This I Believe This session is modeled on This I Believe, the 1950’s radio series revived and broadcast on NPR. Participants crystallize an aspect of their core beliefs into a 350–500 word essay. Come hear essays from old and new friends-and we’ll have time during the session for the audience members to begin writing essays …
Speaker: Molly Bennion
Discussion, Making Sense of Today’s Book of Mormon Debates
Book of Mormon studies have shifted in recent decades, leading to many new, and widely different theories about its historicity, origins, theology, and function. What are the new approaches? How and to what extent are they affecting official Church rhetoric as well as chapel discussions? What issues are crying for the most attention? What positive …
Eternal Love: The Biblical Model of Marriage
Latter-day Saints are promised that marriage can be eternal, but what does eternal love look like? While not usually thought of as a book of great romance, the bible provides answers, presenting an ideal for love so astounding that right now we don’t dare imagine it. Beginning with God’s intent in creation and elaborating on …
Mormon Women in the 21st Century
Mormon Women in the 21st Century Six years ago, I presented ‘Issues in Contemporary Mormon Feminism” at the first-ever Mormon Studies Conference at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. This paper, revised since I presented it initially at the second Mormon Studies Conference (University of Durham, UK, 1999), takes an updated look at official, quasi-official, …
PRINCIPLES VERSUS RULES: The Moral Failure of the Film Rating System
PRINCIPLES VERSUS RULES: The Moral Failure of the Film Rating System Molly Bennion, Sage Johns