Bob Rees, former editor of Dialogue, is a Visiting Professor and Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Previously he taught at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley and was a Fulbright Professor of American Studies in the Baltics. He is the author or editor of numerous studies, including The Readers’ Book of Mormon (co-edited with Eugene England), the forthcoming second volume of Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons, and A New Witness to the World: Reading and Re-reading the Book of Mormon, forthcoming from BCC Press. Rees has served three full-time missions, been a bishop, counselor in a mission presidency, and currently serves in the Elders’ Quorum presidency in his ward in Marin County, California.

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