“I seriously envy their emphasis on peace,” says the BYU professor. “Of course we disagreed,” adds the former Community of Christ apostle, “but there was always this commitment to civility.”
,” which explores tensions between the two churches over the historic sites in the Illinois city.
Even so, Bolton said that formal interfaith work did not officially begin until around 2015, when he approached, a former religion professor at BYU, about initiating a dialogue between Latter-day Saint and Community of Christ scholars and academics. “We have been meeting ever since,” Bolton said, explaining that the book “grew out of that fellowship and conversations together.”Even with this foundation of dialogue in place, Bolton said, the work of committing such conversations to the page became tense at times.
, a Community of Christ apostle who directs that church’s historic sites in Nauvoo, said he was surprised by “how honest” his Latter-day Saint counterparts “were able to be, and how vulnerable they sometimes were” during the writing process.
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