For several generations, a canonical mischaracterization of God the Father has blinded Latter-day Saints to God the Mother, altered perceptions of the relationship between the mind/spirit and body, and fostered the political conservatism ascendant in Mormonism. This paper deals with the disparity between the concept of deity currently dominating Latter-day Saint conversation and the concept …
Podcast: Sunstone Magazine
Lds Sexual Abuse Survivors A Look Into The Healing Process
This presentation will review some studies about how religious communities can both help and hinder healing from sexual abuse. It will focus on apects specific to LDS survivors, and what the Church has done to address sexual assault victims. We will also discuss the LDS community’s unique culture and how it may impact the healing …
Faith In Action
Moroni 7:33 And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me. Mormonism is a gospel of faith and works. Come hear how one informs the other as speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives: a little soul …
Mormon Food 2 Electric Boogaloo Encore Presentation
This is an encore presentation from session 171. Jerilyn Hassell Pool
The Mormon Legal Mind
Jesus said, “And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.” This passage raises a number of questions for Latter-day Saints. Does Jesus oppose lawsuits? If so, why does the LDS Church engage in litigation? Would Jesus encourage his church to structure its …
Role Of Dissent In The Christian Community
The tension between authority and personal conscience can be seen in the citizen’s relation to political authority, the scholar’s relation to academic authorities, and the believer’s relation to the church. The relationship between authority and personal conscience is dialectic: the two are neither identical nor separable, and each is constantly informing the other. Dissent sometimes …
Supporting The Family Cash Incentivized Larcs Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives
Many children are being born without the benefit of married parents. Remedy? Family studies economist Isabel V. Sawhill extols highly reliable LARCs (long-acting reversible contraceptives) as being pro-children, pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-income-equality. Accordingly, why not have the federal government pay female participants enough to make implanted LARCs the norm? Despite its public interest virtures, religious …
Mormon Food 2 Electric Boogaloo
Last year’s popular food panel has been updated with information on jello, funeral potatoes, caffeinated beverages and more jokes. Jerilyn Hassell Pool
From Not White Enough To Too White The Historical Evolution Of A Mormon Race
Drawing upon scholarship from his recent book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, Paul Reeve explores the ways in which outside observers racialized Mormons as not white enough in the nineteenth century. Mormons responded by trying to claim whiteness for themselves, even at the expense of their own black …
New Thinking For Mormons Involved With Foster Care A Forward Look
The Church’s history with adoption and foster care is gray area. Efforts like the Indian Placement Program and sometimes-coercive and secretive practices of LDS Social/Family Services were guided by wrong-headed ideas about the superiority of some familiesÑwhite families, wealthy families, temple-sealed familiesÑover others. Mormons who become foster parents are vulnerable to some of the same …