260: 2011 SLC Conference Pt. 2 - Joanna Brooks on Mormon Identity in the 21st Century: Claiming and Belonging
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 22 June 2011
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On June 11, 2011, members of the Mormon Stories community held their 2nd regional conference in Salt Lake City. In this keynote address entitled"Mormon Identity in the 21st Century: Claiming and Belonging", professor and author Joanna Brooks explores a more expansive vision for Mormon identity.
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| 0:00.0 | The 2011 Salt Lake City Mormon Stories Conference was brought to you by the Salt Lake City Mormon |
| 0:24.4 | Stories Support Community found on Facebook and also by the Open Stories Foundation and by the |
| 0:30.4 | generous support of you or listeners. To join or start a Mormon Stories Support Community in your |
| 0:36.0 | area, please go to MormonStories.org and click on the Support Communities tab. To host a regional |
| 0:43.0 | conference in your city, like this one, please email us at MormonStories at gmail.com for more |
| 0:48.8 | information on how to host a conference. Finally, to keep this podcast in all of these communities |
| 0:55.1 | and projects alive, please donate today at MormonStories.org. Oh, and please enjoy the conference. |
| 1:07.1 | What's not to love? Thank you, Carolyn. We're very, very lucky to have you here today. Beautiful. |
| 1:13.7 | We will now have another musical performance by Holly Robbins. Thank you so much for agreeing. |
| 1:20.6 | There's a story behind this song and I hope it's all of our stories. I hope it's a bunch of Mormon |
| 1:28.0 | stories. I'll condense down into one hoki little country rhythm. A few years ago, well, let me go back |
| 1:37.5 | to when I was seven. I was in second grade and I drew a picture of a bunny like you would see in |
| 1:45.4 | a coloring book that you color. And so I drew the outline of this bunny and I colored it pink. |
| 1:55.7 | And I took it up to my... I took it up to my second grade teacher's desk and I showed it to her |
| 2:06.1 | and I adored her. I worshiped the ground she walked on. And she said to me, |
| 2:13.8 | only babies outline their pictures in black. And as a seven-year-old who, you know, loved her |
| 2:21.3 | teaching that much, I was just shocked and so hurt. And I went back to my chair and, you know, |
| 2:27.4 | just kind of cried. And I kind of carried that with me for a few years, you know, into high school. |
| 2:33.3 | You know, and as I grew, I began to look back and think, you know, she must have been having a bad day |
| 2:39.2 | or, you know, I didn't know how to frame it. But I just kind of matured into it. And then eventually, |
| 2:45.0 | after I had kids, I thought, yeah, she was really busy. So... Anyway, one day, I was going through |
| 2:54.0 | all sorts of trauma. This was five years ago with regard to my own Mormon story. And I was having |
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