Next month I’m going to be speaking at the Sunstone symposium. Sunstone is a fantastic magazine that focuses on the Mormon experience through academic scholarship, literature, and addressing of social issues within the church and without. It doesn’t seem to have the rule that everything it prints has to be strictly devotional, so you’ll often find articles inside that make you think deeply about your beliefs and how you apply the gospel for yourself. Since my own faith is more of the searching, questioning type, as opposed to the humble obedient type, I so appreciate the forum Sunstone provides to learn and grow and deepen my faith in the open and sometimes messy way that seems to work for me.
I’ll be appearing on three different panels. One on raising a child with special needs, another on online resourses for Young Women’s leaders (thanks to my work at Beginnings New), and another on “mommy blogging” (oh that term makes my skin crawl – it just sounds so dismissive to me) with my friends at Feminist Mormon Housewives.
The conference is August 12 – 15 in Salt Lake City, so if any of you are planning to attend I’d love it if you said hello! I could use the support. It’s a little intimidating to come into such learned and accomplished company with just this little blog to recommend me.
Meanwhile, I have to get busy writing three different speeches, but the harder thing is going to be trying to find something to wear. This post-baby figure of mine has not budged in 18 months, and nobody seems to make nice clothes for the post-baby body. I would really like to find something that isn’t too tight in the wrong places without hiding all my right places. So I think I’m going to have to make it myself. With the perfect jewelry of course.
sunstone and fmh? i wish i was as cool as you are! maybe i'll see you there.
Hey we will be in SLC…maybe we can get together.
I am sure your symposium will be great. Trips on business are absolutely different from tourism for pleasure. I am a big fan of Vegas. And on every trip there I buy las vegas show tickets. These shows are awesome and really worth seeing.