A popular podcast and a heavily attended conference are helping to energize Latter-day Saints of all stripes.
analyzed ideas about Heavenly Mother. Jared Halverson of Brigham Young University’s religion department talked about stages of faith.. Griffith described his efforts to follow the charge of Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the church’s governing First Presidency, who called on members to “seek to moderate and to unify” on contested issues.The conference was “a good time with friends,” says, an independent Mormon studies scholar in Rexburg, Idaho.
She already has “landed my faith crisis,” Anderson says, “so I know how isolating it can be. Gathering as communities like this can be very healing and fortifying for people. I’m glad it’s here for people it helps. In apologetic spaces, it is interesting to see how people usually create content of the type that has helped them most on their own faith journeys.
Young enjoyed being “with like-minded people at the conference,” she says. “The speakers all addressed paths to greater connectedness and aspects of a Zion society.”, head of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University and a member of the Faith Matters board, says he “heard and felt in the room on Friday and Saturday was a big group of people who, in spite of all kinds of challenges, want to make Mormonism work, for themselves and for others.
A lot of the people who attended the conference, Bill Turnbull says, have a “complicated relationship with the church.” This was a time to “be joyful and focus on faith,” he says, while not pretending all their issues have gone away.
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