Project Zion Podcast is teaming up with Smith College Professor David Howlett to release a series of podcasts his student created on women’s ordination in Community of Christ. This episode features the story of the fight for women’s ordination in Community of Christ, leading up to the 1984 conference that approved women’s ordination. Featured…
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Joseph Smith’s First Vision is a story of the young boy’s personal conversion. In Community of Christ, we take into consideration all versions of Joseph’s experience and make room for a variety of thoughts surrounding it. Today, Apostle Lach Mackay talks about Community of Christ’s telling of the story and how it informs who we…
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How will being a prophetic people sustain Community of Christ into the future? We have already seen the prophetic impulse in action in our denomination, but how do we then turn around and bring that impulse into the world? Host: Carla Long Guest: Zac Harmon-McLaughlin Download Transcript
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Lindsay Hansen Park, Executive Director of the Sunstone Foundation sits down with Karin Peter to talk about her work in the Short Creek area working with the FLDS and exFLDS communities. Lindsay’s work with Mormon fundamentalists began as she podcasted her way through The Year of Polygamy. Listen as Lindsay shares about some of the…
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Ever wonder how the Enduring Principles came to be? Tune is as Prophet President Steve Veazey shares how Community of Christ settled on our Enduring Principles and how they have impacted us as a diverse, world-wide faith community. You can read more about the Enduring Principles here. Download Transcript
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Project Zion host Brittany Mangelson has shared her faith transition story before, but today she shares a bit more of it with a perspective that time has given her. Brittany walks listeners to what brought her to Community of Christ, how the gospel of Jesus became alive in a new way and what she’s been…
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We talk a lot about being a prophetic people on Project Zion, but today our conversation has a bit of a twist! We’ve invited Presiding Evangelist, Jane Gardner, to talk about how our hymnal Community of Christ Sings is a prophetic witness and missional tool. Download Transcript
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Graceland senior Laurie Due recently shared a paper at John Whitmer Historical Association called, “Expanding and Understanding the Community of Zion” where she discusses several Community of Christ distinctives as it relates to building Zion. Tune in as she chats with Brittany Mangelson about her paper and how she views the church living out the…
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You might have seen the video “Becoming a People of the Temple” but you probably haven’t heard filmmaker Bryce Veazey talk about it! To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Temple, Community of Christ wanted a way to capture the essence and purpose of this sacred space in diverse places and cultures. Tune in as…
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Continuing our look into what it means to be a prophetic people, today Linda shares what being prophetic means to her. She explores the early roots of being a prophetic church, and where the idea of being a prophetic people can take us into the future. Host: Carla Long Guest: Linda Booth Download Transcript
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