Comments on: What’s a Nice Mormon Kid Doing at Harvard Divinity School?

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:32:55 +0000

lurkgirl, the answer is yes, Judith is Eliza’s mother.

By: lurkgirl

lurkgirl — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:23:57 +0000

Way off subject: Judith Dushku… Is that the mother of actress Eliza Dushku (whom I once heard was LDS)? Anyone know the answer?

By: smb

smb — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:53:17 +0000

We love Judy and Laurel and wish we could see them speak. Delighted to hear about your project.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:03:27 +0000

If I’m not working that night, I’ll hit the lecture at Holy Cross.

By: Stephen M (Ethesis)

Stephen M (Ethesis) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:38:53 +0000

Great title for a topic, btw.

By: smb

smb — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:40:17 +0000

(I like Unitarians.)
fyi

By: smb

smb — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:39:56 +0000

And there are many alumni/ae in and out of the church. For such a bunch of Unitarians, HDS has been a great place for Mormons over the years. In fact there are some donors who have had an ongoing interest in Mormon topics. There was even a seminar on Mormonism back in 1994 or so, with a new hire from within the tradition in this last cycle.

By: T-aylor

T-aylor — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:29:42 +0000

Justin, depending on how you count, there are between 5 and 10. The number depends on whether you count interested former Mormons and those graduate students studying religion in non-Div school departments.

By: Dan W.

Dan W. — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:38:39 +0000

The talk here about Harvey Cox prompts me to plug this week’s Speaking of Faith show featuring Cox talking about the atheism-religion divide. Haven’t listened to it yet, but the show is always terrific.

Glad my talk title for the College of Holy Cross lecture has intrigued a few of you. When offered the chance to give this lecture, they charged me with presenting Mormonism in the twenty-first century to an audience whom I am to assume knows nothing about the tradition. And they wanted a title last spring–long before I began writing. Anyway, somewhere in my title brainstorming I came up with the idea of “translating Mormonism” as a kind of Mormony sounding metaphor to use for the charge of presenting the faith to outsiders, and that touchstone led to my thinking of “golden plates” as a sort of stand in for the history I’ll have to review. I then added “global warming” as something to represent the interests I have and hope to discuss a bit about Mormon engagement with contemporary issues. The lecture really won’t be “about” either of those things, though I’ll certainly mention them.

Now back to writing the dang thing!

Hope to see a few of you at the lecture. And I may need your help during the Q&A!

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:19:09 +0000

The conference sounds great, and I will likely attend as much of it as I am able. Incidentally, the title of this post reminds me of the book my mom co-authored (in which I make a cameo appearance!).