2023 Digital Symposium

The 2023 Symposium was amazing, and absolutely jam-packed with incredible sessions. We had such a great lineup that we were forced over and over again to choose between sessions we didn't want to miss.

That's where the Digital Symposium comes in! Purchase audio from the sessions you missed, or sessions you want to re-live below.

Sessions are $5 each and available for immediate download via emailed link. Review the schedule below, make your selections, and start listening right away!

View the schedule on our site here

Download a PDF version of the schedule

091: Smith-Pettit Lecture: Kristin Du Mez: Jesus, John Wayne ... and Joseph Smith?

This lecture is free. Purchase all other session audio below.

Expand or collapse the menus below to purchase audio.

Friday, July 28th | Sessions 111 - 136

______________________________

Buy All Friday Morning Sessions: 111 - 136

______________________________

111: Opening Plenary: Daniel O. McClellan

_______________________________

121: MMHA: Religious Trauma within the Mormon Context

_______________________________

122: Mormon Spirituality and the Affirmation of Truth

_______________________________

123: Mashing Up Mormonism - A Conversation with Matt Page

_______________________________

124: A Celebration of Contemporary Mormon Poetry

_______________________________

125: The Aftermath of Mountain Meadows

_______________________________

126: Publishing Glad Tidings: Moving Mormon Fundamentalism Into the Digital
Age

_______________________________

131: MMHA: Helping Clients Overcome Toxic Positivity and Reconnect with
Emotions

_______________________________

132: Joseph Smith and the Terror that Came in the Sacred Grove: Sleep Paralysis
and the First Vision

_______________________________

133: Conspirituality and Mormonism: Identity Making in Tension with the
Mainstream

_______________________________

134: Eugene England’s Lengthened Light

_______________________________

135: The Visual Image of Joseph Smith

_______________________________

136: Construction of the Deviant Outgroup

_______________________________

Friday, July 28th | Sessions 151 - 191

_______________________________

Buy All Friday Afternoon Sessions: 151 - 191

_______________________________

151: MMHA: Using values work with faith crisis/transitions and mixed faith
couples.

_______________________________

152: Mainstreaming Psychedelic Mormonism

_______________________________

153: Reimagining Shakespeare

_______________________________

154: William Marks: From the Mainstream to the Fringe; and Back Again

_______________________________

155: Reclaiming a Path to Spiritual Maturity

_______________________________

156: American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

_______________________________

161: MMHA: Navigating Value Evolution: A Journey within and from A High
Demand Religion

_______________________________

162: Can Quantum Physics Explain Spiritual Questions

_______________________________

163: Reading Between the Lines: Prooftexting and Mormon Exegesis

_______________________________

164: A Discussion of Dan Vogel’s Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith,
American Prophet, 1831–1839

_______________________________

165: Preserving and Sharing Mormon Mexican History: Foundations and
Partnerships of the Museum of Mormon Mexican History

_______________________________

166: LDS Women and Garments: A study on the impact of religious clothing on
body image and sexuality

_______________________________

171: MMHA: Applying the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values
in Counseling (ASERVIC) Spiritual and Religious Competencies to Working with
Mormon Clients

_______________________________

172: How Social Torch Bearers Influence Civilization

_______________________________

173: The Mormon Lives Series: From Apostles to Apostates.

_______________________________

174: Race and Mormonism in Idaho

_______________________________

175: Sunstone Mormon History Project Presents: Celestial Curses and Secret Codes

_______________________________

176: Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild--A
Discussion of the Land from the Margins

_______________________________

191: Closing Plenary Eli McCann: The Curious Evolution of Mormon Media

_______________________________

Saturday, July 29th | Sessions 211 - 236

_______________________________

Buy All Saturday Morning Sessions: 211 - 236

_______________________________

211: The Chosen Seed: Parallels and Convergences Between Mormonism and
Identity Christianity

_______________________________

212: Historical Development of Christian Queer Theology to and through
Mormonism and Its Influence on Mormon Queer Communities

_______________________________

214: And They Had No Poor Among Them

_______________________________

215: Exponent II: Past and Present

_______________________________

216: The Current State of LDS Faith Crisis

_______________________________

221: Violence, Reconciliation, and the Problem of History

_______________________________

222: A Staged Reading of The Play, Broken Shelves

_______________________________

223: Mystical Mormonism

_______________________________

224: Faithful Disagreement: Polyamory in Community of Christ

_______________________________

225: No Purse or Scrip: The History of Full-Time No Purse or Scrip Missionary Service in the California Mission (1948-1950)

_______________________________

226: The Value Pulpit: Analyzing Moral Messages in General Conference, 1971- 2022

_______________________________

231: Welcome to MormonTok: An Analysis of Public Perception of the LDS
Community through TikTok

_______________________________

232: Receiving ExMormons into the Larger Exvangelical Movement

_______________________________

233: Publishing “The Strange Marriages of Sarah Ann Whitney …”: A 50-year retrospective

_______________________________

234: Radiant Mormonism

_______________________________

235: Helping Potential Dones Stay with Mormonism

_______________________________

236: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to New Jerusalem: Historic Prophecies & Timelines for the Saints Return to Jackson County to Build Zion

_______________________________

Saturday, July 29th | Sessions 251 - 275

_______________________________

Buy All Saturday Afternoon Sessions: 251 - 275

_______________________________

251: Why We Stay

_______________________________

252: Film Screening: Bright Spark (Intro and Q&A Only)

_______________________________

253: Dating Section 132

_______________________________

261: Main Stream: A "Fountain of Filthy Water"
This session contains content that violates Sunstone's code of conduct and harassment policy.

_______________________________

262: Life After Deconstruction

_______________________________

263: Jane Lead, Plato, and the Beginnings of Mormonism

_______________________________

265: Part One: Spiritual Paths of the September Six Thirty Years Later

_______________________________

271: Pocketsful of Polygamy: Southern Idaho as a Hotbed of Post-Manifesto Activity

_______________________________

272: From Soaking & Soft Swapping to 50 Shades of Slippery Slopes

_______________________________

273: Viewing Church Doctrine Through the Lens of Antifragility

_______________________________

275: Continued: Spiritual Paths of the September Six Thirty Years Later

_______________________________

Symposium CDs

2023

2022

Open Donation

Choose price

Please make check donations payable to Sunstone and mail to
343 North 300 West Salt Lake City, UT 84103

Sunstone is a 501(C)3 nonprofit. All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
EIN 87-0683974