Maxine Hanks

THUR, JAN 5 2023   |  7:30-9:00 pm MST

How do we hold the past in ways that value who we have been while recovering, reframing and reinterpreting the past within the present?

IN-PERSON GATHERING:

THE CONVERSATION:

The person we have been or the life we’ve lived in the past may return to meet us in the present, confronting us with a need to revisit, re-evaluate and re-interpret the past through the present lens. This is an ongoing process over the course of our life. How do we make new sense of the past, each time it returns, in ways that value who we have been and what we have learned while recognizing the power of recovering, reframing and reinterpreting the past within the present? How can we chart a new and better future that owns both past and present?

Maxine will discuss the 30th anniversary of the “Sept. Six” in 1993 as an example of how the past, present, and future strive together within our lives and within ourselves—to continually forge an evolving new Self.

ABOUT MAXINE:

Maxine Hanks is an historian and theologian whose work focuses on gender in religion, particularly in Mormon Studies and Christian liturgy. She did her B.S. in Gender Studies at the U. of U. where she lectured for ten years, and did her master’s work in history at ASU and grad studies in theology at Harvard. She writes and speaks about gender and empowerment, spirituality, spiritual formation, theology, and liturgy in Mormon and Christian traditions. She is a chaplain and spiritual director who facilitates the personal search for an authentic inner path of the soul.

EXPLORE BEFORE WE MEET:

• Excommunicated Mormon to tell how she came back to the faith
• Where Mormonism’s ‘September Six’ are now (2014 article. Michael Quinn has passed)

WATCH RECORDED ZOOM CONVERSATION

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