The Restoration of Some Things In 1840 Joseph Smith declared that animal sacrifices would be restored once the Nauvoo Temple was completed and that this was necessary to bring to pass the ‘restoration of all things.” While modern Mormons would most likely be shocked at the thought of including animal sacrifice in their Temple worship, …
Event: DC Symposium 2000
Hold to the Ironic Rod
Hold to the Ironic Rod Robert Kirby
I Heard It On The Grapevine: The Positive Uses of Church Gossip
I Heard It On The Grapevine: The Positive Uses of Church Gossip This paper examines the ways gossip functions as a ‘speech act,” one that transforms the relationship between the two speakers. The paper will also examine how this type of unofficial talk influences the dynamics of a social group — such as a ward …
Mormonism and Multiculturalism: Some Thoughts on the Book of Esther
Mormonism and Multiculturalism: Some Thoughts on the Book of Esther This meditation will begin, not with Esther’s ultimate triumph, when she announces her cultural identity and saves her people, but with her initial failure to acknowledge her Judaism to her husband and her peers. It will try to explain why people–and especially Mormon people–are sometimes …
Marvelous Work & Blunders: Mormon Humor Readings
Marvelous Work & Blunders: Mormon Humor Readings Eloise Bell will read a few selections from ‘Madame Ridiculous and Lady Sublime,’ her new collection of essays to be published in the fall by Signature Books. Ed Snow will likely read from his book, ‘Of Curious Workmanship: Musings on Things Mormon’, which was just released from Signature …
Thoughts On Being Mormon and Human
Thoughts On Being Mormon and Human Eugene England
Barbie-shop Network, The Sweeney Sisters
Barbie-shop Network, The Sweeney Sisters Janelle Clark, Becky Linford, Jinelle Monk
Calculated Risk: Freedom for Mormons in Utah Higher Education
Calculated Risk: Freedom for Mormons in Utah Higher Education The freedom society provides us to teach and study unpopular ideas is a calculated risk. Society taxes and contributes to make possible our expensive higher educational system because it accepts that academic freedom, despite the discomfort, even anger, it often creates, serves the long-term best interests …
When Pittsburgh Meets Utah: Mormonism’s Structural Resistance To Diversity
When Pittsburgh Meets Utah: Mormonism’s Structural Resistance To Diversity Five years after her very public leave-taking from Brigham Young University, Professor Farr found herself still fielding questions about that part of her life she thought she had left behind. More disturbing, she found she was still angry–but not at what the questioners imagined. Following the …
Teaching the Historical Jesus
Teaching the Historical Jesus Last year, David Barber was assigned as a teaching assistant to a philosophy course on contemporary historical Jesus research. The class was a learning experience for him. Not surprisingly, historians best accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus do not have much in common with the Sunday School stories of …