Meet the pastor

Nancy Ross is a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Department at Dixie State University, where she has been teaching for 13 years. Her degrees are in art history but she moonlights as a sociologist of religion. She recently co-edited a book with Sara K.S. Hanks titled Where We Must Stand: Ten Years of Feminist Mormon Housewives (2018) and has just co-edited Shades of Becoming: Poems of Transition with Kristen R. Shill. She was an involved Mormon (LDS) until a few years ago. Today she is an ordained elder in Community of Christ and pastor of the Southern Utah Emerging congregation. She has just started an MA in Justice and Reconciliation at Luther Seminary.

She blogs at The Exponent and The Contemplative Heretic and has been a guest on several podcasts. She has been on the Project Zion Podcast to discuss her faith transition, Fowler’s stages of faith development, and spiritual practices in the wake of a faith transition. She was a guest on the Mormon Stories podcast with Sarah K.S. Hanks to discuss women in the LDS Church and their book Where We Must Stand: Ten Years of Feminist Mormon Housewives. She has also been on the A Thoughtful Faith podcast to discuss her work with Jessica Finnigan on LDS garments.

Examples of her sermons are below.