Tag: Robert A. Rees

Earth Stewardship: Our Work for the Unborn

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 …

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The Quest for the Historical Jesus

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 …

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Jesus is the Population of the World

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 …

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Amazing Grace

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 …

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Salvator Mundi

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 …

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Pentecost

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 …

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Finding Christ at St. Paul the Apostle Church

By Robert A. Rees “To be in a holy place where love is found, where all are named and where hearts are freed to change the world.” —Motto of St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Hollywood, California     ONE SUNDAY, MY friend David Ballantine invited me to attend church with him. I have known David since …

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Jesus in the Modern World

By Robert A. Rees Jesus is like a Rorschach test. He is like the doubloon Captain Ahab nails to the mast in Moby Dick, a mirror in which we see our own reflection staring back at us. As a Christian who teaches religion at both Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley (as …

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Sun + Stone

By Robert A. Rees When Peggy Fletcher and Scott Kenney were contemplating starting a new Mormon journal in 1974, they came to see me in Los Angeles. I liked them and I liked their energy and imagination. Being the editor of Dialogue at the time, I immediately offered to help by sending them any manuscripts …

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