517: Discussing the Role Played by Women in Mormon Apologetics - With Nancy Ross, Kevin Barney, and Jessica Finnigan

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 January 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The voice of Mormon Apologetics in the past has been predomintely male. In this episode we explore the intersection of gender and Mormon Apologetics. We discuss the reasons that this may be as well as how this tradition is changing and creating a space for more and more women amungst this forum.

In this episode, we are pleased to have with us a strong panal:

Nancy Ross, Assistant Professor of Art History at Dixie State Universtiy and has a Ph.D. from the university of Cambridge. She has been blogging the Book of Mormon chapter by chapter with a feminist perspective at nickelonthenacle.blogspot.com .
Kevin Barney, studied classics at BYU, then obtained law degrees from the University of Illinois and DePaul University. He also serves of the board of directors for FAIR Mormon and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
Jessica Finnigan, is a Master's Student at King's College London, where she studies religion in the contemporary world. She recently completed an advanced Diploma in Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge. She earned a Bachelors from BYU in Marriage, Family, and Human Development..

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0:51.8	Hello and welcome to Mormon Stories.
0:58.7	I'm Jay Nelson C. Wright, your host for today.
1:01.2	With me are Nancy Ross, Kevin Barney, and Jessica Finnegan.
1:04.9	We're going to talk about the intersection between gender and Mormon apologetics.
1:08.9	A apologetic discourse has taken on new importance in Mormon culture in recent years.
1:13.7	With the emergence of an apologetic approach to difficult Mormon problems in the enzyme
1:18.3	and more recently on LDS.org, taking the work that people like Kevin and others at Fair
1:23.6	and the Maxwell Institute have been doing for years to a new place of prominence and
1:28.5	importance in Mormonism.
1:30.8	At the same time, Mormon apologetics remains a very gendered activity.
1:36.5	Nearly all prominent Mormon apologists are male.
1:40.0	There are some important exceptions, but the statistics bear out a differentiation.
1:45.0	So today we're going to talk about how this comes about.
1:47.2	The idea is not to attack apologetics, but rather to reflect on how this very important
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