By Peggy Fletcher Stack | July 19, 1999 facebook_share facebook_msg linkedin twitter pinterest google_plus email The Unitarian Universalists, who were in Salt Lake City recently for their annual meeting, could not have presented a more distinct counterpoint to the state's dominant religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church. Maybe she wants to be, though,My guess is she has to be to keep the doors open so people willing to talk to her.My strong hunch is that she is a cultural Mormon who no longer believes, pays tithing or observes the WoW, and that she's loosey-goosey with her attendance.She is in the right family. By Peggy Fletcher Stack. But our numbers are dwindling.Please also opt me in for Exclusive Offers from Beliefnet’s Partners From time to time you will also receive Special Offers from our partnersBeliefnet is a lifestyle website providing feature editorial content around the topics of inspiration, spirituality, health, wellness, love and family, news and entertainment. Confronted with ideas they don't like or share, these members either leave the church or decide not to ask questions.Sunstone can still appeal to those in my generation who are engaged by the life of the mind, thrive on debate and embrace diversity, yet cherish their Mormon faith. From sunup to sundown. Such proposals have been bottled up in the legislature for years — despite the church’s historic endorsement of similar protections in Salt Lake City ordinances in 2009.Utah’s predominant faith issued the plea for such measures at all levels of government during a rare news conference.“We call on local, state and the federal government to serve all of their people by passing legislation that protects vital religious freedoms for individuals, families, churches, and other faith groups while also protecting the rights of our LGBT citizens in such areas as housing, employment, and public accommodation in hotels, restaurants, and transportation — protections which are not available in many parts of the country,” said church apostle Dallin H. Oaks.Pope Gregory XIII, portrait by Lavinia Fontana.
When I was editor/publisher from 1980 to 1986, it was an exciting time to be a Mormon intellectual. You can’t compel, you can’t coerce. Reflection of Salt Lake temple. It was all finished," the late Chieko Okazaki told Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
Photo via James Steidl / Shutterstock.comMore Utahns go to church every week — 51 percent — than any other state, according to a new Gallup That statistic is “a direct result of (Utah)’s 59 percent Mormon population,” Gallup’s Frank Newport writes, “as Mormons have the highest religious service attendance of any major religious group in the U.S.”The next most-frequent church attendees are in the South — Mississippi (47 percent), Alabama (46 percent), Louisiana (46 percent), and Arkansas (45 percent).
"There really is an enhanced threat to intact families in contemporary culture," Barlow said. A ubiquitous presence • Before the document became a Mormon household word, Bonnie L. Oscarson, president of the church's Young Women organization, said in March, not many members realized "how very desperately we would need these basic declarations in today's world as the criteria by which we could judge each new wind of worldly dogma coming at us from the media, the Internet, scholars, TV and films and even legislators. On Monday, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints formally rebuffed Ordain Women’s second push for entrance to the priesthood session and urged the grass-roots group to “demonstrate” instead in “free-speech zones adjacent to Temple Square, which have long been established for those wishing to voice differing viewpoints.”The message remains largely the same: Cover up, lest you cause the males around you to sin. Women serve on many of them but we have no way of knowing that number without counting each of them.
For more than 25 years, Caitlin Ryan has studied the impact of a family’s response to the news that their child is gay. Via Wikipedia CommonsLet’s be clear: April Fools’ Day is not a religious holiday.The day began, most believe, in 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII decreed the adoption of the “Gregorian calendar” — named after himself — which moved New Year’s Day from the end of March to Jan. 1.The change was published widely, explains Ginger Smoak, an expert in medieval history at the University of Utah, but those who didn’t get the message and continued to celebrate on April 1 “were ridiculed and, because they were seen as foolish, called April Fools.”Doug Peterson refuses to let Kate Kelly (right) into the LDS General Conference.
"As I read it," she said, "I thought that we could have made a few changes in it. I admire her. I imagine she walks a careful, thin line to avoid being exed. By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune.
or. What is evident is that the faith's female leaders, who would be speaking at the 1995 general Relief Society meeting, were not involved. Peggy Battin and her husband, Brooke Hopkins, were the subjects of my cover story last month on decision-making at the end of life. She is a great-granddaughter of Heber J. Especially considering that in a lot of cases she's the one doing the exposing...My guess is she's a let's-reform-this-baby-from-within progressive.That's like solving obesity by turning MacDonald's into a gym.Knowing her personally (not closely, but we're acquainted) I get the feeling that she is much more culturally LDS than actually LDS. We did, and they read this proclamation.
I see her articles on here all the time and the Tribune has never really been a …
If you’ve picked up a copy of the Salt Lake Tribune in the last 26 years, you know Peggy Fletcher Stack’s name. "Melding, fusing, linking, sealing, binding these became critical to his theological vocabulary in the last years of his career." Two years later, several Sunstoners were excommunicated for their public statements or writings about the church, its teachings and its leaders.These moves crushed my optimism and made me sometimes feel like an outsider in the church that had spawned me.Sunstone was our gift to the Mormon community.
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