Hey folks! For those who didn’t get the memo, Sunstone, Kristine Haglund, Spock With a Beard and Mormon Stories are hosting a get-together at the upcoming Sunstone symposium: Location: Sheraton Hotel in Downtown SLC Date: Friday, August 10 Time: From 9:30 pm until midnight or so I’d love to meet some of our long-time...
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Archive for July, 2007
Bloggernacle Get-Together at Sunstone — Friday, August 10th
Executive Director of Sunstone
As some of you may have read, I was recently nominated and approved as “Executive Director of the Sunstone Education Foundation” by its Board of Directors. I hope to write more about Sunstone in the coming weeks and months, but in the mean time, I wanted to let you know, at a super high...
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Mormon Stories # 065: Women in the LDS Church Part 9 – Margaret Toscano on the Church, Priesthood and Mother God
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Mormon Stories # 064: Women in the LDS Church Part 8 – Margaret Toscano: Reactions to Dissent
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Mormon Stories # 063: Women in the LDS Church Part 7 – Margaret Toscano’s Journey into Mormon Studies and Feminism
Margaret Merrill Toscano is one of the most prominent and controversial feminists in the LDS church. In this episode Margaret discusses her journey into both Mormon Studies and Mormon Feminism. If you would like to express your gratitude to Margaret for doing this interview, please email your comments to me, and I will pass...
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Mormon Stories # 062: Women in the LDS Church Part 6 – Margaret Merrill Toscano: The Early Years
Margaret Merrill Toscano is one of the most prominent and controversial feminists in the LDS church. In this episode we discuss her early years growing up in Arizona as a faithful but questioning Latter-Day Saint, including her time at BYU as a student. If you would like to express your gratitude to Margaret for...
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I’m Hosting a Sunstone Workshop: “Staying in the Church After Becoming Disaffected”
From the workshop…. The essay. The audio recording of my August 2007 Sunstone Workshop entitled, “How to stay…” The PowerPoint file from that presentation The audio and video files from that presentation The PDF from my October 2007 Sunstone Workshop entitled, “How to stay…” ========= For those interested, I’m hosting a 3.5 hour workshop...
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A Chance to Contribute in Print to the Conversation about Women in the LDS Church
Followers of Mormon Women Studies Everywhere, As some of you may be aware, Sunstone magazine published this month an essay written by Margaret Toscano entitled: ARE BOYS MORE IMPORTANT THAN GIRLS? The Continuing Conflict of Gender Difference and Equality in Mormonism. Please check it out if you have not yet had the chance. After...
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Blake Ostler and My Buddy Paul Join us on Mormon Matters
Blake Ostler and my good buddy Paul join us today on Mormon Matters. The topics for discussion are the LDS church’s position on financial non-disclosure and a recent LDS church press release entitled “Approaching Mormon History.” It’s a fun one, so check it out if you get a moment. Also, music for this episode...
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Seeking Conservative LDS Panelist(s) for Mormon Matters Podcast
While we’ve had some wonderfully bright and articulate conservative or traditional LDS panelists so far on Mormon Matters podcast (John Fowles, Rosalynde Welch, Julianne Hatton), various somewhat random complexities have made it such that they are finding it hard to appear with regularity. Consequently, Mormon Matters is seeking 1 or 2 additional somewhat conservative...
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Approaching Mormon History: A Recent LDS Church Press Release
The LDS Church just released a press release called “Approaching Mormon History. It’s definitely an interesting read. My buddy was most concerned with this part: “It is often asked, for example, how the Church can reconcile the authenticity of the Book of Mormon with the absence of archeological proof. This difficulty is inherent in...
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Mormon Stories # 061: A Review of the First 5 Episodes on Mormon Women by 2 Brilliant Mormon Women (Part 2)
In part 2 of a 2-part conversation with 2 brilliant Mormon women (Taryn Nelson-Seawright and Rosalynde Welch), they review episodes 3-5 of the recent Mormon Stories series on Women in the LDS Church. This includes a discussion about the 3 part interview with Dr. Claudia Bushman. This episode was originally recorded as part of...
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Mormon Stories # 060: A Review of the First 5 Episodes on Mormon Women by 2 Brilliant Mormon Women (Part 1)
In part 1 of a 2-part conversation with 2 brilliant Mormon women (Taryn Nelson-Seawright and Rosalynde Welch), they review the first 2 episodes of the recent Mormon Stories series on Women in the LDS Church. This includes a discussion of my introduction on the topic, the 3 waves of Feminism in the USA. This...
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Looking for a Really Good Web Designer to Design/Customize WordPress Theme(s)
Will pay $$$. Please email me. John
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Salt Lake Tribune “Day in the Life of a Polygamous Mormon Family” Screencast
This is really cool (from an “understanding them” perspective). It’s from the Salt Lake Tribune, and it’s a “Day in the Life of a Polygamous Family” multimedia screencast. For those interested, there appears to be an entire SLTrib blog dedicated to modern Mormon polygamy. Check it out if you feel so inclined. (Thanks to...
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