(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lavina Fielding Anderson, who was excommunicated in 1993 as part of the so-called September Six, has had her request for rebaptism into the LDS Church rejected by the faith's governing First Presidency after being approved by her local lay leaders. These three shocks to Quinns testimonyabout the Book of Mormon, polygamy, and LDS theologyspurred a pursuit to unearth and understand those parts of his religions past that complicated the simpler story of the faith he had learned as a child. Would love to hear your stories about her. The church reports a worldwide membership of 16 million. The Mormon church is organized into congregations called wards; a group of these is called a stake. It was his death and funeral that prompted the couples current bishop to bring up the possibility of her rejoining the church. That last comment became the caption for a Newsweek photo three months later, when the magazines religion reporter, Kenneth L. Woodward, wrote a 1,000-word story about Quinns talk and the controversy it prompted. Not long before Hofmann sold that forged document, he approached Quinn in the church archives, and asked about the succession crisis and the article. 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. In many respects, Andersons affirmations mirror those of other members. Quinn showed that Brigham Young had a legitimate claim to the calling, though he was not the only one who did. It really hurt my feelings. I did. He left it up to local leaders to come up with a reason. [Excommunicated Mormons are not supposed to take communion.] Mystery! Which has also, it seems, made Michael Quinns singular focus on the unspoken parts of the Mormon past less relevant to younger historians, who operate with more freedom and less pressureand who draw far more interest than their predecessors from the wider world, which has suddenly become fascinated by Mormonism. She's been covering religion for the paper since 1991 taking on a variety of topics, but mostly the LDS Church. (He was delivering the third bombto whom it is not entirely clearwhen it blew up accidentally.) Looking back, it was a real blessing. Peggy Fletcher Stack is an American journalist, editor, and author. When Benson asked why no one had stopped him, Oaks allegedly replied, You cant stage manage a grizzly bear. Benson resigned his Mormon membership shortly afterward and became a vocal opponent of the church his grandfather ostensibly led. We had been home about 20 minutes when two high counselors came to our house and delivered a letter, inviting me to a disciplinary hearing two weeks from that day. sltrib.com 1996-2023 The Salt Lake Tribune. Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax Kate Kelly, founder of the Ordain Women movement, was excommunicated in 2014 for her views on gender inequality in the Mormon Church . I love John and I support him, but I have never made any claim against truth claims of the church. I might have lost my soul, but at least I still have my mind. He left quietly and went to call the LDS Church Office Building to ask about this committee. Earlier this year, Maxine Hanks became the first of the September Six to fully return to the Mormon Church since the conservative outlier Avraham Gileadi was quietly rebaptized almost two decades ago. There are important aspects of Mormon life, such as temple ceremonies, that are open only to the truly faithful. Quinn argued against excommunication, he told me, but he did not have the final say. By Peggy Fletcher Stack. How did you find out about the impending disciplinary hearing? When something like [my excommunication] blows up, the first casualty is trust and that never comes back. ``It was like `We're here to support you, Brother Gileadi,' '' he said of the atmosphere at the . ", Kelly writes in London's Guardian newspaper "For me it is because of my faith and not in spite of it that I have a desire to stand up for myself and my sisters. . The bishops next comment was, Whats wrong with those people up in Salt Lake? He was thrilled to have Quinn in his ward. She is in the right family. Quinn was already on the alert for such wrinkles in the churchs history. I hate him. (KUTV) Peggy Fletcher Stack is the religion writer for the The Salt Lake Tribune.It's the best beat on the paper, she said.Stack fell into the job when she was hired in 1991.I have no degree in . Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Now I see that he just didn't appreciate the dishonesty associated with his grandpa. 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. Hed better start keeping it to himself. Not long after that, the bishop met with Anderson and asked her ever so gently if she would like to discuss reinstatement. Packers involvement mattered because the Twelve Apostles are considered by devout Mormons to be prophets, seers, and revelators. If they directed the councils, then the excommunications were, essentially, a message from the churchs highest spiritual authorities about what Mormons were allowed to do andpublicly, at leastto say. 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. Crucially, much of that project is onlinemore than anything, the Internet has revolutionized the field. By Peggy Fletcher Stack June 23, 2015 Many Mormon feminists experienced Kate Kelly's excommunication as a harsh slap felt around the world. Whitesides says that Connie Chungs people asked her to take a hidden camera into her court. Kate Kelly Shreds Peggy Fletcher Stack for Using Her as "Clickbait" Again, I'm reminded of a scene in "Schindler's List" where the When he went into his office, the bishop, a man named Tom Andersen, said hed read this article in the L.A. Times, Quinn told me. [5], The Stacks traveled in Africa for a year,[5] then settled in New York City for five years,[1] where she worked as the editor of the Hastings Center Report while her husband attended film school. Most memorably, Harris says that the spirit who appeared to Smith and directed him to the golden platesfrom which Smith claimed to have translated Mormonisms founding scriptureappeared as a white salamander and struck Smith three times. I had a spiritual prompting that summer staying at my cabin that I wasn't to go. He himself did not even stay in town. By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune. What's it like going to church for two decades as an excommunicated member? [5][7][8] From 1978 to 1986, she was the third editor of Sunstone. This made some church leaders uneasy. The cabin has no phone access, so I had months [after her initial conversation with the stake president] to think about it. The stake president, a man named Paul Hanks, tried to step into the apartment as he said hello, Quinn recalls. 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.. . In an April 1968 talk about military service, he described the restless, unchallenged young people who are repudiating their citizenship responsibilities by avoiding and protesting the draft. "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. No telephone call came., On Aug. 27, McLean delivered the First Presidency denial. 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. That was my decision. When his mother died in 2007, she left him the condo. [3] She is a great-granddaughter of Heber J. Quinns religious status wouldofficially, at leastbe decided by his own stake president, not by the higher-ups in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church holds two different kinds of disciplinary councils: a more elaborate process that is often reserved for those who hold the Melchizedek priesthoodgenerally speaking, all devout adult menand a simpler process mostly used for those who dontmeaning women and men who have not advanced far in the church. I love the church. . It was really important to Paul and me that Christian grow up in a religious community, and the church was the one we chose. The nature of religion reporting in Utah is changing. The charge stems from Palmer's 2002 book, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, which challenges the traditional explanations of the faith's founding . [5] She then attended the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California for two years, where she studied religious history. Part of what I feel is a calling to be there. But he had a caring bishop that first year and decided on his own to serve a mission. 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. 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. I was removed from that situation. 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. After the Newsweek article ran, Quinn got a phone call from Marion D. Hanks. (Quinn is known professionally as D. Michael Quinn; the first name on his birth certificate is Dennis.) On Sept. 30 he called Hanks to ask what the court had decided. [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.
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