This perennially well-received session features the stories of those who have chosen to remain active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the face of challenges to traditional faith. How have these members wrestled with their faith and yet emerged more determined than ever to be a part of the Latter-day Saint community? ALAN EASTMAN, CAROL B. …
Speaker: Mark D. Thomas
SL10375: No More Fellow Citizens but Still Strangers: Twenty Years of “Strangers in Paradox”: Explorations in Mormon Theology
Twenty years ago, Margaret and Paul Toscano published Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology. Fascinated by the richness of Mormon texts and ritual, they had been working out a complex theology for twenty years and were eager to share their insights. The book immediately became a feminist sensation and an official scandal, resulting—at least …
Written by the Finger of God?: The Book of Mormon Translation Debate
Written by the Finger of God?: The Book of Mormon Translation Debate A crowd of witnesses to the translation of the Book of Mormon report that Joseph Smith literally read the translation through his seerstone. But a century of scholarship has identified language errors and anachronisms inconsistent with a supernaturally perfect translation. Who is right-the …
Forty Days and Forty Nights: The Growing Role of Religions in the Urgent Fight for Environmental Sustainability
Forty Days and Forty Nights: The Growing Role of Religions in the Urgent Fight for Environmental Sustainability One Nobel prize-winning biologist from Stanford recently articulated the consensus of hope among biologists: to limit the extinction of species on earth to only 30 percent during this century. This is just one item indicating the enormous environmental …
Marketing Research And The Book Of Mormon
Marketing Research And The Book Of Mormon This presentation reports the results of a means/end market research survey concerning the Book of Mormon. What did the survey reveal to be the underlying values Latter-day Saints bring to their reading of the Book of Mormon? What are the “product features” in the Book of Mormon that …
Wayne Booth as Wanderer
Wayne Booth as Wanderer Wayne Booth is one of our nation’s most honored teachers. He is also considered by many one of our finest scholars. He has published numerous books, several of which, including ‘The Rhetoric of Fiction” and “The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction,” are standard reading in college English departments. He …
Above the American Renaissance?: Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon?
Above the American Renaissance?: Could Joseph Smith Have Written the Book of Mormon? Was the Book of Mormon what Joseph Smith claimed it to be–an ancient sacred record whispering out of the ground to modern generations–or was it a product of what David Reynolds has called “the subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and …
Understanding Mormonism’s Sealed Book: Digging in Cumorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives
Understanding Mormonism’s Sealed Book: Digging in Cumorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives Stemming from the passion that led to his acceptance at the University of Chicago’s divinity school in 1977, Mark Thomas spent years researching and writing his newly published book, Digging in Cumorah. Following the respected methods of 20th century biblical scholarship, Thomas applies …
Tributes to Karl Sandberg, 1931-2000, or how a Southern Utah Farm-boy Became a Latter-day Saint Renaissance Man
Tributes to Karl Sandberg, 1931-2000, or how a Southern Utah Farm-boy Became a Latter-day Saint Renaissance Man Karl started life in John’s Valley, Utah, went to Monroe, then to the worlds of P.A. Christensen, Hugh B. Brown, and others in Provo, then went to France on a mission. On this expedition to Europe Karl became …