As more Mormons experience faith transitions and faith awakenings, many couples find themselves grieving their mixed-faith marriages. In this session, we will explore both personal and professional insights into honoring both the challenging and beautiful aspects of differing beliefs in a marriage. We will highlight the gifts associated with individualization and fostering mutual respect for …
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Growing out of Evergreen
Growing out of Evergreen
Closing Broadcast Keynote
Closing Broadcast Keynote
Avoiding Grief within the Non-Monogamy Option
As a therapist who specializes in marriage, sexuality, and faith transitions, Natasha has noticed that many couples decide to open their marriages for a variety of reasons during or after a shift in LDS religious belief or orthopraxy. This is of particular interest for two reasons: 1) we mirror a trend in the larger culture …
A Reading by BCC Press’s Newest Authors
This session wil feature three of BCC Press’s newest authors reading from their work. Twila Newey will read from her novel, Sylvia, which explores faith and family when four sisters come together as adults when their mother, and the matriarch of their extended Mormon family, dies suddenly in an automobile accident. Melody Newey Johnson will …
The Plat of Zion and How It Changed
All structures are, in some ways, ideology made manifest. This session will explore the Plat of Zion, a city planning map Joseph Smith received by revelation, and explore the way this city planning map changed to reflect trends in LDS teachings.
Closing Broadcast
Closing Broadcast
How Grief Permanently Changes You
When you are grieving, people often want to help you “get through it,” as if there is some point at which you’ll go back to being who you once were. The reality is that grief never ends, that you will be forever changed, and that there are people who will not be able to go …
Mercy: A Devotional
Everyone needs mercy because everyone faces questions of justice. And everyone needs to be merciful because, as Shakespeare says, it is a virtue that is “twice blest”/It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” Shakespeare also identifies mercy as “an attribute of God himself.” The Psalms say God’s mercy “endures forever.” As a virtue, …
Stronger Together: How to Communicate through Differences of Faith and Belief
This session provides some examples in how to maintain relationships and communicate with people who don’t share your same faith or belief.