Should Churches Seek Forgiveness Within the past several years, various organizations, governments, and ecclesiastical institutions have sought forgiveness for past, and in some instances, current wrongs. Recently, on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul apologized for sins Catholics committed against Jews, African Americans, women, and those sexually abused by the clergy. And …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2000
Transformations: A Mormon Mission, 1957-1959
Transformations: A Mormon Mission, 1957-1959 I look back on my mission to Great Britain and reflect aloud about significant changes in the direction of the missionary program of the Church itself during that period, changes that allowed a church of just under a million to expand to ten million in 40 years. Important things were …
New Light On The Mormons 19th-Century Western Infantry: A Discussion Of Will Bagley’s And David Bigler’s Army Of Israel
New Light On The Mormons 19th-Century Western Infantry: A Discussion Of Will Bagley’s And David Bigler’s Army Of Israel From General Daniel Tyler’s classic account of the 1850s to Norma Ricketts’s scholarly work nearly 150 years later, the Mormon Battalion continues to fascinate historians and history buffs. Recruited in 1846 to aid the United States …
Paper 1 – DNA On The Witness Stand Pager Paper 2 – The Tree Of Life
Paper 1 – DNA On The Witness Stand Pager 1- Examples from today’s headlines illustrate the forensic application of DNA techniques to identify individuals and establish relatedness between family members. These very same techniques, accepted as authoritative in the court room, are applied by science to address the question of humans’ nearest relatives in the …
Above the American Renaissance?: Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon?
Above the American Renaissance?: Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon? Was the Book of Mormon what Joseph Smith claimed it to be–an ancient sacred record whispering out of the ground to modern generations–or was it a product of what David Reynolds has called “the subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and …
Multiply and Replenish: If You Want To: The 1999 LDS Church Birth Control Policy in Perspective
Multiply and Replenish: If You Want To: The 1999 LDS Church Birth Control Policy in Perspective Recently, a new LDS church policy gave Mormons significant freedom. For the first time in 170 years, birth control is officially a completely personal decision. My paper compares the new1998-99 policy on birth control with previous official policies in …
Bodies, Parts and Persons: Image and Identity in Women’s Lives
Bodies, Parts and Persons: Image and Identity in Women’s Lives Identity and worth in females have long been associated with culturally manipulated perceptions about physical beauty. The panel will explore the relationship of body image and the sense of self in girls and women. It will also discuss the effects that society’s obsession with physical …
Seeking Spiritual Community for a Younger Generation
Seeking Spiritual Community for a Younger Generation Every generation has its unique personality, motivations and pursuits, as well as its own ‘take” on the existential questions of life and how to answer them. In this panel, members of Generation X will share their thoughts and experience regarding the search for spiritual community, in and out …
A Different (Yet Still Firm?) Foundation: Non-Relativistic Ethics Within A Finitistic Theology
A Different (Yet Still Firm?) Foundation: Non-Relativistic Ethics Within A Finitistic Theology At this symposium twenty years ago, I took up the challenging question of the grounds of moral obligation in a universe that isn’t ultimately founded in God’s creative acts. In what sense can He command, and what makes anything right or wrong? A …
The Agony And Ecstasy Of Getting The New Conference Center Organ And Acoustics Just Right, And P.S., The Walnut Podium, Too
The Agony And Ecstasy Of Getting The New Conference Center Organ And Acoustics Just Right, And P.S., The Walnut Podium, Too This session will tell the remarkable story of the fasting, praying, asking, relaying, meditating, designing, drafting, conferring, and crafting that went into making this marvelous musical instrument become a sight and sound of beauty. …