Under the Banner of Heaven Lesson Plan

Consider the heavy material (like rape, murder, abuse, delusion, greed, violence, misery, etc.) in the book and how it has affected you as you’ve read and studied. How do you deal with it? Do you do something like Resmaa Menakem mentions in the exercise from My Grandmother’s Hands we read in the Day 4 activity, “The oppression inflicted by ‘chosen people’”? Do you say to yourself, This is just bad people doing bad things? Return to the felt sense of your body which you tuned into in that activity. Do you have any sense of what the main source of all of the macabre, inhumane behaviors carried out throughout Mormon and Mormon Fundamentalist history might be? Do you have a sense of how...