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2015 Symposium Program with Descriptions - Wednesday 29 2015 Symposium Program with Descriptions - Wednesday 29 Session Session Title: Presenter(s) Name: Room Time Abstract Bios: Moderator W1 Feminism and Patriarchy - Impli Verlyne Christensen, MSc 9:00- 10:30 In this presentation, I will address Verlyne Christensen is a psychologist in private practice. She has wr W2 Addiction to Prescription Medica Dr. Vicki Winkel, MD 9:00 - 10:30 Addiction to prescription medicati Dr. Vicki Winkel earned her bachelor's degree in Human Developm W3 Being an LGBT and Religion-Affi Ken Roach, MS 9:00 - 10:30 This session will explore some of For 15 years, Ken worked as a therapist for Salt Lake County Youth W4 I’m a Pilgrim, I’m a Stranger:” A James Ott, LCSW 10:30 -12:00 The LDS Church has a history of t James Ott is Founder, Executive Director, and a therapist at Red Wil W5 Pausing at the Intersection of Fa LaShawn Williams-Schultz, CSW 10:30- 12:00 Clinicians serve clientele best wh LaShawn is a Multicultural Advocate and Practitioner aiding individu W6 Counseling Competencies when Dr. Hollie Hancock, PhD 10:30 - 12:00 Many health care and mental heal Dr. Hollie Hancock is the Clinical Director and a psychotherapist at Ir 117 LUNCH 12:00 - 1:00 MMHA business and updates fr 1:00 - 1:30 MMHA business and updates fro W7 Return with Trauma: Understan r. Kristine J. Doty, PhD 1:30 - 3:00 There is a growing trend of missio Dr. Kristine J. Doty is a graduate of Utah Valley University, having re W8 Acceptance and Commitment T John P. Dehlin, PhD 1:30 - 3:00 In this session John will discuss t John P. Dehlin received his PhD in Clinical/Counseling Psychology f W9 Families in Mourning: Managing Peter Danzig, LCSW 1:30 - 3:00 When one or more members of a Peter Danzig LCSW is a therapist in private practice in Salt Lake Cit Dr. Caitlin Ryan is the founder and director of San Francisco State's W10 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Caitlin Ryan, Director of the S 3:00 - 5:00 Ryan's work with the Family Acceptance Project has been re The Sunstone Education Foudation Presents: Widely regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time, Crossan is the author of several bestselling books including The Historical Jesus; Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography; The Greatest When Jesus proclaims the Prayer; and The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Kingdom of God and Paul announces the Lordship of Christ, Fiction about Jesus. that common vision intends the Crossan was born in Tipperary, Ireland in 1934 and educated in present realization of Israel’s Ireland and the United States, receiving a doctorate of divinity from ancient hope for a transfigured earth. They envisage a Maynooth College, Ireland in 1959. He did post-doctoral research at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1959 to 1961 and at the transformed world of non-violent École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1967. He was a member of distributive justice here below and a transformed world of justice and a Roman Catholic religious order, the Servites (Ordo Servorum Mariae), from 1950 to 1969 and an ordained priest from 1957 to peace here and now. Their call is 1969. He joined DePaul University, Chicago, in 1969 and remained Smith-Petit: The Kingdom Mind: to a collaborative covenant, a From Jesus to Paul and the John Dominic Crossan Ballroom 7:00 - 9:00 pm participatory latter-day challenge, there until 1995. He is now a professor emeritus in its department of Michael J. Stev religious studies. Implications for Mormonism a transfiguration of the earth in which God does not act without us and we cannot act without He received awards for scholarly excellence from the American Academy of Religion in 1989, DePaul University in 1991 and 1995, God. Whence came such a as well as an honorary doctorate from Stetson University, DeLand, startlingly counter-intuitive vision for our world and what are its FL, in 2003. implication for Mormonism—and He has written twenty-seven books on the historical Jesus, the everyone else as well? apostle Paul, and earliest Christianity. His work has been translated This lecture is sponsored by the into thirteen languages, including Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. Smith-Petit Foundation. It is free and open to the public. His most recent book is How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis through Revelation (HarperOne, 2015). 2015 Symposium Program with Descriptions - Wednesday 29 Julie M. Smith graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in English and from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, with an MA in Biblical Studies. She is on the executive board of the Mormon Theology Seminar and the steering committee for the BYU New Testament Commentary, for which she is writing a Panel Discussion: Julie Smith, TBA commentary on the Gospel of Mark. She is the author of Search, Ponder, and Pray: A Guide to the Gospels. Julie is married to Derrick Smith; they live near Austin, Texas, where she homeschools their three children. She also blogs for Times & Seasons, where she is the book review editor. 2015 Symposium Program with Descriptions - Thursday 30 Session Title: Presenter(s) Name: Room Time Abstract Bios: Moderator Continental 101 Breakfast by Ballroom 8:00-9:00 Signature Books Widely regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time, John Dominic Crossan is the author of several bestselling books including The Historical Jesus; Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography; The Greatest Prayer; and The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus. Role of Dissent in the Christian John Dominic Crossan, D. 111 Community Michael Quinn Saltair 9:00-10:00 D. Michael Quinn (Ph.D., history, Yale University) is an Affiliated Scholar at the University of Southern California’s Center for Feminist Research. He has been a full-time researcher and writer, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, and a visiting professor of history (2002-03) at Yale. His accolades include Best Book awards from the American Historical Association and the Mormon History Association. 2015 Symposium Program with Descriptions - Thursday 30 Session Title: Presenter(s) Name: Room Time Abstract Bios: Moderator Kate Kelly was raised Mormon, served an LDS mission in Barcelona, Spain, graduated from BYU and was married in the Salt Lake City temple. She founded Ordain Women in 2013 to advocate for gender justice in the Mormon Church. In June 2014 she was excommunicated from the church for speaking out against the fundamental exclusion of women from the priesthood, but her work for parity in religion continues unabated. Danielle Mooney is a member of the Ordain Women Executive Board. She grew up Mormon in Minnesota and now lives in Boston with her husband, baby girl, and goofy dog. A graduate of Wellesley College, she currently runs a small business and hopes to soon pursue graduate studies in women's health. Mark Barnes Is a member of the Ordain Women executive board, and serves of the boards of Mormons for ERA and the Bleeding Hearts Foundation. He graduated from the University of Utah College of Law in 1987, and is a practicing attorney. Kristy Money received her PhD from Brigham Join Ordain Women executive Young University in Counseling Psychology in board members as we discuss 2010. She successfully defended her dissertation what it takes to recognize and on Utah suicide prevention, and later finished her exhibit personal faith and sacrifice postdoctoral fellowship in community mental health in the face of everyday obstacles in 2011. Dr. Money specializes in women's mental Kate Kelly, Danielle Mooney, and institutionalized sexism. We Mark Barnes, Kristy Money, Lorie health and infertility counseling. She has worked Ordain Women: Where We Go Winder Stromberg, Bryndis will be exploring topics such as and lived in Utah, the Navajo Reservation, NYC, 112 Crimson View 9:00-10:00 ecclesiastical sexual abuse, Massachusetts, and Austin TX. Dell Ellis from Here Roberts, Debra Jenson, Sean hostility towards feminist thought Carter, Joanna Wallace, and Gina Colvin in ward culture, and how defining Lorie Winder Stromberg Is a member of the Ordain one’s individual feminism can be Women executive board. She has an MA in your biggest asset. Come join us humanities from Brigham Young University. For in understanding what 'faithful over 30 years, she has written and spoken about agitation' means to Ordain Mormon feminism and advocated for the ordination Women. of women. Bryndis Roberts Is a member of the Ordain Women executive board, and is an adult convert to the LDS Church from the Black Baptist faith. She is an attorney and has her own firm – Jenkins & Roberts LLC – where her law partner is her ex- husband, who also happens to be her best friend. Debra Jenson Is a member of the Ordain Women executive board. She is a professor of communication at Utah State University where she researches social movements and the representation of marginalized groups. Sean Carter is a member of the Ordain Women Executive Board. He converted to the Church in 2011 shortly after visiting BYU to give a lecture at the Law School. He is a Harvard Law grad and former securities lawyer who now makes his living as a legal humorist. He resides in Mesa, Arizona with his wife (who also converted in 2011) and their four sons Joanna Wallace Is a member of the Ordain Women executive board, and is passionate about women’s and gay rights. Serving in Relief Society, Primary, and Young Women presidencies throughout her life, she is deeply committed to 2015 Symposium Program with Descriptions - Thursday 30 Session Title: Presenter(s) Name: Room Time Abstract Bios: Moderator strengthening the church.
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