Goodbye, I Love You: Twenty Years Later Join Carol Lynn Pearson as she shares her observations on where we are in relating to our gay loved ones two decades after the publication of her groundbreaking book, Goodbye, I Love You, which tells the story of her life with her homosexual husband. What progress have we …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2006
Michael Servetus: Underappreciated Forerunner To The Restoration
Q.: Which religious reformer of the sixteenth century anticipated so many Latter-day-Saint doctrines that he may truly be termed a Mormon theologian avant la lettre? A.: Michael Servetus (Miguel Serveto), the learned Spaniard from Aragon burned alive by the Protestants in 1553. Latter-day-Saints honor Luther, Calvin, Wycliffe, and others as path-pavers for the Restoration, but …
The Americanization Of Mormonism Reflected In Pop Culture
The Americanization Of Mormonism Reflected In Pop Culture Once marginalized but now centralized in American culture, Mormonism is a very interesting case study for cultural studies-type critiques which employ political theory and strategy, as well as philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, and other fields. We can learn much about Mormonism’s relationship to networks of …
Compassion With Action
Compassion With Action There are a lot of discomforting stories in the Bible. The story of the final great division of the sheep and the goats in the 25th chapter of Matthew is certainly one of these. Perhaps this story has a message for us today. We will explore this story, and I will confess …
Gender, Sex, Violence, And The Literary Search For A New Mormon Masculinity
Gender, Sex, Violence, And The Literary Search For A New Mormon Masculinity In Larry Rigby’s novel, The Jaeger Artist, new wealth, ambition, talent and an expensive “Liposculpting” transform middle-American Preston Wright into The New Man. But in bohemian Berlin, he wrestles with inflated artistic success, sexual excess, a thirst to avenge past wounds, violent instincts, …
Spirit In Music: The Gospel According To Peter, Paul, and Mary
Spirit In Music: The Gospel According To Peter, Paul, and Mary “Bach gave us God’s Word; Mozart gave us God’s Laughter; Beethoven gave us God’s Fire; God gave us Music that we might Pray without Words.” Panelists will share music that has particularly inspired them, including a special Harmony of the Gospels highlighting the “Gospel …
Mormon Cinema At Six: A Progress Report
Mormon Cinema At Six: A Progress Report Although Mormons have been a topic for films as early as 1905, and LDS filmmakers have been telling quintessential Mormon stories since the 1930s, Richard Dutcher’s films God’s Army (2000) and Brigham City (2001) mark what some consider to be the birth of “Mormon Cinema”, feature-length films with …
Reading. Mormon American Princess
Reading. Mormon American Princess Fresh from his hit Off-Broadway run of Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Steven Fales returns to Sunstone to debut a new solo show full of his outrageous style of humor, monologue, and song. God has seen him through excommunication, divorce, prostitution, and drugs; now Steven’s working on narcissism. And it hasn’t …
My Call to Christian Political Action
My Call to Christian Political Action In church, we spend too much time on relatively insignificant things while the world needs our witness, our application of the teachings of Jesus found in the New Testament to the problems of the world. The conflicts between the teachings of Jesus and the messages of our culture and …
Are Boys More Important Than Girls? The Conflict Between Gender Difference And Equality In Mormonism
Are Boys More Important Than Girls? The Conflict Between Gender Difference And Equality In Mormonism This presentation examines three sets of related inquiries to the question, “Are boys more important than girls?” (1) What kind of equality does God’s justice demand to fulfill the scriptural exhortation that we are all “alike unto God”? Can gender …