2012 SALT LAKE SSUUNN STONESTONE SYMPOSIUM and WORKSHOPS Mormons and as a Political Force

25–28 July 2012 P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M olpin student union U P D A T E 200 s. central campus dr, salt lake city, 84112 801.581.5888

THIS SYMPOSIUM is dedicated WE RECOGNIZE that the WE WELCOME the honest to the idea that the truths search for things that are, ponderings of Latter-day of the gospel of Jesus Christ have been, and are to be is Saints and their friends are better understood and, a sifting process in which and expect that everyone as a result, better lived much chaff will have to be in attendance will approach when they are freely and carefully inspected and every issue, no matter how frankly explored within threshed before the wheat difficult, with intelligence, the community of Saints. can be harvested. respect, and good will. INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS Guide to Numbering: W’s = Workshops, 000’s = Wednesday, 100’s = Thursday, 200’s = Friday, 300’s = Saturday

ADAms, Jon 331 DeHLin, JoHn 175 , 231, 253, 332 simonsen, soren 376 ALeXAnDer, THomAs 153 DoBner, JenniFer 172 mADson, JosHUA 152, 375 sinGer, TiFFAnY m. 171 ALLreD, JAniCe 151, 171, 211 Driessen, mArGUeriTe 262 mADson, ron 152 smiTH, CHrisToPHer 321, 355 ALLreD, KATHerine 261, 271 DUFFY, JoHn-CHArLes 135, mArQUArDT, H. miCHAeL 355, smiTH, n. Lee 316 , 326 AnDerson, DeVerY s. 313 263, 273 366 smiTH, rAnDALL 114 AnDerson, JAreD 165, 214 DUQUe, JenniFer 171 mAson, PATriCK 172, 371 smiTHson, JAmes B. 264 AnDerson, KATrinA BArKer mAYFieLD, sTeVen L. 173 snUFFer, DenVer C., Jr. 153 125 eAsTmAn, ALAn 124 , 151 mCCALL, Kim 123, 181, 291 , 333, sPenCer, DArreLL 254 AnDerson, LAVinA FieLDinG eCHoLs, JAson 331, 351, 361 mCiLVAin, rYAn 254 sPriGGs, AnDreW 256, 351, 113 eGGerTsen, simon PeTer 133 mCKAY, KimBerLY 372 361 ArCHiBALD, CHeLsi 114, 171, eKPenYonG, KUFre 201, 225, mCKAY, QUinn G. W-2 sTeVens, miCHAeL J. 141, 151, 211, 314, 326, 356, 364, 372 274, 325 mCCreArY, KAren 181 255 , 266, 341 ArnoLD, Anne 231 meCHAm, KrisTA 354 sTorni, DominiQUe 261, 271 FArreLL, LeAH W-8 meJiA, JoHn 272 sULLiVAn, KiLeY 261, 271, 331 BAnTA, DonnA 241, 261, 271, FisHer, ADAm W-1, 253, 356 menLoVe, FrAnCes Lee 301 sWiCK, Joe 274 , 374 331 FisHer, mArY W-1 miLner, CeLinA 335 BArBer, PHYLLis W-3, 254, 324 Fossen, APriL 336 moreHeAD, JoHn W. 365 TAYLor, AAron 351, 361 BArLoW, PHiLiP 231, 252 FoX, rUsseLL ArBen 174 , 274, morTensen, JoAnn 241 TAYsom, TAmArA 132, 153, 224, BArneTT, ALAn 364 352 mULHoLLAnD, Ken 365 354 BArneY, KeVin 135 mUnson, eriKA 332 THAYne, emmA LoU WArner BArrUs, CLAir 366 GArDner, JAne m. 101, 112 254 BenneTT, riCK 262 Geisner, Joe 113, 121, 223 , 355 neeDHAm, s. eUGene 165 THomAs, mArK 111, 273, 376 BerGerA, GArY JAmes 223 GiLBerT, CATHLeen 153 nii, JenniFer 336 THUrsTon, morris 322 BLoUnT, PArKer 134 GooDFeLLoW, PAULA 321 TorGersen, JAmes 154 BoWers, FreDeriCK 311 o’DonoVAn, ConneLL 121 TosCAno, mArGAreT 131, 171, BoWmAn, mATTHeW 174, 252 HALes, BriAn C. 275 oLAiz, HUGo 332 221 BrADLeY, Don 291 HALL, LAUren 101, 112 osmonD, rUss W-9, 134, 263, TosCAno, PAUL 333 BrADsHAW, BiLL 175 HAmer, CAroL 261, 271, 331, 374 BriAn, mArie DAVis 261, 271 351, 361 Vinson, miCHAeL 201 BrinGHUrsT, neWeLL G. 155 , HAnDLeY, WiLLiAm r. 254 PACe, VAnCe 162 VoGeL, DAn 273 334, 373 HAnKs, mAXine 251, 291 PAUL, CHArLes rAnDALL 353 BrooKs, JoAnnA 254 HAnsen, nADine 362 PAYne, seTH 312 WAsHBUrn, BenGT 242, 255 BroWn, HiLArY C. 125, 261, HAnson, C.L. 241 PeArson, CAroL LYnn 231 WeLKer, HoLLY 131, 171, 211, 271 HArris, mATTHeW L. 334 PeCK, sTeVen 254 255, 261, 271 BroWn, JAson minTon W-4 HArrison, D CHrisTiAn 352 PeTerFeso, JiLL 221, 261, 271, WenGer, KAimiPono 135, 171, BroWn, sAmUeL morris 274 Henson, meLAnnY eVA 171, 325 251 , 312, 351, 361 BrUno, CHerYL 171, 261, 271, 261, 271 PinGree, J. FreDeriCK “ToBY” Werner, sUzAnn 253 351, 361, 374 HoLLisT, J. TAYLor 162, 212 231, 262, 315, 334 WesT, JosePH 115, 214 BUrTon, D. JeFF 253 Horn, BrYAn 363 PorTer, KenneTH 173 WesTBrooK, DonALD 325, 363 BUsHmAn, CLAUDiA L. 371 HoWe, sUsAn eLizABeTH 133 WHiPPLe, rACHeL mABeY 134, BUsHmAn, riCHArD LYmAn QUiCK, eLizABeTH rUsseLL 171, 351, 361, 376 371 irVin, JeremY 372 314 WiLCoX, KenDALL 332, 353 QUinn, D. miCHAeL 214, 313, WiLDe, Anne B. 275, 313 CALDiero, ALeX 324 JACoBsen, ADAm 174 355 WiLes, Lee 224 CALL, TrisTAn 152, 375 JAnis, CrAiG 132 WiLKinson, sUnni BroWn 133 CALL, WiLLiAm 123 JeFFries, BriDGeT JACK 135, rAPier, JerrY 336 WiLLiAms, JoHn K. 241, 315, CALLisTer, ronDA roBerTs 263 , 351, 361 rAYnes, mArYBeTH 226 331 231 Jensen, emiLY WArBUrTon rees, roBerT A. 172, 215, 222, WiLLiAms, JosHUA 372 CAmPBeLL, AAron 322 215 252, 311, 323, 353, 371 WiLLiAms, TroY 255 CAmPBeLL, CAroLYn 324 JoHn, JeremiAH 352 rHo, eUniCe HYon min 391 WinDer, Lorie 251, 275 CAnnon, LinCoLn 362, 373 JoHns, BeCKY 114, 221, 264 riCKs, JeFF 331 WooDWorTH, WArner 152, CAnnon, sUe sPenCer 122, JoLLeY, CLiFTon HoLT 164, riTCHie, J. Bonner 164 353, 371 152 215, 265 roBerTson, mArY eLLen 091, WoTHersPoon, DAn 301, 365 CArTer, sTePHen 255, 266, 171, 266, 391 324 KADer, nAnCY 111 roBinson, GreG 222 YoUnG, sArA 336 CHADWiCK, TYLer 133, 163 KADer, omAr 181 roCKWeLL, GreG 226, 315 YoUnGBLooD, CArL 124 CHAmBLess, Tim 272 KennArD, LAUren 323, 354 roGers, JAneT 174 YoUnG-oTTersTrom, CHrisTmAs, r.A. 133 KesLer, JoHn T. W-5, 115, 316 rUiz, JUAn mAnUeL 335 CrYsTAL 132 CHrisTinG, ADAm 155 KinG, BriAn s. 272 rUsseLL, reVA BeTH 261, 271 CLArA, miCHAeL 335 KinG, CHArLes FrAnCis rUsseLL, WiLLiAm D. 164, 213, zorC, GeneVieVe 251 CLArK, Dennis 133 “FrAnK” W-6, 122 373 CLUFF, CHerYL 336 KLAnD, JonATHAn 364 sPonsoreD sessions: ComPTon, LAUrA 266, 332 KnoWLTon, DAViD 335 sAnDers, AsHLeY 375 ComPTon, ToDD 212, 273 KoesTer, eLLen 363 sAnDers, TALenA 161 mormon TrAnsHUmAnisT CoPPins, mCKAY 352 KoVALenKo, eUGene n. 154, sCHerer, mArK A. 213 AssoCiATion, 124 CorneTT, GLenn 216 173 , 265 sCHoFieLD, CHUCK 376 CUrTis, emiLY CLYDe 112, 151, sCHoon, eriC 214 mormon Women’s ForUm, 151 353 LAmBerT, GLen r. 226 sCoTT, DAViD 181 LArsen, JoHn 256, 321 sHAW, renee W-7, 154, 171 DAUGHTreY, Doe 171, 251, 274 , LArsen, ziLPHA, 256 sHieLDs, sTeVe 101, 125, 165, 314, 371 LesUeUr, mereDiTH 115, 123, 174 DeCKer, CrAiG 225 161 sHULTs, LiLLY 222, 253, 326 DeCoo, eLLen 163, 171, 223, LoUGee, KenneTH 362 siLK, mArK 091 311 PAGE 2 2012 SALT LAKE 2012 SALT LAKE SYMPOSIUM

2012 salt lake SympoSium ReGiSTRaTioN ADmission To ALL sessions is by purchased ticket or symposium name badge only, available at the registration table. sunstOne advance registrations may be purchased by mail, via email, on the Sunstone website, or by telephone by calling 801.355.5926. symposium and An ADVAnCe reGisTrATion Form WiTH ALL THe DeTAiLs Workshops is inCLUDeD on THe BACK CoVer oF THis ProGrAm. paRkiNG

Sunstone has reserved Lot 24 for Symposium attendees; parking here is FRee to Sunstone attendees on Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday of the symposium. Lot 24 is southeast of the Tanner Humanities Building (CTiHB) and opens onto Wasatch Drive. Take North Campus Drive or mario Capecchi Drive to Wasatch Drive. Lot 24 has two entrances—one before you get to the mcCarthy Track & Field Complex (you’ll drive through Lot 25 to get to Lot 24) and a second entrance at Ballif Road just past the mcCarthy Track & Field Complex. See map on page 47. on saturday onLY, parking in other campus parking lots is free (except the visitors lot).

attendees may pay to park in the Visitors Lot directly east of the union building. This lot charges by the hour with a maximum of $10 per day. it is the closest lot to the union and has designated handi - capped parking spaces (handicapped parking is free with placard).

attendees who are staying at the university Guest House hotel can park free in the hotel’s parking lot. Non-guests can pay $5 per day for a parking permit and walk to the union or ride the campus shuttle. a schedule for the shuttle can be found at http://www.com - muterservices.utah.edu/transportation/shuttles/index.html. Look for the summer shuttle schedule. theme: Mormons and Mormonism LoDGiNG as a Political Force The University Guest House and Conference Center is located on the university of utah campus (110 South Fort Douglas Blvd). WoRkSHopS Rates are $95 a night plus 12.6% tax for double queen beds. We have a great selection of sUnsTone WorKsHoPs this year! amenities include free parking, free hot breakfast, refrigerator, See pages 5-8 for details about this year’s workshop offerings, microwave, satellite TV, free wireless internet, fitness room, instructors, and registration information. hairdryer, coffeemaker, iron & ironing board.

2012 pReLimiNaRy pRoGRam The Guest House is a 10-minute walk from the Student union. The ReD campus shuttle runs every 15-20 minutes between the THis is A PreLiminArY ProGrAm . every effort will be made to university Guest House/Ft. Douglas Blvd and the Student union keep to this schedule of sessions, but topics, speakers, and times between the hours of 6:00 am and 6:00 pm, with service every 30 may change between now and the event. a final program with room minutes between 6:00-11:00 pm. assignments and a complete list of participants will be provided at the conference. This preliminary program will be continually updat - The deadline to book in Sunstone’s block has passed; however the ed online as speakers are added and other changes are made. Guest House may still have rooms available during our event. Visit Visit WWW.sUnsTonemAGAzine.Com to see updated versions. www.universityguesthouse.com/ to ask about availability or call 801.587.1000 or 888.416.4075.

SeSSioN pRoCeeDiNGS aND ReCoRDiNGS Rooms are available at the sLC marriott University Park (480 Wakara Way). Rates are $99 a night plus tax for all rooms. Guests sYmPosiUm ProCeeDinGs are not published, nor does must book before Wednesday 11 July 2012 to receive the pre - Sunstone make papers available. electronic recordings of most ferred rate in the Sunstone block. sessions (excluding workshops) will be available and may even be ordered in advance. audio pre-order forms will be available online To make reservations, call the marriott university park directly at soon at WWW.sUnsTonemAGAzine.Com and at the conference. 801.581.1000 or 800.228.9290 or visit HTTp :// WWW .maRRioTT .Com /HoTeLS /TRaVeL /SLCup -SaLT -Lake - CiTy -maRRioTT -uNiVeRSiTy -paRk /. The marriott university park provides free parking, free transportation to the uofu, and free use of their business center to all guests.

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We regret being unable to provide Sunstone attendees with dorm housing on uofu campus. The logistics were too much for our small SympoSium ReGiSTRaTioN staff to manage. Below are some lower cost hostels and hotels in the Salt Lake area: ADmission To ALL sessions is by purchased ticket or symposium name badge only, available at the registration table. avenues Hostel 801.539.8888 advance registrations may be purchased by mail, via email, on the 107 F Street, 84103 Salt Lake City SuNSToNe website, or by telephone by calling 801.355.5926. http://www.saltlakehostel.com/ An ADVAnCe reGisTrATion Form WiTH ALL THe DeTAiLs Camelot inn Hostel 801.688.6196 is inCLUDeD on THe BACK CoVer oF THis ProGrAm. 165 West 800 South http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Camelot-inn-and- SympoSium puRpoSe Hostel/Salt-Lake-City/12701?sc_sau=sfab&sc_pos=2 THe sALT LAKe sUnsTone sYmPosiUm is an annual utah international Hostel 801.359.4525 gathering of Latter-day Saints, scholars, and others interested in 50 S 800 West the diversity and richness of mormon thought and experience and http://www.utahinternationalhostel.com/ who enjoy pondering the past, present, and future of the unfolding . The symposium is a public conference based on the TRaNSpoRTaTioN To/FRom SLC aiRpoRT principles of an “open forum.” This is a space where we invite rigor - ous inquiry and thoughtful, respectful participation, trusting that both Taxi and shuttle services are available at either terminal. the cause of truth and the society of the Saints are best served by free and open exploration and discussion. express Shuttle: 800.397.0773 http://www.expressshuttleutah.com/ City Cab: 801.363.5550 or 801.363.8400 FAiTH. Hear words that inspire Christian living by exploring gospel ute Cab: 801.359.7788 http://www.utecabco.com/ truths, sharing spiritual journeys, and untying knotty challenges. yellow Cab: 801.521.2100 http://www.yellowcabutah.com/ CommUniTY. meet old friends and make new one s— fellow seek - The uofu is accessible by TRaX. The Stadium TRaX stop is the ers whose thoughts and experiences parallel yours. closest stop, but still requires a short walk to the Student union and university Guest House. KnoWLeDGe. Gain insights that can come only from rigorous examination of mormon doctrine and culture from insider and DiNiNG oN aND oFF CampuS outsider perspectives. FUn. Wrestle with new, stimulating, and lively viewpoints. Savor The Student union Food Court is open 7:30 am—2:30 pm well-crafted sermons. match famous scholars’ names with faces. Wednesday through Friday and is closed saturday . The food court Laugh in the humor sessions. indulge in late-night discussions is located on the first floor of the olpin Student union building, you rarely have chances for elsewhere. Browse and purchase downstairs from where most sessions will be held. options include interesting books. Wonder at the diversity among God’s children. Chilitos, Burger Box, Sandwich Central, papa John’s, Chop’d (sal - ads), au Bon pain soups, Jamba Juice, and a convenience store. poiNTS To NoTe The university Guest House does not have an onsite restaurant; there is a convenience store in the lobby. The Heritage Center ProGrAm . SuNSToNe offers a diverse selection of topics, Dining Room on campus offers breakfast (6:30-9:00 am), lunch formats, and perspectives. Be excited to hear views that coincide (11:00 am-2:00 pm), and dinner (4:30-7:30 pm) for $7-9, monday with yours, but also prepare to hear presentations that may offer a through Saturday and is within walking distance of the Student different perspective. as elder Hugh B. Brown told Byu students in union and Guest House. Call 801.587.2000 for more information. 1958, “i have mentioned freedom to express your thoughts, but i caution you that your thoughts must meet competition in the There are many restaurants near campus along 1300 e, including marketplace of thought, and in that competition truth will emerge The pie pizzeria, B&D Burger, market Street Broiler, indochine triumphant. only error needs fear freedom of expression.” Vietnamese Bistro, and aristo’s Greek Restaurant and Cafe. a list of nearby restaurants will be available at the registration desk. VoLUnTeers . Sunstone symposiums rely heavily on the efforts of many volunteers. Please consider helping at this year’s symposium at the registration desk, taking tickets, or chairing sessions. Or Byo WaTeR BoTTLe consider presenting a paper or organizing a panel for next year! The Salt Lake Symposium is a bit greener this year! in keeping with the university of utah's sustainability practices, we encourage 2013 SympoSium THeme Sunstone attendees to bring reusable water bottles to the sympo - sium and use the Student union's water bottle filling stations and mormon BoDies: LiTerAL, meTAPHoriCAL, DoCTrinAL drinking fountains for refills. one of mormonism’s most distinctive attributes is the emphasis on Hotel-style water service is pricey and takes up valuable seating embodiment, including the belief that “everybody ought to have a space in smaller rooms. While we will still provide some drinking body,” and that embodiment is not merely a condition of mortality water stations, we encourage you to bring a reusable water bottle but a crucial step in the journey to becoming like God, who “has a or to reuse disposable cups throughout the day. body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s” (D&C 130:22). Bodies are a primary way we learn about the world, a source of We also ask that you dispose of plastic containers, soda cans, pleasure and temptation, something to be both enjoyed and tamed. paper, and this program in the recycling containers located through - How do LDS ideas about sex, sin, illness, food, pleasure, procre - out the union. Learn more about the university of utah’s office of ation, parenthood, obligation, gender, and godhood affect their Sustainability here: HTTp :// SuSTaiNaBiLiTy .uTaH .eDu /

PAGE 4 2012 SALT LAKE 2012 SUNSTONE SYMPOSIUM experiences of their bodies? How do LDS doctrines of embodiment Furthermore, the “body of Christ” is a metaphor for the church, but affect the way Latter-day Saints think, feel, and talk about their mormons avoid emphasizing the literal body of Christ, eschewing bodies? not just crucifixes but crosses. Why are some literal bodies more important than others? What bodies matter most? Jesus had a mortal body, but we don’t like to talk about its suffering, preferring to dwell on his resurrected form. Heavenly mother has a mormonism also encompasses many different collective bodies: body, but we are officially discouraged from talking about it. The different traditions tracing their roots back to Joseph Smith, different Holy Ghost, bodiless, is nevertheless constantly making our bos - governing bodies overseeing different communities or texts or oms burn, or calling tears to our eyes, or standing us up and walk - enterprises. Finally, in its relatively short history, mormonism has ing us to the podium during testimony meeting. produced a remarkably rich and diverse body of thought and scrip - ture. How do all these mormon bodies collide against, control, What metaphors are hidden in our obsession with bodies? How nurture, or support one another? does our bodily approach to the world both expand and constrain our view of the divine? What is the relationship between spirit and 2013 UTAH sUnsTone sYmPosiUm body (is it only the body that must be tamed)? What paradoxes does our view of bodies force us to live in? 31 JULY —3 AUGUsT oGDen, UTAH SESSION CHANGES

the following sessions have been changed from the preliminary program: sessions CAnCeLLe D— 000. none As oF Press Time. sessions moVeD To neW Time sLoT s— sessions ADDe D— 255. WHAT is THe roLe oF PersonAL FAiTH in PoLiTiCs AnD PoLiCYmAKinG? 135. PAneL. ALL APoLoGies: THe roLe oF moved to session 272 APoLoGeTiCs in mormonism AnD 264. PAPer. JosePH smiTH AnD seXUAL PoLYAnDrY kaimipoNo WeNGeR, keViN BaRNey, BRiDGeT moved to session 275 JaCk JeFFRieS, JoHN-CHaRLeS DuFFy 272. PAneL. WHAT Are We DoinG WiTH oUr 155. FiLm. A MorMon President: JosePh sMith And momenT? the MorMon Quest for the White house moved to session 352 NeWeLL G. BRiNGHuRST 311. PAPer. VoTer TUrnoUT AnD VoTinG TrenDs 175. PAneL. sUrVeY sAYs: DATA AnALYsis oF seXUAL AmonG LDs GenerAL AUTHoriTies, sTAKe Presi - orienTATion CHAnGe eFForTs in Former/ CUr - DenTs, AnD BisHoPs in UTAH renT LDs CHUrCH memBers moved to session 322 BiLL BRaDSHaW, 321. PAPer. HeLP! mY sPoUse is (seLeCT one): A) 216. PAPer. FAiTH As A DeADLY sin (oF PriDe) TrUe-BeLieVinG mormon, B) eX-mormon, C) GLeNN CoRNeTT UnsUre moved to session 356 256. PAneL. PoDCAsTinG From THe eDGe: THree YeArs oF eXPerienCe WiTH mormon 322. PAPer. riDinG oUr DoUBLe rAinBoWs To eXPression HeAVen: eXPerienCes oF LGBT mormons oF JoHN LaRSeN, ziLpHa LaRSeN CoLor in THe moDern WorLD moved to session 311 264. PAPer. WHY THe CHUrCH WorKs BeTTer in CerTAin KinDs oF PLACes (AnD noT in 352. PAneL. mormons AnD mormonism As oTHers) PoLiTiCAL FArCe JameS B. SmiTHSoN moved to session 255

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WeDNeSDay 25 JuLy Instructor aDam FiSHeR is a doctoral student in counsel - ing psychology at indiana university where he is also minoring in human sexuality through the kinsey institute. His dissertation research (in progress) focuses on predictors of divorce for reli - gious couples where one spouse experiences a 2012 Salt Lake change in beliefs. He has a master’s degree in counseling from Gonzaga university and has completed clinical training in a variety of secular SUN STONE as well as religious settings, such as LDS Family SUN STONE Services and Catholic Charities. symposium and Instructor maRy FiSHeR is a practicing psychotherapist in Workshops Salt Lake City. She completed her graduate work at Gonzaga university. She is especially interest - ed in emotion-focused therapy and attachment WoRkSHop ReGiSTRaTioN, theory in her work with couples and individuals. 9:00 am–6:00 pm NOTE: There is a 90-minute break for lunch between 1:00-2:30 pm Registration Workshop registration requires a separate fee Information and is available primarily via online pre-registra - moRNiNG WoRkSHopS, 9:30 am–1:00 pm tion. advance registration allows the instructors to anticipate the number of students and prepare W2. Title THe BoTTom Line on inTeGriTY—or, is handouts and other materials for the class. LYinG someTimes THe riGHT THinG For An HonesT Person To Do? if you pre-register for workshops, you will be able with quiNN G. mCkay to pick up your pre-printed name badge at the Symposium registration desk starting at 9:00 am Description Renowned motivational speaker and corporate Wednesday 25 July 2012. consultant quinn G. mckay has distilled his life - time of gathered wisdom on business ethics into Typically, workshops can accommodate additional The Bottom Line on Integrity: 12 Principles for people who register onsite. However, we strongly Higher Returns . although geared toward business recommend signing up in advance to secure a people, these insights into ethics and integrity in place in the workshop(s) of your choice. the workplace have broad applicability outside the office or boardroom. admission to all other symposium sessions is by purchased name badge or ticket only. This policy This workshop will explore concepts critical to a will be strictly enforced. Registration forms, better understanding of personal integrity, starting badges, and tickets are available at the registra - with the idea that we tend to regard ourselves as tion table in the ballrooms on the second floor of more honest that we really are. This exaggeration olpin Student union Building. of our ethical sensibilities can have implications in how we respond to complicated ethical questions FuLL Day WoRkSHop, 9:30 am–6:00 pm and situations. quinn’s lifelong study of ethics “rises above the prattle of prissy, preachy platitudes” and encourages listeners to thought - W1. Title WHen one sPoUse eXPerienCes A fully explore both their own ethical strengths and CHAnGe in BeLieFs: sTrenGTHeninG areas for improvement. The humor, honesty, and YoUr mArriAGe THroUGH sHAreD VUL - liveliness of this presentation make learning nerABiLiTY about ethics and integrity not just thought-provok - with aDam FiSHeR ing but fun.

Description The aftermath of one partner’s change in beliefs Instructor quiNN G. mCkay has been a university profes - might threaten a marriage or eventually result in sor, management consultant, and business exec - divorce. Contempt, negativity, and blame make utive for over 30 years, teaching and presenting this situation seemingly insurmountable for some. seminars and workshops on business ethics a key to navigating this crisis is the couple’s com - around the world. With a master’s and doctorate mitment to repairing damaged or broken bonds in business administration from Harvard, he has and finding each other across the divide. Doing consulted and conducted leadership coaching so requires the couple to reach a place of shared with many major corporations world-wide and vulnerability in which mutual feelings of fear, loss, with several federal agencies. He is the author of and deep sadness can be experienced together. two books on business ethics, most recently The This workshop will address how spouses can Bottom Line on Integrity , published by Gibbs work together to find a new emotional safe-haven Smith in 2004. quinn lives with his wife in while supporting each other’s uniqueness and kaysville. autonomy.

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W3. Title THe mormon mYsTerY YoU oWn: A CLAss in PersonAL essAY/memoir Instructor JaSoN miNToN BRoWN has a Ba in anthropol - with pHyLLiS BaRBeR ogy from Byu. He graduated from the yale School of Forestry and environmental Studies NOTE This workshop is limited to 18 participants. and the yale Divinity School in 2011, earning master’s degrees in forestry and theology (mF, Description For those who have grown up in mormon culture, maR). He is currently an adjunct professor at Salt the experience of being mormon and trying to be Lake Community College and utah Valley a good mormon/good Christian leaves an indeli - university where he teaches courses in ethics ble stamp no matter how active or inactive you and values and world religion. This summer he is become. With the recent exposure to mormonism working for the uS Forest Service as a forester. in the press/media/on Broadway, there has been other projects include orcharding, traditional an increased interest in the mormon experience: woodworking, farmland protection, interfaith work, just what are these mormons all about? How do sustainable forestry, and writing about sacred you use the art of writing memoir or personal groves. He is a contributor to The Mormon essay to explore the mystery of who you are and Worker , Our Mother’s Keeper , and Mormon what you’ve become because of your religious Matters podcasts. immersion? How does your sense of place within the culture translate for those unfamiliar with its W5. Title An AWAreness PrACTiCe ALiGneD WiTH inner workings? How can you access the THe resToreD GosPeL, reVeALinG THAT mormon mystery that has been nurtured in your THe resToreD GosPeL ConTAins THe psyche in new, refreshing, enlightening ways? WisDom oF THe eAsT AnD THe seeDs oF and how can you cross the bridge to a wider A neW soCiAL AnD PoLiTiCAL moVemenT audience? Join the class and get started with with JoHN T. keSLeR your story. Description John will facilitate aspects of integral polarity Instructor pHyLLiS BaRBeR is the author of seven books practice (ipp), an awareness practice he has (the latest being Raw Edges: A Memoir , a coming developed over the past decade to be aligned of age in middle-age story) and recently retired with the principles and patterns of the Restored from the Vermont College of Fine arts mFa in Gospel; he will point out these correlations Writing program where she taught for nineteen throughout the workshop and explain how the years. How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir Restored Gospel includes the wisdom of eastern won the associated Writing programs prize in meditative traditions. This will provide an experi - Creative Nonfiction in 1991 and the association ential demonstration of what John will of mormon Letters prize for Best autobiography discuss in his Saturday Sunstone presentation on in 1993. Her essays have been cited as notable meditation (Session 316). in Best American Essays 2010 and 2011, and in Best American Travel Writing . at higher levels of personal development, an indi - vidual’s inner life and actions become more W4. Title CreATion AnD sACreD GroVes in mYsTi - deeply integrated; the individual will also sense a CAL eXPerienCe: A PArTiCiPATorY WorK - oneness with all humanity. ipp provides a prac - sHoP tice and a framework for achieving this realiza - with JaSoN miNToN BRoWN tion, and the workshop will conclude with prac - tices illuminating this. This focus will provide an Description Forests, deserts, oceans, rivers, mountaintops, experiential demonstration of what John will talk and gardens are woven into the fabric of our about in his Thursday Sunstone presentation dis - sacred stories. But despite nature’s central place cussing a new social and political movement in religious history, Christianity still struggles to grounded in mormon sensibilities (Session 115). articulate a strong commitment to transforming our destructive economic system and curbing Instructor JoHN T. keSLeR is a practicing attorney and anthropogenic climate change. How have our active mormon who engages in community and sacred stories failed to communicate a deep internal work. He founded the Salt Lake Center moral commitment to the earth? Within mormon for engaging Community in order to model best mystical experience, one cannot read very far practices of community flourishing in a global without encountering the small hardwood forest in environment; a current project is the Center’s palmyra, Ny, where Joseph Smith’s career as a state-wide utah Civility and Community initiative. visionary, mystic, and self-proclaimed prophet after being one of the first people to be certified began. The Sacred Grove is a place of pilgrim - in the revolutionary zen “Big mind process,” John age for thousands of people of faith each year. developed and teaches an awareness practice called integral polarity practice, which he has This workshop will attempt to forge a new attempted to correlate in every way with princi - perception and appreciation of the earth as an ples and patterns of the Restored Gospel. For intrinsic part of human spirituality and an essen - John, this community work and internal work are tial component of our obligations as moral deeply interrelated. agents. participants will carpool to an outdoor location and return in time for the afternoon workshop sessions.

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to handle pain (starting school, doing chores, LuNCH BReak, 1:00 pm–2:30 pm etc.), developing either good or bad habits, leading to the development of talents or addictions while learning to bridle one’s passions.

This workshop will explore issues surrounding addiction, including: why we have addictions and what triggers them; why some people are more prone to addiction than others; the role of pain Where to eat THe STuDeNT uNioN’S food court offers a vari - and our reaction to it in forming addictions and ety of dining options. The food court is open from determining their nature; methods for overcoming 7:30 am to 2:30 pm Wednesday through Friday addiction; and explanations, answers, and and is located on the first floor of the union build - solutions found in the scriptures and Church ing (downstairs from most session rooms). teachings.

The Heritage Center Dining Room on campus is Instructor CHaRLeS FRaNCiS “FRaNk” kiNG was born in a five-minute walk from the university Guest New Jersey in 1928, raised in Brazil and House and offers breakfast (6:30-9:00 am), lunch argentina, and attended college in the uS where (11:00 am-2:00 pm), and dinner (4:30-7:30 pm) he received a Ba. Following military service, he for $7-9, monday through Saturday and is within was employed by Citibank in Santiago, Chile, walking distance of the Student union. Call where he met his wife marion Nielsen. in 1963, 801.587.2000 for more information. See page 4 they moved to France where they joined the for more information about dining options. “Communauté de l’arche” for two years. Deciding to settle in France, Frank went to carpentry aFTeRNooN WoRkSHopS, 2:30 pm–6:00 pm school, after which he opened a shop in antibes.

W6. Title ADDiCTion: A GosPeL PersPeCTiVe in 1973, Frank and marion and their two small with CHaRLeS FRaNCiS “FRaNk” kiNG children met the missionaries and joined the LDS Church. Frank became the first branch president Description Because human beings are created in the image of the antibes Branch. in 1979, Frank accepted a of God, they have all the tools necessary to post with the newly organized physical facilities survive in this world, the foremost being the department of the Church. Retired in 1992, Frank ability to feel physical, mental, and spiritual pain. and marion accepted a call to serve in the With the help of loving parents, a child can learn Frankfurt Temple. They served a second mission in the Vienna South mission office. Frank is the author of three books on chiasmus in the Book of mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. His A New Satire from latest work explores how the scriptures increase our understanding of addiction. D. Jeff Burton W7. Title TALKs WiTH HeAVenLY moTHer with ReNee SHaW

Description Listen to cutting-edge author Renee Shaw share her story of getting to know her Heavenly mother. in the fall of 2010, as Renee walked through the trees in a local park, Heavenly mother started speaking directly to her, launching a series of meetings in the park. Renee is recording these meetings in the trees in her forthcoming book, Talks with Heavenly Mother. She will share sneak peeks from this work, including “Romance in Heaven,” “Heavenly mother’s Role in the New millennium,” and “a Day in the Life of Heavenly mother.” She will teach participants how to make their own connection with Heavenly mother by meditating in nature and allowing Her to become a part of their daily lives. Join Renee with song, dance, and Heavenly Connection! “I found it very interesting.” —Levi Peterson Instructor ReNee SHaW heard a voice calling herself “Heavenly mother” while walking through a grove “I was thrilled by this book.” of trees in a local park in September 2010. This — Boyd J. Petersen encounter sparked a succession of meetings and “...a very fun book...” generated a close relationship that inspired her — Reed Russell for AML upcoming book, Talks with My Heavenly Mother . Available at Benchmark Books and Amazon.com • ISBN 1-883992-45-1

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the utah Bar on 31 october 2011. a West High School alum, Leah is very happy to be back in W8. Title Yes, iT HAs HAPPeneD! LDs + ACLU LAW - her hometown of Salt Lake City and working for sUiTs AnD HoW THeY’Ve eXPAnDeD CiViL civil liberties and civil rights in utah. LiBerTies For ALL AmeriCAns with LeaH FaRReLL W9. Title BrinGers, DrinKers, CLinGers, or THinKers? (A BeGinner’s DrAFT Description This workshop will examine several key religious TooLKiT) liberty cases in which the aCLu and LDS with RuSS oSmoND members actually collaborated to protect First amendment rights. aCLu staff will describe the Description D. Jeff Burton’s “Borderlanders” typology has cases and explain the constitutional issues at long been a useful, easily remembered method of play in each case, as well as broader impacts classifying how folks “feel” about their LDS the cases have had on First amendment law. connecitivities—particularly those who are “weakening.” Instructor LeaH FaRReLL joined the aCLu of utah in august 2011 from the university of Texas School But what about a typology that tells more of the of Law in austin. During her time here, she has story? a typology that more precisely suggests a assisted the legal team in litigation, negotiation, common vocabulary for the “why” of how the and advocacy work. at the university of Texas, active LDS “do” their activity? after all, there are Leah was a staff editor for the Texas International a lot of people still in this category and trying to Law Journal ; participated in the Human Rights make sense of it. “Liahonas” and “iron-Rodders” Clinic, Domestic Violence Clinic, and Community are fun tongue-in-cheek starters, but these cate - Development Clinic; and was on the board of gories can also stop a discussion in its tracks. several successful public interest student groups. This paper proposes a common vocabulary to Leah’s dedication to public interest law earned categorize varying levels of LDS belief. her the Chris marshall endowed presidential Scholarship, a public interest Scholar award, and The Greeks talked of four humors (sanguine, bil - a Texas Law Summer Fellowship. Leah received ious, melancholy, and choleric), and since then a JD in may 2011 and was officially sworn in to nearly all typologies of human behavior have clustered into 4-factor models of one kind or

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another. it’s worth asking about the degree to which a simple 4-factor model might show why professor Silk is the author of Spiritual Politics: and how each of us (students, critics, apologists, Religion and America Since World War II and believers, borderlanders, etc.) might be “seeing” Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in the TBms (True-Believing mormons) we prefer America . He is co-editor of Religion by Region , and ignoring any other descriptions no matter an eight-volume series on religion and public life who offers them. perhaps by looking at those in the , and co-author of The who remain loyal to the Church through the four American Establishment, Making Capitalism common denominator lenses of behavioral Work, and One Nation Divisible: How Regional theory, we can find some common ground for the Religious Differences Shape American Politics . study of why people take different approaches to in 2007, he inaugurated “Spiritual politics,” a LDS Church activity instead of the many random blog on religion and american political culture iterative attempts floating around. (HTTp :// WWW .ReLiGioNNeWS .Com /BLoGS /maRk -SiLk ) that the Religion News Service began Instructor RuSS oSmoND has a phD from Syracuse publishing in 2012. university. Having completed five careers (college teaching, banking, political organizing, counseling, Abstract mormonism is often considered a tradition set consulting), Russ now devotes his time to devel - apart from the rest of american society, but over oping practical “ez to remember” models of effec - the past half-century it has become an integral tive communication, conflict resolution, and per - part of the country’s political life. From the equal suasive presentation for individuals, small groups, Rights amendment through ’s and hierarchically cantankerous conundra. proposition 8, the LDS Church has played a crucial if episodic role in the country’s culture wars. as a voting bloc, mormons have become SympoSium ReGiSTRaTioN, an anchor of the Gop—the most Republican of 6:00 pm–8:00 pm any religious grouping. and ideologically, mormon conceptions of the united States and its founding Registration The Smith-pettit Lecture is FRee and open to the have helped imbue the Republican party with a Information public . new restorationist political religion. as the Republicans prepare to nominate a mormon as admission to all other symposium sessions is by their presidential nominee, this lecture will exam - name badge or ticket only. This policy will be ine this new restorationism in the context of strictly enforced. Registration forms, badges, and national religious politics, showing how it single-session tickets are available at the regis - epitomizes the arrival of the mormon community tration table by the ballrooms on the second floor in the political mainstream. of olpin Student union Building. Chair maRy eLLeN RoBeRTSoN SmiTH-peTTiT LeCTuRe, 8:00 pm Room

The smith-Pettit Lecture is Free and open to the public. This lecture is FREE and open to the public. Mark R. Silk’s lecture has been made possible by the generous support of 091. Lecture mormons AnD THe neW PoLiTiCAL the Smith-Pettit Foundation. resTorATionism This program has received funding from the Utah Humanities Speaker maRk R. SiLk graduated from Harvard College Council. The Utah Humanities Council (UHC) provides in 1972 and earned a phD in medieval history leadership to empower individuals and groups to improve from in 1982. He taught for their communities through engagement in the humanities. three years in Harvard’s department of history Please take a moment to fill out a survey formsabout this and literature, after which he became editor of event and return it to the registration desk. These surveys the Boston Review . in 1987, he joined the staff help us evaluate the effectiveness of our special programs of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he and publicity efforts and position us to apply for additional worked variously as a reporter, editorial writer, grant funding in the future. Thank you! and columnist. in 1996, he became the founding director of the Leonard e. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in public Life at Trinity College in Hartford. in 1998, he established Religion in the News, a magazine published by the Center that examines how the news media handle religious subject matter. in 2005, he was named director of the Trinity College program on public Values, comprising both the Greenberg Center and a new institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture. in 2007, he became professor of Religion in public Life at the College.

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to intimidate, and stringent punishment of those whose beliefs or statements challenge the dictates of those in power. Scholars of the THuRSDay 26 JuLy inquisition have drawn parallels to Stalin’s Russia, Nazi Germany, and post 9/11 america. This paper will summarize the key role that 2012 salt lake mormons played in sanctioning torture under the Bush administration and the institutional struc - tures within the LDS Church used to gather infor - mation and address the problem of mormon intel - SUNSTONE lectuals. it will also explore how we as mormons symposium and can sustain our country and support our Church leaders while still supporting and implementing Workshops the Book of mormon’s anti-inquisition theology.

Respondent NaNCy kaDeR received a BS in nursing from ReGiSTRaTioN, 8:00 am–7:30 pm Byu and a phD in philosophy from the university of maryland, College park. While living in utah, Registration admission to sessions is by symposium name she was chair of the utah County Democratic information badge or ticket only. This policy will be strictly party. She resides in Virginia, where she is a enforced. Badges and single-session tickets are consulting bioethicist. available at the registration table by the ballrooms on the second floor of olpin Student union Chair To be announced. Building. Room

DeVoTioNaL, 8:00 am–8:30 am 112. Paper ConGreGATionAL sonG: eXPressinG A Vision oF THe CommUniTY’s FAiTH AnD 101. Devotional eXPerienCe THe PeACe oF JesUs CHrisT sHAPinG iTs DisCiPLesHiP THroUGH DiFFerenT KinDs oF PrAYer Presenters JaNe m. GaRDNeR is president of the Facilitators JaNe m. GaRDNeR is president of the Community of Christ quorum of High priests, Community of Christ quorum of High priests, director of integrated ministries Formation, and director of integrated ministries Formation, and chair of the Hymnal project. chair of the Hymnal project. LauReN HaLL is team leader and manager for LauReN HaLL is team leader and manager for Community of Christ’s Hymnal project. Community of Christ’s Hymnal project. Abstract Sharing and singing hymns foundational to the Abstract Come reflect on God’s gracious gift of Jesus Restoration by W.W. phelps and William Fowler, through scripture, song and prayer. we experience how the dynamics of congrega - tional song unify, build solidarity, and express Chair STeVe SHieLDS who we are as faith communities. Hymnody is also a powerful tool that shapes us. Through this Room lens, we present a few selections from the new Community of Christ hymnal (forthcoming in CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 8:30 am–9:30 am 2013) exploring the denomination’s vision of mis - sion and discipleship with an emphasis on peace 111. Paper TorQUemADA, GUAnTAnAmo BAY, AnD and justice. THe mormon inQUisiTion NOTE: Due to copyright issues, this session will not be Presenter maRk THomaS has published widely on the recorded. Book of mormon and early mormonism. His book Digging in Cummorah is a landmark in Book of Chair emiLy CLyDe CuRTiS mormon interpretation. He is a former faculty member at Byu and . Room

Abstract in Nephi’s vision in the Book of mormon, we find 113. Paper J. GoLDen KimBALL: missionArY FATHer an allusion to a european Church “which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and Presenter LaViNa FieLDiNG aNDeRSoN is president of bindeth them down. . .” (i Nephi 13:40) This editing, inc. and is a member of the editorial seems a clear condemnation of the inquisition. advisory Board of Signature Books, a trustee of New scholarship suggests that the inquisition the mormon alliance, and an honorary life mem - was not some prescientific anomaly that vanished ber of the association for mormon Letters and the with the enlightenment. Rather, elements that mormon History association. She is currently make for the inquisition are stronger and broader researching Lucy’s Life: A Biography of Lucy today than ever: secret surveillance, the imposi - Mack Smith and editing J. Golden kimball’s let - tion of belief, censorship, interrogations intended ters to his missionary son.

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toward the fullness of our divine potential. These Abstract almost weekly between 1926 and 1928, J. two mormon concepts provide ground for a new Golden kimball of the First Council of the social and political movement. in the past few Seventy would sit down at the office typewriter decades, developmental psychology has clarified and tap out a letter to his missionary son, max, that a person’s grasp of polarities with regard to then serving in France. These letters have never conceptual (including political) understandings been published and only occasionally quoted. in moves in an invariable progression based on contrast to J. Golden’s fame as a “cowboy” one’s rising developmental center of gravity. This General authority with a vocabulary to match, presentation will lay the groundwork for a more these letters show a little-known side to his per - mature approach to civic engagement, politics, sonality. He was affectionate and encouraging to governance, and policy which transcends and his son, harassed by persistent poverty, baffled includes both conservatism and liberalism—sug - by some of the choices that max’s siblings, all gesting the related importance of personal inter - older, were making, but clinging doggedly and nal growth. devotedly to his mormon faith. Respondent JoSepH WeST is a phD candidate in sociology Chair Joe GeiSNeR at the university of arizona, where he studies social networks, culture, and religiously motivated Room social movements.

114. Paper BrAnDinG mormonism: THe eVoLUTion Chair meReDiTH LeSueuR sinCe THe 1970s Room Presenter RaNDaLL SmiTH was employed in 1975 by the Church Graphic Design Department where he CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 9:45 am–10:45 am designed and implemented the Church’s first cor - porate identity program. a former art director of 121. Paper THe Lioness oF THe LorD: THe LeTTers SuNSToNe magazine, he is currently creative oF AUGUsTA ADAms CoBB To Her director and brand strategist at modern8, a brand HUsBAnD BriGHAm YoUnG design agency in Salt Lake City. Presenter CoNNeLL o’DoNoVaN is a freelance historian. Abstract The current “mormon moment” didn’t merely hap - He published a biography of early black mormon pen. The Church has used the tools of modern elder Walker Lewis in the John Whitmer Historical corporatism to brand itself since the mid-1970s. Association Journa l. He is working on a book The presentation will trace the development of about augusta adams Cobb and a book about branding the Church, beginning with the first William Smith and the ecclesiastical crises he corporate identity program in 1975, to the sophis - ignited in New england in the mid-1840s, tenta - ticated use of social media in 2012. The far- tively titled Strange Fire . reaching program of managing the perception of the Church with branding has had a significant Abstract Four uS archives contain some 140 letters effect on how the Church is viewed today and set written by augusta adams Cobb to her husband the path for acceptance in political and cultural Brigham young from 1844 to the 1860s. augusta arenas. was Brigham’s second plural wife of some 55 total. a Boston Brahmin, herbalist, and cultural Respondent BeCky JoHNS has a phD in communications feminist, augusta abandoned her wealthy first from the university of utah and is an associate husband and six of her children to marry Brigham professor in the communications department at young in 1843. Her letters are a treasure trove, Weber State university. replete with the details of broader mormon history as well as a failing and acrimonious marriage. Chair CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD Separating Brigham the prophet from Brigham the man, augusta claimed he refused to recipro - Room cate her love for him, often unfairly chastised her, played his favorite wives against her, and on 115. Paper A neW soCiAL AnD PoLiTiCAL moVemenT occasion even whipped her. although she GroUnDeD in mormon sensiBiLiTies complained bitterly, like singer patsy Cline, the more he abused her, the more she vowed to win Presenter JoHN T. keSLeR is a practicing attorney and back his heart. While they never divorced, active mormon. He founded the Salt Lake Center augusta repeatedly requested to be sealed for for engaging Community in order to model best eternity to scores of different men, including practices of community flourishing in a global Jesus Christ. Brigham did finally cancel their environment. John developed and teaches an eternal sealing and had her sealed to Joseph awareness practice that correlates with the Smith in 1848. restored gospel. Chair Joe GeiSNeR Abstract mormon doctrine decrees that opposition exist in all things, to the extent that everything that mani - Room fests is a compound in one (2 Nephi 2:11). We are also invited to grow and develop in capacity

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122. Paper THe HeALTH CAre Crisis: A GosPeL 124. Paper ComPAssionATe oBsoLesCenCe: CoPinG PersPeCTiVe WiTH TeCHnoLoGiCAL CHAnGe

Presenter CHaRLeS FRaNCiS “FRaNk” kiNG has lived all Presenter CaRL youNGBLooD is a founding member of over the world, including Santiago, Chile, where the mormon Transhumanist association and he met his wife, marion Nielsen. They and their serves as its chief information officer. He works children joined the Church in antibes, France. He for Cisco Systems, inc. in oslo, Norway. He has wrote three books on chiasmus in the Book of a Ba in portuguese from Byu and an mS in com - mormon and the Doctrine & Covenants; his latest puter science from the university of Washington. work explores how the scriptures increase our understanding about addiction. Abstract increasingly alarmed at the pace of technological change, workers and policy-makers struggle with Abstract according to president obama’s deficit panel, persistent unemployment after a “jobless recov - “Federal health care spending represents our ery” and as a wide range of jobs are automated single largest fiscal challenge,” revealing the and outsourced. even (or perhaps especially) “awful truth … that Social Security, medicare, and those at the forefront of technological innovation medicaid now eat up all federal reserves.” find it hard to keep up. Despite its challenges, However, during the october 2005 General this era also presents unprecedented opportuni - Conference, we were taught that the gospel of ties as various barriers to entry are lowered in Jesus Christ can provide “solutions to the ills of education and other economic sectors. How do every living soul.” Believing that this is so, a we successfully navigate these challenges and structural (chiastic) analysis of the scriptures opportunities? This presentation will review his - should demonstrate that it is not our nation’s torical trends that can shed light on our present fiscal health but our approach to physical health challenges and suggest ways of better preparing that is at the root of the present crisis. to meet them. it will also discuss surprising expert predictions about the near future and how Respondent Sue SpeNCeR CaNNoN , phD, RN, works in they might radically affect our everyday lives. the Neuro iCu at uC San Francisco medical Center. She is an active member of the California This session is sponsored by the Mormon Transhumanist Nurses association and National Nurses united. Association.

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Presenter WiLLiam CaLL earned Ba and ma degrees from Presenter HiLaRy C. BRoWN grew up in Sugar City, iD. Byu and a doctor of musical arts degree from She attended Byu-idaho for several years and the university of illinois. His compositions include recently relocated to Salt Lake City with plans to seven symphonies, and four operas. His pub - finish her degree at the university of utah. lished books include, most recently, Experience: The Thing Itself (2012). Abstract in spring 2008, i made a decision that would change my life forever, alienate my family, cause Abstract in select passages of Joseph Smith’s writings are me to lose friends, and break my heart. in spite the makings of a new, extraordinary religion. of all this, i am absolutely certain i made the right unlike traditional monotheistic belief systems, decision when i finally decided to give up my with their complex layers of doctrines, rituals, and belief in the LDS Church and its teachings. practices, the religion of experience makes no claims and affirms no premises. its basis is the The first question i’m typically asked by mormons autonomy of the individual as manifested in the who discover i used to believe and no longer do fundamentals of human experience. it refers only is, “Why did you leave?” i’ve never found an to the irresolvability of bipolar relationships such answer that satisfied most true-believing as true/false and good/evil and the fundamental mormons. The second question is, “Did someone independence of the individual person. offend you?” Well, yes. Human beings do offensive things, and humans are sometimes Respondent kim mCCaLL holds a Ba in philosophy and an offended. But that is not remotely why i left. mS in computer science, both from Stanford university. He loves singing, dancing, and direct - Respondent kaTRiNa BaRkeR aNDeRSoN is a photogra - ing his (awesome) ward choir. pher specializing in women's issues, birth, and breastfeeding. Her newest project will be a series Chair meReDiTH LeSueuR of mormon women nudes, exploring body image within a patriarchal tradition . Room Chair STeVe SHieLDS

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Panelists maRGaReT ToSCaNo is an assistant professor CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 11:00 am–12:30 pm of classics and comparative literature at the university of utah and co-founder of the mormon 131. Panel imAGes oF THe DiVine Feminine Women’s Forum. She has published extensively on mormon feminism, including “Heavenly Abstract This session will begin with margaret Toscano’s motherhood” in the motherhood issue of slide lecture of images of goddesses and women SuNSToNe. represented in pre-historic statues, contemporary paintings, and sculptures. Taken primarily from other panelists to be announced. Western art, they show how our reality is shaped by the images we make and how our limited Room discourse about the Female God has also limited our access to her. it will explore the importance of 132. Panel THe LDs Dems CAUCUs, iTs HisTorY, AnD the body as a symbol of the divine connecting WHere iT’s GoinG neXT humans with God. Abstract on 15 october 2011, the utah Democratic party’s Holly Welker will discuss her collaboration with Central Committee unanimously voted to create artist Galen Dara on the cover of the recent the LDS Dems Caucus. in its first year, LDS SuNSToNe motherhood issue, which depicts Dems has quickly become the largest caucus of Heavenly mother animating eve with a touch of the Democratic party. panelists will discuss its her divine finger, as well as illustrations inside the history, an outreach plan to convince utahns to magazine of four possible manifestations of the vote for Democrats, methods toconvey liberal mother God. a purpose in this presentation is to concepts to moderate voters, and some social help women see themselves and their bodies as factors in the Church and the wider world that a reflection of God the mother; another is to improve the political picture for LDS Dems. expand our vision of what she is like, so that we see her not only as mother, but as daughter, Panelists CRaiG JaNiS has a Ba in political science and a lover, friend, priestess, queen, and more. law degree from Byu. He is founder and Ceo of Fubeca Labs, a web and mobile development Moderator/ HoLLy WeLkeR, phD, edited the SuNSToNe firm, and the LDS outreach Director for the utah Panelist motherhood issue. Democratic party. CRySTaL youNG-oTTeRSTRom is the acting chair of LDS Dems. She is a partner in the cause marketing firm Foursight partners, the adminis - trative director for utah Cultural alliance, a con - sultant for utah Symphony | utah opera, and The Mormon Women’s Forum event planner for the utah Democratic party. Presents Chair TamaRa TaySom

Room Counterpoint Conference 133. Panel reADinGs From AnD DisCUssion oF fire in the PAsture October 20, 2012 Abstract The publication of Fire in the Pasture , an 9:00 am to 6:00 pm anthology of poetry by LDS poets, calls for a Olpin Student Union celebration, a reading, and a discussion of University of Utah where mormon poetics may be headed in the twenty-first century. We’ll hear from poets fea - Salt Lake City, Utah tured in the anthology and consider its signifi - cance in LDS literary history.

Theme: The Personal Is Political: Moderator/ R. a. CHRiSTmaS is the author of The Kingdom Why Women’s Issues Panelist of God—or Nothing and other books of LDS- related poetry. He earned a Ba from Stanford, an Remain Central ma from uC Berkeley, and a phD from uSC. To the Public Good Panelists TyLeR CHaDWiCk is a phD candidate in english at idaho State university, a poet, and For information call: editor of Fire in the Pasture . He sometimes blogs 801-581-4768 (Margaret Toscano) at moTLeyViSioN .oRG . 801-225-4967 (Janice Allred) DeNNiS CLaRk recently published “Rough Stone, Rolling Waters,” a multi-part poem, in the online magazine ProvoOremWord .

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SimoN peTeR eGGeRTSeN has degrees in Saints confess they seek. in this presentation, i literature, language, and law. His poetry has suggest there is something of the fairy tale in appeared or is forthcoming in Nimrod , Vallum every religious denomination’s preferred story, (Canada) , Atlanta Review, Irreantum, Dialogue, with a particular focus on the LDS Church. i Weber: The Contemporary West, New Millennium hope to show that fairy tales have more to say Writings , and elsewhere. about life’s journey, spiritual and secular, than many of the cherished stories heard at church. SuSaN eLizaBeTH HoWe is an associate professor of english at Byu and holds a phD Chair rUss osmonD from the university of Denver and an ma from the university of utah. Her first collection of Room poetry, Stone Spirits , won the publication award of the Redd Center for Western Studies. 135. Panel ALL APoLoGies: THe roLe oF APoLoGeTiCs in mormonism AnD SuNNi BRoWN WiLkiNSoN has an mFa in mormon sTUDies poetry from eastern Washington university. She has been published in Southern Indiana Review, Abstract The recent shakeup at Byu’s Weber Studies, Willow Review, Red Rock sent ripples throughout the Bloggernacle and Review , and other publications. She teaches raised questions about what the changes mean writing at Weber State university in ogden. to groups such as FaRmS, FaiR, and to mormon apologetics in a larger context. What is the role of Room apologetics in general—both in and beyond mormonism? Do mormon apologists use similar 134. Panel TWo-PAPer session: BeLieVinG THe stances or tactics as non-mormon apologists? BooK oF mormon: HUme AnD HisTorY, Who are some good, effective apologists and FiCTion AnD FAirY TALes what can we —and mormon Studies in general — learn from their approaches? What might emerge Paper 1 HoW WoULD HUme reAD THe BooK oF from a “new direction” for the maxwell institute mormon? and its publications? Would it help or hinder the Church as an organization to outsource apologet - Presenter RaCHeL maBey WHippLe is an eco-mormon ics and encourage FaiR to pick up where mi is housewife, mother, student yoga teacher, and apparently leaving off? occasional artist. She has a BS in geology and is currently taking philosophy and other humanities Moderator kaimipoNo (kaimi) WeNGeR, JD, is an classes at Byu just for the fun of it. assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson Law School in San Diego. Abstract most Latter-day Saints read the Book of mormon as a historical narrative. as David Hume predict - Panelists keViN BaRNey has published 15 articles ed, they feel a strong connection to the actors through the Neal a. maxwell institute for and events, which helps them internalize the Religious Scholarship at Byu (formerly FaRmS), doctrines. But when some saints lose their faith in is on the board of the Foundation for apologetic the historicity of the Book of mormon, they feel information and Research (FaiR), and is current - compelled to abandon it as completely false. if ly the chair of the board of Dialogue: A Journal of we can read the Book of mormon as a fictitious Mormon Thought . tex t— what Hume calls a romanc e— then we can embrace the truth we find in the text without BRiDGeT JaCk JeFFRieS is an ma candidate being dissuaded by the perceived improbabilities in church history at Trinity evangelical Divinity and inconsistencies that shatter the faith of the School and a graduate of Byu who has watched either/or believer. the world of LDS apologetics with a mixture of affection and disappointment since she was a Paper 2 AnCienT FAirY TALes WriTTen For THis teenager. GenerATion JoHN-CHaRLeS DuFFy lives in ohio and Presenter paRkeR BLouNT is a piddling contrarian who teaches american religious history. His article writes some, reads a lot, canoes and fishes “Defending the kingdom, Rethinking the Faith: more, and often wonders why he spent so much How apologetics is Reshaping mormon time in meetings being instructed (or instructing) orthodoxy” appeared in the may 2004 issue of on how one is expected to live, when he could SuNSToNe . have been outside experiencing life.

Abstract i always thought of fairy tales as entertaining Room stories for children. But having recently read many different fairy tales, i discovered that they speak profoundly to me (which may confirm that i have entered second childhood). Furthermore, i think they reveal truths that, by right of doc - trine, and by public assertion, all Latter-day

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LuNCH BReak, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm emiLy CLyDe CuRTiS co-edits Exponent II , a mormon feminist magazine, and blogs at THe - eXpoNeNT .Com She has a masters in Theological Studies from and lives in phoenix with her spouse and three children.

This session is sponsored by Mormon Women’s Forum. Where to eat THe STuDeNT uNioN’S food court offers a vari - ety of dining options. The food court is open from Room 7:30 am to 2:30 pm Wednesday through Friday and is located on the first floor of the union build - 152. Panel oCCUPY zArAHemLA ing (downstairs from most session rooms). Abstract The occupy movements began at Wall Street The Heritage Center Dining Room on campus and have spread throughout the world. This panel offers breakfast (6:30-9:00 am), lunch (11:00 am- will discuss the theory behind occupy move - 2:00 pm), and dinner (4:30-7:30 pm) for $7-9, ments and the strong parallels between mormon monday - Saturday and is within walking distance scripture and occupy movements in terms of cri - of the Student union and the university Guest tiques/solutions. We argue that as Samuel occu - House. Call 801.587.2000 for more information. pied the center of political and economic power in See page 4 for more dining options. zarahemla to decry the evils of his day, the occupy movement is a modern voice of dissent akin to Samuel crying out at Wall Street against 141. Lunchtime Clips from coverage of mormonism and politics many of the same evils. Whether we repent and comedy from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and create a more equitable and just society or grasp The Colbert Report . Clips assembled by after treasures that become even more slippery miCHaeL J. STeVeNS remains to be seen.

Room Moderator/ JoSHua maDSoN received a Ba in history and Panelist a JD from Byu. He is an attorney practicing in alpine, uT, and editor and contributor for The CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Mormon Worker , a quarterly paper covering non- violence, social justice, and radical politics. 151. Panel eXerCisinG Dominion: seCTion 121 AnD THe ABUse oF PoWer Sue SpeNCeR CaNNoN, phD, RN, works in the Neuro iCu at uC San Francisco medical Abstract The feminist slogan “The personal is political” Center. With the California Nurses RN Response calls attention to the profound relationship Network, Sue has cared for survivors of between power structures and personal life. Hurricane katrina and the Haiti earthquake. personal problems are often rooted in political, economic, cultural, and religious systems. TRiSTaN CaLL has a degree in Latin american Section 121 of the Doctrine and Covenants warns studies and anthropology from Byu, and is at us that even divinely ordained power can be Vanderbilt university studying the cultural anthro - abused. This panel will look at power structures pology of farmworker and peasant movements. and relationships in the LDS Church. How does the structure of power influence the ways in RoN maDSoN is a lawyer in alpine, uT. With a which women and men use and experience Ba in english and a JD from Byu, he posts regu - power in the Church? By focusing on the abuse larly on The Mormon Worker blog and has pub - of power, we hope to shed light on both the lished four articles in The Mormon Worker Paper : structure and righteous use of power. He has published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and presented at the Moderator/ JaNiCe aLLReD is a writer on theological topics, Claremont peace/War Conference . Panelist author of God the Mother and Other Theological Essays , and president of the mormon Women’s WaRNeR WooDWoRTH is a professor and a Forum. global social entrepreneur. author of ten books and a hundred articles, his life’s calling is to Panelists aLaN eaSTmaN is a chemist by day and musi - reduce human suffering and empower the weak. cian by night. With a phD in chemistry from the university of utah, he worked as a research Room chemist for phillips 66. He is the chief technical officer of a startup geothermal energy company, 153. Paper THe ConsoLiDATion oF CHUrCH AnD GreenFire energy. sTATe: BriGHAm YoUnG’s TeLesTiAL KinGDom miCHaeL J. STeVeNS is professor of manage - ment and business administration department Presenter DeNVeR C. SNuFFeR, JR. has written eight chair at Weber State university. He has conduct - books on mormonism, including Nephi’s Isaiah , ed award-winning research in global leadership, Beloved Enos , and Passing the Heavenly Gift. a work teams, and interpersonal competencies. He serves as co-chair of the SuNSToNe board.

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154. Paper FinDinG YoUr mormon sHAmAn: 1980 graduate of Byu Law School, Denver is a ConneCTinG WiTH THe eArTH AnD senior partner in the firm of Nelson, Snuffer, nATUre To reCeiVe PersonAL Dahle & poulsen. reVeLATion

Abstract Brigham young’s brief tenure (1851-58) as territo - Presenters ReNee SHaW’s shaman name is “Ryxi” which rial governor and Church president allowed him means “warrior scribe” or “courageous communi - to wield power of both church and state. How he cator.” She has spoken to Gaia, the elements, used this authority reveals much about the man. and other earth and God-serving messengers His sermons during his brief reign as both God’s since 2005. She is training other shamans to representative and united States’ regent reveal assist in connecting to the earth, focusing espe - how tempting the use of church and state power cially on the mesa Verde area. becomes once consolidated. His “Telestial kingdom” reflected excesses not only of rhetoric, JameS ToRGeRSeN has doctoral degrees in but also of conduct. This paper will explore this medicine, integrative health, and ecolonomics. He period as a challenge to conceptualizing how a has authored 15 books, including Shamanism “king’s rule” is unsuited to the american republic 101 , the text used in courses he teaches with and will include cautions from the Book of Renee Shaw, and four works of science fiction. mormon against attempting this very thing. Abstract a shaman is a healer who works in the unseen Respondent THomaS aLeXaNDeR is professor emeritus of world of angels and spirit and uses ceremony in history at Byu, where he was Lemuel Hardison nature to gain a greater connection with God, the Redd, Jr. professor of Western History and earth, and the elements. These are practices and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western talents inherent in ancient and modern prophets. Studies. early members of the Church practiced these skills openly for personal revelation and personal stew - Chair CATHLeen GiLBerT ardships. are you a closeted or awakening shaman? Would you like to develop your shaman Room within to receive more powerful personal revela - tion? Learn from mormon shamans Renee Shaw “Ryxi” and James Torgersen how being a mormon and a shaman can be one and the same.

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researcheD mormon history and has published Chair euGeNe koVaLeNko an essay titled “Walking-on-Water Stories and other Susquehanna River Folk Tales of Joseph Room Smith” in Mormon Historical Studies (2005).

155. Film sCreeninG: A MorMon President: Abstract Wilford C. Wood was a visionary in many ways: JosePh sMith And the MorMon Quest first, he purchased property in missouri, illinois, for the White house ohio, and pennsylvania that later became official LDS historic sites. Second, he collected historical Abstract Filmmaker aDam CHRiSTiNG has been artifacts such as the death masks of Joseph and researching the life, death, and presidential Hyrum. Third, he claimed visions the LDS campaign of Joseph Smith for ten years. adam community considered appropriate only for apos - grew up in the Reorganized Latter Day Saint tles. an example of one of his visions is the reen - church, the second largest denomination tracing actment of the restoration of the melchizedek its roots back to Joseph Smith, and is a member priesthood. This paper will provide details of of the mormon History association. He spent some of Wood’s visions and examples of his eight years researching, interviewing experts, and purchases of property and artifacts. casting the actors for A Mormon President . He says, “There are plenty of pro-mormon puff Chair VaNCe paCe movies and many anti-mormon attack films, but my goal is to tell this fascinating historical story in Room the most accurate and engaging way possible.” 163. Paper “ALWAYs on sTAGe”: reFLeCTinG on THe Chair NeWeLL G. BRiNGHuRST mormon PerFormATiVe

Room uNioN THeaTeR Presenter TyLeR CHaDWiCk is a phD candidate in english at idaho State university, a poet, and CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 3:45 pm–4:45 pm editor of Fire in the Pasture . He sometimes blogs at moTLeyViSioN .oRG . 161. Paper ConsTrUCTinG zion: DoCTrine in DomesTiC sPACe AnD LAnD Use in THe Abstract When Dialogue editor kristine Haglund discussed FLDs seCT mormonism on a march 2012 installment of C- SpaN’s “Religion and american politics,” she Presenter TaLeNa SaNDeRS is an interdisciplinary artist suggested mormons “learn very early on that whose work explores how we express individual mormonism is something to be constantly and collective identities and how we communi - performed.” She said that many mormons have cate our identities and desires to others through “this sense that [they’re] always on stage, . . . visual cues. She is pursuing an mFa in experi - always showing people how good mormonism is mental and documentary arts at Duke university. by [their] actions.” By weaving together personal and academic reflections on performativity, this Abstract Land-use decisions reflect doctrine in the paper will explore the sense of mormon perfor - Colorado City/Hildale FLDS community. The mativity that Haglund described and discuss the group believes that gaming the uS government various acts (including rituals, cultural norms, for resources is a noble act in retribution for etc.) people might use to “put on” mormonism, oppression. a loophole in utah and arizona law both in theatrical terms of staging the religion for means that if your house is a certain percentage others and in discursive terms of constructing a unfinished, you do not have to pay property mormon identity. taxes. The FLDS sect practices the united order, a form of nineteenth-century Christian communal - Chair eLLeN DeCoo ism. all property in the community is owned by the FLDS church trust. in over 200 images of Room currently inhabited homes, fewer than ten are fully finished. Though many members own 164. paper miTT, mormonism, AnD THe JeWisH successful construction businesses, the images oBJeCTion (AmonG oTHers) of this town could be perceived as a statement on the uS housing crisis. presenter CLiFToN HoLT JoLLey is a mormon convert to Judaism who considers himself faithful to both. Chair meReDiTH LeSueuR He taught in the LDS Church education System, was a columnist for the Deseret News and writer Room for Music and the Spoken Word , and is the author and director of two pBS documentaries. 162. Paper WiLForD C. WooD—eCCenTriC AnD VisionArY (1893-1968) Abstract Bible Christians say is a cultist. Because he transported the family dog on top of Presenter J. TayLoR HoLLiST was a mathematics profes - the family car, various animal rights groups sor and has published about the Dutch graphic question whether he should be permitted to own artist m.C. escher. Since retirement, he has

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a dog, much less become president. The Tea municating with God the mother; perhaps writing party says he’s insufficiently conservative while letters is an acceptable means? in this session, the poor say he’s too rich. and now B’nai B’rith participants will read short prepared letters (three says that unless he gets the mormon Church to to four minutes) to God the mother as a way of discontinue its practice of baptizing dead Jews, talking to and about her. an LDS feminist theolo - they won’t vote for him either. Clifton Jolley will gian will offer an invocation at its beginning and summarize the criticisms of Romney by these bless it at its conclusion. Rather than q&a, there and others and detail a strategy by which he may will be open mic time for audience members to yet be permitted... to own a dog . read short letters they’ve written.

Respondent J. BoNNeR RiTCHie is professor emeritus of Moderator/ HoLLy WeLkeR is a writer, editor, and cultural organizational behavior at Byu and scholar in Panelist commentator based in Salt Lake City. residence at . He received a phD from the university of California, has Panelists JaNiCe aLLReD is author of God the Mother taught at universities around the world, and is a and Other Theological Essays and president of former SuNSToNe board member . the mormon Women’s Forum.

Chair WiLLiam D. RuSSeLL CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD holds a Ba in english and creative writing from Weber State university and Room is currently finishing her ma in english literature.

165. paper JosePH smiTH, mormon TesTAmenT, AnD CHeRyL BRuNo is a poet and blogger. THe BiBLe: ADDiTions To THe oLD AnD neW TesTAmenTs Doe DauGHTRey has a phD in religious studies and teaches courses on women and reli - Presenter S. euGeNe NeeDHam’s family owns the Book gion, religion in america, religion and popular cul - Table in Logan and the oldest jewelry store in ture, and mormonism. utah, S.e. Needham Jewelers. He is writing a book on Joseph Smith’s additions to Biblical eLLeN DeCoo is a student of sociology. texts. JeNNiFeR Duque is majoring in english at Abstract Joseph Smith has been called a “prophet puzzle” Byu and writes for the Student Review . by historians who find him enigmatic. part of the answer to the prophet puzzle lies in Joseph’s meLaNNy eVa HeNSoN is a graduate of the adherence to the themes and teachings of the mFa creative writing and environment program at Bible. it is this preoccupation with the Bible and iowa State university. its precepts, scope, and ancient, non-Western settings that make Smith’s teachings seem maRy eLLeN RoBeRTSoN is the interim strange. This session will argue that Joseph executive director of SuNSToNe. Smith’s teachings—including covenants, election, gathering, the pre-existence, three degrees of ReNee SHaW describes her encounters with glory, the anthropomorphic nature of God, Heavenly mother in a forthcoming book, Talks polygamy, and the plurality of gods—find prece - with My Heavenly Mother . dent in and add to the Bible. TiFFaNy m. SiNGeR has a Ba in the humanities Respondent JaReD aNDeRSoN is finishing a phD at the from Byu and is a stay-at-home mother of four. university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Biblical Studies and teaches religious studies at maRGaReT ToSCaNo is an assistant professor Westminster College and uNC. of classics and comparative literature at the university of utah and a co-founder of the Chair STeVe SHieLDS mormon Women’s Forum.

Room kaimipoNo (kaimi) WeNGeR, JD, is an assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson Law CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm School in San Diego.

171. Panel HeAVenLY moTHer AnD THe LeTTer oF RaCHeL maBey WHippLe is a fatalistic skeptic THe LAW who hopes to believe and works as though she does. Abstract president Hinckley has told us that Jesus Christ forbids our praying to Heavenly mother. But heav - Room enly parents who refuse communication with their children are unworthy of their status as gods, and 172. Panel AnTi-mormonism in THe 2012 PresiDen - a mother who will not hear or acknowledge her TiAL CAmPAiGn children is not a valid role model for Latter-day Saints. Therefore, there must be some method Abstract anti-mormonism has been called one of the last available in mormon belief and practice for com - acceptable prejudices in american culture. The popularity of HBo’s Big Love , the success of The

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Book of Mormon musical, LDS involvement in proposition 8, and mitt Romney’s quest for the Room uS presidency have placed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints front and center in 173. Panel mormons AnD THe FBi american culture, leading to what some have called the “mormon moment” but also to a Abstract This session will include a screening of the Byu resurgence of anti-mormonism. This panel documentary Agents of Justice , detailing the lives explores the history of anti-mormonism in of three LDS FBi agents who were killed in the america, examines various kinds of anti- line of duty. Samuel Cowley, Douglas price, and mormonism unleashed in the current presidential Robert porter each personified the motto of the campaign, and considers reactions to it from FBi: fidelity, bravery, integrity. mormons and others. The remainder of the discussion will focus on Moderator/ RoBeRT a. ReeS teaches mormon Studies at famous (and infamous) mormons who have Panelist the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. He worked at the FBi, performed heroic acts in the is currently working on a project on the american line of duty, or whose names have appeared on Renaissance and editing a collection of essays the Bureau’s Top Ten most wanted fugitives list. on the Book of mormon. Moderator/ STeVeN L. mayFieLD was a former FBi clerk in Panelists paTRiCk maSoN is the Howard W. Hunter Chair Panelist San Francisco, Ca, from 1973-1977. He currently of mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate works with the Salt Lake City crime lab. university and author of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum Panelist keNNeTH poRTeR is a second generation FBi South (oxford u. press, 2011). agent and assistant special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City FBi office. JeNNiFeR DoBNeR is an award-winning Salt Lake City-based journalist. She has worked at additional panelists to be announced. the San Diego Union-Tribune , The Deseret News , and for more than seven years was the Chair euGeNe koVaLeNko LDS Church beat writer for The associated press. She was the last journalist to interview Room president Gordon B. Hinckley before his death.

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174. Panel AUTHor meeTs CriTiCs: the MorMon Chair STeVe SHieLDS PeoPLe: the MAKinG of An AMeriCAn fAith Room

Abstract This panel discussion brings together readers, 175. Panel sUrVeY sAYs: DATA AnALYsis oF seXUAL scholars, and thinkers familiar with matthew orienTATion CHAnGe eFForTs in For - Bowman’s recent book, The Mormon People: The mer/ CUrrenT LDs CHUrCH memBers Making of An American Faith . please join the book’s author and a panel of careful readers in a Abstract analysis of data from 1600 respondents to an vigorous exchange about this book and the online survey has provided a wealth of informa - overview of mormonism it provides. tion about the experiences of LGBT LDS, includ - ing early perceptions of sexual difference, self- Panelists aDam JaCoBSeN is a construction project man - assessment of sexual orientation, intense efforts ager with an off-hours interest in mormon Studies to cope with, understand, or change orientation and history. He was educated at both Byu and through ecclesiastical counseling, psychotherapy, the university of utah (and thus is deeply con - increased personal righteousness (and other flicted), and enjoys service in the Church. interventions), and relationships to the Church. Few individuals report a change in orientation JaNeT RoGeRS is pursuing an ma in history at through these efforts. The modifications often the university of Texas at arlington, specializing take the form of an altered sexual identity or in american Christianity. Her thesis tracks public accommodation, not a reversal of core erotic feel - perception of federal government intervention in ings. Respondents identify both positive and neg - New Religious movements. ative consequences of sexual orientation change efforts, including impacts on religious faith. RuSSeLL aRBeN FoX is an associate professor of political science at Friends university in Panelists BiLL BRaDSHaW is a professor emeritus of Wichita, kS. molecular biology at Byu and has published research in the regulation of gene expression Respondent maTTHeW BoWmaN teaches the history of during development and improving student american religion at Hampden Sydney College. capacity for analytical thinking in biology. He received an ma in uS history from the university of utah and a phD in american history JoHN DeHLiN is currently pursuing a phD in from Georgetown university. He is the associate psychology, focusing on the nexus of religion and editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought . mental health.

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pLeNaRy SeSSioN, 8:00 pm DaViD SCoTT earned a phD in mass communi - cation from the university of Georgia. His disser - tation, Unraveling Central Hudson: An Analysis of 181. Panel is reLiGion reALLY UnDer sieGe in THe the Impact of the Supreme Court’s Understanding Us? of the Value of Commercial Speech and the Needs of Consumers , was motivated by his real - Abstract What should we make of recent claims that reli - ization that some utah liquor laws violated the gion is somehow being driven out of the “public First amendment. square”? What is the public square and what are the legal rules and—equally important—the ethi - He teaches mormon culture and media law at cal considerations governing public expression on utah Valley university and is interested in the religious issues? When should individuals, organ - intersection of religion, culture, and the First izations, and businesses have a right to claim an amendment in the uS. He published an article exemption from neutral laws and regulations on analyzing the role of free speech and religion in religious grounds? the Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media (New york: Routledge¬) and his Within the structure of the First amendment, the analysis of the Deseret News and Salt Lake Free exercise Clause and the establishment Tribune ’s coverage of the First amendment dis - Clause are two sides of the same coin. They pute regarding Temple Square and free speech work together to ensure that many faith traditions rights was published in the Newspaper Research and moral codes can be observed, simultaneous - Journal . ly and respectfully, by those living in the uS. But you wouldn’t know it from the sensational cover - Additional panelists to be announced. age of reproductive health issues, the misrepre - sentation of islam in the popular media, and the Chair kim mCCaLL persistent insistence that our nation be recog - nized as an essentially Christian one. How can Room we better understand the many legal issues at play in these typically over-simplified civil liberties FRiDay 27 JuLy clashes?

Panelists DR. omaR kaDeR is the founder and Ceo of paltech, an award-winning government contract - 2012 salt lake ing firm specializing in training, instructional sys - tems, and program management. He is active in international affairs and previously served as the SUNSTONE executive director of two non-governmental organizations in Washington DC: united symposium and palestinian appeal and the american arab anti- Discrimination Committee. He served in uS dele - Workshops gations observing and monitoring elections in morocco, yemen, indonesia, palestine, pakistan, and afghanistan. He has provided commentary to ReGiSTRaTioN, 8:00 am–7:30 pm news organizations (BBC, Washington Post , CNN) and teaches a foreign policy seminar on political and international development issues. Registration admission to sessions is by symposium name information badge or ticket only. This policy will be strictly kaReN WiLLiamS mCCReaRy is the executive enforced. Badges and tickets are available at director of the aCLu of utah and directs a staff of the conference registration table by the ballrooms eight serving in advocacy, legislative, and litiga - on the second floor of the olpin Student union tion roles for civil liberties issues such as immi - Building. grant rights, freedom of religion and belief, gay rights, privacy, reproductive and women’s rights, DeVoTioNaL, 8:00 am–8:30 am indigent defense, racial justice, and participatory democracy. She was senior associate general 201. Devotional THe Crisis oF mormon inTeLLeCTUALs: counsel for the university of utah. She has been Women AnD THe PoLiTiCs oF sPeAKinG involved in community education in malawi and TrUTH To PoWer india, migrant worker education and advocacy in alabama, and instruction and counseling for Presenter miCHaeL ViNSoN is a master’s graduate of the adjudicated youth. Divinity School of the university of Cambridge and has written SuNSToNe’s Scripture Notes karen received an undergraduate degree from column for the past five years. at the kirtland the university of Colorado, a master of arts from Temple SuNSToNe Symposium, he was the the university of Denver Graduate School of instigator of a spontaneous worship moment international Studies, and a law degree from the known as the “women’s ascension.” university of utah where she served as articles editor for the Utah Law Review .

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Respondent To be announced . Abstract This devotional draws on myth and scripture, from antigone to eve, to explore the hazardous Chair J. TayLoR HoLLiST role and vital contribution of women as speakers to power and authority. Room

Chair kuFRe ekpeNyoNG 213. Paper HoW imPorTAnT Are A PoLiTiCAL CAnDi - DATe’s reLiGioUs BeLieFs? Room Presenter WiLLiam D. RuSSeLL is a retired professor of CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 8:30 am–9:30 am american history, religion, and politics at Graceland university. He is widely published in 211. Paper THe sWorD oF CHrisT: the hunGer mormon Studies and is a former president of the GAMes AnD THe PArABLes oF JUDGmenT mormon History association and the John Whitmer Historical association. His most recent Presenter JaNiCe aLLReD is a writer and speaker on book is Homosexual Saints: The Community of theological topics, author of God the Mother and Christ Experience . Other Theological Essays and “The one Who Abstract The candidacy of mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012, Never Left us.” and that of other candidates such as Rick Santorum and michelle Bachmann, has raised Abstract The parable is to human life what the mathemati - the question as to whether a political candidate’s cal equation is to the physical world. it abstracts religious beliefs should be a campaign issue. Do certain features and enables us to see hidden constitutional provisions regarding “no religious realities. in her popular trilogy, The Hunger test” and “no establishment of religion” mean reli - Games , Suzanne Collins gives us a parable that gion should be irrelevant when citizens decide reveals the hidden face of evil. This paper will how to vote? particular focus will be on mormon compare The Hunger Games to Jesus’ parables and Religious Right candidates. of judgment and explore the questions: What is the nature of evil? How do we deal with evil with - Chair maRk a. SCHeReR out ourselves becoming evil? What is God’s response to evil? and how will Christ bring about Room his peaceable kingdom? 214. Paper sTrUCTUrAL HoLes AnD THe roUTinizA - Respondent HoLLy WeLkeR is a writer, editor, and cultural Tion oF CHArismA: A soCiAL neTWorK commentator based in Salt Lake City. AnALYsis oF THe mormon sUCCession Crisis oF 1844 Chair CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD Presenter JoSepH WeST is a graduate student in the Room department of sociology at the university of arizona where he studies culture, social move - 212. Paper PLUrAL LiVes: miTT romneY’s PoLYGA - ments, and social network analysis. moUs HeriTAGe eRiC SCHooN helped prepare this presentation. Presenter ToDD CompToN is co-author with Leland He is doctoral candidate in sociology at the Gentry of Fire and Sword: A History of the Latter- university of arizona. day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-1839 , and is currently researching a biography of indian Abstract on 27 June 1844, Joseph Smith was assassinat - missionary Jacob Hamblin. ed, leaving behind several claimants to leader - ship with no clear process for selecting a succes - Abstract Though mormons such as mitt Romney are now sor. using archival data, we reconstruct the com - viewed as thoroughly entrenched in the uS con - plex network of relations that existed among 76 servative mainstream, his ancestors only a few members of the early LDS Church hierarchy. This generations back were counter-cultural cru - includes a mapping of formal ties within and saders, upholding a non-standard marriage sys - between priesthood quorums as well as family tem they believed was commanded by God— and marriage ties. Drawing on Burt’s theory of polygamy. it was also illegal, often secret, and structural holes and other formal methods of publicly denied by Church leaders, frequently social network analysis, we examine the underly - forcing people in polygamous marriages into exile ing structural factors that contributed to the reso - in mexico and elsewhere. many Romney ances - lution of the succession crisis. While Brigham tors, including parley p. and mary Wood pratt, young was only one of several potential succes - archibald Newell Hill, Charles Henry and eliza sors, our analysis uses formal models to evaluate Christine Wilcken, miles park and Hannah Hood his ability to gain control of the structure, elimi - Hill Romney, and Helaman and Dora Wilcken nate contenders by restructuring the formal and pratt, practiced polygamy. Their stories offer a informal network of relations to his advantage, revealing cross section of the principle, showing and eventually to emerge as the new prophet and what it meant to live in plurality in nineteenth-cen - president of the Church. tury Nauvoo, utah, arizona, and mexico.

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Respondent D. miCHaeL quiNN was a professor of history at Jolley will discuss the failure of Lobdell’s faith and Byu for twelve years, after which he has been an respond to the questions—both stated and independent scholar. He has authored more than implied—that the book asks not only of Dr. Jolley, 80 articles and six books about mormon history. but of all mormons.

Chair JaReD aNDeRSoN Respondent emiLy WaRBuRToN JeNSeN writes, edits, and mothers five children —often simultaneously. She Room has worked on an LDS curriculum committee, moderated a podcast for and about LDS women 215. Paper iF YoU Were reLiGion eDiTor oF THe called The Round Table , and highlights the LDS tiMes , WoULD YoU sTiLL blog world as the Deseret News Bloggernacle BeLieVe? columnist.

Presenter CLiFToN HoLT JoLLey is a mormon convert to Chair RoBeRT a. ReeS Judaism who considers himself faithful to both. He taught in the LDS Church education System Room in various positions, was a columnist for The Deseret News and writer for The Spoken Word, 216. Paper FAiTH As A DeADLY sin (oF PriDe) and is the author and director of two pBS docu - mentaries. Presenter GLeNN CoRNeTT, mD, phD, is a principal at pastorus pharma, LLC, a clinical-stage biotech - Abstract in 2006, Clifton Jolley was invited to respond to a nology company focused on disorders of the SuNSToNe presentation by central nervous system. He is an avid musician religion editor William Lobdell. in Lobdell’s subse - and composer. quent book, Losing My Religion (2009, HarperCollins), a significant part of the conclud - Abstract in an april 1989 General Conference talk, ezra ing chapter is devoted to describing the effect of Taft Benson said, “pride is the great stumbling Jolley’s remarks on Lobdell, and to the confusion block to zion.” This paper agrees. an unques - those remarks still cause the one-time believer. tioned, aggressively supported faith tends to dis -

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miss logical argument and evidentiary considera - Abstract mormon feminists sense that the current tion, thereby involving the abdication of one’s “mormon moment” offers a good time for activism responsibility as a thoughtful moral agent. This is that draws attention to LDS women’s issues on a a form of pride that also continues to be highly large scale. But what kind of act could match the destructive in many forms outside of religion, significance of this “mormon moment”? many including those of persistent tribalism and ideo - feminists, myself included, have long argued that logical extremism. This paper discusses unflinch - priesthood is the central issue for women in the ing, uncritical faith as a sin of pride, one that is Church because no significant changes can hap - indeed a stumbling block to the LDS community. pen for women as long as an all-male priesthood controls all resources, discourses, and institution - Chair NeeD CHaiR al power. is it time to follow the example of Catholic “womenpriests” who claim to have been Room ordained privately by a bishop in good standing , beginning in 2002, even though the Vatican sub - CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS 9:45 am–10:45 am sequently excommunicated the priests and wom - enpriests involved? This paper will explore the 221. Paper PriesTHooD mATTers: sHoULD mormon practical challenges if such a movement were to Women FoLLoW THe eXAmPLe oF THe emerge among LDS women, as well as the theo - CATHoLiC WomenPriesT moVemenT? logical and spiritual underpinnings for the idea in mormon practice and doctrine. Presenters maRGaReT ToSCaNo is an assistant professor of classics and comparative literature at the Respondent JiLL peTeRFeSo is a graduate of uNC-Chapel university of utah, where she also received a Hill’s doctoral program in religious studies. She phD. in her academic life, she works on topics has written on SuNSToNe ’s 2001 “mormon relating to myth, religion, and gender. She is a Vagina monologues” and the Roman Catholic long-time contributor to the SuNSToNe sympo - Womenpriests movement. sium and magazine. She is also a co-founder of the mormon Women’s Forum. Chair BeCky JoHNS

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Chair Joe Geisner 222. Paper miTT romneY AnD THe CArToonisTs: A 2012 UPDATe Room Presenter RoBeRT a. ReeS teaches mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. He is on the board of the Liahona Children’s 224. Paper monoGAmY UnDerGroUnD: THe BUriAL Foundation, which provides nutrition and educa - oF PLUrAL mArriAGe in THe GrAVes oF tion for children in Central and South america. JosePH AnD emmA smiTH

Abstract a 2008 SuNSToNe Symposium session exam - Presenter Lee WiLeS is a phD student in the department ined the range of political cartoons featuring mitt of comparative studies at The ohio State Romney during the 2008 Republican primary university. race. Romney, now the party’s 2012 candidate, has been the subject of hundreds of political car - Abstract This paper examines the history of the gravesite toons since 2008, but especially in 2011-12. This memorials dedicated to emma and Joseph session looks at a selection of these cartoons Smith, exploring their meaning as RLDS/CofC and considers their role in presenting Romney as monuments to monogamy, and situating them a candidate, with special emphasis on his identifi - within the broader context of restored Nauvoo cation with mormonism. it will also consider the where the idealization and practice of plural mar - effect of such political graphics on the image of riage in the LDS past is largely elided. The histo - the Church itself. ry of the burials and memorializations of emma and her second husband, Lewis Bidamon, are Respondent GReG RoBiNSoN is a nephew of mitt Romney, central to the paper’s analysis. utilizing archival the co-chair for utah of the National Finance sources and ethnographic fieldwork, the paper Committee for Romney for president, inc., and an investigates the ways by which the memorials to elected delegate to the Republican Convention. Joseph and emma mediate mormons’ attention to He is a vice president and wealth advisor with and knowledge of the history of plural marriage. Wells Fargo private Bank in Salt Lake City. Chair TamaRa TaySom Chair LiLLy SHuLTS Room Room 225. Paper reeXPLorinG THe GeoCULTUrAL 223. Paper sTUDenT PoLiTiCAL ACTiVism AT BriGHAm PoLiTiCs oF THe DeeP WesT YoUnG UniVersiTY, 196 5-1971 Presenter CRaiG DeCkeR has a phD in political science Presenter GaRy JameS BeRGeRa is managing director of from miT, is part of the fifth generation of a pio - the Smith-pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City, utah. neering utah family, and is currently working on a guidebook to the history, art, and culture of the Abstract on 11 m ay 1970, ernest L. Wilkinson stated, Deep West and its corners. “There is certainly a spirit of unrest throughout the country and while it is manifest only slightly at Abstract This session invites participants to reenvision the Byu it is nevertheless manifested here. ” clashes between mormonism and other western Student political activism at Byu during the late forces within a new geocultural framework—that 1960s to early 1970s was, like student activism of the Deep West. The Deep West is conceived elsewhere, as much a function of the school’s of as the adjacent heartlands of the Colorado prevailing culture as of activist trends nationally. Rockies and plateau in eastern utah, Western Byu students across the political spectrum Colorado, Northern arizona, and New mexico, responded to local and national events in ways along with the area’s deeper native and cultural both informed by and in reaction to political and bedrock. We’ll begin by mapping its five intellectual currents on the utah Valley campus. urban/geologic edges and fifteen inner “corners,” Thus any discussion of Byu student activism then explore the nine cultural archetypes/forces must also examine the political climate at this that characterize Deep Western conflicts/geopoli - LDS school. Such an examination locates Byu tics, including the native, colonizer, operator, trad - activism as occurring at an institution already er, agent, and stockman. Finally, we’ll use this politicized by an outspoken president, a mostl y— framework to illuminate exemplary archetypal but not entirel y— sympathetic Board of Trustees, clashes in four Deep West corners. and a faculty and student body espousing some - what broader political interests. Chair kuFRe ekpeNyoNG

Room Respondent eLLeN DeCoo graduated with a degree from sociology from Byu. She was actively involved 226. Paper THinKinG errors, mormon sTYLe with Byu Democrats, Students for international Development, parity, and Byu's gay-straight Presenters GLeN R. LamBeRT, LCSW, is a licensed mental alliance, uSGa. health therapist in private practice. The former executive director of odyssey House, he has lectured around the world, and now teaches at

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the university of utah and consults. He is a for - university of utah, Chapman university, and mer member of SuNSToNe’s board of directors. pepperdine university and is faculty in the Couple and Family Therapy program at alliant maRyBeTH RayNeS, LCSW, LmFT is a psy - international university and lectures on social chotherapist with a private practice in Salt Lake justice, spirituality, and narrative therapy. City. She sees a wide variety individuals, couples, and families and enjoys working with people with is the Leonard J. arrington spiritual and religious conflicts/concerns. professor of mormon History & Culture and direc - tor of religious studies at utah State university. Abstract people often behave, think, and respond emo - He is the editor of A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on tionally according to patterns dictated by deeply Belief by Mormon Scholars . a new edition of his entrenched beliefs, assumptions, perceived obli - Mormons and the Bible is soon to be released by gations, fears, and distortions taken from their oxford university press. religious, cultural, and family teachings and role modeling. all cultures and families create this CaRoL LyNN peaRSoN is well known for her dynamic, which is not necessarily good or bad, autobiographical book Goodbye, I Love You , for but is still decidedly real. When the resulting the more recent book No More Goodbyes: behaviors and reactions are problematic, contra - Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved dictory, or self-destructive, it is often because Ones , and for her one-woman play, Mother Wove they are based on “thinking errors.” Cognitive the Morning , as well as much-loved pieces such behavioral therapy helps identify “thinking errors” as Beginnings and Beyond , The Lesson , A as well as some of the forces that helped pro - Stranger for Christmas , and the primary song “i’ll duce them. This session will explore some of the Walk With you.” Visit her at CLpeaRSoN .Com . “thinking errors” common in mormon culture. Room SALTAIR Chair GReG RoCkWeLL

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Abstract This perennially well-received session features the stories of those who have chosen to remain Where to eat THe STuDeNT uNioN’S food court offers a vari - active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the ety of dining options. The food court is open from face of challenges to traditional faith. How have 7:30 am to 2:30 pm Wednesday through Friday these members wrestled with their faith and yet and is located on the first floor of the union build - emerged more determined than ever to be a part ing (downstairs from most session rooms). of the Latter-day Saint community? The Heritage Center Dining Room on campus Moderator J. FReDeRiCk (ToBy) piNGRee originated offers breakfast (6:30-9:00 am), lunch (11:00 am- “Why We Stay.” He has been a mission presi - 2:00 pm), and dinner (4:30-7:30 pm) for $7-9, dent, a bishop three times, and is a former monday - Saturday and is within walking distance SuNSToNe board chair. of the Student union and the university Guest House. Call 801.587.2000 for more information. Panelists RoNDa RoBeRTS CaLLiSTeR is a professor of See page 4 for more dining options. organizational behavior at utah State university. She is one of the authors of the November 2006 SuNSToNe article and organizer of the 2006 241. Book AUTHor siGninGs Symposium session both titled “For Better, For Signings Worse, For apostasy: How Faith issues affect Couple Relationships.” Please Note The signings will begin at 1:00 pm.

JoHN DeHLiN graduated from Byu in 1993 then Author DoNNa BaNTa, The Girls from Fourth Ward worked for 15 years in the software industry. He is currently pursuing a phD in psychology, focus - Author C.L. HaNSoN, ExMormon ing on the nexus of religion and mental health. Founder of the , he is Author JoaNN moRTeNSeN, The Man Behind The executive director of the open Stories Discourse: The Biography of King Follett Foundation, established to provide support for mormons in difficult transitions. Author STeVeN peCk, The Scholar of Moab

aNNe aRNoLD is a licensed marriage family Author JoHN k. WiLLiamS , Heaven Up Here therapist and educator with a private practice in irvine, Ca. She is co-founder and director of The Room Narrative project of orange County, a non-profit community counseling center. anne attended the

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Moderator/ LoRie WiNDeR has an ma in humanities from proportional influence of these genes has shifted Panelist Byu, was managing editor of The Journal of over time; the influence of the recessive genes is Modern History , associate editor for SuNSToNe, stronger than formerly. all this means that excep - editor of Mormon Women’s Forum Quarterly , and tionalism, while common in mormon culture, man - recently founded GiRLS GoNe Wiki .oRG . ifests in ways that are strong, mild, absent, or even inverted in individual Latter-day Saints. Panelists Doe DauGHTRey earned a phD in religious studies at arizona State university. Her specialty Paper 2 eTernAL ProGression: mormonism AnD is religion in the americas with an emphasis on AmeriCAn ProGressiVism new spirituality, religion, and popular culture, and the gendered experience of religion. Presenter maTTHeW BoWmaN teaches history of american religion at Hampden Sydney College. kaimipoNo (kaimi) WeNGeR, JD, is an He received an ma in uS history from the assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson Law university of utah, and holds a phD in american School in San Diego. history from Georgetown university. He is associ - ate editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon GeNeVieVe zoRC is currently studying Thought . anthropology and sustainability at arizona State university. The birth of her first child was a cata - Abstract How did mormons enter the twentieth century? lyst for her feminist testimony. Her career aspira - How did the frontier church of Brigham young tions include work that involves speaking up for become the polished, all-american faith of con - women everywhere and saving the planet. temporary america? This presentation will explore the transformation of mormonism in the Respondent maXiNe HaNkS is a feminist theologian early twentieth century, arguing that the mormons researching women’s studies in religion, mormon found a place for themselves in american life by Studies, and Gnosticism. She was a visiting fel - recognizing in itself the ideals of the classic low at Harvard Divinity School in and is author or american progressive movement: optimism about editor of several books, including Women and humanity’s future, confidence in human potential, Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism . and faith in the power of organization to accom - plish the fullest possibilities of what human Room society might become.

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Moderator/ RoBeRT a. ReeS teaches mormon Studies at 253. Panel FAmiLY VALUes: CoPinG As or WiTH A Respondent the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. BorDerLAnD FAmiLY memBer

Paper 1 CHosen LAnD, CHosen PeoPLe: reLi - Abstract When someone in an active mormon family GioUs AnD AmeriCAn eXCePTionALism enters the Borderlands, resulting stresses can AmonG THe mormons weaken and overwhelm the family. many react in ways that reduce family love and cohesiveness, Presenter pHiLip BaRLoW is the Leonard J. arrington sometimes even destroying the family through professor of mormon History & Culture and direc - divorce or estrangement. This session will first tor of religious studies at utah State university. provide stories of family-related tensions and diffi - He is the editor of A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on culties some Borderlanders have encountered. Belief by Mormon Scholars . a new edition of his panel and audience members will then consider book Mormons and the Bible is soon to be important questions: How should parents react released by oxford university press. when a doubting teenager announces he cannot go on a mission? How can a family support an Abstract Widespread mormon understanding holds that emerging Borderlander through the trauma and america–the united States in particular–is popu - heartbreak of the experience? What should we lated by a chosen people, governed by an do with a family member we suspect is in the inspired constitution, for a singular destiny. This Borderlands but pretends otherwise? if you are in belief has drawn attention outside mormon ranks the Borderlands, closeted or not, what can you in light of mitt Romney’s candidacy for the presi - do to protect and preserve family unity? dency: Would mormon notions color a president Romney’s foreign policy? The role the uS plays Moderator/ D. JeFF BuRToN, husband, father and grandfa - in mormon thought and culture, however, is more Panelist ther, is a professional engineer living in Bountiful, complex than it first appears. understanding this uT. He is the author of technical books and dis - evolving role requires pairing “american excep - tance learning courses, an adjunct instructor at tionalism” with “religious exceptionalism” as they the university of utah, and a consultant. He is function in the mormon mind. in each of these the author of the book For Those Who Wonder, spheres, there inheres an originally dominant the satire Eternal Borderlands: Detours along the exceptionalist gene and a contrasting recessive Road to Celestial Glory , the SuNSToNe column gene that challenges exceptionalist assurance. “Braving the Borderlands,” and he created the For instance, as Hebrew prophets reminded website FoR THoSe WHoWoNDeR .Com . ancient israel, “chosenness” may imply “selected for a role” rather than “superior.” moreover, the

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Panelists JoHN DeHLiN graduated from Byu in 1993 and American West , and editor of The Brokeback worked for 15 years in the software industry. He Book. is currently pursuing a phD in psychology, focus - ing on the nexus of religion and mental health. RyaN mCiLVaiN is a phD student in literature Founder of the Mormon Stories podcast, he is and creative writing at uSC. a graduate of Byu executive director of the open Stories and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has Foundation, established to provide support for published work in the Paris Review , Dialogue , mormons in difficult transitions. Irreantum , and other journals. His first novel, Elders , is due out in 2013 from Hogarth press. aDam FiSHeR is a doctoral student in counsel - ing psychology at indiana university and minor - STeVeN peCk is a biology professor at Byu and ing in human sexuality through the kinsey the author of three novels: A Short Stay in Hell , institute. His current research focuses on The Rift of Rime , and The Scholar of Moab , recipi - predictors of divorce for religious couples where ent of the 2011 amL prize for best novel. He has one spouse experiences a change in beliefs. published poetry and short stories and was nomi - nated for the Rhysling award for speculative poet - LiLLy SHuLTS has a Ba in english ed and an ry by the Science Fiction poetry association in med in counseling from arizona State university, 2010. and a phD in counseling psychology from Walden university. She retired after 25 years as DaRReLL SpeNCeR is the author of five books a school-based counseling psychologist. of fiction including Caution: Men in Trees and Bring Your Legs with You . He taught writing for SuzaNN WeRNeR’S lifelong interest in people ten years at Byu and 17 years at ohio and their relationships led her to earn a degree in university, and currently teaches at Southern sociology/psychology from Byu. a teenage utah university. convert, she has a unique perspective about life in the LDS community. emma Lou WaRNeR THayNe has 14 books of poetry, essays, stories, and discoveries, the most Room recent of which is The Place of Knowing (iuniverse press). much honored, anthologized, 254. Panel To WHAT AUDienCe Do i CHoose To and read, she finds her calling now is to WriTe? (AnD HoW Does BeinG Born persuade others to write about their lives. mormon AFFeCT YoUr CHoiCe?) Room Abstract as a writer born into the mormon culture, how do you define the audience to whom you’ve chosen 255. Panel mormons AnD mormonism As PoLiTiCAL to write? How has your mormon background FArCe affected your creativity and the sense of your place in the world of writing? What are the politi - Abstract “mormon humor” is a concept that would startle cal ramifications of being a “mormon” writer? Do many non-mormons, but despite the warning in you feel an obligation to preach to the choir and D&C 59:15 that “much laughter... is sin,” add your observations to that conversation? Do mormons have long appreciated a good laugh. you want to reach out to a wider audience, yet Simultaneously willing to laugh at themselves still feel the pull of the roots whence you came? and sensitive to criticism, mormons must answer Do you believe that a good purpose is served if the question: if you can’t laugh at a man claiming mormon writers can essay the rough spots in to translate ancient scripture by burying his face their faith and their lives? Join seven hip, cool, in a hat, what can you laugh at? What about sometimes brilliant, widely-diverse professional mormonism is funny to mormons and to non- writers in this discussion. mormons? Does mormon political and social life support karl marx’s famous dictum that “history Moderator/ pHyLLiS BaRBeR recently retired from the repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce”? if Panelist Vermont College of Fine arts mFa in Writing pro - not, why not? if so, how? gram. Her books include Raw Edges: A Memoir and How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir , which Moderator/ HoLLy WeLkeR has a phD in english literature won an associated Writing programs prize in 1991 Panelist from the university of iowa. Her poetry and and the association of mormon Letters prize for prose have appeared in publications ranging from best autobiography in 1993. the New Era to and from Best American Essays to Bitch . Panelists JoaNNa BRookS is the author of The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith , the Panelists STepHeN CaRTeR is the editor of SuNSToNe creator of the Ask Mormon Girl blog, and a senior magazine and a writer and editor for The Sugar correspondent for ReLiGioN DiSpaTCHeS .oRG . Beet , a mormon humor blog. miCHaeL J. STeVeNS is professor of manage - WiLLiam R. HaNDLey is an associate professor ment and business administration department of english at uSC. He is author of Marriage, chair at Weber State university. He has conduct - Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary ed award-winning research in global leadership, West , co-editor of True West: Authenticity and the work teams, and interpersonal competencies. He is co-chair of the SuNSToNe board of trustees.

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Moderator/ CHeRyL BRuNo is an LDS convert of 33 years, BeNGT WaSHBuRN is a “mouth clown” and Panelist a returned missionary, lover of early-morning “idiot provocateur” who has appeared on Comedy Seminary, primary, and isaiah. She has eight Central, The Late, Late Show with Craig children and is a master of mormon guilt. Ferguson , and in many other venues. Panelists kaTHeRiNe aLLReD is a stay-at-home TRoy WiLLiamS is the public affairs director of amateur trombonist, knitter, motorcyclist, and kRCL 90.9 Fm in Salt Lake City and the execu - unemployed librarian. tive producer of RadioActive . His work has been featured in The Nation , Interview Magazine , DoNNa BaNTa published her first novel, a mur - Huffington Post , The Gay Times and OUT der mystery called The Girls from the Fourth Magazine . He also co-wrote The Passion of Ward . Sister Dottie S. Dixon . maRie DaViS BRiaN has an alternate persona Room known as The Cotton Floozy –a mildly-intoxicated alterna-crafter of subversive embroideries. 256. Panel PoDCAsTinG From THe eDGe: THree YeArs oF eXPerienCe WiTH mormon HiLaRy C. BRoWN grew up in Sugar City, iD. eXPression She relocated to Salt Lake City with plans to fin - ish a bachelor’s degree at the university of utah. Abstract John and zilpha Larsen have been the hosts and directors of the Mormon Expression podcast. CaRoL HameR, author of the novel ExMormon , They will reflect on their experiences and misad - is a mild-mannered mom who blogs at Main ventures as amateur podcasters in the mormon Street Plaza (LaTTeRDaymaiNSTReeT .Com ) and digital underground and their observations on the Letters from a Broad (LFaB -uVm .BLoGSpoT .Com ). growth and culture of the ex-mormon world through the online medium. meLaNNy eVa HeNSoN is a poet, award-win - ning screenwriter, and english lecturer at iowa Panelists JoHN LaRSeN earned an mBa from Weber State university. Her creative work often grapples State university and a Ba in linguistics from Byu. with spirituality and gender. He works in Software process engineering, is a host of the Mormon Expression podcast, the JiLL peTeRFeSo is a recent graduate of uNC- executive director of the White Fields educational Chapel Hill’s doctoral program in religious Foundation, and the board chair for the post- studies. She has written on SuNSToNe ’s 2001 mormon Foundation. “mormon Vagina monologues” and the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement. ziLpHa LaRSeN is host of the Mormon Expression podcast, is a graduate student in ReVa BeTH RuSSeLL has spent 30 years instructional Design and Technology at the teaching biology at Lehi High School. She university of North Dakota, and has a Ba from considers herself a voice for those who need it Byu. and a pain in the rear for those who deserve it.

Chair aNDReW SpRiGGS DomiNique SToRNi was reared in a devout mormon family. She was a Boy Scout, aaronic Room priesthood leader, served a mission, and was nursery leader and Gospel Doctrine teacher. She CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 3:45 pm–4:45 pm was married to her best friend and fathered six children. She transitioned from male to female 261. Panel THe VAGinA TesTimonies and has lived as a single mother with her three sons in utah since 1996. Abstract in 1996, eve ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues explored the role of female genitalia kiLey SuLLiVaN is the author of the Brodie in female empowerment, individuality, and sense award-winning blog We Were Going to Be of self. Her later work evolved to address Queens . women’s body images and violence against women. a 2001 SuNSToNe session entitled HoLLy WeLkeR is a writer, editor, and cultural “Sacred Spaces: mormon Women’s Faith and commentator based in Salt Lake City. Sexuality” and nicknamed “the mormon Vagina monologues” featured LDS women talking about Room their faith and sexuality in ways inspired by ensler’s groundbreaking play. This session picks 262. Paper inTerrACiAL mArriAGe AnD THe BeGin - up where the 2001 session left off and continues ninG oF THe PriesTHooD AnD TemPLe the discussion of mormon women’s sexuality from BAn on BLACK AFriCAns a variety of perspectives. Presenters RiCk BeNNeTT has an mS in statistics from the NOTE: There will be a 15-minute break at 4:45 university of utah. an adjunct instructor of mathe - pm, after which this session will continue into the matics and statistics at utah Valley university and 5:00 - 6:30 pm time slot.

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Salt Lake Community College, he works as a freelance statistician for local and national televi - 264. Paper WHY THe CHUrCH WorKs BeTTer sion networks. in CerTAin KinDs oF PLACes (AnD noT in oTHers) Abstract The ban denying priesthood and temple bless - ings to black members of the LDS Church existed Presenter JameS B. SmiTHSoN earned graduate degrees for more than a century before being repealed via in cultural anthropology at the university of revelation in 1978. many Latter-day Saints have arizona and development sociology at Cornell tried to justify the ban, as when Byu professor university and worked for more than twenty years Randy Bott offered an explanation in a recent in applied social research. Washington Post interview; his justification was condemned by an official Church statement the Abstract it’s probably obvious that the way we “do” church next day. This essay will examine the historical organizationally works better in some places than record for clues that can help us determine more others. What may be less obvious but more “precisely why, how, or when this restriction important is that a highly formal and a highly uni - began” and will look at a group of interracial form way of organizing local congregations actu - marriages in the 1840s that appear to have ally works better in certain kinds of places. This influenced early Church leaders’ thoughts on the presentation will illustrate this observation, pro - propriety of such relationships. pose some reasons it holds true, and describe some of the challenges it creates for a church Respondent maRGueRiTe DRieSSeN joined the LDS that aspires to be truly global. Church in 1981. She has a JD from Stanford Law School, has worked as an attorney in the public Chair BeCky JoHNS and private sectors, and is an adjunct professor in the communications department at Byu. She Room is Relief Society president for the Genesis Group. 265. Paper HoW THe BomB CorrUPTeD THe WorLD Chair J. FReDeRiCk (ToBy) piNGRee AnD mormons AnD nATiVe AmeriCAn sHAmAns CAn HeLP sAVe iT Room Presenter euGeNe N. koVaLeNko has worked in the 263. Paper WHAT KeePs mormons AnD eVAnGeLi - aerospace and defense industries in many capac - CALs From CooPerATinG PoLiTiCALLY? ities and is currently president and Ceo of the Los alamos Deep Democracy open Forum, inc. Abstract although mormons and evangelicals in the uS a scientist, engineer, writer, poet, singer, father, typically share conservative social values, grandfather, and great-grandfather, he lives in evangelicals’ theological opposition to Los alamos with his wife, Birgitta Stavenow. mormonism periodically generates friction between mormons and the evangelical right. Abstract The Los alamos National Laboratory (LaNL), cre - Recent examples include mitt Romney’s 2008 ated by the manhattan project during WWii, is and 2012 presidential campaigns, Focus on the the birthplace of the atomic bomb and notably Family’s 2008 decision to pull a inter - mormon-friendly. many consider it the original view from its website, and a 2004 effort to restrict source of the corruption of science, while other mormons’ participation in an interfaith service laboratory and community leaders of good intent organized by the National Day of prayer Task in Los alamoS ignore or deny charges of corrup - Force. Nevertheless, mormons have successfully tion. This paper describes the purported corrup - cooperated with conservative evangelicals tion, LDS and Native american influences at the around a number of initiatives since the late Laboratory, and suggests a way that mormons 1970s, from the anti-eRa campaign to can set an example of “deep democracy” aware - proposition 8. What makes the difference? ness and community transformation.

Presenter JoHN-CHaRLeS DuFFy is a visiting assistant Chair CLiFToN HoLT JoLLey professor in comparative religion at miami university in oxford, oH. He teaches courses on Room religion in american history and culture. 266. Panel sUnsTone ToWn HALL meeTinG Respondent BRiDGeT JaCk JeFFRieS is a graduate of Byu and an ma candidate in american church history Abstract Bring your compliments and complaints to this at Trinity evangelical Divinity School. She is a session and let SuNSToNe leadership know member of the evangelical Covenant Church and what we’re doing well—and where we can the wife of a believing, practicing mormon. improve! SuNSToNe board members and staff will report on the past year and describe new ini - Chair rUss osmonD tiatives and projects for the years ahead.

Room Moderators LauRa CompToN and miCHaeL J. STeVeNS are co-chairs of the SuNSToNe board.

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Presenters STepHeN CaRTeR is director of editing and inconsistent and historically inaccurate. This ses - publications at SuNSToNe magazine. sion will summarize the various accounts and give an overview of the evidence for and against maRy eLLeN RoBeRTSoN is interim executive the historicity of various parts of the vision, director and director of outreach and symposia at including a summary of eight criteria for assess - SuNSToNe. ing historical authenticity. after hearing this sum - mary of evidence, the session audience will vote Room on the historicity of each major section of the vision. The session will conclude with a tabulation CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm of the voting results by the audience.

271. Panel THe VAGinA TesTimon ies (cont.) Presenters maRk THomaS has published widely on the Book of mormon and early mormonism and is a THiS SeSSioN iS a CoNTiNuaTioN oF former faculty member at Byu and uSu. His SeSSioN 261. book Digging in Cummorah is a landmark in Book of mormon interpretation. Room ToDD CompToN is a celebrated and widely 272. Panel WHAT is THe roLe oF PersonAL FAiTH in published mormon historian whose works include PoLiTiCs AnD PoLiCYmAKinG? In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith , which received the best book Abstract This panel considers the role of personal faith award from both the John Whitmer Historical and belief in politics and policymaking. What is association and the mormon History association. the appropriate/constitutional way for individual conscience to contribute to the formation of our JoHN-CHaRLeS DuFFy currently lives in ohio, laws and policy? where he teaches american religious history. He surveyed debates about Book of mormon his - Moderator/ JoHN meJia is the legal director of the aCLu toricity for SuNSToNe magazine’s “mapping Panelist of utah and a utah native. He has a Ba from mormon issues” project. Brown university, where he served as president of the Latin american Student organization, and DaN VoGeL is an independent scholar of early he graduated with honors from the university of mormon history. He has authored ten books and Chicago Law School.

Panelists BRiaN S. kiNG has a JD and a BS in economics from the university of utah. He has practiced law for over 20 years, representing individuals and health care providers litigating against health, life, and disability insurers and self-funded plans. He has represented clients before the uS Supreme Court and federal circuit and district courts across the country. He serves in the utah state legisla - NOVA RELIGIO ture as Representative of District 28 in the House The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions of Representatives.

Tim CHamBLeSS is an associate professor/lec - EDITORS // Eugene V Gallagher turer in the department of political science and Joel E. Tishken academic outreach coordinator at the Hinckley Catherine Wessinger institute of politics at the university of utah. He DETAILS // ISSN: 1092-6690 has taught classes in american national govern - eISSN: 1541-8480 ment and political parties as well as law and poli - August, November, February, May tics, controversial legal issues and mass commu - nication law, and american constitutional law. Tim earned his Ba at university of California, Santa Barbara, and earned two graduate degrees from the university of utah.

Room Nova Religio presents scholarly interpretations and examinations of emergent and alternative religious movements. Original research, perspectives on the study of new 273. Panel DiAGnosinG THe seer: An AssessmenT religions, literature reviews, and conference updates keep scholars well informed on a oF THe FirsT Vision wide range of topics including: new religions; new movements within established religious traditions; neo-indigenous, neo-polytheistic and revival movements; ancient Abstract mormons consider Joseph Smith’s first vision one Wisdom and New Age groups; diasporic religious movements; and marginalized and stigmatized religions. of the most significant events in religious history; it is by far the most controversial of his visions. many mormons maintain that the accounts of the WWW.UCPRESSJOURNALS.COM vision are historically accurate, while critics of mormonism assert that different accounts are

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fourteen articles and is editor of Early Mormon However, since the beginning of the Church, Documents (1996-2003) , a five-volume series polyandrous sexuality has been consistently con - that won best documentary awards from both the demned by Church leader s— after all, women mormon History association and the John today cannot be sealed to more than one man at Whitmer Historical association. a time. So what was going on? Did Joseph Smith practice sexual polyandry? if so, was it in accor - Chair neeD CHAir dance with his teachings or contradictory to them? This session will examine the evidence. Room Paper 2 Prisoners For THe “PrinCiPLe”: THe 274. Panel AUTHor meeTs CriTiCs: in heAVen As it inCArCerATion oF mormon PLUrAL is on eArth: JosePh sMith And the WiVes, 1882-1890 eArLY MorMon ConQuest of deAth Presenter LoRie WiNDeR has an ma in humanities from Abstract This panel discussion brings together scholars Byu, was managing editor of The Journal of and thinkers familiar with Samuel morris Brown’s Modern History , an associate editor for recent book, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph SuNSToNe, editor of Mormon Women’s Forum Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death . Quarterly , and recently founded WWW .GiRLS - please join the book’s author and a panel of GoNeWiki .oRG . careful readers in a vigorous exchange about this book and the overview of mormonism it provides. Abstract That a number of mormon plural wives were imprisoned during the late nineteenth century and Panelists RuSSeLL aRBeN FoX is an associate professor became the focus of intense public controversy of political science at Friends university in has been relegated to little more than a footnote Wichita, kS. in Latter-day Saint histories. Their cases merit attention because they occupy an often prece - kuFRe ekpeNyoNG is a mormon convert of dent-setting place in the history of the anti- Nigerian descent and a sophomore at Byu polygamy legislative and judicial crusade and studying comparative literature have significant revelatory value as barometers of public sentiment. Further, they invite us to consid - Joe sWiCK need bio! er the problem of plural wives as agents within a patriarchal religious tradition and the competing narratives that often portray them as either heroic and autonomous or abused and victimized.

Respondent SamueL moRRiS BRoWN graduated from Chair aNNe B. WiLDe Harvard College in linguistics with a minor in Russian then received an mD from Harvard Room medical School. He is assistant professor of pul - monary and critical care medicine and associate in the division of medical ethics and humanities at the university of utah, based at the shock trauma DiNNeR BReak, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm iCu at intermountain medical Center.

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275. Paper TWo-PAPer session: THe PrinCiPLe, Where to eat THe STuDeNT uNioN’S food court is NoT open THe ProPHeT, AnD Prison for dinner. The Heritage Center Dining Room on campus offers breakfast (6:30-9:00 am), lunch Paper 1 JosePH smiTH AnD seXUAL PoLYAnDrY (11:00 am-2:00 pm), and dinner (4:30-7:30 pm) for $7-9, monday - Saturday and is within walking Presenter BRiaN C. HaLeS is an anesthesiologist in distance of the Student union and the university Layton,uT, and author of Modern Polygamy and Guest House. Call 801.587.2000 for more infor - Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations after mation. See page 4 for more dining options. the Manifesto , which won the Best Book of 2007 prize from the John Whitmer Historical There are additional restaurants off campus along association. 1300 east and on 400 South; the latter is acces - sible from campus via TRaX. Abstract of Joseph Smith’s 34 plural wives, 13 had legal husbands at the time they were sealed to him. 281. Reception The Community of Christ is hosting a reception Since Fawn Brodie’s 1945 No Man Knows My for Sunstone attendees. please join Community History , virtually every author who has written of Christ friends, leaders, scholars, and members about Nauvoo plural marriages has concluded for an informal mixer and light refreshments that the prophet practiced sexual polyandry (or at during the dinner break. least may have) with some or all of these women.

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FRIDAY 27 JULY The reception will begin at 6:30 pm. The recep - tion room will be announced in the final pro - make things fit, he gave up on mormonism, his gram . childhood hero Joseph Smith, and God. in 2005, Don, then an atheist, formally left the LDS Church, initiating several years of wandering a pLeNaRy SeSSioN, 8:00 pm postmodern spiritual wilderness. His path of dis - covery, winding through humanistic spirituality, 291. PiLLArs oF mY FAiTH the Baha’i faith, traditional Christianity, and the relentless pursuit of mormon origins, led him to Abstract This is SuNSToNe’S perennially best-attended the one place he had been certain he could never session. Hear speakers share the events and return. approaching the Restoration with a concepts that animate their religious lives; a little widened sense of its vision and a hard-won soul-baring, a little spiritual journey, a little knowledge of its strength, Don was rebaptized on intellectual testimony-bearing. This self-reflective 11 July 2010. Don continues to plumb the night is about the things that matter most, plus Restoration’s historical and spiritual depths, both spirited congregational hymn-singing. in his personal spiritual quest and in his present project of reconstructing its earliest scripture, the lost 116 pages of the Book of mormon. Speake r DoN BRaDLey is a writer, editor, and researcher specializing in mormon origins and an ma candi - Musical number SuNSToNe board member kim mCCaLL is date in history at utah State university. He is also organizing a pick up chorus to perform an the author of The Lost 116 Pages: Rediscovering arrangement of “praise to the man.” if you are the Book of Lehi , forthcoming from Greg kofford interested in being part of this performance, Books. please contact kim or the SuNSToNe office for details. Don did his first research in the LDS archives as a devout seventeen-year-old seeking a deeper Speake r maXiNe HaNkS is a feminist theologian and lec - understanding of Church doctrine. But the sign - turer, researching gender in religion, particularly posts marked “strait and narrow path” somehow Christian and mormon theology. Her call to min - placed his pilgrimage on the long and winding istry has taken her from serving an LDS mission road. after several years of struggling with the to serving as clergy or chaplain at Holy Cross most difficult problems of mormon history and Chapel for 13 years, where she launched the philosophical theology, trying—and failing—to

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Chapel preservation project and wrote its history. She was a fellow with the utah Humanities DeVoTioNaL, 8:00 am–8:30 am Council and at Harvard Divinity School, has lec - tured in gender studies at the university of utah, 301. Devotional A moDern ConCeiT: THe sePArATion oF and guest lectured at uVu, Byu, Weber State, reLiGion AnD PoLiTiCs Harvard Divinity, Salt Lake Theological Seminary, and SLC Community College besides presenting Presenter FRaNCeS Lee meNLoVe has a phD in psy - at many religious studies conferences. chology from the university of michigan and a master of divinity from the pacific School of She has edited, authored, or co-authored The Religion. She is a Red Cross volunteer and a Mormon Women’s Studies Resource , Women & relief chaplain at the local hospital. Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism , Mormon Faith in America , A History of Sanpete Abstract How should we think about politics and religion? County , and Getting Together With Yesterday ; What did the intersection of politics and religion and was a contributor to Secrets of Mary look like in first-century palestine during the time Magdalene , Religion in America , and Latter-day of Jesus and his earliest followers? How about Dissent . She has contributed research to, edited, now, in contemporary america? We will contem - or been cited in dozens of books on mormonism plate these tricky issues, especially as they relate and religion. to president J. Reuben Clark’s searing question, “What has the apostasy from peace cost us?” She has served on the HRC Clergy Call, Salt Lake interfaith Roundtable, orrin Hatch’s Chair DaN WoTHeRSpooN Women’s Council, utah attorney General’s Safety Net Committee, SLoC interfaith Roundtable, Room Network, utah issues, and utah pro-Choice Coalition. She has chaired interfaith Week in utah and sponsored many events on religion or CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 8:30 am–9:30 am women in religion. 311. Paper riDinG oUr DoUBLe rAinBoWs To HeAV - en: eXPerienCes oF LGBT mormons oF in the 1990s, she appeared in media such as CoLor in THe moDern WorLD ABC Nightline , Time , Vogue , Los Angeles Times , New York Times , Publisher’s Weekly , Hard Copy , Presenter FReDeRiCk BoWeRS has served in leadership Boston Globe , Chicago Times , associated press, roles at the chapter and national levels of CNN, pBS, a&e, BBC, Reuters, and utah media. affirmation: Gay and Lesbian mormons in the twenty first century, she took refuge from international for over 20 years and is founder and public commentary on mormonism, only recently director of the affirmation people of Color and returning to all things mormon. allies Group. a former career uS air Force finan - cial management senior non-commissioned offi - cer, Fred works as a management and technolo - Chair gy consultant.

Room Abstract in october 2011, the affirmation LGBT people of Color (poC) and allies group was started as a group of self-identified people of color and allies SaTuRDay 28 JuLy gathered to explore multiple identities and the intersections of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and LDS faith. Now a closed Facebook group (started in February 2012), the 2012 salt lake group was created to encourage LDS LGBT poC to begin to find their voice in a world where they are often invisible unless they “speak their truth.” SUNSTONE The purpose of this session is to explore the sto - ries and issues encountered by LGBT mormon symposium and poC in their daily lives.

Workshops other speakers to be announced.

Respondent RoBeRT a. ReeS teaches mormon Studies at ReGiSTRaTioN, 8:00 am–5:00 pm the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley.

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previous SuNSToNe sessions include presenta - 312. Paper mormon neo-LiBerALism: DeFininG tions on female shamanism in Judeo-Christian FAiTH For THose WHo DoUBT and mormon Traditions and on emma Smith as shaman. Presenter SeTH payNe’s degrees include a BS in manage - ment from Byu, an mBa from New york Abstract This session will examine the emblem and sym - university, and an ma in religion from yale. bol of bee/hive, noting the connections between bees and their hives as symbolic of the feminine Abstract There has always been theological and political divine and a matriarchal society, the ancient bee tension between mormon cultural orthodoxy and priestess as shaman, and the idea of contempo - liberalism. Too often, mormon conservatives view rary mormon woman as bee priestess. it also their liberal sisters and brothers as apostates or examines the connections between the nine - wolves in sheep’s clothing who seek to weaken teenth-century restoration movement and its or damage the Church. Such a view is not restored symbol of bee and hive, and the parallel unwarranted as mormon liberals have often emergence of the women’s movement and femi - defined themselves not by their own values but nist spirituality from the nineteenth century into instead by what they reject within cultural ortho - the twenty-first century. doxy. This presentation proposes a constructive form of mormon liberalism which seeks to be part Respondent Doe DauGHTRey has a phD in religious of mormonism on its own terms as well as a studies and teaches courses on women and reli - force for good within the wider community. gion, religion in america, religion and popular cul - ture, and mormonism. Chair kaimipoNo WeNGeR Chair CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD Room Room 313. Paper WiLLArD riCHArDs AnD nAUVoo PoLYGAmY, 1841-42 315. Paper sins oF omission: sPinninG THe mission - ArY eXPerienCe Presenter DeVeRy S. aNDeRSoN is editor or co-editor of several works, including Development of LDS Presenter JoHN k. WiLLiamS is a professional writer and Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary editor, former LDS Church employee, and author History . He is finishing the first comprehensive of the mission memoir Heaven Up Here . work on the murder of emmett Till in mississippi in 1955 and writing a biography of Willard Abstract an LDS mission is commonly called “the best two Richards. a university of utah graduate in history, years” of one’s life. most missionaries understand he is ebook editor at Signature Books. the difficulties, pressure to perform, mission poli - tics, boredom, depression, emotional demands, Abstract Shortly after Willard Richards arrived in Nauvoo and physical hardships of a mission. However, from england in august 1841, he became Joseph there is an unwritten rule to never speak nega - Smith’s closest confidant, assuming a role once tively about one’s mission. Consequently, home - enjoyed by John C. Bennett. Bennett’s departure comings are typically uplifting pep talks, and can - from mormonism was not quiet, and as he toured did discussion of one’s mission often provokes the country exposing and sensationalizing hostility. This session will explore the explicit and mormon secrets, including polygamy, Richards implicit pressure to spin missions positively and followed doing damage control. yet Richards was how this affects people, as well as offer ideas a polygamy insider introduced to the practice by about how to acknowledge unpleasant reality in a Joseph Smith. He had performed one of Smith’s culture that frowns on bluntness. plural marriages and may have begun practicing it himself, all while his first wife, Jennetta, Respondent J. FReDeRiCk (ToBy) piNGRee has been a endured a lonely year in massachusetts where mission president, served as bishop three times, he’d left her while he settled in Nauvoo. This and is a former SuNSToNe board chair. paper examines Richards’s role as a polygamy insider, confidant, and public relations man during Chair GReG RoCkWeLL the tumultuous period of 1841-1842. Room Respondent D. miCHaeL quiNN was a professor of history at Byu for twelve years, after which he has been an 316. Paper A mormon APProACH To meDiTATion in independent scholar. He has authored more than THe ConTeXT oF oTHer TrADiTions AnD 80 articles and six books about mormon history. soCiAL ACTiVism

Chair aNNe B. WiLDe Presenter JoHN T. keSLeR is a practicing attorney and active mormon who engages in community and Room internal work. one of the first to be certified in the revolutionary zen “Big mind process,” John 314. Paper THe onCe AnD FUTUre Bee PriesTess developed and teaches an awareness practice correlated in every way with principles and Presenter eLizaBeTH RuSSeLL quiCk has an ma in patterns of the Restored Gospel. women’s spirituality from the institute of Transpersonal psychology in palo alto, Ca. Her

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Abstract This session will detail John’s development of Senate minority Leader, combined with the LDS integral polarity practice (ipp), an approach to Church’s involvement in California’s 2008 meditation, awareness, and action aligned with proposition 8, the Church’s influence on utah’s patterns of the Restored Gospel. ipp is not an new immigration laws, followed by a still more improved way to practice mormonism, but a recent declaration of political neutrality and sub - series of practices to help anyone deepen in sequent encouragement to utah Latter-day awareness, become more integrated, grow to Saints that they attend their state caucuses, have higher levels of human development, and all highlighted a core LDS principle: mormons embrace the world virtuously. This session should be good citizens and participate in the explains how correlations between ipp and the political process as much as possible. mystical practices of many traditions demonstrate that the Restored Gospel includes the wisdom of The most fundamental way to participate in the the east--more than any other Western traditions. political process is to register to vote and go to the polls. in the LDS church, leaders are expect - Chair N. Lee SmiTH ed to set an example. This presentation will examine the level of ‘political involvement’ and Room general voting habits of LDS general authorities, stake presidents, and bishops in central utah. CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 9:45 am–10:45 am Chair moRRiS THuRSToN 321. Paper THe iroQUois As THe LAmAniTe: An ArGUmenT For A ConTemPorArY Room reADinG oF THe BooK oF mormon

Presenter JoHN LaRSeN earned an mBa from Weber 323. Paper THe CosT oF DisCiPLesHiP: Dimensions State university and a Ba in linguistics from Byu oF A mATUre mormon FAiTH, PArT ii and works in Software process engineering. John Presenter RoBeRT a. ReeS teaches mormon Studies at is a host of the Mormon Expression podcast, the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. He executive director of the White Fields educational is a former editor of Dialogue and former chair of Foundation, and is board chair for the post- the SuNSToNe board. His Why I Stay: The mormon Foundation. Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons was published in 2011. Abstract apologists have argued for ancient settings of the Book of mormon in the american continent. in Abstract This is a continuation of the 2010 Symposium this presentation, i argue that the description of session exploring the dimensions of Lamanites portrayed in the Book of mormon is Christian/mormon discipleship. Building on ideas consistent with nineteenth-century understand - about faith and doubt, courage and honesty, and ings of the iroquois and the archaeological inter - imagination and love discussed in the 2010 ses - pretation of artifacts commonly found in the New sion, this session considers such additional york State area during the time the Book of dimensions of discipleship as empathy, compas - mormon was produced. sion, kindness, holiness, peacemaking , a com - mitment to counter suffering and injustice, and an Respondent CHRiSTopHeR SmiTH has an ma in Christian openness to all truth, including that from other history from Wheaton College and is enrolled in a faith traditions. as with the previous session, it phD program in North american religions at examines the challenges, complexities and Claremont Graduate university. He is researching conundra of what it means to follow Christ both in contacts between mormons and american the Church and in the world. indians for his dissertation. Chair LauReN keNNaRD Chair PAULA GooDFeLLoW Room Room 324. Panel in memoriAm: PAUL sWenson 322. Paper VoTer TUrnoUT AnD VoTinG TrenDs AmonG LDs GenerAL AUTHoriTies, Moderator STepHeN CaRTeR is editor of SuNSToNe sTAKe PresiDenTs, AnD BisHoPs in UTAH magazine and Swenson’s grand-nephew.

Presenter aaRoN CampBeLL is a marketing and cam - Abstract The death of writer and poet paul Swenson in paign consultant with 15 years’ experience in February 2012 left a hole in the heart of database marketing, political messaging, and SuNSToNe. Following remarks from panelists, campaign strategy. He has worked on campaigns there will be open mic time for family, friends, and as large as the uS presidential race and as small fans to share memories and thoughts about paul. as local city council contests, in locations ranging from ohio to argentina. Panelists pHyLLiS BaRBeR recently retired from the Vermont College of Fine arts mFa in Writing pro - Abstract The high profile of politicians such as mitt gram where she taught for 19 years. Her books Romney, Republican nominee for the 2012 uS include Raw Edges: A Memoir and How I Got presidential election, and Harry Reid (D-NV), Cultured: A Nevada Memoir .

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This paper will offer practical steps for conquer - aLeX CaLDieRo is a sonosopher,making things ing some of the challenges listed in the Sermon that at times appear as language or music or on the mount such as embracing paradox, creat - images, and then again as the shape of your own ing oneness, solving anger with compassion, mind. Caldiero is senior artist in residence at overcoming worry, cultivating mindfulness, and utah Valley university. visualizing desired transformation. it supports the process by which Jesus’s most difficult CaRoLyN CampBeLL is the author of three teachings become the most profound methods nationally published books and 800 magazine for human spiritual transformation. articles. She has been a presenter in several pre - vious SuNSToNe sessions. Respondent LiLLy SHuLTS holds an med in counseling from arizona State university and a phD in counseling Room psychology from Walden university. She retired from 25 years as a school-based counseling 325. Paper FeLLoW CiTizens, FeLLoW CHrisTiAns?: psychologist in phoenix. CATHoLiCs, mormons, AnD BoUnDAries BeTWeen THe BoDY PoLiTiC AnD BoDY oF Chair CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD CHrisT Room Presenter DoNaLD WeSTBRook is in the phD program at Claremont Graduate university’s School of Religion. He serves as executive director of CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS 11:00 am–12:30 pm practice What you preach Foundation, a faith- 331. Panel WHo GeTs To sAY WHAT Former based non-profit in downtown Los angeles mormons Are LiKe?

Abstract Support of proposition 8 fostered positive rela - Abstract The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tions between many Catholics and mormons (as likes to believe that the only ones qualified to talk well as evangelicals and others) in a cause of about mormonism are its most faithful members, shared moral concern. This presentation argues or—ideally—the Church itself, through its appoint - that social and political collaboration has also ed spokesmen. and, being a multi-billion-dollar caused a unique warming of interfaith relations operation, it has the resources to convince between the Catholic Church and mormon people through organizations such as the more Church that has the potential to lead to sustained Good Foundation, mormon Voices (a.k.a. the and productive theological dialogue. one case mormon Defense League), and the Washington study will be examined: Cardinal Francis Post column of Church pR-guy michael otterson. George’s 2010 address to Byu on “Catholics and Latter-day Saints: partners in the Defense of The irony is that the Church has no hesitation Religious Freedom.” about making up all sorts of inaccurate (and often insulting) claims about what ex-mormon s— “apos - Respondent JiLL peTeRFeSo is a graduate of uNC-Chapel tates ”— are like. We may not have as much Hill’s doctoral program in religious studies and money or political clout as the LDS Church, but has written on the Roman Catholic Womenpriests using tools such as the internet, we can take movement. ownership of our own narratives and claim our place in the public discourse on mormonism. Chair kuFRe ekpeNyoNG Moderator/ CaRoL HameR is a mild-mannered mom who Room Panelist writes for the blogs Main Street Plaza and Letters from a broad... from her home in Switzerland. 326. Paper JesUs’ sermon on THe moUnT: A mAP She also wrote the novel ExMormon and gathers For CreATinG sTress resiLienCe exmo blogs into a community called Outer Blogness (ouTeRBLoGNeSS .oRG ). Presenter N. Lee SmiTH, mD is director of stress medicine at omega pain Clinic. an internist with a subspe - Panelists JoN aDamS recently graduated from utah State cialty interest in behavioral medicine, he has university where he studied sociology and politi - been a clinical associate professor of medicine at cal science. at uSu, he co-founded and headed the university of utah and is a board member of SHaFT (Secular Humanists, atheists, and Free the institute for Spirituality & Healing in medicine. Thinkers), utah’s first secular student club. Abstract Jesus summarized key elements of his teach - ings in his introductory Sermon on the mount. at DoNNa BaNTa is the author of the Brodie-award the end, in the parable of the house built on a winning blog Ward Gossip and co-author of the rock, he suggests that these principles offer Brodie-award winning White and Delightsome . advice about successfully dealing with life’s She just published her first novel, a murder mys - stress. His counsel fits well with four scientifical - tery called The Girls from the Fourth Ward . ly proven principles of resilience and with east - ern “two selves” approaches to easing suffering. JaSoN eCHoLS served a mission in Brazil and studied at Byu and Nyu before moving to Taiwan, where he spent 18 years unaware of mormon goings-on. after prop 8, he spent a few

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years learning about the LDS role in anti-gay poli - 333. Paper HoLY sHiFT! tics. known throughout the internet as Chino Blanco, he now lives with his family in Denver. Abstract This presentation concerns the LDS Church public Relations Department’s attempt to shift the JeFF RiCkS was raised in Rexburg, iD. after offi - blame for the Church’s past racism onto the Lord. cially resigning from the LDS Church, he founded Toscano critiques elder Todd Christofferson’s poST moRmoN .oRG . He has been interviewed for recent attempt to shift onto Church members the documentaries, television, radio, and podcast responsibility of distinguishing Church leaders’ programs and been quoted in dozens of newspa - opinions from binding doctrine; Toscano claims pers across the country. that he was excommunicated almost 19 years ago for holding then the same views elder kiLey SuLLiVaN is the author of the Brodie Christofferson expresses now. Toscano’s voice award-winning blog We Were Going to Be then shifts from critic to apologist as he explains Queens . why he still believes in many mormon teachings while rejecting certain elements of corporate JoHN k. WiLLiamS earned bachelor’s and mas - mormonism. in doing so, he explores the roles of ter’s degrees from Byu and has worked as a proof, preference, facts, faith, history, myth, rea - professional writer and editor, including two years son, intuition, imagination, and spiritual encoun - as a curriculum editor for the LDS church. He ters in human existence, and discloses some sur - recently published Heaven Up Here , a memoir of prising close encounters from his own life. his mission in Bolivia. Presenter pauL ToSCaNo is the author of Sanctity of Room Dissent and The Sacrament of Doubt , as well as a novel available online as an ebook entitled 332. Panel CominG oUT As An ALLY: THe imPACT oF Christ on Trial: An Easter Hymn ; he co-authored sTrAiGHT mormons in ADVAnCinG LGBT Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon issUes in THe CHUrCH AnD in THe WorLD Theology with his wife, margaret; and he works as a bankruptcy lawyer in Salt Lake City. abstract From the launching of mormon “it Gets Better” videos to the formation of mormons for marriage Chair kim mCCaLL Facebook groups, from the organizing of “Circling the Wagons” conferences to the participation of Room straight mormons in pride parades, 2012 will be remembered as the year when straight, progres - 334 . Panel THe “mormon momenT” AnD THe LDs sive Latter-day Saints came out massively in sup - CHUrCH’s ProBLemATiC rACiAL PAsT: port of LGBT mormons. panelists will discuss TWo PersPeCTiVes their experiences reaching across the gay/straight divide and working inside and out - Paper 1 mormonism, THe meDiA, AnD THe rAnDY side the Church in a process that not only helps BoTT imBroGLio change the perceptions the LGBT community has about mormons but also can help bring about Presenter maTTHeW L. HaRRiS is associate professor of change within the Church. history at Colorado State university-pueblo. He received a Ba and ma from Byu and an mphil Moderator HuGo oLaiz is the news editor for SuNSToNe. and phD from the maxwell School of Citizenship and public affairs at Syracuse university. His Panelists LauRa CompToN is a founder of mormons for published works include The Founding Fathers marriage and last month marched in the San and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary Francisco pride parade with her husband and America and Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, two sons. and the Opening of the American West .

JoHN DeHLiN is the founder of mormon Stories Abstract This presentation will examine the recent and has helped organize “Circling the Wagons” imbroglio sparked by Byu religion professor conferences across the country. Randy Bott’s interview with the Washington Post . it will focus on the LDS Church’s response, the eRika muNSoN is the founder of mormons unresolved questions and issues surrounding Building Bridges and marched at the utah pride LDS racial teachings, and the ways in which parade in June 2012. Church leaders declare doctrine. it will decon - struct Bott’s controversial statements with the keNDaLL WiLCoX is a filmmaker and the pro - purpose of juxtaposing them with statements LDS ducer of the Byu “it Gets Better” clips which leaders have made in order to justify and/or have been viewed almost half a million times. rationalize the now-defunct practice of black exclusion from the LDS priesthood. Room

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Paper 2 mormonism’s ProBLemATiC rACiAL PAsT As An issUe in THe 2012 eLeCTion

Presenter NeWeLL G. BRiNGHuRST is an emeritus pro - fessor of history and political science at the College of the Sequoias.

Abstract This presentation will examine mormonism’s problematic racial past as an issue during the 2012 campaign season. among the questions considered are the ramifications of this issue given the fact that mitt Romney, as the first mormon to receive a major party nomination, is running against Barack obama, america’s first black president. also considered is the handling of this issue both in the media and by LDS Church spokespersons.

Chair J. FReDeRiCk (ToBy) piNGRee

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335. Panel LDs LATinos As A PoLiTiCAL ForCe

Abstract “Latino” is an umbrella term covering a diverse group of national, ethnic, and racial backgrounds that collectively accounts for more than one in six americans. Spread across the political spectrum and operating at every level of government, Latinos cannot be counted on to vote as a bloc, but their collective support can make or break a political campaign. in the intermountain West, Latino-mormon politics can often seem focused almost exclusively on matters regarding immigra - tion, but these are not the only political issues of concern to LDS Latinos. How do LDS Latinos organize to affect local, state, and federal politics, and how do LDS missionary efforts among Latino communities affect various political issues?

Panelists miCHaeL CLaRa is a member of the Salt Lake County and utah State Gop executive committee and the immediate past chair of the utah Republican Hispanic assembly. He serves as first counselor in his local LDS ward bishopric.

CeLiNa miLNeR studied political science at Wells College in Ny and cultural anthropology at the universidad de Sevilla in Spain. She worked for public Leadership education Network, a non- profit that prepares college women for leadership in public policy. She is running for the House of Representatives, District 34, in Taylorsville, as a Democrat.

JuaN maNueL Ruiz immigrated to utah from mexico in 1993. an entrepenuer who has started several businesses, he has a bachelor’s degree from utah Valley university, is treasurer of the utah Republican Hispanic assembly, and presi - dent of the Latin american Chamber of Commerce.

DaViD kNoWLToN is a social anthropologist who specializes in the study of Latin america, especially the andes, as well as on transnational mormonism. David has experience in Latino organizations and has published on the topic.

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The Heritage Center Dining Room on campus Chair neeD CHAir offers lunch (11:00 am-2:00 pm), and dinner (4:30-7:30 pm) for $7-9, monday - Saturday and Room is within walking distance of the Student union and the university Guest House. Call 336. Play suffrAGe : A PLAY 801.587.2000 for more information. See page 4 for more dining options. Abstract The fight for women’s rights was nowhere hotter or more fraught than in territorial utah in the late 341. Lunchtime Clips from coverage of mormonism and politics 1800s. Having granted women suffrage in 1870— comedy from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and second among would-be states only to neighbor - The Colbert Report . Clips assembled by ing Wyoming—utah saw its women stripped of miCHaeL J. STeVeNS their voting rights by a Congress eager to use the issue to stamp out what it considered a burgeon - Room ing evil: mormonism and its concomitant practice of polygamy. SUFFRAGE explores the impact of CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm this confluence of battles through the eyes of two sister wives torn between the law and their God. 351. Panel Do GooD onLine FenCes mAKe GooD LDs neiGHBors? This reading of a play in development by utah playwright Jenifer Nii features april Fossen and Abstract LDS-interest blogspace is divided into many dif - Sarah young and is directed by Cheryl ann Cluff. ferent communities: mormon feminists, mormon SUFFRAGE will receive its world premiere april mommies, Borderlanders (or New order 4-14, 2013 at plan-B Theatre Company with this mormons), interfaith discussion blogs, Nothing cast and director. Wavering, outer Blogness, the core of the Bloggernacle, and probably others. all of these Participants JeNiFeR Nii (playwright) has previously pre - communities overlap and communicate with one miered The Scarlet Letter and Wallace with plan- another, but they also do various types of bound - B Theatre Company. She has called utah home ary-maintenance to decide who’s in and who’s for 20 years. a university of utah graduate, she out. Some of the division is simply a question of spent nine years as a newspaper reporter before people wanting to spend their limited internet taking a position in corporate communications for time with people they can relate to, but some of it a major healthcare provider. is a genuine power struggle over who gets to rep - resent mormonism. Should different LDS-interest apRiL FoSSeN (Frances) has appeared in plan- groups strive for better communication and coop - B’s Lady Macbeth, Mesa Verde, She Was My eration, or are we happier staying out of each Brother, Miasma, and 7 Slams. other local credits other’s hair? Representatives of various commu - include Living Out , Romeo and Juliet , Three Days nities discuss! of Rain , and An Ideal Husband . april holds a Ba in theatre arts from uC Berkeley. NOTE: There will be a 15-minute break at 3:30 pm, after which this session will continue into the SaRaH youNG (Ruth) will appear later this 3:45 - 4:45 pm time slot. summer in plan-B’s Script-in-Hand Series read - ing of 8 and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet for Moderator/ CaRoL HameR is a mild-mannered mom who Davis arts Council. Sarah is a senior at the Panelist writes for the blogs Main Street Plaza university of utah. (LaTTeRDaymaiNSTReeT .Com ) and Letters from a broad... (LFaB -uVm .BLoGSpoT .Com ) from her home CHeRyL CLuFF (Director) co-founded plan-B in in Switzerland. She also gathers exmo blogs into 1991 and is the company’s managing director. a community called ouTeRBLoGNeSS .oRG . She has directed Jenifer Nii’s The Scarlet Letter, Mesa Verde and all five Radio Hours . She has Panelists aaRoN TayLoR is a statistics enthusiast who designed sound for nearly every plan-B produc - blogs at zeLopHeHaDSDauGHTeRS .Com and in his tion since 2000. spare time is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Texas a&m university. Chair JeRRy RapieR aNDReW SpRiGGS ponders mormonism and its Room CENTER BALLROOM role in people’s lives at his personal blog, Irresistible (Dis)Grace , and on the group blogs LuNCH BReak, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm WHeaTaNDTaReS .oRG and Main Street Plaza .

BRiDGeT JaCk JeFFRieS is an ma candidate in american church history at Trinity evangelical Divinity School. She holds a Ba in classics from Byu. She blogs at ClobberBlog and LDS & Evangelical Conversations . ( LDSTaLk .WoRD - Where to eat THe STuDeNT uNioN’S food court is CLoSeD pReSS .Com ). on Saturday. a list of nearby restaurants is avail - able at the symposium registration desk. CHeRyL BRuNo blogs as Bored in Vernal. Her posts have appeared on Hieing to Kolob ,

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ByCommoNCoNSeNT .Com , WHeaTaNDTaReS .oRG , dens, . . . mourn with those that mourn, . . . and JuVeNiLeiNSTRuCToR .oRG , moRmoNmaTTeRS .oRG , comfort those that stand in need of comfort.” and VaRiouSSTaGeSoFmoRmoNDom .BLoGSpoT .Com , yet there seems to be a paucity of empathy in and FemiNiSTmoRmoNHouSeWiVeS .oRG . modern society, including among Christians (and, therefore, mormons). This panel explores the JaSoN eCHoLS studied at Byu and Nyu nature and various dimensions of these virtues, before moving to Taiwan, where he spent 18 their biological and spiritual roots, their strengths years blissfully unaware of mormon goings-on. and insufficiencies in a hierarchical contest with after prop 8, he spent a few years learning about love for a global universal value, and the degree the LDS role in anti-gay politics. known through - to which they are manifest or lacking in mormon out the internet as Chino Blanco, he now lives religious practice. with his family in Denver. Moderator/ RoBeRT a. ReeS teaches mormon Studies at kaimipoNo (kaimi) WeNGeR, JD, is an Panelist Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. His assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson Law book Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship School in San Diego. for Contemporary Mormons was published in 2011. RaCHeL maBey WHippLe cares for her husband, three kids, house, and garden and Panelists CHaRLeS RaNDaLL pauL is the founder and blogs about faith and stewardship. president of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy (Ny and uT). He has degrees from Room Byu, Harvard, and the university of Chicago. 352. Panel WHAT Are We DoinG WiTH oUr momenT? emiLy CLyDe CuRTiS co-edits Exponent II , a mormon feminist magazine, and blogs at THe - Abstract The so-called “mormon moment” of 2011 and eXpoNeNT .Com She has a masters in Theological 2012 has involved sojourns into the doctrines, Studies from Harvard Divinity School. theology, history, everyday practices, sociology, and scandals of The Church of Jesus Christ of keNDaLL WiLCoX is an independent filmmaker Latter-day Saints, with guides both ignorant and and community organizer. His video of the Byu well-informed about mormonism, both sympathet - uSGa group has been watched by hundreds of ic and hostile to its people. Like it or not, such a thousands of people. response to phenomena such as The Book of Mormon musical and mitt Romney’s presidential WaRNeR WooDWoRTH is a professor and a candidacy was predictable and may prove benefi - global social entrepreneur. author of ten books cial to the development of mormonism as a reli - and a hundred articles, his life’s calling is to gious “player” in the united States. But how are reduce human suffering and empower the weak. members of the LDS Church themselves responding to this moment in the spotlight? What Room do they make of it? What can they make of it? This panel attempts to answer those questions. 354. Panel eiGHTeen monTHs on THe PeriPHerY: THe eXPerienCe oF sisTer missionAries Moderator/ RuSSeLL aRBeN FoX is an associate professor Panelist of political science at Friends university in Abstract LDS missions have long been recognized as a Wichita, kS. rite of passage for young mormon men, yet young women can and often do serve as fulltime Panelists mCkay CoppiNS is a journalist specializing in missionaries. Some sister missionaries report that the Romney campaign who has worked for their mission experiences were positive and stim - Newsweek and currently for Buzzfeed . ulating, while others find that missions marginal - ize women and can carry a lifelong stigma. D CHRiSTiaN HaRRiSoN is a communications General Conference talks, the structure of mis - consultant in Salt Lake City. sion hierarchy, and snide remarks by mormon men to sister missionaries all reinforce the idea JeRemiaH JoHN is an assistant professor of that women are not wanted in the mission field. political science at Southern Virginia university in This panel will discuss the experiences of sister Buena Vista, Va. missionaries, talk about how the mission experi - ence can be both empowering and alienating for Room women, and explore why LDS men are often so proprietary about this unique mormon experience. 353. Panel emPATHY, sYmPATHY, AnD ComPAssion: CHALLenGinG VirTUes For LATTer-DAY Presenters TamaRa TaySom is a returned missionary with sAinTs an mS in education from indiana university. a public school teacher, she serves as a gospel Abstract empathy is the ability to understand and, on a doctrine teacher in her Salt Lake ward and is deeply caring level, respond to the needs of other president of SuNSToNe ’s student chapter at the creatures. alma speaks of followers of Christ as university of utah. those who are “willing to bear one another’s bur -

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kRiSTa meCHam is a returned missionary with an mS in education from the university of utah Chair H. miCHaeL maRquaRDT and a public school teacher who serves as young women’s president in her West Jordan ward. Room

Chair LauReN keNNaRD 356. Paper HeLP! mY sPoUse is (seLeCT one): A) TrUe-BeLieVinG mormon, B) eX-mormon, Room C) UnsUre

355. Panel TWo PAPer session on B.H. roBerTs Presenter aDam FiSHeR is a doctoral student in counsel - ing psychology at indiana university. His current Paper 1 B.H. roBerTs’ 1909 GenerAL ConFer - research focuses on predictors of divorce for enCe ADDress on PosT-seConD religious couples where one spouse experiences mAniFesTo PoLYGAmY a change in beliefs.

Presenter CHRiSTopHeR SmiTH has an ma in Christian Abstract The aftermath of one partner’s change in beliefs history from Wheaton College and is enrolled in a might threaten a marriage or eventually result in phD program in North american religions at divorce. This session will present some key con - Claremont Graduate university. cepts from Sunstone’s Wednesday workshop for couples who have experienced the religious Abstract in 1908 and 1909, B.H. Roberts learned that switching or “apostasy” of one partner. key find - some high-level LDS leaders continued to sanc - ings on religious conflict in marriage will also be tion secret polygamous marriages despite two discussed, as well as how religion can be benefi - manifestos forbidding the practice. Roberts com - cial or harmful in relationships. pared this situation to president Smith’s “whisper campaign” supporting the Republican party in Chair CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD violation of the Church’s policy of political neutral - ity. at the october 1909 General Conference, Room Roberts denounced such double-dealing as a stain on the Church’s honor and pleaded for CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 3:45 pm–4:45 pm integrity and consistency in Church marriage poli - cy. But what Roberts, a polygamist and 361. Panel Do GooD onLine FenCes mAKe GooD Democrat, seems to have really wanted was for LDs neiGHBors? (ConT.) the Church to drop the pretense of monogamy and political neutrality altogether and to openly THiS SeSSioN iS a CoNTiNuaTioN oF SeSSioN 351. endorse polygamy and the Democrats. Roberts’ conference talk doubles as a critique of both the Room secret violation of the polygamy ban and of the ban itself. Both represented a breach of faithful - 362. Paper sLiPPerY TreAsUres: AFFiniTY FrAUD in ness to the laws of God and the Church. mormon UTAH

Paper 2 B.H. roBerTs As A DnA mormon AnD His Presenter keNNeTH LouGee has a JD from the ConTinUinG inFLUenCe university of oregon School of Law, and an ma in history from the university of utah. an adjunct Presenter Joe GeiSNeR lives in northern California with professor in history at Salt Lake Community his wife of 29 years. Together they provide resi - College, he has also practiced law at Siegfried & dential services for people with developmental Jensen and is the author of Pie in the Sky: How disabilities. He has been a collector and reader of Joe Hill’s Lawyers Lost His Case, Got Him Shot mormon books for most of his adult life, reading and Were Disbarred (2011). far more than is good for him. Abstract affinity fraud is broadly defined as fraudulent Abstract This paper will explore the life and legacy of B.H. financial, political, or education schemes in which Roberts and his mormon faith. The publication of the defrauders gain the trust of the victims B.H. Roberts’ Studies in the Book of Mormon in through shared identity or community. This pres - 1985 created a controversy in that it led many to entation will cover the history of ponzi schemes conclude that Roberts had lost his faith in the in utah, including the Valcor scandal, the largest Book of mormon as an ancient record at the end fraud in utah, and will also consider smaller of his life. one must therefore ask, “Why did schemes and multi-level marketing enterprises. it Roberts not leave mormonism?” This paper will will address other types of affinity fraud, demonstrate that even after this crisis of faith, beginning with Cleon Skousen and ending with Roberts remained mormon through and through. Fawn Brodie.

Respondent D. miCHaeL quiNN was a professor of history at Respondent NaDiNe HaNSeN is a mostly-retired attorney liv - Byu for twelve years and an independent scholar ing in Cedar City. To the extent that she is not thereafter. He is the author more than 80 articles retired, she represents children as a guardian ad and six books about mormon history. SATURDAY 28 JULY

litem in custody disputes. in her spare time she temples indicates a further shift in the mormon raises vegetables and chickens. concept of temples.

Chair LiNCoLN CaNNoN Respondent JoNaTHaN kLaND has a BS in construction management from Byu and a masters in archi - Room tecture from the university of Florida. He is work - ing on a book about LDS meetinghouses and 363. Paper eVerYone HAs A sTorY To TeLL blogs at LDSaRCHiTeCTuRe .WoRDpReSS .Com .

Presenter BRyaN HoRN was raised a devout Roman Chair CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD Catholic and entered into the Catholic seminary to be a priest but joined the LDS Church in 2000. Room He holds an ma in international relations and a JD from the university of utah. He is founder and 365. Paper DiVine DisenCHAnTmenT: trAnsitions president of utah County affirmation, a chapter of AnD AssisTinG THose in reLiGioUs affirmation for Gay and Lesbian mormons. miGrATion

Abstract a new and fundamental question of our doctrine Presenter JoHN W. moReHeaD (ma, Salt Lake has been brought to the forefront in the last Theological Seminary) is the director of the decade: “Can one be gay and mormon?” Despite Western institute for intercultural Studies and of claims that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- the evangelical Chapter of the Foundation for day Saints is officially politically neutral, it has Religious Diplomacy. He is co-editor and con - supported and funded legislation aimed at deny - tributing author for Encountering New Religious ing full rights and equality to God’s gay and les - Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach bian children. California’s proposition 8 was a (kregel academic, 2004) and editor of Beyond defining piece of legislation that has brought this the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in question to the forefront not only of LDS Church Dialogue (Lion, 2008). policy and doctrine, but also national and interna - tional political dialogue. Abstract Reliable social science statistical data indicates that thousands of Latter-day Saints leave the Respondent eLLeN koeSTeR is a university student study - mormon Church each year. over time, these indi - ing political science and communications. Born viduals adopt a variety of irreligious and religious and raised a devout Roman Catholic in Defiance, pathways as a result of their prior mormon expe - oH, she was instilled with a deep sense of faith. rience. although the social scientific literature after moving to Cedar City and joining the LDS includes material that sheds light on religious Church, she has found peace and comfort in the affiliation, disaffiliation, and reaffiliation, this mate - Gospel, while struggling to find balance between rial is rarely consulted as an aid to assisting oth - her spirituality and sexuality. ers in their spiritual migration. This seminar will discuss the background behind Transitions , a Chair DoNaLD WeSTBRook new video and workbook resource designed for immigrants shifting from mormonism to more tra - Room ditional forms of Christianity. it will consider the perspective and needs of the transitioner, the 364. Paper TemPLe ArCHiTeCTUre For A moDern multidisciplinary perspectives and resources that AGe: A 40TH AnniVersArY PersPeCTiVe inform Transitions , and how religious institutions on THe oGDen AnD ProVo TemPLes might better assist those making the journey from one religious tradition to another. Presenter aLaN BaRNeTT has a Ba in history from Byu and an mS in architectural history from the Respondent DaN WoTHeRSpooN, phD, served as editor of university of utah. He is the author of Seeing SuNSToNe and executive director of the Salt Lake City: the Legacy of the Shipler Sunstone education Foundation from 2001 to Photographers (Signature, 2001). He currently 2008. works as an archivist at the utah State archives. Chair keN muLHoLLaND Abstract When the ogden and provo Temples were dedi - cated in 1972, they were unlike any previous Room temples. popular reaction to their unconventional designs was mixed at best. While many people 366. Paper CHAnGinG reVeLATorY messAGes: A accepted the buildings without question, others mormon eXAmPLe found them unattractive. an evaluation 40 years after their dedication will explore the origin of the Presenter H. miCHaeL maRquaRDT, an independent his - ogden/provo temple designs. The designs reflect torian, is author, co-author, and editor of several an attempt to create a modern, efficient temple in works, including Inventing Mormonism: Tradition the stylistic vocabulary of the time and represent and the Historical Record , The Strange Marriages the apex of modernism in temple design. The two of Sarah Ann Whitney , The Book of Abraham temples set a benchmark for efficiency and reflect Revisited , and The Joseph Smith Revelations: an era of optimism about what mormonism could Text and Commentary . achieve. Forty years later, the status of the two SATURDAY 28 JULY

tant models for sexuality education within a reli - Abstract Like other individuals, Joseph Smith developed in gious community, “Circles of Sexuality” (Dailey, his ideas, as evidenced by expansion of themes 1981) and the “Religious Sexual Value System” in his revelations and by his recollections of his (Stayton, 1992; Stayton, 2007). early life assuming a theological nature. He seemed unconcerned that some of his ideas Moderator/ kimBeRLy mCkay, LSW, has worked as a coun- changed or contradicted previous positions. Panelist selor with juvenile sex offenders, focusing on Joseph was able to express his interpretation of healthier sexual practices. She is working on a events as he presented new ideas in a revelatory phD in social work and an med in human sexual - manner. Critical studies usually do not play a part ity from Widener university in Chester, pa. She is in what a believer has experienced. What is an adjunct professor at Widener university. important is how the story is told within the con - text of faith. Panelists JeRemy iRViN is working toward an mSW and an med in human sexuality from Widener Chair CLaiR BaRRuS university in Chester, pa. He is co-chair for the 2012 Careers in Sexuality professional Skills Room Conference at Widener university. His areas of interests include the intersection of religion, gen - CoNCuRReNT SeSSioNS, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm der, and sexuality. JoSHua WiLLiamS helped prepare this presen - tation. He is writing a book titled Undressing the 371. Panel TeACHinG mormon sTUDies CoUrses Myth of Modesty . Moderator RoBeRT a. ReeS teaches mormon Studies at Chair CHeLSi aRCHiBaLD the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. Room Panelists CLauDia L. BuSHmaN, an american/ women’s/mormon Studies person, is officially 373. Panel eVoLVinG meDiA PerCePTions oF FoUr retired. She still finds plenty to do, mostly record - 2012 mormon PresiDenTiAL Con - ing the present for the future. TenDers: miTT romneY, Jon HUnTsmAn, roCKY AnDerson, AnD roseAnne BArr RiCHaRD LymaN BuSHmaN is Gouverneur morris professor of History emeritus at Columbia Paper 1 miTT romneY, GoP PresiDenT nominee: university, and recently visiting Howard W. THe mormon QUesTion HiTs THe BiG Hunter Chair of mormon Studies at Claremont Time Graduate university. He and his wife, Claudia, taught a course on Contemporary mormonism at Abstract This paper will focus on the media’s evolving per - Columbia university in spring 2012. ceptions relative to mitt Romney’s mormonism, specifically as it involved the so-called “mormon Doe DauGHTRey earned a phD in religious question.” How have perceptions changed and studies at arizona State university. Her specialty shifted since the former massachusetts governor is religion in the americas with an emphasis on announced his candidacy in early 2011 and as new spirituality, religion, and popular culture, and we approach the general election in which the gendered experience of religion. Romney seeks the nation’s highest office? paTRiCk maSoN is the Howard W. Hunter Chair Presenter To be announced. of mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate university and author of The Mormon Menace: Paper 2 THree oTHer 2012 PresiDenTiAL CAnDi - Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum DATes WiTH LDs ConneCTions South (oxford 2011). Abstract This paper will focus on how the media has WaRNeR WooDWoRTH is a professor and a responded to the respective candidacies of 1) for - global social entrepreneur. in 1972, he was invit - mer utah governor and ambassador to China Jon ed to develop and teach a course on mormonism Huntsman during his unsuccessful campaign for at the university of michigan in ann arbor. the Gop nomination; 2) the “third party” chal - lenge of former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Room anderson as he pursues the presidency as the candidate of his own self-styled Justice party; 372. Panel HeALTHY YoUTH seXUALiTY: A CriTiCAL and 3) Roseanne Barr, a television personality eXAmininATion oF for the strenGth of and one-time Latter-day Saint, in her bid for the Youth 2012 Green party presidential nomination. Abstract utilizing For the Strength of Youth as a frame - Presenter NeWeLL G. BRiNGHuRST is an emeritus pro - work to discuss the Church’s approach to youth fessor of history and political science at the and sexuality, this presentation proposes healthi - College of the Sequoias. er ways of approaching youth sexuality educa - tion, starting with the twin issues of dress and Respondent WiLLiam D. RuSSeLL is a retired professor of modesty. The presenters draw upon two impor - american history, religion, and politics at

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Graceland university. He is widely published in ry and theory of mass mobilizations, the theology mormon Studies and is former president of the of collective redemption that inspires mormons to mormon History association and the John challenge imperialism through shared faith, and Whitmer Historical association. upcoming plans to defy Romney’s war/austerity agenda. Chair LiNCoLN CaNNoN Moderator/ TRiSTaN CaLL is a cultural anthropologist Room Panelist studying farmworker and peasant movements at Vanderbilt university. He graduated in Latin 374. Panel LooK To THe WesT: mormonism AnD THe american studies and anthropology from Byu, mAsoniC WorLD VieW doing ethnographic fieldwork in the highlands of Guatemala and political work in utah. Abstract During sweeping social change of the 1820s, americans became increasingly disenchanted Panelists aSHLey SaNDeRS first got involved in activism with Freemasonry as a kind of secular priest - organizing an alternative graduation when Byu hood. The William morgan affair (1826) led to an invited Dick Cheney to speak at its official cere - anti-masonic movement fueled by fears that a mony. ashley is engaged in democratic communi - free society could not thrive in the presence of ty revitalization, feminist empowerment, and polit - secret organizations. anti-masons argued that ical street theater. She is currently working on a masons formed a secret combination bound by play and book. secret rituals which contained immoral oaths; masons secretly colluded outside the established JoSHua maDSoN received a Ba in history and boundaries of the political process, yet acted a JD from Byu. He is an attorney practicing in politically as a group; and that individual mem - alpine, uT and editor and contributor for The bers were above the law. most troubling, Mormon Worker , a quarterly paper covering non- Freemasonry seemed to blur the line between the violence, social justice, and radical politics. religious and the secular. mormonism is one of the last great flowerings inspired by pre-morgan Room style american Freemasonry, and it is significant that similar concerns came to be expressed 376 . Panel mULTiPLY AnD rePLenisH: PoPULATion regarding presidential candidate Joseph Smith ConTroL AnD YoUr eCoLoGiCAL and the incipient mormon kingdom. Following FooTPrinT masonic models in organizations such as the Danite Band, the Relief Society, the Council of Abstract D&C 104:17 states, “For the earth is full, and Fifty, this theocratic kingdom struck fear in the there is enough and to spare.” What did that hearts of many, both in and out of the Church. mean in 1834, when this revelation was given and world population was just over a billion? Panelists CHeRyL BRuNo is a poet and blogger with What does it mean today, when seven billion research interests in nineteenth-century people live on the earth? Global population is mormonism. in this session, she will explore expected to reach between 7.5 and 10.5 billion the political tensions in Joseph Smith’s and by 2050; will there be “enough and to spare” William morgan’s New york and illinois then? Does the revelation still apply? This panel masonry, using poems and quotations from lit - will explore a variety of interrelated topics erary works of the day. including: consumerism, resource management, population control, stewardship, green energy, Joe SWiCk was raised to master mason in and recycling. instead of being used to justify 1995. He is twice past master of his local lodge, american consumerism and over-consumption, and twice past High priest of his Royal arch perhaps we will come to use this verse to actually Chapter, receiving the order of High priesthood eliminate poverty and establish zion. in 2004. Moderator/ CHuCk SCHoFieLD has an ma in religion from Chair rUss osmonD Panelist Claremont School of Theology, where he studied comparative religious ethics. His academic inter - Room ests include religion and the environment and religion and politics.

375. Panel ConFronTinG romneY in THe sTreeTs: Panelists RaCHeL maBey WHippLe is an eco-mormon GrAssrooTs resisTAnCe To CAPiTALism housewife, mother, yoga teacher, and occasional AnD THe mormon 1% artist. She cares for her husband, three kids, house, and garden, and blogs about her perspec - Abstract as uS progressives, anarchists, pacifists, queers, tive on faith and stewardship. feminists, immigrants, and other agitators chal - lenge uS empire alongside a revitalized global maRk THomaS is the author of a pamphlet on justice movement, radical mormons face the chal - population and mormon Doctrine distributed lenges and opportunities of pioneering a distinc - nationally by zero population Growth. He is a tively mormon resistance. in this session, we’ll principal in a consulting firm focusing on large discuss the many kinds of direct action that chal - renewable energy projects. lenge empire: artwork, riots, dance, strikes, fast - ing, sabotage, and prayer. We’ll discuss the histo -

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live out their faith and live fully as part of the SoReN SimoNSeN earned a bachelor of archi - patchwork of our nation: Native americans using tecture from the university of Texas at austin and peyote as part of religious ceremonies; Jehovah’s an ma from Westminster College in community Witnesses abstaining from saying the pledge of leadership. He has received broad recognition for allegiance; muslim students wearing head - his design, policy, and advocacy work. He cur - scarves to public school; and Catholics rejecting rently chairs the Salt Lake City council. evangelical Christian drug rehabilitation pro - grams that contradict their own faith—just to Room name a few!

Join us to hear euNiCe RHo of the american Civil Liberties union explore how mormons and BaNqueT 7:15 pm other religious minority groups have helped to strengthen religious liberty in the united States Join us for the closing banquet and enjoy a delicious feast by demanding that the government fully “enforce” for both body and mind! the religion clauses of the First amendment. ms. Rho will also discuss how ongoing religious dis - The banquet buffet includes tossed green salad with crimination against different groups in different ranch and Italian dressings, Dijon chicken, pan-seared parts of the country continues to keep the aCLu salmon, oven roasted potatoes, seasonal vegetables, very busy in defense of religious liberty. small baguettes with butter, and chocolate silk tarts, lemon bars, and diced seasonal fresh fruit for dessert. Speaker euNiCe HyoN miN RHo is an advocacy and Refreshing cranberry spritzer, ice water, and coffee policy counsel with the aCLu. She provides service included. legislative counsel to state affiliates on issues relating to voter suppression and religious free - The banquet session requires a separate registration fee dom, with a special focus on stopping efforts to of $36.00 to cover the cost of the meal. use religion to discriminate and the unconstitu - tional promotion of religion in public schools. As SuNSToNe must guarantee the catering department a specific number of plates even before the Symposium previously, she was with the Lawyers’ Committee begins, banquet tickets are available primarily through for Civil Rights under Law, where she led litiga - pre-registration online. However, a few banquet tickets tion, policy, and advocacy campaigns concerning may be available for purchase at the Symposium. If you voter suppression and economic justice. didn’t purchase a banquet ticket in advance, ask about availability at the Symposium registration desk. She has worked as an assistant to the General Counsel of The Legal aid Society in New york sorry, there is no “lecture only” admission to the City and as an associate at the law firm of White banquet session. & Case. She holds a JD from the university of michigan Law School and a Ba in american 391. Banquet minoriTY rePorT: HoW mormons AnD history from Columbia university. oTHer minoriTY reLiGions HAVe sHAPeD reLiGioUs FreeDom in THe Us Chair maRy eLLeN RoBeRTSoN

Abstract Controversies over unpopular religious practices Room and intolerance toward minority religions are older than the document that protects them. What is and is not protected under the First amendment? The question has been asked often throughout our nation’s history, each time with the blinding spotlight of public scrutiny shining on a different minority religious group—including, of course, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Though the role of scrutinized/persecuted minority religious group has not been an easy or particularly pleasant one for mormons to play, their struggles have contributed to a valuable service for all americans, religious and nonreli - gious alike. The mormon experience of pushing for political, cultural, and social acceptance has helped to shape our understanding—and expand our appreciation—of both the “free exercise” and “establishment” clauses of the First amendment.

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