{"id":75534,"date":"2019-06-29T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=75534"},"modified":"2019-06-29T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:40:11","slug":"7-9-august-in-provo-or-at-a-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/06\/7-9-august-in-provo-or-at-a-distance.html","title":{"rendered":"7-9 August in Provo &#8212; or at a distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40520\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/Utah_Valley_Convention_Center_southeast_corner.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40520\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/Utah_Valley_Convention_Center_southeast_corner.jpg\" alt=\"UVCC photo from the south southeast\" width=\"597\" height=\"448\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Utah Valley Convention Center, where the 2019 FairMormon conference will convene.<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just sent in the title for my remarks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairmormon.org\/conference\/august-2019?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Announcing+the+FairMormon+2019+Conference%21&amp;utm_campaign=2019+FM+Conf+Presale+1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the 2019 FairMormon conference<\/a>, 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. \u00a0(It\u2019s about time that I choose a topic, right?)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong>\u201cIdle Tales\u201d? \u00a0The Witness of Women<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are the speakers and the topics as they are currently known to me:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don Bradley, <em>Joseph Smith\u2019s First Vision as Endowment and Epitome of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (or Why I Came Back to the Church)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Angela Hallstrom,<em> Women\u2019s Voices in <\/em>Saints<em> Volume 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Apostles and Their Wives 1839\u201341<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Dirt on the Ancient Inhabitants of Mesoamerica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Time Vindicates the Prophet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jasmin Rappleye,\u00a0<em>ScripturePlus: The Future of Scripture Study<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Bowen,\u00a0<em>Laman and Nephi as Key-Words: An Etymological, Narratological, and Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Lamanites and Nephites as Religious, Political, and Cultural Descriptors<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jack Welch and Jeannie Welch,\u00a0<em>Parables of Jesus Revealing the Plan of Salvation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthew C. Godfrey,\u00a0<em>Insights from the Joseph Smith Papers into John C. Bennett\u2019s Dismissal from the Church<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthew McBride,\u00a0<em>Answering Historical Questions with Church History Topics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Larry Morris,\u00a0<em>The Eight Witnesses<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ben Spackman,\u00a0<em>A Paradoxical Preservation of Faith: How LDS Creation Accounts Compel Us to Recognize the Nature of Revelation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ren\u00e9 Krywult,\u00a0<em>Fear Leads to the Dark Side: How to Navigate the Shallows of Internet (Mis)Information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elder Bruce C. Hafen and Sister Marie K. Hafen,<em> Faith is Not Blind<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brian Hales,\u00a0<em>Supernatural or Supernormal? Scrutinizing Secular Sources for the Book of Mormon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scott Hales,\u00a0<em>The Exodus and Beyond: A Preview of\u00a0<\/em>Saints<em>, Volume 2: <\/em>No Unhallowed Hand<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elder Craig C. Christensen, <em>Foundations of Our Faith<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scott Gordon, <em>CES Letter: Proof or Propaganda?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Ulrich,\u00a0<em>Women, Men, and Priesthood Power<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tad Callister, title pending<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Peterson,\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u201cIdle Tales\u201d? \u00a0The Witness of Women<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the final presentation on Friday \u2014 which serves, traditionally, as an opportunity to duck out early and get a head start on the weekend \u2014 the 2019 FairMormon conference looks like a real feast to me, with plenty of interesting presentations and material. \u00a0I\u2019m looking forward to it very much.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you\u2019ll be able to be there. \u00a0If you can\u2019t, though, there are other options. \u00a0Please have a look at the information on the FairMormon website, to which I\u2019ve supplied a link above.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve 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. \u00a0(It\u2019s about time that I choose a topic, right?) \u00a0 \u201cIdle Tales\u201d? \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>7-9 August in Provo -- or at a distance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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