Three fascinating days in August

The 2019 FairMormon conference will be held at the Utah Valley Convention Center, in Provo, Utah, on 7-9 August.  That’s slightly less than a month away.

I’m thinking of attending the conference myself.  I hope to see you there.

You can learn about the conference, register to attend the conference, and/or find out how to watch streaming video of the conference via this website.

If you don’t attend the conference or watch it online, it’s possible that large and menacing men wearing sunglasses won’t come to visit you at your home or place of business.  It’s possible that the stock market won’t collapse and that the Yellowstone super volcano won’t erupt catastrophically while you’re sleeping.  But why risk such things?

Here’s the program of the conference as I currently know it:

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

Elizabeth Kuehn, Apostles and Their Wives 1839–41

Richard Terry, The Dirt on the Ancient Inhabitants of Mesoamerica

Matt Roper and Kirk Magleby, 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 (I typically use “title pending” as the name of my remarks, but Elder Callister beat me to it this year)