The Nauvoo Temple Experience Devery Anderson, co-editor with Gary James Bergera of the two-volume documentary history set ,Joseph Smith’s Quorum of the Anointed, 1842–1845 and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies,1845–1846 (published last fall by Signature Books), will give us a glimpse into temple worship in Nauvoo during its heyday as well as in the chaos that …
Event: Dallas Symposium 2006
Old and New Projects: Catching Up with Todd Compton
Old and New Projects: Catching Up with Todd Compton questions about) the writing of his groundbreaking study, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, as well as tease us with insights and the flavor of his new book-under-construction, ‘Victim of the Muses.’ It will be great fun interacting with this favorite Mormon son …
Stages of Faith in a Mormon Context
Stages of Faith in a Mormon Context Signature Books marketing director Tom Kimball and SUNSTONE editor Dan Wotherspoon have both been strongly influenced by the work of James W. Fowler, author of Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Faith Development and the Quest for Meaning as well as several other important works, to map the …
Mormon Mantras
Mormon Mantras In this presentation that last year electrified symposium audiences in Salt Lake City and Seattle, Phil McLemore shares the story of his journey to the practice of meditation as a way to alleviate severe, chronic pain but which soon became for him a liberating spiritual practice. In Eastern spiritual traditions, mantras are practiced …
The Mormon Expulsions in Frontier America: Exploring Regional and Cultural Influences
The Mormon Expulsions in Frontier America: Exploring Regional and Cultural Influences In this session, Robert Briggs explores violence against the Mormons in the frontier settings of western Missouri and western Illinois. How similar was it to Lynch Law and Regulator-style violence once often found in rural settings where effective law enforcement and court systems were …
Native American Genetics and Other Paper Tigers, or, Indians are Lamanites No Matter What the LA Times Says
Native American Genetics and Other Paper Tigers, or, Indians are Lamanites No Matter What the LA Times Says Taking the recent Los Angeles Times article on Book of Mormon and DNA debates as his launching pad, Clifton Jolley turns his sharp eye toward the differences between historical, scientific, and Mormon truths in a not-entirely-serious examination …
The Defense of Cain An Interactive Musical Play
The Defense of Cain An Interactive Musical Play Prepare for a radical idea. Suppose Cain was framed?!! In this interactive, musical play, The Defense of Cain, the playwright claims that the scriptural record is one sided, that Cain has never had his day in court! This is that day. What are the implications of a …