Multiply and Replenish: If You Want To: The 1999 LDS Church Birth Control Policy in Perspective Recently, a new LDS church policy gave Mormons significant freedom. For the first time in 170 years, birth control is officially a completely personal decision. My paper compares the new1998-99 policy on birth control with previous official policies in …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2000
Bodies, Parts and Persons: Image and Identity in Women’s Lives
Bodies, Parts and Persons: Image and Identity in Women’s Lives Identity and worth in females have long been associated with culturally manipulated perceptions about physical beauty. The panel will explore the relationship of body image and the sense of self in girls and women. It will also discuss the effects that society’s obsession with physical …
Seeking Spiritual Community for a Younger Generation
Seeking Spiritual Community for a Younger Generation Every generation has its unique personality, motivations and pursuits, as well as its own ‘take” on the existential questions of life and how to answer them. In this panel, members of Generation X will share their thoughts and experience regarding the search for spiritual community, in and out …
A Different (Yet Still Firm?) Foundation: Non-Relativistic Ethics Within A Finitistic Theology
A Different (Yet Still Firm?) Foundation: Non-Relativistic Ethics Within A Finitistic Theology At this symposium twenty years ago, I took up the challenging question of the grounds of moral obligation in a universe that isn’t ultimately founded in God’s creative acts. In what sense can He command, and what makes anything right or wrong? A …
The Agony And Ecstasy Of Getting The New Conference Center Organ And Acoustics Just Right, And P.S., The Walnut Podium, Too
The Agony And Ecstasy Of Getting The New Conference Center Organ And Acoustics Just Right, And P.S., The Walnut Podium, Too This session will tell the remarkable story of the fasting, praying, asking, relaying, meditating, designing, drafting, conferring, and crafting that went into making this marvelous musical instrument become a sight and sound of beauty. …
Relative Strangers: Blood, Adoption and Eternal Destiny
Relative Strangers: Blood, Adoption and Eternal Destiny Adoption is encouraged among Mormons as a preferred solution for unplanned pregnancy and the desire for eternal families among the infertile. But beyond the mechanics of legal adoption lies the genetic and biological connection between an adopted child and its birth parents. This panel will discuss the LDS …
Growing Up Mormon in the Outland
Growing Up Mormon in the Outland The Mormons gathered in the nineteenth century and dispersed in the twentieth, spilling over the mountains to the west coast and elsewhere. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints then launched an effort to transport Mormon culture whole to distant members. This culture bloomed in the 1940s and …
Eternal Family Feud: The Alternate Voices Gameshow Showdown
Eternal Family Feud: The Alternate Voices Gameshow Showdown Part ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” part “Jeopardy,” part “Family Feud,” part “Hollywood Squares,” part seminary scripture chase, the Sunstone symposium has never seen an event like this. The alumni of BYU’s two most self- important alternative magazines–7th East Press and Student Review–square off to settle …
Tributes to Karl Sandberg, 1931-2000, or how a Southern Utah Farm-boy Became a Latter-day Saint Renaissance Man
Tributes to Karl Sandberg, 1931-2000, or how a Southern Utah Farm-boy Became a Latter-day Saint Renaissance Man Karl started life in John’s Valley, Utah, went to Monroe, then to the worlds of P.A. Christensen, Hugh B. Brown, and others in Provo, then went to France on a mission. On this expedition to Europe Karl became …
Joseph At Christmas
Joseph At Christmas I became a mother of daughters in the midst of a heightened feminist awareness. Teaching them of this awareness and helping them develop their own seemed a natural part of being their mother. Then my son was born, and I wondered whether I should teach him the same way I did my …