This past weekend I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel at Utah Valley University’s annual Mormon Studies conference. The panel experience was unlike any I’ve sat on at other academic conferences — likely because the stakes, for the panelists and the audience too, are so high in terms of parsing out legitimate Mormon identities.My co-panelists are — put lightly — polarizing figures in various Mormon circles: Scott Gordon, President of FAIR, a website dedicated to apologetic defense of largely traditional and orthodox Mormon teachings and practice; and John Dehlin, founder of Mormon Stories, a progressive blog and podcast designed to...
Read Morey name is Rosemary, and I'm a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication
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