7-9 August in Provo — or at a distance

I’ve just sent in the title for my remarks at the 2019 FairMormon conference, which will be held 7-9 August in the Utah Valley Convention Center, which is located in downtown Provo, not far from the Provo City Center Temple.  (It’s about time that I choose a topic, right?)

“Idle Tales”?  The Witness of Women

Here are the speakers and the topics as they are currently known to me:

Don Bradley, Joseph Smith’s First Vision as Endowment and Epitome of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (or Why I Came Back to the Church)

Angela Hallstrom, Women’s Voices in Saints Volume 2

Apostles and Their Wives 1839–41

The Dirt on the Ancient Inhabitants of Mesoamerica

Time Vindicates the Prophet

Jasmin Rappleye, ScripturePlus: The Future of Scripture Study

Matthew Bowen, Laman and Nephi as Key-Words: An Etymological, Narratological, and Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Lamanites and Nephites as Religious, Political, and Cultural Descriptors

Jack Welch and Jeannie Welch, Parables of Jesus Revealing the Plan of Salvation

Matthew C. Godfrey, Insights from the Joseph Smith Papers into John C. Bennett’s Dismissal from the Church

Matthew McBride, Answering Historical Questions with Church History Topics

Larry Morris, The Eight Witnesses

Ben Spackman, A Paradoxical Preservation of Faith: How LDS Creation Accounts Compel Us to Recognize the Nature of Revelation

René Krywult, Fear Leads to the Dark Side: How to Navigate the Shallows of Internet (Mis)Information

Elder Bruce C. Hafen and Sister Marie K. Hafen, Faith is Not Blind

Brian Hales, Supernatural or Supernormal? Scrutinizing Secular Sources for the Book of Mormon

Scott Hales, The Exodus and Beyond: A Preview of Saints, Volume 2: No Unhallowed Hand

Elder Craig C. Christensen, Foundations of Our Faith

Scott Gordon, CES Letter: Proof or Propaganda?

Wendy Ulrich, Women, Men, and Priesthood Power

Tad Callister, title pending

Daniel Peterson, “Idle Tales”?  The Witness of Women

With the exception of the final presentation on Friday — which serves, traditionally, as an opportunity to duck out early and get a head start on the weekend — the 2019 FairMormon conference looks like a real feast to me, with plenty of interesting presentations and material.  I’m looking forward to it very much.

I hope that you’ll be able to be there.  If you can’t, though, there are other options.  Please have a look at the information on the FairMormon website, to which I’ve supplied a link above.