This two-person road show will feature all the humor of Brother Jake and Weird Alma. Brother Jake, Weird Alma
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2018
Faith Development Primer: An Introduction to How and Why Our Faith Shifts
Faith development is simply a part of life. We all start off at the ego-centric level as young children, then as we grow older, we eventually reach the ethno-centric level. However, there are more stages beyond that, eventually leading us to cosmic-centrism. This session presents a basic roadmap of these various stages. Bill Reel
Happily Ever After: Lessons From Mixed-Faith Marriages
How does your relationship with the church affect your relationship with your spouse? This session presents stories and strategies for making mixed-faith marriages work from people who are in them. Mallory Thalman, Scotty Thalman, Anthony D. Miller, Nicholas R. Stewart
The Restoration’s Shattered Promises and Great Hope
This session presents a candid assessment of the trajectory taken by the Restoration during Joseph Smith’s lifetime and following his demise. The landscape of current restorationist factions will be considered. Our present disappointments will be considered against the background of hope to be found in the blueprint of the future presented in the Book of …
Mormons and the Enneagram
The Enneagram is a spiritual tool that teaches us to know ourselves better, helping us to pinpoint our deepest longings—and our potentially destructive behaviors. The Enneagram’s nine basic “types,” or numbers, all have positive and negative aspects, and all exhibit different ways of relating with others and with God. In this session, “the Janas” will …
Divergent Paths of Temple Worship – Tracing the history of temple worship and practice in all sects of the LDS movement
All of the sects of the LDS movement have been influenced by the symbolism, traditions, and ordinances of temples. Six sects that came out of the Nauvoo period retain temple practices, as do seven modern sects; dozens of others do not. This session will trace the history of temple practice in many different LDS traditions …
LOVELOUD SCREENING
Imagine Dragons’ frontman Dan Reynolds came to a crossroads when he witnessed fellow members of the Mormon Church spurned due to their sexual orientation. Since 2008, teen suicide rates in Utah have skyrocketed, which many people attribute to the Mormon Church’s stance regarding same-sex relationships. This film follows Dan and openly gay former Mormon Tyler …
This Inscrutable Thing Called Revelation
If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why is revelation so unreliable and confusing? How can one have implicit faith in professed revealed “truths” that may not always be true? How significant is the LDS claim of continuing revelation if it isn’t completely reliable? Are there satisfactory models for understanding and coming to terms with the …
Devotional: Amazing Grace
While official LDS doctrine includes an understanding of grace as an unwarranted and unearned gift of God, in practice it tends to emphasis earning salvation. This devotional explores the dimensions of Grace within both Christian and Mormon doctrine and emphasizes the harmonization found in C.S. Lewis’s observation that the dispute Bob Rees
332: All Our Mormon Families
This panel will discuss the ways different kinds of Mormons live and contextualize the LDS concept of LaShawn Williams, Richard Ostler, Jimmy Rex, Weston Clark, Jerilyn Hassell Pool, Brady Williams