And David danced before the LORD with all his might, wearing a priestly garment. —2 Samuel 6:14 Let them praise his name with dancing . . . . Praise him with tambourine and dancing! —Psalms 149:3, 150:4 Religious and spiritual dancing are as ancient as belief itself. In many religious traditions—e.g., Native American, Christian, and …
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet …
By Robert A. Rees On 3 April 2016, my wife Maya and I celebrated Easter at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, California. It was a lovely, moving choral Eucharist service, beginning with a processional hymn familiar to Latter-day Saints, “From All Who Dwell Below the Skies.” Next was the usual Episcopal Eucharistic celebration: the …
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is the author of A New Witness for the World (BCC Press, 2020) and editor of Why I Stay 2 (Signature Books, 2021). I According to Latter-day Saint theology, this earth was created by the …
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union. Or right-click here to download the audio file: The Cost of Credulity: Mormons Urban Legends and the War on Terror Click here to read a PDF of the article.
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California Berkeley. He has just completed a play on Emerson and his circle and is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon. He can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com. Pilate asked the …
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California Berkeley. He has just completed a play on Emerson and his circle and is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon. He can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com. Joseph Smith reports that …
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California Berkeley. He has just completed a play on Emerson and his circle and is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon. He can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com. There is no …
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon, and can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com. On October 2017, I got a call from my son-in-law Paul Clark informing me that Salvator …
By Robert A. Rees On a recent trip to Peru for the Liahona Children’s Foundation, I was asked to address the Peruvian Congress on the subject of children’s malnutrition. Although I don’t speak Spanish, my colleague from the Foundation, Alberto Puertas, is Peruvian and beautifully bilingual, and so the members of the Congress heard …
