fund things — grant applications and institutional support. Those things take a lot of time. They’re also unreliable. I’m an entrepreneur.
I am partially disabled because of a military injury. I love cruising. That’s the only kind of family vacation we take, because it’s accessible for me. So I just thought, “I don’t think anybody’s taking just women to learn about Mormon women’s topics in this kind of environment where we don’t have to cook and we don’t have to worry about where we go and we don’t have to worry about where we sleep and we don’t have to clean up after ourselves.” So let’s do it.
You can pick your own roommate, or we’re happy to put you with someone else in a cabin. Or you can pay the single supplement to have a cabin all to yourself. We’ll eat together every night and have icebreakers so people can get to know each other.I’m talking about global Mormon women — the LDS Church around the world. Amy Hoyt, one of the other organizers, is talking about sisterhood. And she and I are doing a shore excursion together [at an extra cost].
Our hope is that it’s successful enough that we could do a larger group next time, and also that we can change our destinations. I think there’s a lot of interest in a U.K. experience because we have such a rich history of female missionaries also going to the U.K. There’s some really great itineraries that hit the U.K. and Ireland that I think would be fantastic. We didn’t want to take such a bold and aggressive step our first year, because European airfare is quite expensive.
And it doesn’t matter what stage of life you’re in — married, single, retired, kids, no kids, college kids, baby kids. I think it’s very hard for women, particularly LDS women, to find time for themselves. And it’s so important to find time for intellectual growth. It makes us better at everything that we’re doing. On this cruise you get to learn and to relax. I’m particularly excited about the food. I love when I don’t have to cook.
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