My dad was a bishop twice. The temple president tried to make it as good an experience as he could for my parents, Paul, Christian and Marina [his bride] and me. Within the past few years, Bradley had a change of heart and was rebaptized. Quinn was already on the alert for such wrinkles in the churchs history. "Given who I was, there was no place to go but out," Hanks said in 2003, on the 10th anniversary of the excommunications. Today, LDS leaders seem more inclined to recognize, said Wotherspoon, now host of the "Mormon Matters" podcast, "that Zion is made up of people of all types. Kate Kelly, founder of the Ordain Women movement, was excommunicated in 2014 for her views on gender inequality in the Mormon Church . Two years later, he was called as an apostle. The book, published a decade before, was written by Taylors son Samuel, best known today, perhaps, for writing the short story that became The Absent-Minded Professor. (These soon-to-be former Mormons were not required to attend.) Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. In the late 60s, he was called to preside over the churchs missionary efforts in New England, and moved with his family to Cambridge, Mass. Quinn read Hanks letter that night and wrote a detailed response. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Hofmann eventually became, in the words of one expert, the most skilled forger this country has ever seen. For LDS leaders nervous about church history, he was a nightmare personified: a lying, murderous man hell-bent on embarrassing the religion while glorifying and enriching himself. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax All rights reserved. After the church court, when I walked into the chapel, it took about three times longer to get to my seat because so many people hugged me. Salt Lake City Laurie Lee Hall was excommunicated from the LDS Church for being a woman. [5] She met Mike Stack when he volunteered as a photographer for Sunstone in 1984, and they married in October 1985. ", Hanks is a "genuinely spiritual person and quite insightful, who brings a type of spirituality with her that will resonate with lots of people," he said. Just go to . Down in Provo, Avraham Gileadi met more quietly with his local leaders. By Peggy Fletcher Stack January 3, 2013. LDS Church wants to light up a temple in a place that prides itself on dark skies, For husband-and-wife team, this new restaurant is the culmination of a decadeslong dream, article she wrote in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism, Kate Kelly, was excommunicated in June 2014. "Mormon facing excommunication makes his living off his podcasts," by Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune, February 8, 2015 "On Attempts to Smear (i.e., Being 'Fair Gamed'") by John Dehlin ; Faith Transition episodes on Mormon Stories . Those 15 men oversee the multiple Quorums of the Seventy, who in turn direct the stake presidents and bishops who minister to congregations on a part-time, voluntary basis. Mormons from around the world have gathered to listen to church leaders during the two-day conference. As a Mormon, he also knew that same-sex attraction was considered unfortunate at bestsomething to be struggled with, and, if possible, overcome. The Strengthening Church Members Committee almost certainly passed along notes about Quinn to his new stake president, Paul Hanks, in early 1993. I had never been treated as a liar before. Her explorations gave Hanks a new level of understanding and "testimony" of Mormonism. [4] During her time there, she has met and interviewed the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Gordon B. Hinckley, among others. Vacillating Wildly From Dispiriting to Exhilarating, the worldwide effort to bring salvation to all of Gods children, Some things that are true are not very useful, LDS Authority and New Plural Marriages, 18901904, this growing conflict between leaders and intellectuals, Mormon Women Have Had the Priesthood Since 1843, Quinns paper about the Baseball Baptism Program, the responsibility to preserve the doctrinal purity of the church, critical pieces he had written about Mitt Romney, Hanks described her path back to Mormonism, the administration caved to pressure from Ira Fulton. Instead, he simply took away Quinns temple recommend. Temples, distinct from regular meetinghouses, are reserved for sacred rituals, and require a recommend, a small card indicating ones worthiness, to enter. 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 . Maybe she wants to be, though. I have been doing that for 18 years. What's it like going to church for two decades as an excommunicated member? [Husband] Paul, Christian [their son] and I sang in the choir that day. I don't think I could have done that graciously. More painfully, as a high councilor in a Utah stake several years later, Quinn was part of courts prompted by personal sinsuch as engaging in homosexual acts. Independent publicationsmost notably Dialogue (founded in 1966) and Sunstone (1974)provided forums for scholarship and reflection about Mormon history and theology. 2) I would very gladly swap my OSF compensation package with any member of the LDS First Presidency, Quorum of the 12 Apostles, or 1st Quorum of the Seventy. Quinn told friends that he did not want anyone to lobby on his behalf. The stake president said I was "exed" for apostasy but I didn't really fit the handbook definition. Sign Up. "All they asked me about was my relationship to Jesus Christ. Truth is, she has never stopped attending her Mormon ward. But that was not how he experienced it. But nothing else has driven him to contribute to the lives of others the way the faith in which he was born and raised once did. She embodies, more than anyone else I know, the ideal of a broken heart and contrite spirit, which has influenced me so strongly that I, the last time I checked, was one of only two of the 21 children of the September Six who is still an active member.. The bearded dad, a father of 11 who was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2015 for apostasy, suggests they sing hymns . When his mother died in 2007, she left him the condo. Quinn refused. sltrib.com 1996-2023 The Salt Lake Tribune. This is maybe where John and I are very different. They don't feel safe enough to keep going it's such a terrible, terrible loss. I was removed from that situation. Hanks became less diplomatic. If those top leaders did not know where he lived, then they could not assign him to a particular stake, and his church membership could not be threatened. . A beaming Bishop Madrigal said I should expect very soon to get a telephone call scheduling an interview with a general authority, she wrote. 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. was pressured to resign from Brigham Young University and subsequently excommunicated from the faith in 1993 as part of the famed "September Six . I didn't have to look at the councilmen and wonder what they said about me. The biggest thing that got me was the excommunication of bill reel segment of the Mormon stories podcast. But the third bomb, which badly injured but did not kill Hofmann, hinted at a tie to the salamander letter, a disputed historical document that Christensen had purchased from Hofmann a year before and which had inspired Quinns latest research project, a book eventually titled Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview. The church reports a worldwide membership of 16 million. The Mormon church, he said, drew him out of his largely monastic life and compelled him to help the men and women he saw every Sunday. Sometimes Stack refers to Salt Lake City . The bishops next comment was, Whats wrong with those people up in Salt Lake? He was thrilled to have Quinn in his ward. I could imagine the First Presidency thinking that this is not an episode worth revisiting, Bowman wrote in an email. Her sincere belief in Jesus and determination to follow him no matter the adversity faced within or without the church should be commended, and this good and faithful servant should be rewarded, he wrote. The movie was a live-action adaptation of the Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. Hanks told him he had been excommunicated, and said that the court lasted six hours. Article type . We had a family devotional every night with prayer, singing and scripture reading. Two decades ago, Maxine Hanks could not have imagined where her spiritual journey would take her, but she knew this much: She would not likely be walking into the waters of Mormon baptism. They dont acquire these positions by filling out an application and sending in a rsum. Following his excommunication, he finished The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power and turned his attention to another scholarly book with deep personal meaning. June 19, 2014 ; 1 of 9; The truth is not uplifting. Thats according to Quinnmy request to speak with Packer, whose health has badly deteriorated in recent years, was declined. In the summer of 1952, the late Sterling McMurrin, an eminent philosopher and writer, met with two LDS apostles to defend his theological views.With complete candor, McMurrin laid out for Elders Joseph Fielding Smith and Harold . I asked Quinn this past summer if he thought the provocations he penned as a historian might have been fueled on some level by his own inner conflict with Mormon teachingsif perhaps, unconsciously, he wanted to force a showdown with church authorities. The intellectual climate had improved under Oaks, people said. West said hed been told by a higher authority to take further action to remedy the situation, Quinn says. That night, we went over to our neighbors' house and watched "A Man for All Seasons" and ate popcorn. For her part, Anderson always has felt a great sense of peace that I made a moral decision, an ethical decision, a decision of integrity and conscience, she wrote. On Friday , during a popular evening session of next week's Sunstone Symposium, an annual meeting for Mormon intellectuals and observers, Hanks will detail her 20-year spiritual sojourn as a feminist theologian and chaplain, which brought her full circle back into Mormonism. I love Jesus. Lavina Fielding Anderson may have been excommunicated from the LDS Church for apostasy more than 20 years ago, but don't think for a minute that this Utah writer is now an outsider to her faith. In it, Harris, who paid for the first printing of the Book of Mormon, tells a story of that books origins strikingly different from Smiths later, official account. Being treated like an ordinary person is a gift a ward can give. Quinn went over local church rolls and found addresses of kids who didnt come to Sunday services. He wrote a short story about two male missionaries in Louisiana who become attracted to each other and are stalked by a religious psychopath. The accused is called in, another prayer is offered, and the court proceeds. But it also betrayed tensions within the church that may never entirely go away. It did not happen overnight, but many LDS leaders seemed to regret the furor and the hurt that surrounded those excommunications. This is all lies! he told the friend who showed it to him. She currently serves on the . [5][7][8] From 1978 to 1986, she was the third editor of Sunstone. Some did not know that they were. When the men from the stake presidency came to his door in February, Quinn was living three blocks from the Salt Lake Temple and the worldwide headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Peggy Fletcher Stack is the religion columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, and one of the founders of Sunstone. Bradley and Hanks are friends who trod a lot of common ground, Robertson said. Lavina Fielding Anderson, one of the famed September Six writers and scholars disciplined by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1993, got a big no last week to her request for rebaptism from the men who matter most: the faiths governing First Presidency. Quinn showed that Brigham Young had a legitimate claim to the calling, though he was not the only one who did. Most people don't know I've been excommunicated. [Excommunicated Mormons are not supposed to take communion.] This has been intentional. One theory on that first day of panic was that the bombings were connected with the business, an investment company called CFS. At the pinnacle of the Mormon hierarchy is the First Presidencythe churchs prophet and his two counselorsand the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) At the time, he was grieving the death of his son, who had gone missing and was found weeks later hanging from a tree by an extension cord. And he based at least one of his forgeries on the work of Michael Quinn. Devout Mormons consider these callings divinely inspired. "The issues in Mormon doctrine, history and practice highlighted by those facing church discipline are much larger than any one individual," the statement reads. There were stretches of time when he was the only deacon, and he and I would exchange glances as he passed the sacrament to our row. Hanks became conciliatory, reading On Being a Mormon Historian, and writing to say hed gotten from it deeper insight into your devotion and your dedication to history and the Church. He asked again to meet when Quinn came back to Utah. Now I see that he just didn't appreciate the dishonesty associated with his grandpa. Then he made copies of his letter and Hanks letter and dropped them off at the offices of Vern Anderson and Peggy Fletcher Stack, a former Sunstone editor who had become a religion reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune. Look at Steve Benson, I suspect that there was no way they were going to ex him so he exed himself. I had a spiritual prompting that summer staying at my cabin that I wasn't to go. Part of what I feel is a calling to be there. In a detailed confession, Hofmann said that he had secretly stopped believing in Mormonism as a teenager and had hatched a plan to embarrass the church by creating fake documents that exposed uncomfortable facts about early Mormon history. It really hurt my feelings. She and five other journalists at the Salt Lake Tribune won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.She won the Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion ReportingMid-sized Newspapers from the Religious News Association in 2004, 2012, 2017 . Hankswhose nephew Paul would show up on Quinns doorstep in 1993was himself a general authority, and he had overseen the two-year Mormon mission Quinn served in England after his freshman year at BYU. 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. Woodruff himself said in his journal that he was acting for the temporal salvation of the church, and the 1890 Manifestoas his official statement is knownwas not immediately taken to be a divine revelation. In 1997, the acclaimed historian Richard Bushman, who spent much of his career writing on non-LDS topics, began studying his religion again in earnest, and convened an annual seminar that helped attract young scholars who might have pursued other interests. Nor does it read like one. Hanks officially came back into the fold in 2012. The regional council forwarded her request to church headquarters, with the recommendation that she be approved for rebaptism. Where a skeptic sees convenience, a believer may see Gods hand. I assured him I did not. He himself did not even stay in town. ", Hanks' rebaptism suggests a difference in LDS leadership from then to now, said Dan Wotherspoon, Sunstone's editor from 2001 to 2008. In 1981, Quinn was asked by the colleges chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, a national honor society for history students, to respond to The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect. He did not pull his punches. 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He decided that only 16 of the changes were significant. His father was never Mormon: The son of Mexican immigrants, he changed his namethough never legallyfrom Daniel Pea to Donald Quinn, apparently wanting to escape his heritage as well as his poverty. Quinn read fiction, too, including James Baldwins new book, Giovannis Room. While Packers precise involvement remains a matter of dispute, what little is known hints at his interference. The Salt Lake Tribune . When they left, they said, "Have a nice day," to which I replied, "You have just assured that I will not.". While serving it in England, he was tasked with cleaning up the results of the Baseball Baptism Program, in which missionaries used sports to attract young converts. There are three areas where members of the church, influenced by social and political unrest, are being caught up and led away, declared Boyd K. Packer, one of the churchs Twelve Apostles, in May 1993. Peggy Fletcher Stack is an American journalist, editor, and author. One of the articles came from an anthology called Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism, edited by Maxine Hanks, a distant relative of Pauland his uncle Marionand, soon, one of the September Six herself. I prayed every article I wrote into print, he said, continually asking God what he should do. or. Late last year, a friend approached LDS officials to say that Hanks was ready to return to the fold. I could listen to the spirit there. Quinn was convinced, in any case, that his fate in any disciplinary council was predetermined, that Boyd K. Packer wanted him out of the church and Hanks was going to make it happen. [14] Along with five other reporters, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 in the Local Reporting category for a series of stories about sexual assault victims at BYU. In September, Hanks wrote Quinn another letter, saying that he had listened, twice, to a recording of Quinns paper about the Baseball Baptism Program, delivered at the Sunstone Symposium that summer. In 1961, when Michael Quinn was a devout Mormon of 17, his best friends girlfriend gave him a copy of Family Kingdom, a biography of the one-time apostle John W. Taylor. sltrib.com 1996-2023 The Salt Lake Tribune. Right next to Pauls was Lavinas description of her beliefs in Jesus Christ, Mormon founder Joseph Smith, the scriptural text he produced, The Book of Mormon, and the role of prophets.
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