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!

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

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Friday, July 28th | Sessions 111 - 136

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111: Opening Plenary: Daniel O. McClellan

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121: MMHA: Religious Trauma within the Mormon Context

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122: Mormon Spirituality and the Affirmation of Truth

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123: Mashing Up Mormonism - A Conversation with Matt Page

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124: A Celebration of Contemporary Mormon Poetry

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125: The Aftermath of Mountain Meadows

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

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

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

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

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134: Eugene England’s Lengthened Light

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135: The Visual Image of Joseph Smith

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136: Construction of the Deviant Outgroup

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Friday, July 28th | Sessions 151 - 191

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

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152: Mainstreaming Psychedelic Mormonism

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153: Reimagining Shakespeare

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

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155: Reclaiming a Path to Spiritual Maturity

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156: American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

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

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162: Can Quantum Physics Explain Spiritual Questions

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163: Reading Between the Lines: Prooftexting and Mormon Exegesis

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

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

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

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

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172: How Social Torch Bearers Influence Civilization

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

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174: Race and Mormonism in Idaho

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

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

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

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Saturday, July 29th | Sessions 211 - 236

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

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

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214: And They Had No Poor Among Them

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215: Exponent II: Past and Present

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216: The Current State of LDS Faith Crisis

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221: Violence, Reconciliation, and the Problem of History

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222: A Staged Reading of The Play, Broken Shelves

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223: Mystical Mormonism

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224: Faithful Disagreement: Polyamory in Community of Christ

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

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

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

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232: Receiving ExMormons into the Larger Exvangelical Movement

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

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234: Radiant Mormonism

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235: Helping Potential Dones Stay with Mormonism

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

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Saturday, July 29th | Sessions 251 - 275

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251: Why We Stay

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

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253: Dating Section 132

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261: Main Stream: A "Fountain of Filthy Water"
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262: Life After Deconstruction

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

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

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

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

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273: Viewing Church Doctrine Through the Lens of Antifragility

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

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