Since the 1960s, unorthodox Mormons coalesced around print publications like Sunstone and Dialogue to engage in independent thought about Mormonism. Many of those people are now parents and grandparents. This panel will discuss the challenges of raising children in the Mormon faith, but outside the mainstream. Parents will discuss “inoculation,” navigating the politics of church …
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Sunstone The Next Generation
Since the 1960s, unorthodox Mormons coalesced around print publications like Sunstone and Dialogue to engage in independent thought about Mormonism. Many of those people are now parents and grandparents. This panel will discuss the challenges of raising children in the Mormon faith, but outside the mainstream. Parents will discuss “inoculation,” navigating the politics of church …
SLC 2013 Symposium/ Session 215: Body and Soul: Mormon Theology and the Plan of Salvation in Stephenie Meyers’ The Host
Karen Smyth, Michael Austin and Paul Goodfellow present their topic on August 2, 2013. [powerpress]
Something Wiki This Way Comes: An Analysis Of The Mormon Content On Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a web-based encyclopedia project offering free access to more than 18 million articles in a variety of languages written and edited collaboratively by volunteers world-wide. With 365 million readers, it is arguably the largest and most popular internet reference site. Perhaps its most significant feature is that new entries can be added and/or …
SL10125: Francophone Mormons and the Internet: Discovering Space for Religious Expression, Dialogue, and Democracy
While Anglophone Mormons developed a habit of media communication over the years, their Francophone counterparts lagged behind. Few could afford the printed media, nor did they have much training in discussing topics as personal as belief or as sensitive as religious history, and they feared criticism if they tried. Hence, Francophone Mormons remained virtually silent …
SW08005: CONFESSIONS OF A KNIGHT ERRANT: THE POETRY OF A FAITHFUL REBEL
CONFESSIONS OF A KNIGHT ERRANT: THE POETRY OF A FAITHFUL REBEL Though better known to Mormon audiences for his non-fiction (his Defending Zion received the Mormon History Association’s Best Documentary History Award) and even his fiction (his first short story was published in Sunstone way back in 1976) Roger Robin Ekins has written – though …
Generations and Religion: Subtle Changes and Unresolved Challenges
Generations and Religion: Subtle Changes and Unresolved Challenges Professor of Religion and Society, and the director of the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a consultant on religion and society issues for PBS, NBC, and Religion and Ethics Newsweekly and …
Digital Dutch Saints
Digital Dutch Saints This session will explore the digital, progressive, multi-lingual, multi-cultural, ecumenical dialogue facilitated by the English/Dutch Restorations/ Herstellingen weblogs at www.mvgcontact.org/Restorations.htm on the independent Dutch Mormonen voor Vrede en Gerechtigheid (Mormons for Peace and Justice) website. Its two bloggers include a Dutch LDS member living in the U.S. and an American Community of …
Ecclesia Mortis: Why Are Church Meetings So Boring?
Ecclesia Mortis: Why Are Church Meetings So Boring? Just as parents bring toys and Cheerios to entertain their children at church, I bring the adult equivalent: essays, books, note pads. But why are church meetings so boring? Why don’t they engage? Is it my fault, or is there something more systemic about the dull monotony? …
Autobiography, Trauma, Testimony, and Confession
Autobiography, Trauma, Testimony, and Confession Although the Christian gospel is supposed to be a message of redemption, compassion, hope, and love, Western spiritual autobiography is rife with trauma. Christian conversion requires, many claim, destruction of the ego so the soul is open to grace, arguably a traumatic experience, however redemptive its ultimate effects. Narratives recounting …