How Powerful is God?: Process and LDS Theology in Dialogue Process theology poses many provocative questions for LDS theologians about the nature and power of God, especially about whether God or some other force or power is the metaphysical Ultimate, how God exerts influence in a universe composed entirely of free agents, and what it …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2001
My Creed
My Creed For millennia, Christians have distilled their beliefs into short statements, similar to Joseph Smith’s Articles of Faith. While the practice of a committee imposing a creedal statement of belief on a congregation is anathema to Mormons, the use of the literary form of the creed by individuals is a helpful spiritual discipline. It …
The Spirituality of Generation X
The Spirituality of Generation X It is always difficult to define what makes a ‘generation.” The very term itself asks for a chronological answer; yet, when we discuss a generation, we are most often asking cultural questions. What characteristics do a group of people born within an approximate twenty-four year span share with each other? …
‘Tell Eve about the Serpent!’ A Study of the Effects of Temple Participation
‘Tell Eve about the Serpent!’ A Study of the Effects of Temple Participation This presentation is a report of a qualitative study about the effects of temple participation in the lives of young adult Mormons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through interviews, this study examines these individuals’ experiences, thoughts, feelings, and insights about participating …
The Evolution of Belief: Reconciling Through Faith Crises ; The Evolution of Belief: A Skeptical Sojourn
The Evolution of Belief: Reconciling Through Faith Crises ; The Evolution of Belief: A Skeptical Sojourn The faith I had as a child has changed through experience and education. I see these changes as the process of going into a crisis of faith and working my way through to the reconciliation. The result has been …
The Fourteen Articles of Faith
The Fourteen Articles of Faith Lew Wallace
Are We Grown Up Yet? Relating Across Gender Barriers
Are We Grown Up Yet? Relating Across Gender Barriers So, now that we’re adults, are we thought of as ‘boys “ and “girls,” as “ladies” and “gentlemen,” or, in an LDS context, as “brothers” and “sisters”? Or, are we more accurately men and women? This panel will discuss how labeling ourselves and each other with …
‘Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir’
‘Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir’ In this remarkable achievement, editor Lavina Fielding Anderson presents to us Lucy Mack Smith in her own voice. Through a restoration of the fourteen percent of her original dictated memoir deleted from the first printed edition in 1853, and a discussion of significant variants …
Tidying Up Loose Ends?: The November 2000 Excommunication of Margaret Toscano
Tidying Up Loose Ends?: The November 2000 Excommunication of Margaret Toscano In November 2000, Margaret Toscano’s stake president summoned her to a disciplinary council. Operating with a tightly scripted plan, he ‘proved” that she had continued to speak and publish on feminist topics even after being warned by a former stake president (who, in 1993, …
Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon? Part II: The Uses of Irony.
Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon? Part II: The Uses of Irony. The Book of Mormon is replete with examples of irony, including various kinds of classical rhetorical irony. Joseph Smith’s personal writings at the time of the publication of the Book of Mormon are almost entirely devoid of irony or even …