Yesterday’s FairMormon program — which Ed Pinegar, Margaret Barker, Brant Gardner, Ron Dennis, Brittany Chapman, David Larsen, and Jim Gordon — was extremely good, and it was capped off with a dinner for speakers and FairMormon volunteers. My wife and I sat at a table with Margaret Barker, Kevin Christensen and his wife, , John Hall, David Larsen, and Cassandra Hedeliius. Needless to say, there was good conversation, along with the good food.
On Wednesday night, I participated in a small “social” for FairMormon volunteers. One of the highlights to me was talking with Ben Spackman, and hearing about both his academic plans and progress of his work on the earlier chapters of Genesis. I predict some very good things coming from his efforts. One of them will be a book that he’s hoping to finish by the end of the year. I’m looking forward to it very much, and to what will come thereafter.
Right now, we’re listening to Michael Otterson, the managing director of Public Affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His remarks have been excellent, and, among other things, they would be of great specific benefit to many out there in the world of anti- and ex-Mormon message boards, whose speculations about the role and character of the Public Affairs Department are often quite estranged from reality.
Stephen Webb is up next.
Posted from the 17th annual FairMormon conference
Provo, Utah
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