Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert A Rees

Today's episode is a little longer because I get a little more personal (plus last week's was shorter)!  If you've not ever heard of "Crash Theory" by Rabbi Benay Lappe, then buckle up as I share with you how I navigated when my "Master Story" crashed a few years ago.  (sources referenced: BTB podcast episode “Crash and Learn” 11/23/2020 https://beyondtheblockpodcast.com/episodes/crash-and-learn-ether-1215-s1!f9e05; CRASH THEORY by Rabbi Benay Lappe: YouTube.com/watch?v=WTdeIFK7VSc) (quote by David Brooks from from Why I Stay, editors intro pg ix, Robert A. Rees, Editor (https://www.amazon.com/Why-Stay-Challenges-Discipleship-Contemporary/dp/1560852917)

Review of Robert A. Rees, A New Witness to the World (Salt Lake City: By Common Consent Press, 2020). 244 pages. $9.95 (paperback). Abstract: Robert A. Rees has written about the Book of Mormon for over sixty years. In this book are collected sixteen essays that all focus on different aspects of the text of […] The post Witnessing to the New Witness first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Review of Robert A. Rees, A New Witness to the World (Salt Lake City: By Common Consent Press, 2020). 244 pages. $9.95 (paperback). Abstract: Robert A. Rees has written about the Book of Mormon for over sixty years. In this book are collected sixteen essays that all focus on different aspects of the text of […] The post Witnessing to the New Witness first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

A live panel with five theologians about angels in Judaism, Mormonism, and "Angels in America." (Recorded at Berkeley Rep May 14, 2018 and co-produced with the Graduate Theological Union) Moderator: - Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon studies at the Graduate Theological Union. Dr. Rees has taught at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley, and was a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. Rees has taught classes in Mormon studies at the GTU since 2010, and has published widely on Mormon and religious studies, as well as on issues of politics, culture, literary studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Dr. Rees served as director of continuing education in the arts and humanities at UCLA, where he was also assistant dean of fine arts and director of the UCLA-Cambridge Program and the UCLA Royal College of Art and Royal College of Music programs in London. Long active in interfaith work, Rees served as president of the University Religious Conference at UC Santa Cruz and, more recently, on the board of the Marin Interfaith Council. He is the cofounder and vice president of the Liahona Children’s Foundation, a humanitarian organization that addresses malnutrition in the developing world. Bob is a key member of the Bay Area Mormon Studies Council, which is working with the GTU and the wider Mormon community to establish an academic chair in Mormon studies at the GTU. Panelists: - Kathryn Loosli Pritchett is a writer living in Oakland, California. A journalist for many years, she is currently working on a novel inspired by her 19th century Mormon polygamous ancestors. She currently serves as a leader in the Oakland, California Stake Relief Society (the Mormon women’s auxiliary). Together with her husband M.J., she developed and teaches a course on Women in the Mormon Church for the LDS Institute of Religion in Berkeley. - M.J. Pritchett is an attorney practicing law in San Francisco, California. He served as the Bishop (pastor) of the Oakland First Ward congregation (which meets adjacent to the Oakland Temple) for a 5 year term in the late 1990s. MJ served a two-year mission to South Korea in 1976-77. For the past ten years he has taught an evening course on various theological, cultural and historical topics related to Mormonism at the LDS Institute of Religion in Berkeley. - Naomi Seidman is Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union, NEH Senior Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her recent book, The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature, includes a reading of Angels in America as an expression of the persistence of the genealogical impulse in post-traditional societies. - Daniel Matt, one of the world’s leading authorities on Kabbalah, has been featured in Time Magazine and has appeared on National Public Radio and the History Channel. He has published over a dozen books, including The Essential Kabbalah (translated into seven languages), Zohar: Annotated and Explained, and God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science and Spirituality. Recently, Daniel completed an 18-year project of translating and annotating the Zohar. For twenty years, Daniel served as professor at the Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley. He has also taught at Stanford and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Daniel lives in Berkeley with his wife Hana. Get tickets to the show at www.berkeleyrep.org

Robert A. Rees, John Gustav-Wrathall, Erika Munson and Hollie Hancock present their paper on August 2, 2013. [powerpress]

Robert A. Rees, John Gustav-Wrathall, Erika Munson and Hollie Hancock present their paper on August 2, 2013. [powerpress]

A panel of Dan Wotherspoon, Phyllis Barber, Robert A. Rees and Katie Langston on August 1st, 2013. [powerpress]

A panel of Dan Wotherspoon, Phyllis Barber, Robert A. Rees and Katie Langston on August 1st, 2013. [powerpress]

This podcast episode is timed to coincide with recent activism among many faithful straight, gay, and allied Latter-day Saints who marched and will march in recent and upcoming PRIDE parades and who are becoming increasingly visible in raising awareness of the hurts and suffering among the GLBT population and the importance for Mormons--leaders as well as all of us in our own wards and stakes--to engage in even more earnest efforts to educate about GLBT issues and to support families and communities in ways that will allow every person to know of God’s (and our) love for them and to feel supported in coming closer to Christ. It is also timed just a few weeks after the release of an important new resource for LDS families with GLBT children, a booklet titled Supportive Families, Healthy Children by Drs. Caitlyn Ryan and Robert A. Rees. In this episode, Mitch Mayne, an openly gay Latter-day Saint man who is serving as executive secretary in his San Francisco area ward, and Dr. Caitlyn Ryan, co-director of the Family Acceptance Project (affiliated with San Francisco State University) and co-author of the above-mentioned booklet, share key insights from their work with the Latter-day Saint community and the Family Acceptance Project's research into the ways that family support or rejection affects the health and flourishing of GLBT persons. They discuss Mormonism's good foundations for family support and talk about ways LDS families can always show their love for their GLBT family members even as they may still be hesitant to embrace the idea that homosexuality is part of that person’s true identity. As Dr. Ryan discusses several times in the podcast, even just eliminating "rejecting" behaviors (as opposed to also exhibiting "accepting" ones) can go a long way toward helping avoid the devastating consequences that befall so many homosexual persons (suicide and suicide attempts, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, increased risk of HIV infection, etc.). This is an important discussion that not only educates (there is SO much more to sexual orientation than who it is you are attracted to) but also inspires. It is deliberately designed to be a resource to be shared with others as even an early introduction to these issues as they play out in LDS contexts, as well as to direct people to good resources for Mormon families and friends and allies of GLBT persons, as well as alerting all to the broad work and stunning findings made available through the Family Acceptance Project.

Our guest's research indicates that the heart has an intelligence of it's own. Understanding how the heart interacts with the mind and how to balance the two can help teens deal with various emotional issues. Learn how you can use this research to help your children manage their emotional states. Robert A. Rees, Ph.D., is Director of Education and Humanities at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California. Dr. Rees develops programs that reduce stress and increase resilience for students based on HeartMath's research on emotional physiology, heart-brain interactions and the psychophysiology of learning and performance. Ugo Uche is a Licensed Professional Counselor who specializes with adolescents and young adults in his practice .

Our guest's research indicates that the heart has an intelligence of it's own. Understanding how the heart interacts with the mind and how to balance the two can help teens deal with various emotional issues. Learn how you can use this research to help your children manage their emotional states. Robert A. Rees, Ph.D., is Director of Education and Humanities at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California. Dr. Rees develops programs that reduce stress and increase resilience for students based on HeartMath's research on emotional physiology, heart-brain interactions and the psychophysiology of learning and performance. Ugo Uche is a Licensed Professional Counselor who specializes with adolescents and young adults in his practice.