2006 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium

Sunstone is almost here. August 9-12. I haven't registered yet but I'm very most likely going to be there.

The program is available at sunstoneonline.com.

Why are there always sessions I really want to attend scheduled against each other?

Update

Things have been pretty dead around here. I haven't had the motivation to write. I missed the Relief Society's birthday and Earth Day. I'm excited to announce that I will be posting a series at Feminist Mormon Housewives on the book Women and Authority. Come on over and join the discussion.

Happy International Women's Day!

Besides commemorating the day, I also want to point out two things:

Remember that the Feminist Mormon Housewives bookclub is reading Pedestals and Podiums by Martha Sonntag Bradley. Discussion starts in one week.

You're probably already aware that Women and Authority, the volume edited by Maxine Hanks, is being made available online by Signature Books at http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/women/introduction.htm.

[6:09 pm edited to add] Caroline posts a list of strong women in film and literature and Artemis asks how IWD should be celebrated.

Susan and Lucy as Witnesses

I watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on Monday. There's a thread at T&S with a review by Adam Greenwood and others' comments. I agree with a lot of what has been said there. I liked the actors who played the children. I thought there was waaay too much unnecessary suspense, especially the ice floe part. And I hated the Beavers, from how they looked, to how they talked, to how they treated each other. Plus the White Witch really creeped me out. I guess she's supposed to, but I'd always imagined it differently. The film mostly disappointed me in relation to the book. But my younger siblings loved it.

What I want to focus on here is a realization I had. The most touching part of the movie for me was when Susan and Lucy are walking with Aslan to the Stone Table. Because you know what he is going to do. And then when they weep over his body and see his return from death. I had never before made the connection between the Pevensie girls and the women who kept watch at Christ's death, helped prepare his body for burial, and witnessed the resurrection.

Lucy hears Aslan leave the camp and wakes Susan up. The girls follow Aslan. He notices them, asks them if they shouldn't be in bed, but then says he would welcome the company. They see when he is killed.
Matthew 27:55-56: And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.
Mark 15:40-41: There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
Luke 23:27: And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
John 19:25: Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

After the sacrifice, Susan and Lucy rush to Aslan's side and cry and stroke his face and body. They also see the mice who gnaw off the ropes that bind him.
Matthew 27:61: And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Mark 15:47: And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
Luke 23:55-56: And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.
John 19:40: Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Susan and Lucy fall asleep. When they wake up, the body of Aslan is gone. Then he appears. He gave himself a willing sacrifice and that transcended the claim the White Witch had on Edmund's life. Aslan sends the girls to notify everyone else.
Matthew 28:1,5-10: IN the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me. (See also Mark 16:1-10, Luke 24:1-10, and John 20:1-2,11-18).
2 Nephi 2:7: Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law.
Hymns #197: [His] sacrifice transcended The mortal law's demand; . . .In our place [he did] suffer; In our place [he did] die.
Isaiah 25:8: He will swallow up death in victory.

Postmodern Mormon? (quiz result)

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 71% Classical Liberal 64% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 61% Modern Liberal 57% Roman Catholic 50% Neo orthodox 50% Charismatic/Pentecostal 50% Reformed Evangelical 43% Fundamentalist 32% What's your theological worldview? (note: this quiz is written for a *Christian* theological worldview) created with QuizFarm.com