In the Garden and On the Cross, Finding Myself and Finding Jesus: A Mystical View of Core Scriptural Images Following a delicious lunch, join Phil McLemore on a journey of spiritual discovery as he searched for himself and for Jesus. This path led him from Orthodox Christianity into Mormonism and then expanded into the study …
Event: Southwest Symposium 2007
SW07011: CIRCLING THE WAGONS AROUND OUR GAY LOVED ONES: HOW ARE WE DOING?
Mormons have an inherited crossing-the-plains instinct to circle the wagons against danger, protecting our loved ones, and we do it very well. But sometimes we don’t, especially when the loved one is a homosexual. Then we often circle the wagons around our fears and prejudice, leaving the gay person outside the warmth, abandoned to the …
SW0712: TRANSFIGURATION: PARALLELS AND COMPLEMENTS BETWEEN MORMONISM AND TRANSHUMANISM
SW0712, Mormon tradition includes diverse teachings and prophecies concerning a future day of transfiguration, humans becoming physically immortal, the renewal of this world, the discovery and creation of worlds without end, and so forth. Yet our scriptures only hint about the human acts that might be needed for such things to come to be. Given …