Bible Christians say Mitt Romney is a cultist. Because he transported the family dog on top of the family car, various animal rights groups question whether he should be permitted to own a dog, much less become president. The Tea Party says he’s insufficiently conservative while the poor say he’s too rich. And now B’nai …
Speaker: Clifton Holt Jolley
IF YOU WERE RELIGION EDITOR OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, WOULD YOU STILL BELIEVE?
In 2006, Clifton Jolley was invited to respond to a SUNSTONE presentation by Los Angeles Times religion editor William Lobdell. In Lobdell’s subsequent book, Losing My Religion (2009, HarperCollins), a significant part of the concluding chapter is devoted to describing the effect of Jolley’s remarks on Lobdell, and to the confusion those remarks still cause …
THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP: DIMENSIONS OF A MATURE MORMON FAITH, PART II
This is a continuation of a 2010 Symposium session exploring the dimensions of Christian/Mormon discipleship. Building on ideas about faith and doubt, courage and honesty, and imagination and love, this session considers such additional dimensions of discipleship as empathy, compassion, kindness, holiness, peacemaking, a commitment to counter suffering and injustice, and an openness to all …