Pillars of My Faith – The African-American Experience Our speakers are both LDS and Black – a combination that has its own obvious challenges and, perhaps, blessings. They’ve been invited to share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives: a little soul bearing, a little spiritual journey, a little intellectual testimony-bearing. This self-reflective …
Event: DC Symposium 2001
The First Vision as Out-of-Body Experience and What That Means About the First Vision
The First Vision as Out-of-Body Experience and What That Means About the First Vision When we take the First Vision as a unique, personal experience, our understanding of it is limited to what Joseph Smith tells us about it. There are several indications that the Vision was an out-of-body experience. Once the Vision is framed …
The Walls Left Standing: Notes From My East German Journal and Reading Kafka: A Missionary Progress Report
The Walls Left Standing: Notes From My East German Journal and Reading Kafka: A Missionary Progress Report The Chandlers have recently returned from a Fulbright year in the northeastern most corner of Germany. This presentation shares their experiences with a culture rebuilding itself after 40 years of communism as well as a happy encounter with …
Musings on the Mind-Body Connection
Musings on the Mind-Body Connection The Mormon teaching that our bodies are ‘temples” and are sacred probably appears most often as part of the obligatory and frequent “chastity” discussions with teenagers. This doctrine, somewhat less frequently, may also be invoked in Word of Wisdom discussions. Finally, Primary lessons may note that coming to the earth …
The ‘Apostasy’ of Joseph Smith and Terry D. Kester
The ‘Apostasy’ of Joseph Smith and Terry D. Kester Terry asks: Am I not blinded unless there is shadow within the light that guides me? Our church has truth, so why does it increasingly hide the truth? Can it be that as our church grows it becomes more and more afraid of the truth? Can …
Mormon Scouting and Homosexuality: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
Mormon Scouting and Homosexuality: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale The Boy Scouts of America revoked the adult membership of James Dale shortly after he identified himself in a newspaper interview as a gay activist. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that BSA’s action violated New Jersey law. The question of whether BSA could exclude …
I Am My Brother’s Keeper
I Am My Brother’s Keeper none Angela