This SunstoneClassic podcast hails from the 2001 Washington D.C. Sunstone Symposium. It was released around the time that the LDS church made the formal announcement regarding how they wished to be referred to in the media (LDS Church, not Mormon Church, etc).

In her presentation, Dr. Shipps spends some time analyzing this PR move by the church, but also provides her view of the LDS “state of the union” from a variety of perspectives–always with insight and wit.

Jan Shipps is professor emeritus of history and religious studies at IUPUI, and research associate at The Polis Center. She is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Her first book on the subject was Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition published the University of Illinois Press. Recently, Illinois published her book Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons, in which she interweaves her own history of Mormon-watching with 16 essays on Mormon history and culture.

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