‘Mormon Land’: Apologies and forgiveness in this #MeToo moment for the LDS Church and its members
(Jeremy Harmon | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings at the end of the Sunday morning session of General Conference on April 1, 2018.
What constitutes a real apology? What is the value of forgiveness? Those questions emerged after the recent LDS General Conference during which several Mormon leaders focused on forgiveness, a noteworthy subject amid this Mormon #MeToo moment.
In the latest segment of “Mormon Land,” Marybeth Raynes, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in Salt Lake City, discusses apologies and forgiveness — for individuals and institutions, including churches.
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