They can't ex someone with that king of lineage. was pressured to resign from Brigham Young University and subsequently excommunicated from the faith in 1993 as part of the famed "September Six . The noisy nonsense on-screen felt to Quinn like a rough equivalent of what the church was doing to him. Maybe, I suggested, he was trying to bring his full self out into the open. Mormons from around the world have gathered to listen to church leaders during the two-day conference. Many people do reside in the borderlands between Mormon and not. ", Kelly goes on KUER's Radio West "A lot of people are asking me why I came forward [with the news of my disciplinary hearing]. He makes fun of the church by making fun of himself and stodgy rank and file, as well as cultural absurdities. Peggy Fletcher was raised in New Jersey, daughter of physicist Robert Chipman Fletcher and Rosemary Bennett, one of five girls and three boys. I asked Quinn this past summer if he thought the provocations he penned as a historian might have been fueled on some level by his own inner conflict with Mormon teachingsif perhaps, unconsciously, he wanted to force a showdown with church authorities. Taylor fled to Canada during the congressional hearings for Reed Smoot, a fellowbut monogamousapostle, who had been elected to the U.S. Senate. Hed better start keeping it to himself. Why didn't you go to the hearing to defend yourself? These are very sensitive and highly confidential and this is why I have not mentioned them before in writing. Hanks alluded to these matters in subsequent letters, but never explicitly said that he had Quinns sexuality in mind. The September Six were six members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who were excommunicated or disfellowshipped by the church in September 1993, allegedly for publishing scholarly work against or criticizing church doctrine or leadership. Many of the shifts in the church administration's position toward intellectuals recently has had to do with history and intellectual openness, while the issues driving Lavinas excommunication are still very much alive and unresolved today., It is possible, Bowman posits, there was fear that allowing for her rebaptism would send a signal on those issues that the First Presidency did not wish to send.. (Benson died in 94, Hunter in 95.) 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. One theory on that first day of panic was that the bombings were connected with the business, an investment company called CFS. That has been a blessing truly fulfilled. She did, however, tell her leaders her concerns about church exclusion policies: barring worthy LGBTQ couples who are legally married from full participation; blocking worthy and righteous women from the male-only priesthood; and keeping Mother in Heaven from her place in our understanding.. The cabin has no phone access, so I had months [after her initial conversation with the stake president] to think about it. In it, Harris, who paid for the first printing of the Book of Mormon, tells a story of that books origins strikingly different from Smiths later, official account. The churchs critics find the timing convenient: By 1890, the U.S. government had threatened to seize LDS property if polygamy wasnt renounced. Anderson was photographed at her Salt Lake City home on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. This other Quinn was not home when the call came, and a baby-sitter answered the phone. Her explorations gave Hanks a new level of understanding and "testimony" of Mormonism. He also mentioned reading Quinns long Dialogue article about the politics of Ezra Taft Benson. [Excommunicated Mormons are not supposed to take communion.] That night, we went over to our neighbors' house and watched "A Man for All Seasons" and ate popcorn. (He took the surname from actor Anthony Quinn, whom he knew growing up in the Los Angeles barrio.) By Peggy Fletcher Stack January 3, 2013. Mormonism was as much an identity issue for them as it is for me. 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. In order to have her blessings fully restored, she had to meet with a general authority at church headquarters. . By Peggy Fletcher Stack and David Noyce Sep. 7, 2022 What this sociologist (Darron Smith) and Peggy Fletcher Stack fail to recognize is that Mormon racism isn't in the past, it's in the present. As the historian Ross Peterson said at the time, Comparing Sunstone and Dialogue folks to people who were shooting Mormons in 1839 Missouri is unfair. Peterson, after speaking about Mormon temple rites in the press, had been shown his own file during a conversation with local church leaders. The movie was a live-action adaptation of the Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. He never wrote another work of fiction. He wrote a short story about two male missionaries in Louisiana who become attracted to each other and are stalked by a religious psychopath. Report a missed paper by emailingsubscribe@sltrib.comor calling801-237-2900, For e-edition questions or comments, contact customer support801-237-2900or emailsubscribe@sltrib.com. A diligent historian, meanwhile, will come to see that the truth of the matter is complicated. That's a good question. [15], Stack wrote a children's book about religion with artist Kathleen B. Petersen, entitled A World of Faith, published in 1998.[4][16]. Peggy Fletcher Stack, David Noyce 3/23/2022. It was the papers second article in two weeks about a series of church courts held across 13 days in September and reported in media outlets across the country. 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. While Packers precise involvement remains a matter of dispute, what little is known hints at his interference. The nature of religion reporting in Utah is changing. They never gave me one reason. That was established definitively in 1986 after Hofmann confessed to the murders of Christensen and Sheets as part of a plea to avoid the death penalty. The Mormon church, he said, drew him out of his largely monastic life and compelled him to help the men and women he saw every Sunday. The president in 2012, when Hanks was readmitted, was Thomas S. Monson. During the hiring process, a college dean offered to protect him, Quinn says, from those peoplethe LDS leadersup in Salt Lake., Before he could be hired, though, he had to visit LDS headquarters at 47 East South Temple in downtown Salt Lake and sit for an interview with one of those peoplespecifically, a general authority, one of the 100 or so men who run the church. He went to stay instead with an old college friend, Richard Lambert. Excommunication has played a significant role throughout the churchs history. Excommunication is a complicated and multi-layered process for sexual minorities in the church who choose to marry in a way that the church considers a "same sex" marriage. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted. Gileadi, Toscano, Anderson, and Hanks were all excommunicated. However, we believe that Latter-day Saints who are committed to the mission of their Church and the well-being of their fellow members will strive to be sensitive to those matters that are more appropriate for private conferring and correction than for public debate. There are times, they added, when public discussion of sacred or personal matters is inappropriate., The Statement on Symposia was another tear in the already fraying relationship between church leaders and scholars. 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. Hundreds of other members joined him at gatherings and in small groups, and thus was born the "remnant movement ," which today touts 1000s of adherents. The LDS archives became more open to scholars than ever before, and Arrington oversaw research and writing by fellow academics and graduate studentsincluding Quinn, then 28, whom he hired as an assistant. I have been taught a vision of a truly cooperative future where men and women are complete equals. Nowadays, anyone can Google Mormon polygamy and learn more than theyd ever need to know about that practice, about its abandonment, the subsequent fallout, and so on. Hymns were sung. What's happening is so wrong. Maybe she wants to be, though. [4] During her time there, she has met and interviewed the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Gordon B. Hinckley, among others. See Photos. Vacillating Wildly From Dispiriting to Exhilarating, the worldwide effort to bring salvation to all of Gods children, Some things that are true are not very useful, LDS Authority and New Plural Marriages, 18901904, this growing conflict between leaders and intellectuals, Mormon Women Have Had the Priesthood Since 1843, Quinns paper about the Baseball Baptism Program, the responsibility to preserve the doctrinal purity of the church, critical pieces he had written about Mitt Romney, Hanks described her path back to Mormonism, the administration caved to pressure from Ira Fulton. The stake president, a man named Paul Hanks, tried to step into the apartment as he said hello, Quinn recalls. I wrote an article for "Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought" that summarized 133 cases of LDS ecclesiastical abuse, and my pleas to do better to care for the Mormon faithful. On Sunday with similar church disciplinary actions threatening Mormon feminist Kate Kelly and blogger John Dehlin, Anderson discussed her spiritual journey: What triggered the LDS Church's disciplinary action against you? He was housesitting. A page of the so-called Salamander Letter, forged by Mark Hofmann. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. Years ago, Don Bradley, a longtime scholar of Mormon history, asked to have his name removed from LDS membership rolls when participation became uncomfortable. She won the Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion ReportingMid-sized Newspapers from the Religious News Association in 2004, 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2022. A box of old photos belonging to Michael Quinn at his home. Peggy Fletcher-Stack. The seventh son of Taylors third wife, Samuel sympathetically portrays his notorious father, who continued to marry multiple wives well after the LDS church officially renounced polygamy in 1890. He himself did not even stay in town. Quinn studied English literature in collegehe attended BYUbut during his three-year stint in the military he decided to become a historian, and make what had become a consuming pastime into his profession. Just go to . 1) I am very proud that, unlike the LDS Church, I have been transparent regarding OSF finances and my own compensation. Quinns mother, on the other hand, was a sixth-generation Mormon: She had an ancestor who converted when the Mormons were still in Nauvoo, Ill., and who is mentioned in Joseph Smiths journals. Hanks rejoined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in February. Hed been told it was an unusually accepting congregation. When the men from the stake presidency came to his door in February, Quinn was living three blocks from the Salt Lake Temple and the worldwide headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Quinns polygamy essay, meanwhile, produced more trouble for him with LDS leaders. What to him and others that is so threatening is that this [Ordain Women movement] is coming from a very faithful, devout perspective. Taking the sacrament because it's an exclusion I feel every single week. 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 the Salt Lake Tribune. But multiple faculty members argued that, in the words of one professor, Mike was not the right person to head up any kind of Mormon history or Mormonstudies program given the fact hes very publicly excommunicated. I did. Stack is an advisor on religion to the Public Broadcasting Service,[2] and has written two books. [10][11][12][13] The American Academy of Religion awarded her a first place Journalism Award in 2014 for her reporting on LDS missionaries who return home early from their volunteer missions. In the field of Mormon history the changes are particularly pronounced. How is she still a practicing member after all this exposure to the truth? One Sunday in February of 1993, Michael Quinn was home sick with a fever when his doorbell rang. They dont acquire these positions by filling out an application and sending in a rsum. His father was never Mormon: The son of Mexican immigrants, he changed his namethough never legallyfrom Daniel Pea to Donald Quinn, apparently wanting to escape his heritage as well as his poverty. Despite his productivity, though, hes never broken back into academia. This has been intentional. The Strengthening Church Members Committee almost certainly passed along notes about Quinn to his new stake president, Paul Hanks, in early 1993. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax Look at Steve Benson, I suspect that there was no way they were going to ex him so he exed himself. Though he maintained a solemn belief in the Mormon gospel and in the sacrament partaken of by the faithful at Sunday services, he stopped attending church altogether. McMurrin Differed in Gentler Times. He revised the story occasionally over the next decade, submitting it unsuccessfully to the Paris Review and the Atlantic. She and five other journalists at the Salt Lake Tribune won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.She won the Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion ReportingMid-sized Newspapers from the Religious News Association in 2004, 2012, 2017 . The demographics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints include statistical data relating to the church's population and particular groups within it.. [14] Along with five other reporters, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 in the Local Reporting category for a series of stories about sexual assault victims at BYU. The fact that we keep going to church is a blessing. The LDS church does not remove any name from the list unless the person is excommunicated, asks to be removed or is dead. I just feel such heartache that the church I love is doing this to people who are sincere and trying to find ways of being Mormon and express their love of the gospel. One of Ordain Womens founders, Kate Kelly, was excommunicated in June 2014. Since then, only one Avraham Gileadi, an Old Testament scholar who has spent his life researching and writing about the biblical oracle Isaiah's prophecies about our time has been rebaptized into the faith. If Peggy wanted to do some groundbreaking . In 1975, partly at Packers urging, Leonard Arringtons role at the church historians office was greatly diminished. The Bible and the Book of Mormon, which depict flawed, human prophets, are, Quinn said, an absolute refutation of the kind of history Packer advocated. England said he knew about this espionage systemit was called the Strengthening Church Members Committee, and it compiled documents and highlighted statements considered critical of the church. However, I do not see that eternal equality reflected in the contemporary church.". [5] They moved to Utah in 1991 when she was hired to be the religion writer for The Salt Lake Tribune, where much of her reporting has focused on the LDS Church. By Chris Jorgensen and Peggy Fletcher Stack The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is purging hundreds of Mormon dissidents who church officials say are preoccupied unduly with Armageddon. Stack has been the lead religion writer for The Salt Lake Tribune since 1991. . He has not been since. He froze. Excommunication opened the door to a larger cosmos, inside and outside myself.". The meaning of EXCOMMUNICATION is an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership. During Sunday school, a man approached him and said, The bishop would like to talk to you. Quinn dreaded what was coming. My guess is she has to be to keep the doors open so people willing to talk to her. The biggest thing that got me was the excommunication of bill reel segment of the Mormon stories podcast. No way. Boyd Packer, left, and Dallin Oaks, right, Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wait for the start of the first session of the 181st Semiannual General Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Grant, an LDS Church president, a granddaughter of United States Senator from Utah, Wallace F. Bennett, and a granddaughter of American physicist Harvey Fletcher. But it also betrayed tensions within the church that may never entirely go away. And he continued to correspond with Paul Hanks, who had written to express his displeasure at seeing his words quoted in the newspaper. BYU and Utah State both wanted to hire him. I hate him. Lavina Fielding Anderson may have been excommunicated from the LDS Church for apostasy more than 20 years ago, but don't think for a minute that this Utah writer is now an outsider to her faith. But some simply baptized the boysa few without explaining what the baptisms were for. We appreciate the search for knowledge and the discussion of gospel subjects, the First Presidency said. . Anderson wrote another piece that was again picked up by multiple papers, including the Los Angeles Times, which ran it under the headline Mormons Investigating Him, Critic Says.. West said hed been told by a higher authority to take further action to remedy the situation, Quinn says. They can't ex someone with that king of lineage. For the faithful, the simplest narrative regarding LDS polygamy is that God wanted Mormons to practice it between 1843when He revealed the doctrine of plural marriage to Joseph Smithand 1890, when He informed one of Smiths successors, Wilford Woodruff, of a change in course. At Sunstone, Hanks described her path back to Mormonism as a heros journey, la Joseph Campbell. His wife Margaret, an English professor and feminist who attracted attention from church leaders before her husband did, was excommunicated in 2000. A view of the Salt Lake Temple outside Olympic Medals Plaza in Salt Lake City, Utah. In his Yale dissertation, Quinn examined the highest leadership of the LDS church as a social elite, focusing on the extensive family ties within the hierarchy, the considerable wealth of Mormon authorities, and their long-standing involvement in politics. [5] She then attended the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California for two years, where she studied religious history. The second thing that happens is members learn to be afraid of leaders, and leaders learn to be afraid of members. The book, published a decade before, was written by Taylors son Samuel, best known today, perhaps, for writing the short story that became The Absent-Minded Professor. I love John and I support him, but I have never made any claim against truth claims of the church. Her sincere belief in Jesus and determination to follow him no matter the adversity faced within or without the church should be commended, and this good and faithful servant should be rewarded, he wrote. By Peggy Fletcher Stack January 16, 2015 SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) John Dehlin, known to support same-sex marriage and the Ordain Women movement, said he expects "either disfellowshipment (i.e . Packer, the second-most senior among the 12, was the substitute president of the Quorum of the Twelve whenever Hunter was sidelined for medical reasons. The regional council forwarded her request to church headquarters, with the recommendation that she be approved for rebaptism. During Quinns New Orleans years, the First Presidency put out a statement discouraging Mormons from participating in academic conferences and other independent forums devoted to the discussion of their faith. At its worst, such talk is sometimes called speaking evil of the Lords anointed.. "Mormon facing excommunication makes his living off his podcasts," by Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune, February 8, 2015 "On Attempts to Smear (i.e., Being 'Fair Gamed'") by John Dehlin ; Faith Transition episodes on Mormon Stories . The high council also heard from Andersons son, Christian, who offered his personal assessment. Just prior to reading Family Kingdom hed seen an anti-Mormon pamphlet called The Book of Mormon Examined, which highlighted hundreds of changes Joseph Smith made to the Mormon scripture in its first few printings. Once the kids were interested, the missionaries were supposed to contact their parents, with the aim of converting whole families. The same month that his essay about post-Manifesto polygamy was published, in April 1985, Quinn and his wife separated. ", "Guilt, pain, help and hope when Mormon missionaries come home early", "For a string of vivid reports revealing the perverse, punitive and cruel treatment given to sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University, one of Utah's most powerful institutions. 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. (Peggy Fletcher Stack writes for The Salt Lake Tribune.) How did you find out about the impending disciplinary hearing? Quinn got hate mail. Fulton has called Quinn a nothing person.. That was my decision. Groundbreaking Emma Smith biographer, a 'giant' in Mormon scholarship, dies at 82. He acknowledged to me that, of course, it is possible to find outlets for service outside of Mormonism. In many respects, Andersons affirmations mirror those of other members. In October, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that a threatening phone call had been made to the home of a local man named Michael D. Quinn. disciplined Anderson and five other Mormon intellectuals, church disciplinary actions threatening Mormon feminist Kate Kelly and blogger John Dehlin.

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