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Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2006
Homosexuality And LDS Faith
Homosexuality And LDS Faith Our faith as Latter-day Saints offers us an expansive view of scripture, belief in modern revelation, and an immediate and intimate relationship with God and with the Holy Spirit. This session will explore how these spiritual resources can enable us to engage the issue of homosexuality without denying the experience and …
Women’s Prophetic Drumming Tradition
Women’s Prophetic Drumming Tradition Through a combination of newly excavated artifacts and biblical textual evidence, scholars are reconstructing an ancient tradition of women’s spirituality known as “drum, dance, and song.” Mormon women are heirs to a tradition that stretches from the Bee Priestesses of Neolithic Anatolia and Crete, to the later Bee Priestesses of ancient …
Attempts To Craft A Definitive Joseph Smith Biography: A Progress Report On Scholarship Since 2000
Attempts To Craft A Definitive Joseph Smith Biography: A Progress Report On Scholarship Since 2000 This session features a wide-ranging conversation between historians, scholars, and the audience on the attempt to “know Brother Joseph again.” What makes a good biography? What is the relationship between history and faith, and is the faith of members tied …
Mormon Transhumanism: Practical Faith in Physical Exaltation
Mormon Transhumanism: Practical Faith in Physical Exaltation How will immortality and resurrection come about? Joseph taught that we must learn how to become Gods ourselves, just as all Gods before us have done. Do we believe him? Jesus taught that profitable servants will wisely use the talents God has given them. What has God given …
In Memoriam: Leslie Norris Among The Mormons
In Memoriam: Leslie Norris Among The Mormons Leslie Norris was a poet of international repute, originally from Wales, whose unexpected death on 6 April 2006 (an auspicious date for Mormonism) has saddened his broad circle of friends. He was poet in residence for several years in BYU’s English Department. Though he never joined the LDS …
Reading. Oki’s Island: A Hero’s Journey
Reading. Oki’s Island: A Hero’s Journey “Eternal progression” sounds self-explanatory, but for many Latter-day Saints, the search for truth is considered accomplished when the seeker becomes a Mormon, following baptism, all that remains is to endure to the end. Kenny Kemp’s newest book, Oki’s Island, challenges such easy salvation. The book elucidates the classic hero’s …
Hitchcock’s Mormon Plot
In the post-production phase of Alfred Hitchcock’s final film, Family Plot, the director sent a memo to his sound editor to dub over one of the scenes a long monologue that Hitchcock had assembled from three different passages in the Book of Mormon. Hitchcock never indicated the origin of the monologue nor why he wanted …
Mormon Feminist Bloggers: Can Blogging Help Mormon Feminism?
Mormon Feminist Bloggers: Can Blogging Help Mormon Feminism? The appearance of a popular new blog, “Feminist Mormon Housewives,” signals the rise of a new wave of feminism within mainstream Mormonism as another generation of Mormon women confronts the problems of gender inequity within the Church. How is blogging, with its capacity to reach large numbers …
Afraid Of The Dark? Toward Healthy Communication With Teenagers About Sex
Afraid Of The Dark? Toward Healthy Communication With Teenagers About Sex Most Latter-day Saint parents would rather talk about anything with their children other than sexual desire. Is it because we have only one context in which to put the experience of sexual feelings outside marriage: sin? We recognize the potency of our drives and …