Committed Same-sex Unions: Is a Theological Accommodation Possible? This paper explores a theological argument for legitimizing committed same-sex unions. It asks if there are scriptural and theological warrants for such a step by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other churches, especially if the bible is read holistically. I offer thoughts on …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2001
Mormon Criminal Element in Nauvoo: The Multi-Faceted Tragedy of the Hodge Brothers
Mormon Criminal Element in Nauvoo: The Multi-Faceted Tragedy of the Hodge Brothers There is a strong tendency to idealize “the Nauvoo period” of Mormon history. What is often overlooked is that Nauvoo was still a frontier town, prone to many of the same struggles facing all settlements of this period. One of these struggles was …
Fundamentalist Mormons in the News
Fundamentalist Mormons in the News Avowed polygamist Tom Green’s trial burst into the international spotlight as more than one hundred reporters traveled to Provo, Utah, from a wide variety of locales, ranging from Europe to Australia to Japan. The world watched the legal conflict that questioned the very essence of what constitutes wedlock and raised …
The Goodness of God
The Goodness of God In recent years my shoulders have bent under near-deadly blood clots, diagnosis with terminal tumors, a divorce, a sellout of my business, and the sight of my first gray hairs! Yet, sixteen years ago, this lifelong cautious believer had an experience that greatly comforted myself and my wife during the hell …
Lunchtime Laughs
Lunchtime Laughs ‘Beyond Free Agency and Dignity”- The case for the canonization of B. F. Skinner’s works. Plus the really funny bit about missionary work and tithing. Also, comical remarks about Moses, but nothing insulting. I am as fond of Moses as the next guy. — Jeff Hagen Glenn Corbett’s musical performance spoofs the strangeness …
Women in Religious Studies
Women in Religious Studies More women are pursuing advanced degrees in religious studies than ever before and a number of Mormon women seem to be following suit. This panel is comprised of Mormon women who are doing work in religious studies and/or Mormon studies. They will describe how they became interested in studying religion, what …
Virtually Mormon: Mormons and the Internet
Virtually Mormon: Mormons and the Internet From LDS-Net and Mormon-L to the new official LDS website, Mormon cyberspace has experienced explosive growth in the last decade. There are today thousands of Mormon websites and hundreds of online LDS communities around the world, and the Mormon presence on the Internet affects millions of people. This panel …
The Globe Editorial and Mormon Feminist Activism
The Globe Editorial and Mormon Feminist Activism In October 2000, Mormon feminists made history by publishing a group statement in the Boston Globe. What began as a private feminist e-mail discussion in September 2000 quickly caught fire and within two weeks became an editorial with fifty-six signatures. The editorial was re-published one week later in …
Exporting Utah’s Theocracy Since 1975: Mormon Organizational Behavior and America’s Culture Wars
Exporting Utah’s Theocracy Since 1975: Mormon Organizational Behavior and America’s Culture Wars Contrary to most theocracies, Mormon Utah has always required democratic participation for its theocracy. Two major transitions bracketed the twentieth-century manifestation of Utah Mormon theocracy. Beginning in the 1890s, Utah’s democratic theocracy had to confront significant political dissent from faithful Mormons and to …
Elementals
Elementals This session will consist of a reading of ‘ Elementals: Auto-Reductive Sonnets in Major and Minor Modes,” a collection of original poetry inter-cut with selected quotations from such Church writers as Parley P. Pratt, John A. Widstoe, and Hugh Nibley. Taken together, the poems (which have been described as “nuclear-fused sonnets, free radicals one …