Panelists will discuss their experience as stay-at-home moms, including what motivated their decision to stay home with young children, what the benefits are, what the tradeoffs are, and how they respond to some of the stereotypes and common misconceptions about stay at home moms. Camille Aagard, Courtney Kendrick, Linda Wilkins, Rebecca Buchert, Erika Munson
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2009
SL09376 Panel: The Enduring Principles—a 21st-century Approach to the Restoration’s Call
The Community of Christ has a Christian foundation and Restoration heritage. “In faithful response to [this] heritage and continuing experience with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit, we endeavor to uphold the following enduring principles as essential components of church identity and mission”: Grace and Generosity; Sacredness of Creation; Continuing Revelation; Worth of All Persons; …
SL09122 The Spiritual Director is In
A subtitle for this presentation could be “The Good Red Road,” a phrase referring to one’s sacred path. I will discuss my experience participating in a two-year spiritual direction program and how my perceptions of religion and spirituality changed. I finished the program with my gratitude for my LDS background intact, but my LDS certainty …
SL09173 Panel: Creating Mormon Women: Portraits and Conversations
Mormon Women: Portraits & Conversations, a new book by the late James N. Kimball and Kent Miles, published by Handcart Books, is the basis for this presentation. The book includes first-person interviews with fourteen Mormon women from around the world who talk about their life experience within an LDS context. Miles will discuss the book, …
SL09251 Mapping Mormon Issues: Conspiracy, Delusion or Revelation? The 180-year Controversy Over the Book of Mormon Witnesses
Did Joseph Smith hypnotize the Book of Mormon witnesses? Did he palm off copper or tin plates on them as gold? Were their experiences visions, physical perceptions of ancient artifacts, or the fabrications of a conspiracy? Each of these explanations has been proffered since the witnesses laid down their challenge in the summer of 1829. …
SL09312 Panel: In Memoriam: Truman G. Madsen
Truman Madsen left a significant imprint on Mormon theology and philosophy. Come hear from friends, colleagues, and former students about the lessons learned from this influential Mormon thinker. Following panelists’ remarks, audience members will also have time to share their remembrances. Karen Marguerite Moloney, Bill Heersink, Claudia L. Bushman, Donald Q. Cannon, Jake Zollinger, Charles …
SL09351 Forgiveness: The Healing Gift We Give Ourselves
The need to forgive is universal, yet many struggle to do so. While the scriptures are clear regarding the requirement to forgive, they may not satisfy our need to understand why or how. We may feel confused—perhaps even offended—when we read the scripture, Cheryl Carson
SL09391 Panel: Discussion on Mormon Enigma 25 Years Later
Linda King Newell and Val Tippets Avery’s biography of Emma Hale Smith was published in fall 1984 after nine years of research and writing. It won three awards: MHA’s Best Book Award; John Whitmer Historical Association’s Best Book Award; and the Evans Award for Excellence in Western Biography. Nine months after the publication of the …
SL09123 The Scandal in the Practice: Joseph Smith as Religious Performer
Joseph Smith’s prophetic identity is rooted in part in his assumption of a biblical prophetic role like that of Moses or Elijah. Some Latter-day Saints have been troubled by the seeming contradiction of his involvement in magic. This paper seeks to demonstrate how tension between current notions of appropriate religious practice and historical data on …
SL09174 Panel: Counting to Infinity: How Blogging Helps Process the Travails and Triumphs of Motherhood [Partial]
The term “Mommy Blog” has been used to define as well as cordon off writing about motherhood from “serious” blogging. Nonetheless, blogs about mothering flourish as an online medium where women write about, process, and compare notes on the experiences, challenges, and joys of mothering. Why has this focus in blogging taken off and kept …