By Joanna Brooks Joanna Brooks is Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs at San Diego University and the author or editor of six scholarly books. My scholarly training is in the cultural histories of race and colonialism in early America. Because I have this larger view of the violence of colonialism in the …
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Roundtable: God Does Not Do “Small Talk”
By Fiona Givens, Joanna Brooks, Jana Riess, and Dan Wotherspoon This is an excerpt from the Mormon Matters podcast, “A Beautiful Vision of Mormonism”—a conversation about the richness of Mormon theology prompted by the release of, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life, written by Terryl and Fiona Givens (Deseret Book, 2012). …
Update October 2011
LDS Church, Doctrines Receive Wide Media Attention With the Book of Mormon Musical playing on Broadway, two Mormons running for president, and a polygamist leader serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting minors, Mormons are receiving a degree of media attention not seen since the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. While the Church redoubles …