For many, the Mormon temple experience is first jarring, then inspiring, and eventually repetitive, dull, and monotonous. How might we enliven temple worship and service? Are there ways of approaching it that can add life, personal and communal empowerment, and richer views and experiences? Meet three people for whom this answer is a resounding yes. …
Speaker: Sonja Farnsworth
SL09131 Panel. Is Priesthood Necessary for Women to Have Full Equality in the LDS Church?
The issue of women and priesthood inevitably emerges in discussions about women’s roles in Mormonism since the priesthood is the organizing principle for everything in the LDS Church from ordinances to missionary work. If women do not have access to priesthood, can they have full equality or fully utilize their gifts in the Church? We …
SL07132: IMAGE AND REALITY: THE MANY FACES OF MORMON WOMEN
IMAGE AND REALITY: THE MANY FACES OF MORMON WOMEN The concept of face invites us to consider several contrasting pairs that define face: appearance vs. reality, public vs. private, open vs. hidden, engaged vs. withdrawn, present vs. past, and ideal vs. real. What are the stereotypes about Mormon women, and how well do these images …
Hidden Envy And Competition Among LDS Women
Hidden Envy And Competition Among LDS Women Julie Mounteer Hawker’s Sunstone article “Toward a More Authentic Sisterhood: Unmasking Hidden Envy and Competition among LDS Women” brings into the open some of the tensions and paradoxes in women’s relationships, in general and how they play out in the LDS Church. Why is it that women who …
The Authoritarian Temptation
There is a bi-directional “social contract” of sorts between individuals and the Church, not just a one-way commitment from the member to the Church. This paper asks what changes of attitude and actions of Church members are needed to restore a respectful balance of power between the individual and the Church. Francis Nelson Henderson, Sonja …
THE PIVOTAL BATTLE OF OUR AGE: WAR METAPHORS, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND THE LDS RHETORIC OF DOOM
A few days after Canada legalized same-sex marriages, BYU professor Brett Lattimer called this “a bigger [issue] than the Civil War,” and Richard Wilkins, another BYU professor, asserted that “the pivotal battle of our age has began.” When and how did LDS leaders begin to use war metaphors to describe Satan’s purported assaults on the …
‘Tell Eve About The Serpent!’ A Study of the Effects of Temple Participation
‘Tell Eve About The Serpent!’ A Study of the Effects of Temple Participation This presentation is a report of a qualitative study about the effects temple participation in lives of young adult Mormons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through interviews, this study examines these individuals’ experiences, thoughts, feelings, and insights about participating in temple …
FROM ETERNITY TO HERE: The Ways Mormons Have Talked About ‘The Family’ Through History
FROM ETERNITY TO HERE: The Ways Mormons Have Talked About ‘The Family’ Through History Sonja Farnsworth
from Manifesto To Proclamation: Would The Real Mormon Family Please Stand Up?
from Manifesto To Proclamation: Would The Real Mormon Family Please Stand Up? Sonja Farnsworth
What The Atonement Means To Me
What The Atonement Means To Me Sonja Farnsworth, Craig Rossiter, Lorin Hansen, Robert J. Christensen