Sunstone participants are often curious about other religions and find themselves drawn to religious traditions and practices other than their own. This session will explore where our spiritual paths have taken us and what questions we’ve attempted to answer along the way. What led you to spiritual seeking? Have you explored traditions and spiritual beliefs …
Event: Southwest Symposium 2009
SW09016: Panel: The Motherlode: Mormon Women Finding Balance in Various Stages of Motherwork
Hillary Clinton’s and Sarah Palin’s history-making political candidacies brought national attention to issues facing many women today: how to balance work (both inside and outside the home), parenting, and home life. Often women find themselves in the crosshairs if their life choices are out of sync with ideals touted by society, church, or their own …
SW09017: It Begins with a Family: A Conversation with Dr. Caitlin Ryan About Families and Homosexuality
Dr. Caitlin Ryan, of San Francisco State University, is a leading authority on the influence of families on their lesbian-gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) children, and on health and mental health issues for LGBT youth. She is the director of the first groundbreaking, comprehensive study of LGBT adolescents and their families, Showing that parents, families, and religious communities …
SW09018:
NPR’s syndicated show, “This I Believe” features short essays by people from all walks of life who share the core values that ground them. in this session, Sunstone friends use this basic format to speak about ideas within Mormonism or the wider spiritual world that animate their faith journey and help them feel at home …
Family Relationships in the Mormon Hierarchy
Family Relationships in the Mormon Hierarchy D. Michael Quinn
SW09019: Partners on the Path: The Journey of the Chaplain and the Patients
Kathryn Stucki will explain the role of health care chaplains, share her groundbreaking journey to become one of the first LDS women chaplains, and describe the places where her spiritual journey joins with that of her patients. Kathryn Stucki
SW09002: Devotional:
Join us as we start the symposium on a thoughtful, spiritual note with a personal essay by the late William B. Quist. excerpted from a devotional presented on 10 August 2001 at the Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium. Carol Quist
SW09020: Two Early Mormon Revelations Attributed to Joseph Smith and their Impact
This presentation focuses on two millenarian revelations attributed to Mormon Church founder, Joseph smith, specifically, his 1832 “Revelation and Prophecy on War” and the so-called “White Horse Prophecy.” Both revelations were highly publicized and familiar to both Latter-day Saints and non-Mormons alike. In addition to comparing and contrasting these two prophecies, I will also discuss …
SW09003: Teen Marriage Age in Mormon Polygamy and in American Culture: What Was the Norm?
The raid on the Folds compound in Texas has brought polygamy to national attention and in particular the Folds tendency for older men to marry young teens as polygamous wives. This has caused some non-Mormon observers to point out that in his mid-thirties, Joseph smith married teenage girls, including a 14-year-old. Conservative Mormons responded that …
SW09021: Film and Discussion:
The story of Episcopal priest Susan Russell is compelling in that her faith and her sexuality are inextricably tied. Her transformation from heterosexual housewife and non-practicing Douglas Hunter