Born in 1924 in Brigham City, Utah, the 10th of 11 children, Packer worked for years as a teacher and administrator in the Church Educational System.
False Prophet Gaining Steam Among a 'Remnant' Church This friend, Quinn says, told him that the men on the council disagreed about whether Quinn was an apostate, and that President Hanks finally declared that Boyd K. Packer was pressing him to take action, and they needed to do something. The field has grown and appears to have moved on, even though the research that Quinn did, and the fights that he picked, were crucial to what has come in his wake. >Two years after an excommunicated Kate Kelly sought a giant leap, Mormon feminists keep making small steps toward equity . Following the wave of media attention that greeted the September excommunications, the First Presidency defended what had taken place. Hanks became less diplomatic. How have the members of your ward treated you? His hiring was vetoed by the ASU administration, and many observers believe the administration caved to pressure from Ira Fulton, a Mormon donor who between 2003 and 2006 gave at least $155 million to the school. The same month that his essay about post-Manifesto polygamy was published, in April 1985, Quinn and his wife separated. Anderson was photographed at her Salt Lake City home with the work of her late husband, Paul L. Anderson, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. "We pray that a spirit of clemency will guide the words and actions of everyone especially those who bear the heavy responsibility of ecclesiastical discipline of church members and that the words of President [Dieter F.] Uchtdorf [second counselor in faith's governing First Presidency] will hold sway: "Regardless of your circumstances, your personal history, or the strength of your testimony, there is room for you in this church. He asked Quinn to come see him in his office after work one day, Quinn says. Or a great one, if possible: Since childhood, Quinn had been told by his grandmother that someday he would be an apostle of the church. Though a lifelong Latter-day Saint, Hanks had not been attending a Mormon ward for several years. [5], In 1975, following discussions with Scott Kenney and others, she helped found Sunstone, an independent magazine of Mormon studies. This year he completed the third and final volume in his trilogy on the Mormon hierarchy, which examines the churchs business and financial activities from 1830 to 2010. The men at his door were the local stake president and his two counselors, the men responsible for overseeing all the congregations in the area. Many people do reside in the borderlands between Mormon and not.
Timeline of teachings on homosexuality in the Church of Jesus Christ of It struck him as an old missionarys trick. 2) I would very gladly swap my OSF compensation package with any member of the LDS First Presidency, Quorum of the 12 Apostles, or 1st Quorum of the Seventy. I don't think I could have done that graciously. Just go to . Hanks officially came back into the fold in 2012. . Peggy Fletcher Stack / Salt Lake Tribune: High-ranking Mormon official, who twice spoke in General Conference, is excommunicated Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones. One of the central questions in the aftermath of Septembers events was just how involved Packer himself had been in them. He had, after all, believed for many years that he would someday be a leader of the church, knowing that if this were true he would have to forever suppress an essential part of himself. The main target of the statement, issued in August 1991, was the Sunstone Symposium, an annual gathering started by Sunstone magazine 12 years before.
PDF Peggy Fletcher-Stack: Hi Dave. In the summer of 1952, the late Sterling McMurrin, an eminent philosopher and writer, met with two LDS apostles to defend his theological views.With complete candor, McMurrin laid out for Elders Joseph Fielding Smith and Harold . After reading Peggy Fletcher Stack's article (linked in April's post), I realized that many of us share Lavina's ongoing concerns, including the exclusion of women from institutional authority and the side-stepping of the Heavenly Mother doctrine. [5] She then attended the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California for two years, where she studied religious history. That night, we went over to our neighbors' house and watched "A Man for All Seasons" and ate popcorn. I attended the Sunstone Symposium this past summer, held on the University of Utah campus, and many people I spoke to there said that as Packers influence has waned, a more tolerant approach to dissent is taking hold. (Quinn attempted to reach this friend through a third party before my piece was finished, but declined to give me his name before speaking to him.) For details, go to http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/symposium. Her explorations gave Hanks a new level of understanding and "testimony" of Mormonism. He was the first academic to occupy the post, previously held only by high-ranking LDS leaders, and his appointment signaled a broader effort to reorganize the historians office along professional lines. They cited a 19th-century revelation to Joseph Smith, in which he spoke of the saints gathering up a knowledge of all the facts, and sufferings and abuses put upon them, and said that perhaps a committee can be appointed to find out these things, and to take statements and affidavits; and also to gather up the libelous publications that are afloat. The First Presidency did not mention that when Smith received this revelation he was in prison in Missouri, where a Mormon extermination order had been decreed by the governor not long before.
Writer excommunicated during 'September Six' purge loses her bid to I used to think Steve Benson was a bad person. I accuse that committee, England declared, of undermining our Church.. News. Within the past few years, Bradley had a change of heart and was rebaptized. Not long before Hofmann sold that forged document, he approached Quinn in the church archives, and asked about the succession crisis and the article. Photo by George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Dear Reader: When I began this series of essays on leadership, I never anticipated the final installment would chronicle recent events that have triggered the biggest spiritual struggle of my life. He didn't seem to know what footnotes are so he thought I made the whole thing up. He does not have friends in Rancho Cucamonga. Supposedly Nelson, like Benson, was a supporter of the John Birch Society, a radically right-wing, conspiracy-mongering, anti-Communist group. He normalized what many call "sinful" behavior, by admitting to looking at nudie mags, drinking, smoking, and intimated other transgressions, yet still going on a mission. She was struck by how frail he appeared, and found herself feeling nothing but compassion and love for a man who had once seemed like an enemy. Groundbreaking Emma Smith biographer, a 'giant' in Mormon scholarship, dies at 82. She has been visited by all her ward and stake leaders since 1993, she said, but this was the first time anyone had ever proposed it. He looked in the card catalog under pervert, which was the word his grandmother had used after he told her that another kid at church had been groping him. As Quinn writes, the Manifesto inherited ambiguity, was created in ambiguity, and produced ambiguity.. There he told a story about the time Packer embarrassed him in front of fellow church leaders as apparent payback for a slight from six years before.
2012. Would love to hear your stories about her. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune. By Peggy Fletcher Stack | Sep. 5, 2019, 1:20 p.m. | Updated: 11:59 p.m. . Since then, only one Avraham Gileadi, an Old Testament scholar who has spent his life researching and . The former LDS stake president, who oversaw a group of Mormon congregations in Tooele for eight years and worked as an architect on her faith's most sacred spaces, faced, in her mind, an impossible choice: Either return to living as a man or resign her . And it was not popular with those of the brethren that Quinn had already angered with his talk on Mormon history four years before. was pressured to resign from Brigham Young University and subsequently excommunicated from the faith in 1993 as part of the famed "September Six . Taking the sacrament because it's an exclusion I feel every single week. On Friday , during a popular evening session of next week's Sunstone Symposium, an annual meeting for Mormon intellectuals and observers, Hanks will detail her 20-year spiritual sojourn as a feminist theologian and chaplain, which brought her full circle back into Mormonism. For her part, Anderson always has felt a great sense of peace that I made a moral decision, an ethical decision, a decision of integrity and conscience, she wrote. And the Tribune is changing with it.
A World of Faith: Stack, Peggy F., Peterson, Kathleen B.: 9781560851622 The Salt Lake Tribune/June 16, 2014. Peggy Fletcher Stack Senior religion reporter. The former LDS stake president, who oversaw a group of congregations in Tooele for eight years and worked as an architect on her faith's most sacred spaces, faced, in her mind, an . Then he made copies of his letter and Hanks' letter and dropped them off at the offices of Vern Anderson and Peggy Fletcher Stack, a former Sunstone editor who had become a religion reporter for . (Rick Bowmer/AP) This article is more than 8 years old.
D. Michael Quinn and Mormon excommunication: The complicated life of a Those 15 men oversee the multiple Quorums of the Seventy, who in turn direct the stake presidents and bishops who minister to congregations on a part-time, voluntary basis. Two years later, he was called as an apostle. The nature of religion reporting in Utah is changing. She has sat quietly in the same pew as the emblems of the sacrament, or communion, have passed by her more than 1,200 times without being able to partake. It was already, in the minds of some, a dangerous pursuit, and it had now become a deadly one, marred by fraud and riddled with errors. The Strengthening Church Members Committee almost certainly passed along notes about Quinn to his new stake president, Paul Hanks, in early 1993. In a detailed confession, Hofmann said that he had secretly stopped believing in Mormonism as a teenager and had hatched a plan to embarrass the church by creating fake documents that exposed uncomfortable facts about early Mormon history. Dallin Oaks speaking at the General Conference in April 1989. It was his death and funeral that prompted the couples current bishop to bring up the possibility of her rejoining the church. sltrib.com 1996-2023 The Salt Lake Tribune. Crucially, much of that project is onlinemore than anything, the Internet has revolutionized the field.