This presentation compares and contrasts Joseph Smith’s views and practices on the issues of slavery, race, and ethnicity with those of others, who, like Smith, were founders/prophetic leaders of major indigenous American religious denominations. Why did Smith’s views diverge from those of these other New England-born leaders, whose views were generally abolitionist and comparatively more …
Speaker: Newell Bringhurst
David O. McKay And The Rise Of Modern Mormonism By Gregory A. Prince
In September 2004, with a presidential election approaching, the state of Utah was prepared to declare itself “Bush Country.” However, this conservative calm was jolted when Utah Valley State College student leaders announced that they had invited liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to speak at their campus. An explosion of outrage tore the community apart, and …
THE CHURCH’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF RACE: New Perspectives
A re-visitation of the 1978 Black Revelation from new and different perspectives. The presenters, co-editors of a forthcoming volume, Blacks and Mormons: Race in in American Church, will consider events and circumstances surrounding the revelation within the context of the Church’s “unfinished business of race.” What conditions brought about the revelation? How have Latter-day Saints …
My Literary Affair With Fawn McKay Brodie: The Pleasures and Pains In Crafting A Biography
My Literary Affair With Fawn McKay Brodie: The Pleasures and Pains In Crafting A Biography Newell Bringhurst, Todd Compton
David O McKay: The Public vs. the Private Man
David O McKay: The Public vs. the Private Man Newell Bringhurst, Val Rust