From the 2000 Sunstone Symposium Presentation: Multiply and Replenish– If You Want To: The 1999 LDS Church Birth Control Policy in Perspective Presenters: Chair: Chris Zollinger Maxine Hanks, writer; editor, Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Karrie Galloway, president, CEO, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah Rebecca Chandler, LDS mother of eight children, Co-editor, Dialogue: A …
Speaker: Rebecca Chandler
THE PROCLAMATION ON THE FAMILY: the Way We Ought to Be, or the Way We Never Were?
Issued in 1995, The Family: A Proclamation to the World, includes statements once considered conventional wisdom. Forty years ago, for example, practically everyone would have agreed children are entitled . . . to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows. Today, however, such an ideal excludes many who claim their …
Panel: Not Invited, but welcome: Serving as a Sister Missionary
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
From Culture To Church: Reflections On Jan Shipps’ ‘Sojourner In the Promised Land’
From Culture To Church: Reflections On Jan Shipps’ ‘Sojourner In the Promised Land’ Stacy Burton, Rebecca Chandler
The War in Heaven Revisted: Agency vs. Compulsion
As told in the scriptures, the war in heaven was more than a simple story of the good guys defeating the bad guys. The fundamental issue was the question of agency versus compulsion. Are there forces in the Church today which are attempting to compel righteousness? Does it make a difference if these forces are …
Plural Marriage: Is It An Eternal Law
A recent book, More Than One: A Sacred Heritage, A Promise for Tomorrow, by Shane Whelan, has initiated a new conversation among faithful Latter-day Saints about the practice of plural marriage. Most studies of Mormon polygamy have focused on its history and scope, have been sociological treatises about its contemporary practice among fundamentalist Mormons, or …
Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, by Jan Shipps
Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, by Jan Shipps For some time, Jan Shipps has been the preeminent non-Mormon interpreter of Mormonism. Her book, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, is a compilation of her writings for the past thirty years, much of it a personal, intellectual …
The Walls Left Standing: Notes From My East German Journal and Reading Kafka: A Missionary Progress Report
The Walls Left Standing: Notes From My East German Journal and Reading Kafka: A Missionary Progress Report The Chandlers have recently returned from a Fulbright year in the northeastern most corner of Germany. This presentation shares their experiences with a culture rebuilding itself after 40 years of communism as well as a happy encounter with …
The Walls Left Standing: Notes From My East German Journal
The Walls Left Standing: Notes From My East German Journal Rebecca Chandler, Robert A. Rees
Pillars Of My Faith
Pillars Of My Faith This is Sunstone’s perennially most popular session. Here speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives: a little intellectual testimony-bearing. This self-reflective session is about the things that matter most. Charlie Cannone, Rebecca Chandler, Elbert Peck