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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Aquascape #6
By Lon Young Lon Young’s work has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Cimarron Review, Dialogue, and other publications. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth …
White Delightsome On The Straight Narrow The Intersection Of Mormon Heteronormativity Race Respectability And Grace
While most white Mormons today would never think to tell a black Mormon that he or she will become “white and delightsome” in the next life if righteous enough, how many would tell their LGBT brother and sisters they can become heterosexual and/or gender-conforming in the next life? Spriggs, a fringe black Mormon, shares how …
SL09376 Panel: The Enduring Principles—a 21st-century Approach to the Restoration’s Call
The Community of Christ has a Christian foundation and Restoration heritage. “In faithful response to [this] heritage and continuing experience with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit, we endeavor to uphold the following enduring principles as essential components of church identity and mission”: Grace and Generosity; Sacredness of Creation; Continuing Revelation; Worth of All Persons; …
Will, Grace, And Angels In Brokeback America: Straight Women, Gay Men, And Mormonism
Will, Grace, And Angels In Brokeback America: Straight Women, Gay Men, And Mormonism This panel examines the phenomenon of straight LDS women falling in love with and/or marrying gay LDS men, and explores how Mormon attitudes toward family, priesthood, and the role of women exacerbate problems inherent in the situation. Holly Welker, Emily Pearson, Annette …
Organizational Accountability and Grace in the LDS Church
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 …
Seeking a Truce with the Mormon Deity: Remaking Myself as a Mormon during the Early 1980s
Seeking a Truce with the Mormon Deity: Remaking Myself as a Mormon during the Early 1980s The protagonist of my story, ‘The Canyons of Grace,” published in 1982, symbolically kills the Christian God and steps forward into a mortal world full of wild grace. The price of traditional faith, she says, is your integrity. The …
‘And that Same Sociality Which Exists Among us here Will Exist Among us There’: A Mormon Understanding of Grace as Between Persons
‘And that Same Sociality Which Exists Among us here Will Exist Among us There’: A Mormon Understanding of Grace as Between Persons Different from other theistic traditions Mormons have tended not to make a distinction between the Being of God and the Being of other Persons. In fact God is presented as the great example …
Ecclesiastical Implications of Grace: A Personal Essay
Ecclesiastical Implications of Grace: A Personal Essay
Ecclesiastical Implications of Grace: A Personal Essay
Ecclesiastical Implications of Grace: A Personal Essay