From the 1991 Summer Symposium in Salt Lake City Presentation: Child Sexual Abuse in the LDS Community Presenters: Marion Burrows Smith, co-founded, former executive director, Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center. Carlos Y. Robey, executive director, Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center; former director, Utah State Prison Residential Program for Sex Offenders. Brent D. Ward, senior vice-president and …
Podcast: Sunstone Magazine
Sunstone 2000, 134: The Academic Study Of Religion: Prospects And Perils
From the 2000 Summer Symposium in Salt Lake City Presentation: The Academic Study Of Religion: Prospects And Perils Presenters: Dan Wotherspoon, Brian Birch, Elaine Englehardt, Eugene England, Mary Ellen Robertson, Scott Kenney Abstract: The recent announcement that early steps have been taken toward establishing a Mormon Studies program at Utah Valley State College has generated much …
Sunstone 1983, 017: THE LIFE OF OLIVER COWDERY
From the 1983 Summer Symposium in Salt Lake City Presentation: The Life of Oliver Cowdery Presenter: R.D. Dennis Presenter: John Sillito Abstract: Two papers discuss the life of Oliver Cowdery.
Sunstone 2013, 174: MYSTICISM, REVELATION AND LEADERSHIP IN MORMON HISTORY: TWO CASE STUDIES
From the 2013 Summer Symposium in Salt Lake City Panel MYSTICISM, REVELATION AND LEADERSHIP IN MORMON HISTORY: TWO CASE STUDIES Paper 1 J. DUNHAM LAMANITE: EARLY MORMON LEADER, MYSTIC, AND INDIAN AMBASSADOR Presenter: CHRISTOPHER C. SMITH is a PhD student in religions in North america at Claremont Graduate University. He’s writing a dissertation on Mormons and …
Christopher C. Smith’s Four Views Of Joseph Smith: Historians Debate The Prophet Puzzle
This is an excerpt from the original Sunstone 2015 presentation, Four View of Joseph Smith: Historians Debate the Prophet Puzzle.
Who Was Flady
While searching for my great grandmother’s origins, I discovered my mother’s unknown ethnic heritage, and learned about a part of early Utah history I had known nothing about. Tonya Reiter
Author Meets Critics How To Read The Bible And Still Be A Christian
This session sets out to examine the tensions of biblical Christianity and how it interacts with Mormonism, the modern age, and social justice.along with the author of How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian, John Dominic Crossan. John Dominic Crossan, Joshua Madson, Sheila Taylor, George D. Smith, R. Dennis Potter
Our Two Different Minds Neurobiological Psychological And Spiritual Implications
We all have two different minds neurobiologically: One driven by the fearful, judgmental brain amygdala, and the other centered in the wise, reasonable prefrontal cortex (which connects intimately with parts creating compassion). They are different minds because they compete with each other on functional scanning: when one is activated, the other is inhibited. Amygdala overdrive …
Triangles Of Shame Adoption Within Mormonism
Mormonism has a unique relationship with adoption that culminates in the doctrine and ordinance of sealing. While powerful in its eternal implications, many of the root ideas surrounding this doctrine are problematic to the psychological, emotional, and physical health of persons involved in the adoption triangle: adoptee, birth parents and adoptive parents. This paper identifies …
Of One Heart And Mind Unity And Pluralism In Mormonism
This presentation draws on scripture, the teachings of Church leaders (such as President Uchtdorf’s general conference address encouraging diversity), and scholarship (such as Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy) to examine the creative tension between unity and diversity within Mormonism and to propose a model for thinking about a pluralistic unity …