Robert A. Rees

Robert A. Rees, Ph.D., teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and at UC Berkeley. Rees is the editor and author of numerous studies in Education, American Studies, and Religious Studies. He is also a published poet, essayist, editorialist, and blogger. He is the editor of Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons and co-editor of The Reader’s Book of Mormon.

Portrait of a (Latter-day) Saint

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 2

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Prism

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 1

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Tikkun K’nessiah: Repairing the Church

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 4

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“Truth is the Daughter of Time”: Notes Toward an Imaginative Mormon History

Articles/Essays – Volume 6, No. 3

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Joseph Smith and the Face of Christ

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 2

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Wes Johnson: Visionary Historian

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 4

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Review: Lost in Translation Adam S. Miller. The Sun Has Burned My Skin: A Modest Paraphrase of Solomon’s Song of Songs

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2

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Forgotten Birds

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 1

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Reimagining the Restoration: Why Liberalism is the Ultimate Flowering of Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

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Ordination and Blessing

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 1

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The Imagination’s New Beginning: Thoughts on Esthetics and Religion

Articles/Essays – Volume 4, No. 3

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Dramatic Christianity: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine by Daniel Berrigan

Articles/Essays – Volume 5, No. 4

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A Continuing Dialogue

Articles/Essays – Volume 6, No. 1

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The Gospel, Mormonism and American Culture

Articles/Essays – Volume 8, No. 2

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Science, Religion and Man

Articles/Essays – Volume 8, No. 3

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The Possibilities of Dialogue

Articles/Essays – Volume 9, No. 3

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“Cooperating in Works of the Spirit”: Notes Toward a Higher Dialogue

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 1

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Somewhere Near Palmyra

Articles/Essays – Volume 13, No. 3

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Fishers

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 2

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Monologues and Dialogues: A Personal Perspective

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 2

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Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 4

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“In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 3

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Eugene England: Our Brother in Christ

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

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Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 3

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America’s War on Terrorism: One Latter-day Saint’s Perspective

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 1

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Power and Powerlessness: A Personal Perspective

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 4

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The Cedars of Lebanon

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 1

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Blind Tears

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 3

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Why Mormons Should Celebrate Holy Week

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 3

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Heart Mountain

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 3

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Baptism

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

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El Cordero de Dios

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

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Between Suicide and Celibacy: In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4

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An Open Letter to Nathan Oman

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 2

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The Possibilities of Dialogue

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 2

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“Lord, To Whom Shall We Go?” The Challenges of Discipleship and Church Membership

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 3

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Dining with the Devil: A Long Spoon: Poems by R. A. Christmas

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 2

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Black Handkerchief

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 3

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Wedding Flower

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 3

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The Goodness of the Church

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 2

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The Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

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Sabbath Baptism

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2

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Melancholia

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2

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Easter

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2

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Ode to Joy!

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 4

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Review: Adam S. Miller. Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 1

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Famine and Scarcity

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 4

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Review: Families are Forever and Ever and Ever Vivian Kleiman, dir. Families Are Forever [DVD]

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 3

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