Robert A. Rees, Ph.D., teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and at UC Berkeley. Rees is the editor and author of numerous studies in Education, American Studies, and Religious Studies. He is also a published poet, essayist, editorialist, and blogger. He is the editor of Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons and co-editor of The Reader’s Book of Mormon.
Currently, he lives in the San Rafael II Ward in Northern California where he serves on the Board of the Marin Interfaith Council and the Liahona Children’s Foundation.
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