Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of his son, Isaac, is often seen as the great paradigm for absolute faith and unquestioning obedience. Blind obedience has become the ultimate obedience—whether it is women acquiescing to polygamy, blacks accepting priesthood limitations, gays practicing celibacy, and, most recently, LDS Church members accepting the official account of the Church’s policy change …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2016
Mormons For Agency Reproductive Revolution In The Mormon Context
Mormons for Agency is a new group that includes Mormons from all walks of life who research, discuss or share their experience and information about LDS views and policies on topics such as reproductive rights, birth control, bodily autonomy, and abortion. M4A seeks an open and public discussion, and advocates for the right of all …
Religion Discrimination And Growing Up Flds
As an outsider to both the FLDS faith and LDS faith, Chatwin has felt the painful edge of discrimination from all sides who misunderstand the complicated life of standing up for victims of Warren Jeffs, as well as growing up in a polygamist family. Following Chatwin’s remarks, Brenda Nicholson will share her experience. Andrew Chatwin, …
Where We Stand Ordain Women Documentary
Where We Stand is a documentary film about a controversial group of Mormon feminists fighting for women’s ordination in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The film follows Abby Hansen, a stay-at-home mom turned vocal advocate for Ordain Women as she navigates the repercussions of her unpopular activism against her church in her …
The Evolution Of The Doctrine And Covenants Text A Preliminary And Exploratory Study
This study uses methodologies developed in the biological sciences to evaluate the development of the D&C printed text. Phylogenetic patterns of a small number of individual sections common in both RLDS/COC and LDS editions will be analyzed. Insights and comparisons between these two textual groups will be presented. These two groups will be distinguished from …
Casa Volunteering And Child Abuse In The Mormon Culture
Through my volunteer work as a court appointed special advocate (CASA) with foster and/or DCFS-identified high-risk children in northern Utah I have identified patterns of child abuse within Mormon culture. This presentation will describe familial structures that lead to cycles of abuse within Mormon families. It will also identify ways of breaking those abusive patterns …
Sunstone Service Project
Each year Sunstone seeks to fulfill the humanitarian part of our mission. For this session, we will be assembling hygiene kits for homeless families in Utah. Pop in if you’d like to help. Ashley Hoopes
Woman Of Another World I Am With You Heavenly Mother In Mormon Poetry
The A Mother Here Art and Poetry Contest (2014) aimed to counter Mormonism’s cultural silence about Heavenly Mother, to inspire thinking about the Divine Feminine, and to show that Heavenly Mother is a valued part of the Mormon religious tradition by encouraging artistic and literary portrayals of Her. In my presentation, I will read and …
Love And Gender Equality At Home A Model Of Family Transformation
Early relationship patterns lay the framework for our identity development, social interactions, and assumptions about others. If gender equality is to be achieved within Mormon culture and theology it must first be modeled in family relationships. Cultural Transformation Theory provides a framework for moving from a domination model that values “masculine” over “feminine” to a …
Broadcast Q A With Reza Aslan Judith Freeman Memories Of A Mormon Girlhood
Join Sunstone for a unique plenary session, featuring two highly acclaimed authors. There will be a 35 minute Q&A with Reza Aslan, broadcasting from his home in California. He will be discussing religious reform and fundamentalism. After his broadcast Q&A, Judith Freeman wil ltalk about her latest memoir, “The Latter Days,” followed by a Q&A. …