kathrynschulz

Growing up, Kathryn Schulz and her sister’s favorite nights were the ones their dad narrated his own stories about the adventures of Yana and Egbert from Rotterdam; A town he chose because he knew it'd make them laugh. The intentionality behind Isaac’s stories are representative of the abundance of love he aspired to share with his daughters — The love Kathryn now shares with her own.

This is where Kathryn’s memoir, Lost & Found, begins and ends. In chronicling her experience losing her father and simultaneously falling in love with her wife, she illustrates our capacity to find beauty in life’s duality.

“It is helpful to remember that beauty exists and beauty persists; And, that we can choose to side with it, champion it, and protect it."

Kathryn shares her journey grieving her father, from experiencing grief as a thousand tiny heartbreaks to acknowledging that acceptance and longing aren’t mutually exclusive. Then, beginning in the midst of his illness, her relationship showcases love’s capacity to enrich the totality of our lives.

Lost & Found is an invitation of healing and hope. Perhaps most importantly in the recognition that while love and loss are often marked by beginnings and endings, it’s savoring the middle that truly matters.

In this two-part episode, Brian Dillman, Julienna Viegas-Haws, and Anna Smith, join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon in a discussion about "being wrong!" Or make that _Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error_ by Kathryn Schulz (CCC, 2010). It’s a rich subject and wonderful book, and each of the panelists share favorite insights from their encounters with the things Schulz talks about and how those have helped them understand themselves, others, and many other areas of life much more clearly--as well as helpfully. Since this is Mormon Matters, after all, they also speak about the ways some of these ideas are in tension with certain ideas and various cultural habits (ways of thinking) in Mormonism. How does the material discussed impact their views of the methodology we’re taught in Mormonism’s D&C 9:8-9 ("study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right" along with burnings in bosoms and stupors of thought)? With Mormonism’s emphasis on and teachings about the Gift of the Holy Ghost and how it is a sure guide to what is "true." With Alma 32 passages on faith as a seed and "experimenting upon the word" and coming to know that a seed is good? With emphases on the superiority of "knowing" over "believing" when it comes to one’s testimony. It’s a great discussion!

In this two-part episode, Brian Dillman, Julienna Viegas-Haws, and Anna Smith, join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon in a discussion about "being wrong!" Or make that _Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error_ by Kathryn Schulz (CCC, 2010). It’s a rich subject and wonderful book, and each of the panelists share favorite insights from their encounters with the things Schulz talks about and how those have helped them understand themselves, others, and many other areas of life much more clearly--as well as helpfully. Since this is Mormon Matters, after all, they also speak about the ways some of these ideas are in tension with certain ideas and various cultural habits (ways of thinking) in Mormonism. How does the material discussed impact their views of the methodology we’re taught in Mormonism’s D&C 9:8-9 ("study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right" along with burnings in bosoms and stupors of thought)? With Mormonism’s emphasis on and teachings about the Gift of the Holy Ghost and how it is a sure guide to what is "true." With Alma 32 passages on faith as a seed and "experimenting upon the word" and coming to know that a seed is good? With emphases on the superiority of "knowing" over "believing" when it comes to one’s testimony. It’s a great discussion!