Why I Stay 2: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Latter-Day Saints Volume 2
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Twenty-one women and men discuss what it is about Mormonism that keeps them part of the fold. Their deep, unique experiences make their individual travels even more compelling. Kimberly Applewhite Teitter, growing up in the South as a Black Latter-day Saint, often encountered well-meaning Latter-day Saints whose words messaged the idea that she was at some level an outsider or perhaps not as authentically Mormon as others in her congregation. Thus, she writes, "At the end of the day I'm still Black --still have felt the weight of proving that I represent the church I've fought so hard for my…mehr

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Twenty-one women and men discuss what it is about Mormonism that keeps them part of the fold. Their deep, unique experiences make their individual travels even more compelling. Kimberly Applewhite Teitter, growing up in the South as a Black Latter-day Saint, often encountered well-meaning Latter-day Saints whose words messaged the idea that she was at some level an outsider or perhaps not as authentically Mormon as others in her congregation. Thus, she writes, "At the end of the day I'm still Black --still have felt the weight of proving that I represent the church I've fought so hard for my entire life." Yet the very episodes that could have driven her from the church became lessons on the meaning of discipleship.
Autorenporträt
Robert A. (Bob) Rees is Director of Mormon Studies and Visiting Professor at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Previously he taught at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley, and was a Fulbright Professor of American Studies in the Baltics. He is the editor or co-editor of Fifteen American Writers Before 1900 (1971), Proving Contraries: A Collection of Writings in Honor of Eugene England (2005), A Reader's Book of Mormon (2008), and Why I Stay: The Challenge of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons (2011). He is the author of a collection of poetry, Waiting for Morning (2017), A New Witness to the World: Reading and Re-reading the Book of Mormon (2020), and The Cost of Discipleship: The Dimensions of a Mature Mormon Faith (2021).