[…] The Prop 8 debacle showed how the present power of social media can amplify the backlash. In 2012, during the U.S. presidential election, the numerous worldwide media reports about Mormonism frequently portrayed the Mormon […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83</i><br>I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced […]
[…] Mormon women. Online Mormon feminism is a growing, internet-based movement that saw an explosion of activity in 2012. Recent social media campaigns initiated by Mormon feminists have sought to create greater equality in LDS […]
[…] by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Rindge, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012),11–26. On LDS attitudes toward the Bible, see Philip A. Barlow, Mormons and the Bible, 2nd ed. […]
[…] who had initially met with Oaks and Carlson in Salt Lake City in 1998, spoke at the 2012 WCF held in Madrid. Latter-day Saint missionaries were also in attendance and managed a booth operated […]
[…] young women and their church will never be the same. Announcement and Response On Saturday, October 6, 2012, President Thomas S. Monson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made the historic […]
[…] Jesus Christ and His gospel.” Despite some controversy raised by critics during Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012—a second “Mormon Moment,” when the Christus statue was deemed “an icon of white supremacy”—Nelson felt that […]
[…] which were later published in an edited volume with Oxford University Press titled Standing Apart. At the 2012 conference, I was invited to deliver a paper on the concept of the Apostasy in early […]
[…] Episcopal Church of Los Angeles leader Cecil Murray and spoke out against racism in general conference. In 2012, after BYU professor Randy Bott offered racist justifications for the priesthood ban to The Washington Post, […]
[…] Latter-day Saints, nor did its official statement “Race and the Church: All Are Alike Unto God” in 2012 nor its 2013 Gospel Topics essay “Race and Priesthood.” In spite of significant progress made over […]