This presentation will focus on the proper role of Latter-day Saints in modern American political discourse. It will focus not on the meta-actions of the institutional Church, per se, but rather on the duties, actions, and responsibilities of individual Mormons in pursuit of the common good. The presentation will draw heavily on social contract theorists …
Event: DC Symposium 2009
DC09001: DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR: NAUVOO POLYGAMY . . . BUT WE CALLED IT CELESTIAL MARRIAGE
Mormon polygamy began in Nauvoo, Illinois, a river town located at a bend in the Mississippi about fifty miles upstream from MarkTwain’s Hannibal, Missouri. After church founder Joseph Smith married some thirty-eight women, he introduced this GEORGE D. SMITH
DC09002: This is My Body: Thinking about the Sacrament
In this devotional, we will read the story of the Last Supper closely to unpack the language and find parallels and connections to all aspects of Christ’s ministry. We will seek to unfold new dimensions to the weekly ritual of the Sacrament. What does it symbolize? What does it direct our attention toward? How can …
DC09003: Causing the Constitution to Hang by a Thread: The Mormon Involvement in Torture
Mormons have long believed that the elders of the church would be called upon to save the US Constitution. Ironically, the Constitution has been seriously endangered by two Mormons who acted as authors, planners, legal experts, and executors of Bush doctrines that led directly to torture, dismissal of the Geneva Conventions, wiretapping without warrant, and …