LGB or SSA Mormons are faced with challenging choices about how to integrate faith and sexuality. Unfortunately none of the available choices are widely approved or easy to make. In order to be inclusive and better understand these choices, an research team has been formed with both conservative and liberal members. They designed a survey …
Speaker: Marybeth Raynes
THINKING ERRORS, MORMON STYLE
People often behave, think, and respond emotionally according to patterns dictated by deeply entrenched beliefs, assumptions, perceived obligations, fears, and distortions taken from their religious, cultural, and family teachings and role modeling. All cultures and families create this dynamic, which is not necessarily good or bad, but is still decidedly real. When the resulting behaviors …
THE RELIGIOUS-HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY DIALECTIC: A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH
THE RELIGIOUS-HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY DIALECTIC: A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH During the winter of 2002–03, 165 participants filled out an extensive survey entitled “Homosexuality among Highly Religious Mormons.” This panel will present the theoretical models being applied to this data and discuss preliminary results. RON SCHOW, MARYBETH RAYNES, LEE BECKSTEAD, MARK MALAN, GARY HORLACHER
A Taste Of Everything: Why We Read Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is considered by many to be the world’s foremost integral theorist, someone who, according to Huston Smith, has “book by book [been] laying the grounds for a genuine world integration.” So, who is Ken Wilber? What are the basic premises of his integral vision? Panelists will talk about what attracted them to Wilber’s …
What Does It Mean To Me To Call Joseph Smith A Prophet?
There are now a number of biographies painting a different picture of Joseph Smith than that which is typically presented at church. What should one make of the differing accounts of the first vision, Joseph’s version of celestial marriage, peep stones and magic, for example? This session asks active Latter-day Saint panelists to focus on …
When Beliefs Lead To Estrangement
While LDS beliefs often focus on eternal unity, when differences of belief arise in LDS families, estrangement is too often the result, especially when the differing beliefs involve controversial issues such as apostasy, excommunication, inactivity, joining another faith, and sexual orientation. This panel consists of counseling professionals who deal regularly with estrangement issues, and with …
Panel. Is the Mormon Marriage Model Outmoded?
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Panel. The Love Affair of Body and Soul: Infusing the Erotic into a Life of Spiritual Growth?
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Set Apart and Silenced: One Family’s Story of Excommunication and the Struggle to Heal
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
‘Wish I Could Find A Book To Live In:’ Books That Have Enlarged My Religious World View
‘Wish I Could Find A Book To Live In:’ Books That Have Enlarged My Religious World View Edward L. Kimball, Marybeth Raynes, Ardean Watts