Robert A. Rees

ROBERT A. REES is the author of No More Strangers and Foreigners: A Mormon, Christian Response to Homosexuality (1998), “In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New Millennium (2000), and “Requiem for a Gay Mormon” (2001) and, most recently with Dr. Caitlin Ryan, Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Helping Latter-day Saint Families with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Children (2012). He is the editor of Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons (2011) and The Reader’s Book of Mormon (2008). Rees, who has served as a bishop, stake high councilor, Institute teacher and a member of the Baltic States Mission Presidency, currently teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and will teach a course in Mormonism at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2013. Previously he taught at UCLA and UC Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Professor in American Studies at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.