"Part of understanding God's work in the world is to understand the way in which divinity interacts with history and the conceptual, ethical limitations of any particular moment in time and that those change," says HDS Professor David Holland.
Jenna Carson, MDiv '18, started boot camp this month as she prepares to serve as the first-ever Latter-day Saint active-duty female military chaplain endorsed by church headquarters.
The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, died on January 2.
Monson led the church for nearly 10 years, enabling a rise in the ranks of female Mormon missionaries and displaying an openness to scholars of Mormonism, allowing them remarkable access to church records. However, he was also charged with contradiction by observers both inside and outside the church. Monson rebuffed demands to ordain women as priests and refused to alter...
