{"id":28663,"date":"2015-12-07T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T06:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=28663"},"modified":"2015-12-07T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T06:26:48","slug":"the-new-squaretwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/the-new-squaretwo.html","title":{"rendered":"The new SquareTwo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019ve just received the following note from Valerie Hudson Cassler<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the Fall 2015 issue of SquareTwo! The full table of contents can be found on our archives page\u00a0here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We\u2019d like to announce two new editorial board members: Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women\u2019s Project and author of\u00a0Women at Church<\/em>, has joined our board, and B. Kent Harrison, emeritus professor of Physics and Astronomy at BYU, is our new book review editor. Welcome to both!<\/span><\/div>\n
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First up for the Fall 2015 issue, since the Church has made Heavenly Mother doctrinal by publishing an essay on her on the\u00a0lds.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0website,\u00a0Kayla Bach<\/span><\/a>\u00a0wonders if it isn\u2019t time to revisit the Young Women Theme. After all, shouldn\u2019t young\u00a0women<\/em>\u00a0be the first to recognize that they have a Heavenly Mother who loves them and they love her?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Second,\u00a0V. H. Cassler<\/span><\/a>\u00a0explores third party reproduction practices, focused on surrogacy as well as egg and sperm donation. Might the LDS Church<\/a> be justified in strongly discouraging all these practices? Might sealing practice with reference to surrogacy point to the reason why\u2013a very feminist reason?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Third,\u00a0Erik Linton<\/span><\/a>\u00a0calls upon us to consider what our fast-paced and technology-saturated lives have done to our ability to contemplate. What do we lose without a\u00a0vita contemplativ<\/em>a<\/i>?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Fourth, our book review editor\u00a0B. Kent Harrison<\/span><\/a>\u00a0reviews\u00a0The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy<\/em>. Should the United States emphasize the empowerment of women in its foreign policy? How has it done so to date, and what have been the consequences?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Fifth,\u00a0Melinda Fox<\/span><\/a>\u00a0wonders if LDS culture has finally reached its Betty Friedan moment\u2013that is, do insights from Friedan\u2019s\u00a0The Feminine Mystique<\/em>, penned over 50 years ago, have application to questions Mormon women are wrestling with today?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sixth,\u00a0Alyssa Steed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0loves science fiction and fantasy\u2013but she has some serious problems with its heroines. Steed discusses some of her favorite characters from contemporary TV and film, and explains what the writers got wrong\u2013and what we owe our daughters.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Seventh,\u00a0V. H. Cassler<\/span><\/a>\u00a0writes a retrospective film review on the 1976 film \u201cLogan\u2019s Run.\u201d How could a film that is almost 40 years old be so prescient about our modern day? What can we take from the film that might be of use today?<\/span><\/div>\n
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And last but not least, we have several comments by our board members on the\u00a0Summer 2015 Readers\u2019 Puzzle<\/span><\/a>, which examined the LDS Church\/Boy Scouts of America imbroglio. We believe you will find the comments most interesting, and hope you will submit your own views.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And as always, we offer a new\u00a0Reader\u2019s Puzzle for the Fall 2015<\/span><\/a>\u00a0issue: transgender use of women\u2019s restrooms and locker rooms in public schools. The Department of Education is threatening to strip Title IX funding from any public school district that does not allow such use. Is this the right policy? Is this the right approach? What do our readers think?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Enjoy!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sincerely, VMH<\/span><\/div>\n
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