As Easter weekend is upon us, please join us for a screening and discussion of excerpts from Janet Brigham Rands
Event: Southwest Symposium 2003
READERS THEATRE PERFORMANCE: EASTER IN THE EYES OF THE WOMEN
The Easter story is most often viewed through the eyes of the apostles and various Roman leaders. This presentation relates this miracle through the words of the women who experienced it. Laura Hansen, Mary Ellen Robertson, Todd Compton, Janet Brigham Rands, Joan Petersen
THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN: Orthodoxy, Priesthood, Temple
Like intricately cut diamonds, Jesus’s parables offer multiple refractions on many intersecting issues. In the case of the parable of the Good Samaritan, I find many implications for issues such as race, finances, taxes, health insurance, temple, priesthood, orthodoxy, and love. Besides encouraging us to practice opportunistic and down- to-earth compassion, this parable subtly undercuts …
GOD AT THE KITCHEN TABLE: TEACHING YOUR RELIGIOUS AND MORAL BELIEFS TO YOUR CHILDREN
Even if we’re not fully comfortable with the doctrines and structures of organized religion, we have an obligation to teach our own children about religion and morality. And feeling that such things are culturally “unhip” is not a good reason for ignoring this essential task. How can we instill the values we cherish and even …
JESUS WANTS ME FOR A SUNBEAM, To Shine a Light on A Needed Sunday School Class
Imagine asking your bishop to form a Sunday School class for inactive members. If he says the Church provides a Gospel Essentials class, tell him the people you have in mind are returned missionaries, and former members of Relief Society and priesthood quorum presidencies who would not be well-suited for an investigator’s forum: a re-investigator’s …
TWO ROADS TO THE TRUTH: APPROACHING HISTORY THROUGH RESEARCH AND IMAGINATION
Judith Freeman and Will Bagley have written a prizewinning novel and prize-winning history of the darkest event in Mormon history, the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In Freeman’s Redwater, three wives of John D. Lee describe life on the ragged edge of the Mormon frontier. Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets carries forward Juanita Brooks’s work through its …
THE COMPLETE CONCORDANCE OF THE BOOK OF MORMON BY GEORGE REYNOLDS–The Man, the Book and it’s Uses
I have recently become very impressed by a little-known but important work, the Complete Concordance of The Book of Mormon, by George Reynolds (1842– 1909), a former secretary to the First Presidency, who began work on the concordance while imprisoned for polygamy. This session focuses on the story of this book, it’s author, publishing history, …
SIN, SKIN, AND SEED: MISTAKES OF MEN IN THE BOOK OF MORMON
This presentation critically examines the use of folk biology to naturalize the power and authority of white men in Mormon scripture. It identifies challenges facing Latter-day Saint communities in light of recent advances from the biological sciences. Is the Book of Mormon’s assumption that skin color reflects sinfulness consistent with biogenetic understandings of human physical …
IN SUPPORT OF POLYANDRY
Recent Sunstone symposiums have given a public forum to defenders of Mormonism’s past practice of polygamy. It’s time to consider the benefits of an alternative lifestyle! Glenn Cornett, Richard Rands, Mary Ellen Robertson
TRADITIONAL SACRED HARP SING: MORMON HYMNS IN THEIR PRIMITIVE VERSIONS
Many familiar hymns in the LDS hymnal are borrowed from a 17th-century tradition known as “shape-note singing.” Join in to learn this exuberant style of community singing, and enjoy the origins behind some of our favorite hymns! Chris Thorman