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salt lake symposium July 30-August 2 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (28 JUNE 2014) COVER

BRIDGES AND BYWAYS TRAVERSING THE MORMON LANDSCAPE

University of Utah Olpin Student Union 200 S. Central Campus Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112 801.581.5888 INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS GUIDE TO NUMBERING: W’S = WORKSHOPS, 000’S = WEDNESDAY, 100’S = THURSDAY, 200’S = FRIDAY, 300’S = SATURDAY

ALSTON, BOOKER T. 212 FINLAYSON-FIFE, JENNIFER MONTGOMERY, WENDY WIL- SMYTH, KAREN 322 ALLEN, KIMBALL 344 231, 334 LIAMS 231 SPRIGGS, ANDREW 365 ALLRED, DAVID W-4 FISHER, ADAM 312, 363 MOORE-HARTLEY, JULIE 134 SPROAT, ETHAN 132 ALLRED, JANICE 121, 272 FLORENCE, ALEX W-5 MUNSON, ERIKA 332 SQUIRES, CHANTELLE 135 ASHWORTH, JENN 273 MURPHY, JIM 265 STAKER, SUSAN 221 ASTLE, RANDY 333 GIBBS, LINDA JONES 263 NICKOLAISEN, MICAH 211, 253 STEINECKERT, RACHAEL, W-4 ATTIA, MIRIAM 353 GUSTAV-WRATHALL, JOHN 281 STEVENS, MICHAEL J. W-1, 171, 265, 362 ANDERSON, JARED 361 HALES, BRIAN C. 252 OGDEN, HEATH T. 255 STEVENSON, RICK 335 ARRINGTON, JAMES 165 HAMER, JOHN 134, 173 OSMOND, RUSSELL W-3, 213, STEVENSON, RUSSELL 254 HAMILTON, ANDREW, 262 231, 342 STONE, MICHELLE 162 BAGLEY, WILL 362 HAMILTON, MIKE 221 STRAYER, CHELSEA SHIELDS BATES-PYNE, JESSA 172 HANCOCK, HOLLIE W-5 PARK, LINDSAY HANSEN 265, 251, 345 BARNES, S. MARK 171 HANKS, SARA K.S. W-2 342 STROMBERG, LORIE WINDER 251 BARRUS, CLAIR 355 PARK, SHERRI 332 BASQUIAT, JENNIFER HUSS 271 HANSEN, NADINE 213, 221 PARKER, NATASHA HELFER TABRIZI, SHAWN 345 BENDER, JACOB 132 HATCH, JOHN 333 334, 363 TIJERINO-ABE, MARINA 172 BLACK, KRISTEEN 112, 253 HAYWARD, ED 326 PAYNE, SETH 314 TOSCANO, MARGARET 272 BOLANDER, ALISA 272 HAYWARD, ERI 326 PEFFER, ANNE MCMULLIN 332 TUELLER STONE, EMMA 172 BRADFORD, CHRISTOPHER 124 HELLER, RACHEL W-5 PENFOLD, CURTIS W-4, 174 BRAY, CARYS 273 HOMER, JOHN W-6 PETERSEN, BOYD J. 231 VAN ORDEN, MICHAEL 356 BROWN, HILARY 154 HOMER, SARA W-6 PIKE, SARA ZOE 321 (FILM) HOWARD, COREY 332 POOL, JERILYN HASSELL W-7, VOROS, FRED 315 BRUNO, CHERYL L. 252 HUTCHINS, ROBERT D. 133 132, 152, 342, 365 BURLINGAME, SARA 254 HUTCHINSON, TONY 133 POTTER, DENNIS 223, 345 WHEELWRIGHT, HANNAH 172, BURKMAN, LORI 253 HUNTER, NIKKI W-7 251 BURT, DOREE 332 RAYNES, MARYBETH W-6 WHIPPLE, RACHEL MABEY 153, BUTTERWORTH, LISA W-7, 333 JARRETT, JULIA 172 RAO, NANDAN 155 333 JEFFREY, DUANE E. 255 REED, MICHAEL G. 214, 313 WHITNEY, BRIAN 123 CARTER, STEPHEN 132, 171, 181, JENNINGS, DUANE 364 REES, ROBERT A. 111, 153, 161, WILCOX, KENDALL 332 256, 265, 273, 333 JENSEN, JOE 224 213, 301, 343, 364 WOODHOUSE, SARA JADE 364 CARTWRIGHT, AMY 251 JENSON, DEBRA 251, 331 RILEY, CATERINA 174 WOTHERSPOON, DAN 181 CHATWIN, LINDA 271 JONES III, EDWARD 354 RILEY, CRISTINA 174 CHO, TIMMY 362 RO, BRANSON 122 WUNDERLI, EARL M. 114 CHRISTIANSEN, DAN W-4 KLEIN, AMANDA 254 ROBERTS, ALLEN 181 ZANDAMELA, TINESHA 172 CONNELL, ALICIA 153 ROBERTSON, MARY ELLEN 181, COMPTON, TODD 151 LAMBERT, GLEN 265 SPONSORED SESSIONS: CORNWALL, MARIE 331 LANGSTON, KATIE 173, 275 ROSS, NANCY 251 CROSSON, LAURIN 323 LARSEN, JOHN 361 RUSSELL, TOM 215 (FILM) MORMON WOMEN’S FORUM, LARSON, GLEN SOREN JR 164 RUSSELL, WILLIAM D. 113, 133, 272 DARGER, JOE 271 352 DANZIG, MARY 225 LINKHART, ROBIN 173, 275, 331 DANZIG PETER 225 LONG, MERRILL 163 SAMUELSEN, ERIC 371 DAY, TERENCE L. 264, 274 SARRE, RICK 343 DEHLIN, JOHN 342 SCHMALZ, MATHEW N. 091 DEXHEIMER-TRUJILLO, MARK MCGEE, BILL 265 SCHMID, MURIEL 134 133 MARKHAM, TY 153 SHEPARD, WILLIAM 131, 262 DOCKSTADER, JOSEPH 271 MARQUARDT, H. MICHAEL 131, SHEPHERD, GARY 331 DRIGGS, KEN 325 262 SHEPHERD, GORDON 331 DUTCHER, AUDREY ROCK 211 MATTHEWS, MEGAN RAYNES SHEPP, STAN 271 DUTCHER, RICHARD 211, 266 274 SHIELDS, STEVEN L 154 MAYNE, MITCH 231, 332 SHIRTS, KATHRYN 281 EASTMAN, ALAN 161, 314 MEDINA-MARTINEZ, C. KAI W-5 SILLITO, JOHN 241 EASTMAN, VICKIE 161, 314 MILES, CARRIE 311 SILLITOE, CYNTHIA 241 EHRBAR, HANS 153 MINCH, MICHAEL 275 SNUFFER, DENVER 341 MOLLENHAUER, WHITNEY F. 253 SMITH, BRYANT 261 MORROW, JENNY 274 SMITH, CHRISTOPHER C. 351

2 | SUNSTONE 2014 | SALT LAKE SYMPOSIUM 2014 SALT LAKE SESSION PROCEEDINGS AND RECORDINGS Symposium proceedings are not published, nor does Sunstone SUNSTONE make papers available. Audio recordings of most sessions SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOPS (excluding workshops) will be available. Audio order forms will be available online at sunstone.org and at the conference.

Bridges and Byways: PARKING Sunstone has reserved Lot 24 for Symposium attendees; parking there is FREE on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Traversing the Mormon and Saturday. Lot 24 is southeast of the Tanner Humanities Building (CTIHB) and opens onto Wasatch Drive. Take North Landscape Campus Drive or Mario Capecchi Drive to Wasatch Drive. Lot 24 has two entrances: one before you get to the McCarthy WELCOME Track & Field Complex and a second entrance at Ballif Road just past the McCarthy Track & Field Complex. On Saturday Welcome to the 2014 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium! We’re only, parking in other campus parking lots is free (except the excited about the in-depth exploration of “Bridges and Visitor Lot). Byways: Traversing the Mormon Landscape.” This preliminary program contains symposium information up to date as of 28 After 6:00 pm, parking is free in other campus permit lots June 2014. near the Student Union. Attendees may pay to park in the Visitor Lot directly east of the Union Building. This lot charges Registration opens daily one hour before sessions begin. Full by the hour with a maximum of $10 per day. It is the closest registration, one-day passes, and single session tickets are lot to the Union and has designated handicapped parking available for purchase onsite. We may have a limited number spaces (handicapped parking is free with placard). of banquet tickets and Saturday box lunches for sale onsite. Ask about availability at the registration desk. DINING ON AND OFF CAMPUS LODGING The Student Union food court is located on the first floor of the Olpin Student Union building, downstairs from where most Sunstone has reserved blocks of sleeping rooms at two local sessions will be held. It is open 7:30 am–2:30 pm Wednesday hotels. through Friday and is closed Saturday.* Dining options include University Guest House Panda Express, Chilitos, Starbucks, Chef’s Table, The Grill, 110 S. Fort Douglas Blvd, SLC, UT 84113 The Deli, Papa John’s, Chop’d (salads), Jamba Juice, and a convenience store. Several food trucks serve lunch on the 888.416.4075 www.universityguesthouse.com/ library quad on weekdays. The University Guest House has a block of double queen and * Since the campus food court is closed on Saturday, we have single king rooms available for $105 per night plus tax. The arranged to have box lunches on Saturday ONLY. Attendees cut-off to reserve rooms is Monday 30 June 2014. Individuals can purchase a box lunch through online pre-registration and need to mention the group name Sunstone Symposium to pick up their order Saturday 2 August at the start of the lunch receive the group rate. break at the registration desk. Marriott University Park Lunch options are: 480 Wakara Way SLC, UT 84108

801.581.1000 www.saltlakecitymarriott.com Buffalo Chicken: Chicken with Bleu Cheese, Baby Spinach and Marriott University Park is offering Sunstone a special group Buffalo Sauce on Ciabatta Roll; Chips, Cookie rate of $115.00 per night plus tax. To make reservations online, go to www.saltlakecitymarriott.com and enter SunSunA in the Greek Grilled Vegetable: Eggplant, Squash, Red Onion, Group Code field to secure the discounted rate. Reservations Cucumber, Lettuce, Olive Tapenade and Tomato Spread on must be made by 9 July 2014. Parking is complimentary and Focaccia; Chips, Cookie there is a free shuttle available to campus. Asian Pork: Roasted Pork, Cabbage, Carrot, Cilantro Mayo, Chili Sauce on a Rosette Roll; Chips, Cookie

Pesto Chicken Club: Pesto, Chicken, Bacon, Tomato, Lettuce, Provolone Cheese on Ciabatta; Chips, Cookie

SUBSCRIBE AT SUNSTONE.ORG | 3 The Heritage Center Dining Room on campus offers breakfast, POINTS TO NOTE lunch, and dinner for $7–9, Monday through Friday, and is PROGRAM. Sunstone offers a diverse selection of topics, within moderate walking distance of the Student Union. Call formats, and perspectives. Be excited to hear views that 801.581.6347 for more information. coincide with your own, but also prepare to hear presentations There are many restaurants near campus including the Corner that offer a different perspective. As Elder Hugh B. Brown told Bakery Cafe, Pie Pizzeria, B&D Burger, Indochine Vietnamese byu students in 1958, “I have mentioned freedom to express Bistro, and Aristo’s Greek Restaurant and Cafe. A list of your thoughts, but I caution you that your thoughts must restaurants is available at the registration desk. meet competition in the marketplace of thought, and in that competition truth will emerge triumphant. Only error needs BYO WATER BOTTLE fear freedom of expression.” In keeping with the University of Utah’s sustainability VOLUNTEERS. Sunstone Symposiums rely heavily on the practices, we encourage Sunstone attendees to bring reusable efforts of many volunteers. Please consider helping at this water bottles to the Symposium and use the Student Union’s year’s symposium by working at the registration desk, taking water bottle filling stations and drinking fountains for refills. tickets, or chairing sessions. Or consider proposing a paper or organizing a panel for next year! We also ask that you dispose of plastic containers, soda cans, paper, and your used Sunstone program in the recycling containers located throughout the Union. FAMILY ROOM We’re glad you brought your family with you to the UNION WIRELESS INTERNET LOGIN Symposium. We’ve reserved the downstairs DEN room (equipped with DVD player) for families with small children to To connect to the Student Union’s wireless Internet, open up use for relaxation and play. Families may also use the Student your laptop’s list of available networks. Select the UGUEST Lounge after the morning devotionals. network, then click CONNECT. When you open the Internet on your selected browser, you’ll 2015 SYMPOSIUM DATES be redirected to the UGUEST login page. On the login page, 29 July–1 August, 2015 you may be asked to provide an email address before you can browse the Internet. University of Utah Student Union NOTE: You do not need a University ID or a UofU email Salt Lake City, Utah address to connect to UGUEST. Simply provide your personal 2015 Symposium Theme or work email address. Select LOGIN on the left side of the page. In some browsers, a new blank tab will open. The Mormon Mind: Ideas, Ideology, Intelligence, Psychology, Regardless, the original tab will display a page that says you Belief, and the Brain have successfully logged on to the network. We invite proposals exploring how Mormons think about their ideas and ideologies—as well as how they think about SYMPOSIUM PURPOSE challenges to their beliefs. How do Mormon beliefs and practices affect mental and emotional health—and how do The Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium is an annual gathering mental health and emotional health affect Mormon beliefs of Latter-day Saints, scholars, and others interested in the and practices? What can we learn about both leaders and diversity and richness of Mormon thought and experience members by examining them through the lens of psychology? and who enjoy pondering the past, present, and future of the What do recent discoveries about the biology of the brain tell unfolding Restoration. The Symposium is a public conference us about spirituality and religious practice? And what does it based on the principles of an “open forum,” meaning that we actually mean that “The glory of God is intelligence, or in other invite rigorous inquiry and thoughtful, respectful participation, words, truth and light”? trusting that both the cause of truth and the society of the Saints are best served by free and open exploration and Submit proposals to [email protected] by 1 April discussion. 2015 for first-round consideration. See the Sunstone.org Symposium page for proposal submission instructions. We welcome the honest ponderings of Latter-day Saints and their friends and expect that everyone in attendance will approach every issue, no matter how difficult, with intelligence, respect, and good will.

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instructor MICHAEL J. STEVENS is a management WEDNESDAY 30 JULY professor and department chair at Weber State University, where he teaches and conducts WORKSHOP REGISTRATION, research in the areas of organizational behavior 9:00 AM–6:00 PM and leadership. Workshop registration requires a separate fee and is available room primarily via online preregistration. Advance registration allows the instructors to anticipate the number of students and prepare handouts and other materials for the class. MORNING WORKSHOPS, 9:30 AM–1:00 PM Workshop registration costs are $25 for one a.m. or p.m. workshop, or $40 for one full-day workshop or the combination of one a.m. and one p.m. session or workshop. W2. SEX EDUCATION IN MORMON If you preregister for workshops, you will be able to pick up FAMILIES: TOUGH CONVERSATIONS, your preprinted name badge at the Symposium registration TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL desk starting at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday 31 July 2013. description Mormon families often struggle to teach Typically, workshops can accommodate additional people who children about sexual processes and desires, register on-site. However, we strongly recommend signing up which can result in children who are ashamed in advance to secure a place in the workshop(s) of your choice. of their bodies, teenagers who feel guilty Admission to all other Symposium sessions is by purchased about normal urges, and adults who fear name badge or ticket only. This policy will be strictly enforced. sexual expression even within marriage. This Registration forms, badges, and tickets are available at the workshop focuses on solutions: how Mormon registration table by the ballrooms on the second floor of the parents can overcome discomfort with these Olpin Student Union Building. topics and teach their children about sex in a loving way, utilizing both general principles ALL-DAY WORKSHOP, 9:30 AM–6:00 PM and specific tips for unlocking the tremendous potential for sex positivity within Mormon doctrine.

W1. COUNTERING PASSIVE AGGRESSION instructor SARA K.S. HANKS writes regularly for WITH HEALTHY CONFLICT Feminist Mormon Housewives. Her long- RESOLUTION SKILLS standing interest in how Mormons handle sex education has led to years of independent description When resolving conflict many people view their research and an upcoming book on the subject. options as being either directly confrontational room and imposing, or being indirectly passive and submissive while hoping for the best. The objective of this full-day seminar is to introduce participants to a conceptual framework and W3. MOVING PAST “I’M RIGHT; YOU’RE a set of specific and actionable skills for WRONG”: RESOLVING CONFLICTS influencing others in an assertive yet mutually ABOUT FAITH respectful and collaborative manner consistent with gospel precepts. We will also explore description Fundamental human motivators put us in the intricacies and challenges of mastering conflict with others on many topics—especially and applying the framework and skill sets matters of faith and religious belief. One from a position of upward relationships (e.g., person’s understanding of faith will inevitably subordinates influencing leaders), downward conflict with someone else’s. The “I’m right; relationships (e.g., leaders influencing you’re wrong” approach breaks down quickly, subordinates, or parents influencing children), so what are the options to resolve conflicts over or horizontal relationships (e.g., peers or faith? siblings influencing peers or siblings). Please note that this is an ALL DAY workshop.

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During the workshop, attendees will complete presenters of this workshop will educate, share a MyMotivators™ questionnaire, which provides experiences of their personal journeys, and insight into the motivations that drive our provide ways in which attendees might come everyday behaviors. Using individual results, to better understand, accept, and embrace our workshop attendees will develop a personalized Trans* brothers and sisters. tool kit for managing disagreement about faith. instructors HOLLIE HANCOCK has an EdD in counseling instructor RUSSELL OSMOND is a management consultant psychology from Argosy University. and motivational speaker focusing on change RACHEL HELLER serves on the board of strategies. His academic work includes the trustees for OUTreach Resource Centers and study of political science, human behavior, facilitates two different bi-weekly support communication, religion, and leadership. groups, one for trans* youth and one for parents room and allies of trans* youth. ALEX FLORENCE is a data tech analyst who helps guide other trans* individuals in their W4. HEAVENLY MOTHER RITUAL journeys toward authenticity. WORKSHOP C. KAI MEDINA-MARTINEZ is director of the description As ever-increasing numbers of Mormons seek LGBT Resource Center and has spent over 15 to honor Heavenly Mother, how can ritual years in the field of social work. create a space for those who wish for a more room expansive worship? What is ritual’s potential for subverting power structures, transforming individuals, and honoring the divine feminine in all her forms? Participants will collaborate W6. THE SILENT STORM: ADDRESSING in the creation and performance of a ritual in MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN THE LDS honor of Heavenly Mother, and learn elements COMMUNITY that can help them incorporate ritual into their description Inspired by the book The Silent Storm, this personal worship. workshop brings together mental health instructors RACHAEL STEINECKERT experts, ecclesiastical leaders, and members DAN CHRISTENSEN of the LDS community to discuss living with bipolar disorder. They will discuss the onset of CURTIS PENFOLD bipolar disorder, finding the right medical and DAVID ALLRED psychiatric support, dealing with mental illness in a church setting, and its impact on church room activity and participation. There will be an extensive Q&A period with workshop attendees.

instructors JOHN HOMER is the author of The Silent Storm, LUNCH BREAK, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM a firsthand account of his experiences with See page three for dining options. bipolar disorder. SARA HOMER is John Homer’s daughter. She has dealt with bipolar disorder in her own life. MORNING WORKSHOPS, 2:30 PM–6:00 PM MARYBETH RAYNES is a Salt Lake City-based therapist.

room W5. TRANS*101: EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND ACCEPTANCE description The Trans* population is arguably the least understood among the LGBT population, and certainly least understood in Mormonism. The

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W7. SUPER SATURDAYS LONG FORGOTTEN SMITH-PETTIT LECTURE, 8:00 PM description For many generations, “Super Saturdays” brought LDS women of various ages and backgrounds together to share time and stories 091. SPIRITUAL BRIDGES AND while producing crafts that would be used to INTELLECTUAL BYWAYS: “brighten the home and hearth.” The women at Feminist Mormon Housewives will celebrate REFLECTING ON MORMON/CATHOLIC the these crafts and traditions though a “Super CONNECTIONS Wednesday” workshop. Chair

The crafts being offered will be: The wildly Opening Song popular RESIN GRAPES from the 1970s, guided invocation by Tresa Edmunds. HAIR WREATHS: a popular presenter MATHEW N. SCHMALZ is an associate 19th-century craft where hair from various professor of religious studies at the College of family members would be weaved together with the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. flowers, guided by Lisa Butterworth and Alice His teaching and scholarship focus on Roman Fisher Roberts (synthetic hair will be used). Catholicism and modern religious movements. And Mormon feminist BUSY BOOKS (from the His work has appeared in numerous journals 1980s) packed with flannel board stories, games and anthologies, including: The History of and puzzles for children to play with on their Religions, Method and Theory in the Study of laps during church services, guided by Jerilyn Religion, Religion, The Religious Studies Review, Hassell Pool and America’s Best Spiritual Writing. He is instructors NIKKI HUNTER co-editor of Engaging South Asian Religions: JERILYN HASSELL POOL is a graphic designer Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances and enjoys serving candlestick salad to the (SUNY Press, 2010), and is on the editorial missionaries. board of the Journal of Christian Higher Education and the Catholic theological journal ALICE FISHER ROBERTS Asian Horizons. LISA BUTTERWORTH is a founder of Feminist Schmalz also blogs for On Faith, an online Mormon Housewives. forum devoted to covering religion and room spirituality. He has published opinion pieces in the Washington Post, Commonweal Magazine, the REGISTRATION, 6:00PM–8:00PM National Catholic Reporter, the Huffington Post, and has provided expert commentary to USA Admission to sessions is by Symposium name badge or ticket Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, only. This policy will be strictly enforced. Badges and single- ABC’s Good Morning America, the Boston Globe, session tickets are available at the registration table by the NPR, CNBC, MSNBC, and U.S. News & World ballrooms on the second floor of the Olpin Student Union. Report, among others.

Abstract As religious traditions and institutions, Catholicism and Mormonism would initially DINNER BREAK, 6:30PM–8:00PM seem to share very little, except for each claiming to be the true church established See page three for dining options. by Jesus Christ. As a result, spiritual and intellectual engagements between Catholics and Mormons are usually limited to the earnest efforts of individual Catholics and Mormons to understand each other. This Smith-Pettit lecture attempts to outline spiritual questions and intellectual themes where Catholicism and the LDS Church can join in a broader dialogue that

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looks to possible connection and collaboration while still respecting distinctiveness and difference. closing song benediction room SALTAIR This lecture is FREE and open to the public. This lecture has been made possible by the generous support of the Smith-Pettit Foundation. Please take a moment to fill out a survey form about this event and return it to the registration desk. These surveys help us evaluate the effectiveness of our special programs and publicity efforts and position us to apply for additional grant funding in the future. Thank you!

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THURSDAY 31 JULY humankind as a family. This paper examines situations where these networks are effective and when they break down. REGISTRATION, 8:00 AM–7:30 PM chair Admission to sessions is by Symposium name badge or ticket only. This policy will be strictly enforced. Badges and single- room session tickets are available at the registration table by the ballrooms on the second floor of the Olpin Student Union. 113. CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE RLDS CHURCH IN THE 1960S: A PERSONAL MEMOIR

DEVOTIONAL, 8:00 AM–8:30 AM presenter WILLIAM D. RUSSELL is past president of both the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Association.

101. TBA abstract The RLDS Church struggled with social justice presenter TBA issues during the years I spent as an editor at the RLDS Publishing House (1960–1966). abstract TBA I’ll reflect on the many letters I received chair complaining about my editorials on the Civil Rights Movement in The Saints’ Herald. room chair

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114. THE TWO JESUSES IN THE BOOK OF 111. TIKKUN K’NESSIAH: REPAIRING THE MORMON AND OTHER ANOMALIES CHURCH presenter EARL WUNDERLI is the author of An Imperfect presenter ROBERT A. REES teaches Mormon Studies at Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us About Graduate Theological Union and the University Itself (Signature Books). of California, Berkeley. abstract This presentation will look at anomalies and abstract Based on the Jewish term “Tikkun olam,” anachronisms in the Book of Mormon, including which means “repairing the world,” this session proper names, prophesies, personalities, and encourages disillusioned and disaffected preachings—some obvious and some not so Latter-day Saints to help “repair the Church” obvious. rather than abandon it. It includes specific chair recommendations and strategies from the local to the general level. room chair room 115. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: THE VALLEY OF ALMA 112. WARD FAMILY: THE PRACTICE OF abstract A collection of short films. The Book of Visions (2005, dir. Annie Poon), an animation KINSHIP IN LDS CONGREGATIONAL depicting the visions of Joan of Arc, LIFE Joseph Smith, and the Sioux chief Black presenter KRISTEEN BLACK has a PhD in religion and Elk. Closure (2000, dir. Brian Petersen), a society from Drew University. narrative film about a single Mormon man’s struggle to accept choosing his faith over abstract LDS wards have special types of kinship his Scientologist ex-girlfriend. Bundy’s networks based on the ideal of recognizing all

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Volunteer Army (2014, dir. Jennilyn Merten), dissertation explores Mormon missionary work a documentary about the varied Americans in the Pacific. who rallied to support Mormon rancher abstract The forms excommunication has taken and Cliven Bundy. Families Are Forever (2013, the reasons it has been imposed have varied dir. Vivian Kleiman), a documentary on one considerably. What kinds of behaviors or Mormon family’s journey to accept their son’s offenses gave rise to Church discipline during homosexuality. its first few decades? What changed in the 20th chair century? How can observations about past Church discipline help us understand Church room UNION THEATRE discipline today?

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121. THE ATONEMENT ACCORDING TO 124. OVERLAPPING MAGISTERIA: JESUS MORMONISM’S UNIQUE POSITION IN RECONCILING SCIENCE AND presenter JANICE ALLRED is the author of God the Mother and Other Theological Essays (Signature Books). RELIGION abstract As neither Christianity nor Mormonism has presenter CHRISTOPHER BRADFORD is vice president of provided a clear doctrine of the Atonement, the Mormon Transhumanist Association. this paper will address the question, “What has abstract Drawing on Orson Pratt, John A. Widtsoe, Jesus said about the atonement?” James E. Talmage, B.H. Roberts, Catholic chair theologian Stephen Webb, and others, I discuss why Mormonism is uniquely positioned to room bridge the perceived gap between science and religion. 122. WHAT IS A TEMPLE? A PRELIMINARY chair ASSESSMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL room PERCEPTIONS presenter BRANDON RO is an award-winning designer 125. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: focusing on sacred architecture. THE WATERS OF SEBUS abstract This paper reports the results of a 2011 survey, presenter TBA assessing which architectural qualities both Mormons and non-Mormons value when it abstract A collection of short films. By Water, and comes to temples and what those values imply Blood, and the Spirit (2004, dir. Randy Astle), for designers. an abstract depiction of an LDS baptism in a shot-by-shot chiasmus; The Mouths of Babes chair (1980, dir. T.C. Christensen), a classic and room comic documentary in which Primary children explain it all; The Book of Lone Peak (2013, dir. Zack Samberg & Ben Altarescu), a documentary 123. CHURCH DISCIPLINE: AN on the national champion basketball team from HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Lone Peak High School in Utah; and Blessing (2009, dir. Stephen Williams), a narrative film panelists BRIAN WHITNEY is studying history and about an ailing father who asks his adult gay sociology at Weber State University with an son to give him a priesthood blessing. emphasis in American religious history. chair AMANDA HENDRIX-KOMOTO is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan. Her room UNION THEATRE

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM 133. WHY I CHANGED DENOMINATIONS panelists WILLIAM D. RUSSELL is an emeritus professor at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. 131. WILLIAM SMITH AND THE NOTORIOUS HODGES BROTHERS’ ROBERT D. HUTCHINS was raised in the RLDS Church and later converted to the LDS Church. CRIMINAL GANG AT NAUVOO presenters H. MICHAEL MARQUARDT is an independent MARK DEXHEIMER-TRUJILLO converted to the historian with many book and article LDS Church during high school and then to the publications. Community of Christ later in life.

WILLIAM SHEPARD is a past president of the ANTHONY HUTCHINSON converted from the John Whitmer Historical Association. LDS Church to the Episcopalian Church. abstract Based on the new book Lost Apostles: Forgotten abstract Why does a person leave one faith for another? Members of Mormonism’s Original Quorum of Three panelists will describe their journeys: Twelve, this presentation will focus on early one from RLDS to LDS, another from LDS apostle William Smith’s life and his interactions to Episcopalian, and another from LDS to with a violent criminal gang. Community of Christ. chair chair room room

132. BRIDGING MORMONISM AND 134. “A DIVERSITY OF FAITH”: PANEL ON POPULAR CULTURE HEAVEN AND HELL panelists JACOB BENDER is a master’s candidate at the JULIE HARTLEY MOORE has a PhD in University of Iowa. anthropology and is the director of the USU STEPHEN CARTER has a PhD in narrative Tooele Campus. studies and is the editor of Sunstone. JOHN HAMER is the former executive director JERILYN HASSELL POOL is a graphic of the John Whitmer Historical Association. designer and Feminist Mormon Housewives MURIEL SCHMID has a PhD in Protestant permablogger. theology and is ordained in the Swiss Reformed ETHAN SPROAT has a PhD in composition and Church. rhetoric and is an assistant professor at Utah MARTIN DIAZ is the rector and pastor of the Valley University. Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. abstract Why did so many prophets lose their beards abstract This interfaith panel features speakers from between versions of the Book of Mormon Stories different religious backgrounds presenting their comic book? How does Mormonism manifest faith’s view on what happens to the soul after itself in Internet memes and the music of slow- mortal death. core band Low? Why are Mormons such dang good fantasy writers? chair chair room room

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135. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: RESERVED 152. MORMON FOOD: FROM THE JELL-O TO FIGHT BELT TO THE PYREX PANHANDLE presenter CHANTELLE SQUIRES OLSENis a film presenter JERILYN HASSELL POOL is a graphic artist and producer, director and editor. A Q&A will be mother of seven creatively fed children. held with her after the film. abstract From the stunning, jiggly jewel tones of Jell-O, abstract In May 2003, Fox Company of Marine Reserve to the artery-clogging deliciousness of funeral Unit 2/23 returned to Utah from front line potatoes, to the furniture made from #10 cans, combat in Iraq. This documentary follows we explore the ingredients and processes that four Marines of Fox Company through their nourish our religion. The session will include postwar minefield of social and psychological demonstrations, recipes, taste tests, and reintegration into civilian life. wisecracks.

chair Please note that this session will last until 12:40 p.m. Plan accordingly. room chair room UNION THEATRE 153. EARTH STEWARDSHIP: THE ULTIMATE MORAL CHALLENGE FOR MORMONS LUNCH BREAK, 12:30PM–2:00PM presenter ROBERT A. REES teaches Mormon Studies See page three for dining options. at the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley.

TY MARKHAM has served as co-chair of the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 2:00PM–3:30PM since 2013.

HANS EHRBAR has taught economics at the 151. AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: A University of Utah since 1985 and served on FRONTIER LIFE: JACOB HAMBLIN, an energy advisory panel for Governor Jon EXPLORER AND INDIAN MISSIONARY Huntsman. panelists TBA ALICIA CONNELL is a leader in the opposition abstract This panel discussion brings together scholars to Stericycle, a medical waste incinerating and thinkers familiar with A Frontier Life: Jacob company that has been cited for air quality Hamblin, Explorere and Indian Missionary by Todd violations. Compton. Please join the book’s author and a panel of careful readers in a vigorous exchange RACHEL MABEY WHIPPLE is an eco-Mormon about this book. housewife, artist, and head of LDS Earth Stewardship. chair abstract This panel explores the dimensions of climate room change in light of Latter-day Saint teachings about earth stewardship and the “restoration of all things.” Mormons have a choice: be passive observers of catastrophic events or be leaders in averting or at least diminishing the potential devastation to the earth and its peoples.

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ALAN EASTMAN will be playing the piano. 154. DUAL PAPER SESSION: BRIDGES BURNED, BRIDGES BUILT: PERSONAL VICKIE EASTMAN will be conducting the songs. REFLECTIONS ON FAITH JOURNEYS abstract Hymns that are patriarchal, male-centric, and U.S.-Euro-centric should be revised to become presenters HILARY BROWN is a student at the University more inclusive. Participants will sing several of Utah. hymns revised to be more gender, national, and culture-inclusive. STEVEN L. SHIELDS currently serves at the Community of Christ’s International chair Headquarters in Independence, Missouri. room abstract Hilary Brown will speak on how members of the Church burn bridges back to the church for those who have left. Steven L. Shields 162. CLAIMING OUR HEROINES: THE will speak on how he built bridges back to his UNTOLD STORY OF LOT’S WIFE LDS heritage years after converting to the Community of Christ. presenter MICHELLE STONE is the mother of nine children. She often stays up late at night to chair study and write. room abstract This paper retells the story of Lot’s wife and makes a case for reclaiming her as one of the great women of scripture. 155. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: Respondent TBA HAWAIIAN PUNCH chair abstract Directed by Nandan Rao, this documentary room follows two young Mormons, Nick and Tor, as they navigate their lives, courtships, and spirituality in Hawaii. A panel discussion will follow. 163. CREATING A NEW PATH THROUGH panelists RANDY ASTLE is a filmmaker and writer in LEHI’S DREAM New York City completing a book entitled presenter MERRILL LONG is a PhD candidate in Mormon Cinema. philosophy and religion at the California Institute EVA TUKUAFU of Integral Studies. VILIAMI PAUNI is a permablogger at Rational abstract Rather than understanding the spiritual path as Faiths. leading toward a single endpoint, I re-envision Lehi’s Dream, setting it in a larger context and chair giving it a much different ending. room UNION THEATRE respondent TBA

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164. FLAT CHURCH SEEKS ENGAGEMENT 161. INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE IN THE LDS OF ITS PEOPLE HYMNAL presenter GLEN SOREN LARSON JR. has produced panelists ROBERT A. REES teaches Mormon Studies at papers on the Missouri Establishment of Zion, Graduate Theological Union and the University the Law of Stewardship and Consecration, of California, Berkeley. Deseret Telegraph, and Canadian Colonization. OTHER PANELISTS TBA

14 | SUNSTONE 2014 | SALT LAKE SYMPOSIUM THURSDAY 31 JULY abstract This presentation will explore how engagement 172. WHAT THE CHURCH CAN and consensus can be fostered on a ward level OFFER YOUTH to meet the unique needs of members rather than relying on the hierarchical leadership style. panelists JULIA JARRETT is a lawyer and mother to an 18-month old daughter. chair EMMA TUELLER STONE is a participant in room Young Mormon Feminists and will be starting her senior year of high school this fall.

JESSA BATES-PYNE is a senior at BYU in FILM SESSION, 4:30 PM American studies working on the Mormon Women’s Studies Resource.

165. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: THE MARINA TIJERINO-ABE is a 22-year-old FARLEY FAMILY REUNION Japanese-Venezuelan Mormon feminist living in Utah. presenter JAMES ARRINGTON has led a long and storied career in Mormon theatre. He is the chair of the TINESHA ZANDAMELA is a senior at BYU Department of Theatrical Arts for Stage and studying sociology and French. Screen at Utah Valley University. abstract Presented by members of the Young Mormon abstract A film adaptation of Arrington’s legendary one- Feminists blog, this panel will explore what the man show The Farley Family Reunion wherein he LDS Church can offer the rising generation. plays a host of hilarious characters. Arrington chair will appear after the show to discuss the Farleys’ place in the Mormon theatrical cannon room and their influence on his own life—and perhaps dip back into character(s) one last time. chair 173. PROJECT ZION: PULLING FORWARD KEY THREADS OF THE room UNION THEATRE RESTORATION FOR A POST-MODERN WORLD

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM panelists KATIE LANGSTON is pursuing dual master’s degrees in marriage and family therapy and theology.

171. WHY ORDAINING LDS WOMEN COULD ROBIN LINKHART is president of the Sixth BE GOOD FOR MEN Quorum of Seventy of the Community of Christ panelists MICHAEL J. STEVENS is a management assigned to the Western USA Mission Field. professor and department chair at Weber State University. JOHN HAMER is former executive director of the John Whitmer Historical Association. S. MARK BARNES leads the Male Ally Committee for Ordain Women. abstract At the heart of the Restoration is a deep hunger to be like the First Century Church and STEPHEN CARTER is the editor of Sunstone and to be directly connected to Jesus’ authentic a stay-at-home dad. teachings. This panel will explore key abstract This panel will explore the unexpected and Restorationist threads in the LDS Church and unique benefits men could receive from the Community of Christ and how they affect women’s ordination to the LDS priesthood. our post-modern world. chair chair room room

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Abstract Our celebration of Sunstone’s 40 years will 174. NON-MORMONS AT THE LORD’S start with a pictoral tour of Sunstone’s storied UNIVERSITY history through its artifacts, from its offices panelists CRISTINA RILEY is a liberal Protestant who to its calendars, from its cartoon books to its participate in Catholic mass, Hindu worship and software, from its attic to its basement. other interfaith efforts. She is Caterina’s twin. Then many and various of Sunstone’s leaders CATERINA RILEY is a liberal Protestant who and supporters from the past four decades will participate in Catholic mass, Hindu worship and share the story that captures the essence of other interfaith efforts. She is Cristina’s twin. their experience at Sunstone, from the hilarious CURTIS PENFOLD was a BYU student until he to the sublime.

was expelled last October for resigning from the closing song LDS Church. benediction OTHER PANELISTS TBA room SALTAIR abstract A panel of non-Mormon BYU students discusses their successful and unsuccessful attempts to build bridges with LDS students and professors at BYU. chair room

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DAN WOTHERSPOON was editor of Sunstone from 2001–2008. JOHN HATCH was associate editor of Sunstone from 2001–2003.­ MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON has been Sunstone’s director of symposia and outreach since 2008. STEPHEN CARTER has been the editor of Sunstone since 2008.

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FRIDAY 1 AUGUST 212. MORMONISM AND OTHER RELIGIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA: BUILDING REGISTRATION, 8:00 AM–7:30 PM BRIDGES THROUGH COMPARISON

Admission to sessions is by Symposium name badge or presenter BOOKER T. ALSTON is a PhD candidate in ticket only. This policy will be strictly enforced. Badges and religious studies at the University of Cape Town. single-session tickets are available at the registration table by abstract South Africa and the LDS Church have some the ballrooms on the second floor of the Olpin Student Union things in common, for both good and ill, such Building. as a history of polygamy and institutionalized racism. This study will highlight places where DEVOTIONAL, 8:00 AM–8:30 AM the LDS Church could build constructive bridges between its culture and that of South Africa.

chair 201. TBA room presenter TBA abstract TBA chair 213. CHURCH DISCIPLINE: A PROCEDURAL OVERVIEW room presenter NADINE HANSEN is an attorney working with FLDS and former-FLDS people. RUSSELL OSMOND is a management consultant CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 8:30AM–9:30AM and motivational speaker focusing on change strategies. 211. THE DEPICTION OF WOMEN IN ROBERT A. REES teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University MORMON POPULAR CULTURE of California, Berkeley. panelists AUDREY DUTCHER has been a media journalist abstract How is Church discipline instigated? How for over a decade. is it investigated? What happens during a disciplinary hearing? Join a panel that has RICHARD DUTCHER directed God’s Army, gained first-hand knowledge of the process Brigham City, and States of Grace, among others. from both the ecclesiastical and member perspectives. NICOLE FORSGREN VELASQUEZ chair DEREK LEE received a degree in mechanical room engineering from Brigham Young University in 2008 and lives in Alberta, Canada. abstract This panel will explore the portrayal of women, 214. HOLY ENEMA, BATMAN! especially Mormon women, in the media presenter MICHAEL G. REED is working on his doctorate of Mormon popular culture including film, in the History/Christianity program at Graduate literature, and advertising. Theological Union, Berkeley. chair abstract Early Latter Day Saints had a practice of room injecting the sick and afflicted with consecrated oil enemas. This paper compares this practice with similar ways some Catholics used Holy Water.

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chair 215. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: REDEMPTION: FOR ROBBING room THE DEAD presenter ??? 223. MORMONISM AND THE PROBLEM OF abstract Based on historical events, this film tells the HETERODOXY story of Utah lawman Henry Heath as he presenter DENNIS POTTER is associate director of pursues and then defends French immigrant Religious Studies at Utah Valley University. grave robber Jean Baptiste. The film continues into the next session until 10:30 a.m. Please abstract How could an outsider discover if Joseph Smith plan accordingly. truly restored Christianity, given the wildly different interpretations of his teachings? The chair Restoration was Smith’s answer to his own room UNION THEATRE quandary; would a similar approach work for this hypothetical outsider?

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221. BRIDGES TO FUTURE AND PAST: 224. THE LATTER-DAY APOSTASY: A FUNDAMENTALIST MORMON SCRIPTURAL PERSPECTIVE SCHOOLS presenter JOE JENSEN maintains two Mormon-themed presenter MIKE HAMILTON is an assistant professor in the blogs: justandtrue.com and fulness.com. Religion and Philosophy Department at Principia abstract Apostates are people who speak against the College in Elsah, Illinois.. accepted norms of a religious organization. respondent NADINE HANSEN is an attorney working with Notable apostates include Alma the elder, Lehi, FLDS and former-FLDS people. and, of course, Jesus Christ. When discord arises, how does one discern whether the individual or abstract Based on recent fieldwork conducted at several the organization is in error? schools in plural marriage communities, this presentation will show how these schools chair connect, or stoutly refused to connect, with room surrounding communities. chair room 225. A JOURNEY THROUGH MORMON FOLK SONGS FROM THE TERRITORY OF DESERET 222. GOD(S) AS CHARACTER(S) IN presenters MARY & PETER DANZIG, comprising the band JOSEPH’S BIBLE STORIES Otter Creek, play 10 instruments between them. presenter SUSAN STAKER was a PhD student in narrative abstract The Danzigs have spent years collecting and theory at the University of Utah and a former arranging folk songs of the Mormon pioneers. editor for Sunstone and Signature Books. Join them for a concert featuring a number of abstract Contemporary Mormonism’s Gods are these tunes as well as stories and descriptions anthropomorphic characters with pasts—a of their historical background. significant departure from Christian chair understandings of God. This paper examines how Joseph used the Bible to launch this room audacious theology.

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PLENARY SESSION, 11:00AM–12:30PM LUNCH BREAK, 12:30PM–2:00PM See page three for dining options. 231. WHY WE STAY abstract This perennially well-received session features 241. THIEVES OF SUMMER RECEPTION the stories of those who have chosen to remain abstract Signature Books cordially invites Sunstone active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the attendees to a luncheon and reception in honor face of challenges to traditional faith. of Linda Sillitoe’s last book, Thieves of Summer. panelists BOYD JAY PETERSEN is the coordinator for Come congratulate family members John Sillito Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University. He and Cynthia Sillitoe on its publication. is the author of Dead Wood and Rushing Water: Essays on Mormon Faith, Culture, and Family (Greg Kofford Books, 2013) and Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life (Greg Kofford Books, 2002). He CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 2:00PM–3:30PM is married with four children.

WENDY WILLIAMS MONTGOMERY is a wife 251. ORDAIN WOMEN: WHERE WE ARE and mother of five children, including a gay son NOW who came out in 2012. From once canvassing panelists NANCY ROSS chairs Ordain Women’s social Bakersfield, California, neighborhoods in media committee. support of Proposition 8, Wendy is now a strong, vocal advocate for inclusion and equality DEBRA JENSON chairs Ordain Women’s for Mormons who live on the periphery. communications committee.

RUSSELL OSMOND, a former Air Force CHELSEA SHIELDS STRAYER co-chairs Ordain chaplain, is a management consultant and Women’s volunteer and recruiting committee. motivational speaker focusing on change strategies. His academic fields of interest AMY CARTWRIGHT serves on the leadership include political science, human behavior, committee for Ordain Women. communication, religion, and leadership. LORIE WINDER STROMBERG is a co-founder of JENNIFER FINLAYSON-FIFE works in private Ordain Women. practice primarily with couples (many LDS) on marital and sexual issues. She is a frequent abstract This panel will cover topics such as guest on LDS-themed podcasts and a sought- responses to Ordain Women, the challenges of after speaker and seminar leader. She is communicating with the Church PR department, married with three children. planning and executing direct actions, changes/shifts in official Church discourse on MITCH MAYNE is an openly gay, active Latter- priesthood, and changes/shifts in the Mormon day Saint who recently served as the executive feminist community. secretary in a San Francisco bishopric. He chair is a national voice on Mormon LGBT issues, focusing especially on improving the health, room mental health, and well being of Mormon LGBT youth in the context of their faith. chair room

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252. SEALING AND SALVATION IN EARLY SARA BURLINGAME was raised a Bahai, MORMONISM: PERSPECTIVES ON identified publicly as an atheist in her teens, and has been a Unitarian Universalist for the last THE LAW OF ADOPTION five years. presenters CHERYL BRUNO is an independent historian abstract An orthodox Mormon, a progressive Mormon focusing on the intersection of Mormonism and a former Mormon will share their thoughts and Freemasonry, and 19th-century Mormon on LDS perception of Jesus. How does it affect polygamy. Mormonism’s culture, doctrine, and cosmology— for good or ill? BRIAN C. HALES is the author of the three- volume Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: History and chair Theology (Greg Kofford Books). room abstract In a swiftly moving, point/counterpoint dialogue, Brian Hales and Cheryl Bruno will explore the intricacies of the 19th-century Mormon 255. NATURAL LAW IN LDS THEOLOGY: principle “The Law of Adoption.” Where did this PROSPECTS FOR THE 21ST practice start, and what were its theological implications? Why was it discontinued in 1894? CENTURY panelists T. HEATH OGDEN is an assistant professor chair of biology and biotechnology at Utah Valley room University. DUANE E. JEFFERY is a professor emeritus of biology at BYU. 253. CHURCH DISCIPLINE: IMPACT ON abstract Recent research at Utah Valley University FAMILY, WARD, AND THE LARGER indicates that evidence-based science education LDS COMMUNITY on controversial topics such as evolution not panelists KRISTEEN BLACK has a PhD from Drew only increases students’ factual knowledge, but University in religion and society. reduces their conflict with religion. This paper explores the implications of these findings. MICAH NICOLAISEN respondent TBA WHITNEY F. MOLLENHAUER chair LORI BURKMAN is a permablogger at Rational Faiths. room abstract Excommunication doesn’t affect just one person. This panel will explore the many repurcussions, personal and interpersonal, that can arise from 256. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: BUSHED: excommunication. TEACHING LIFE IN ALASKA chair presenter STEPHEN CARTER became a documentary filmmaker while researching his dissertation in room Shishmaref, Alaska. He will participate in a Q&A after the film. 254. “SHADES OF FAITH”: DESPERATELY abstract This documentary follows a newly married Mormon couple just out of college as they go SEEKING JESUS through their first year of teaching in a remote panelists RUSSELL STEVENSON is the author of Black Alaska Native village. Mormon: The Story of Elijah Ables. He begins chair a PhD program in history at Michigan State University this fall. room UNION THEATRE AMANDA KAY KLEIN is a graduate student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC studying forensic anthropology

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:45PM–4:45PM 263. TINKELMAN AND JONES: USING GENEALOGY TO BRIDGE MY JEWISH- MORMON ANGST 261. BRASS BANDS: A CULTURAL BRIDGE BETWEEN MORMON UTAH AND THE presenter LINDA JONES GIBBS has a PhD in art history and does publicity for New York City galleries. EASTERN UNITED STATES abstract As the granddaughter of Eastern European presenter BRYANT SMITH is an assistant professor of Jewish immigrants and the great granddaughter music at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, of Mormon pioneers, I have often felt as if the Washington. strands of my DNA were in the process of co- abstract Nineteenth-century Mormons used brass strangulation. Armed with first-hand accounts bands as a cultural bridge during the Westward from both sides and my background as an art expansion. While changes in musical preference historian, I will explore the effect my disparate and Church policy led to the abandonment of ancestry has on me. Mormon brass bands, they helped establish the chair Church’s cultural bridge with America. room chair room 264. BONES HEAL FASTER: EMOTIONAL ABUSE IN LDS FAMILIES 262. AUTHORS MEETS CRITICS: panelists TERENCE L. DAY served on the Washington THE LOST APOSTLES: FORGOTTEN State University faculty for 32 years where he MEMBERS OF MORMONISM’S was a science writer in agricultural and family ORIGINAL QUORUM OF TWELVE sciences. panelists ANDREW HAMILTON recently finished a abstract About 25% of LDS women have been abused, masters degree in counseling and is an avid are being abused, or will be abused at some book reviewer. time during their marriages—very similar to the average American woman. This panel will focus WILLIAM SHEPARD is a past president of the on abuse in LDS culture, its consequences, and John Whitmer Historical Association. ways of addressing, preventing, and healing H. MICHAEL MARQUARDT is an independent from abuse. historian with many book and article chair publications. room abstract This panel discussion brings together scholars and thinkers familiar with The Lost Apostles: Forgotten Members of Mormonism’s Original Quorum of the Twelve by William Shepard and 265. SUNSTONE TOWN HALL MEETING H. Michael Marquardt. Please join the book’s panelists JIM MURPHY is the interim executive director authors and a panel of careful readers in a of Sunstone. vigorous exchange about this book. chair BILL MCGEE is chair of Sunstone’s board of directors. room MICHAEL J. STEVENS is head of Sunstone’s education committee.

MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON is Sunstone’s director of symposia and outreach.

LINDSAY HANSEN PARK is Sunstone’s director of marketing and social media.

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abstract When Utah’s law prohibiting “religious STEPHEN CARTER is the editor of Sunstone cohabitation” was struck down last December, magazine. it opened the door to plural marriage without abstract Sunstone has gone through a lot of changes the threat of prosecution. Comprised of both over the past year. This panel will get everyone scholars and practicing polygamists, this panel up to date on the state of Sunstone and talk will discuss how this ruling affects Utah’s about its future. Suggestions and commentary polygamous and religious landscape. from the audience are most welcome. chair chair room room

272. THE GENDER OF GOD, AND THE FILM SESSION, 4:00PM–6:30PM DIVERSITY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY

presenters MARGARET TOSCANO is an associate professor of classics and comparative studies at 266 SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: the University of Utah. STATES OF GRACE JANICE ALLRED is the author of God the Mother presenter has directed a number of RICHARD DUTCHER and Other Theological Essays. feature films including , God’s Army Brigham City, and Girl Crazy. He will be on hand for a ALISA BOLANDER has a master’s degree in Q&A session after the film. literature and blogs at The Exponent. abstract The lives of a street preacher, an aspiring abstract If a divine heterosexual couple is viewed as the actress, a Mormon missionary, and a young ideal of godhood, are those who identify as gay, gang banger intersect in this ensemble drama transgendered, androygynous, or intersexed set in present-day Santa Monica, California. barred from fitting the heavenly ideal? chair How might Mormon theology offer creative possibilities for including diverse sexual and room UNION THEATRE gender identities within the celestial family?

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271. THEOCRACY UNFOUNDED: WHAT 273. BRITISH LDS FICTION: CONFLICTS THE POLYGAMY RULING MEANS FOR AND CONTEXTS PLURAL FAMILIES IN UTAH presenters JENN ASHWORTH is an award-winning novelist, blogger, and short story writer. panelists JENNIFER HUSS BASQUIAT is a professor of Her latest novel, The Friday Gospels, is being anthropology at the College of Southern Nevada. developed for a television series. JOE DANGER is a practicing polygamist and co-author of Love Times Three: Our True Story of CARYS BRAY is a prize-winning short story a Polygamous Marriage. writer. Her first novel, A Song of Issey Bradley, will be published in summer 2014. STAN SHEPP is a practicing polygamist and a abstract Led by two award-winning British writers with member of the Centennial Park community. LDS backgrounds, this presentation will include

short readings of their creative work and an LINDA CHATWIN is a member of the Centennial examination of the opportunities inherent in Park Action Committee, committed to decriminalizing polygamy for consenting adults.

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giving openhearted literary explorations of post- DINNER BREAK, 6:30PM–8:00PM correlation British Mormonism to a local popular See page three for dining options. culture who has only heard of it via Big Love. chair STEPHEN CARTER room PLENARY SESSION, 8:00 PM

274. ABUSE IN LDS CULTURE 281. PILLARS OF MY FAITH panelists TERENCE L. DAY served on the Washington Chair State University faculty for 32 years where he was a science writer in agricultural and family Opening Song sciences. invocation

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he remains active today. In 2007 John and KATIE LANGSTON is pursuing master’s degrees Göran became foster parents, and in 2008 were in marriage and family therapy and theology. legally married in Riverside, California.

ROBIN LINKHART is president of the Sixth John currently teaches American religious Quorum of Seventy of the Community of Christ history at United Theological Seminary of the assigned to the Western USA Mission Field. Twin Cities, and is the author of Take the Young abstract A religiously diverse panel reflects on how the Stranger by the Hand: Same-sex Relations and paradoxical concepts of grace and works inform the YMCA (University of Chicago Press, 1998). their lives and beliefs. He is the author of the Young Stranger blog, and his writing on homosexuality and faith have chair been featured on other blogs and in the pages room of Sunstone and Dialogue. He is currently senior vice president of Affirmation: LGBT Mormons, Families & Friends.

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Abstract This is perennially Sunstone’s best-attended session. Hear speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives: a little soul baring, a little spiritual journey, a little intellectual testimony bearing. This reflective night is about the things that matter most, plus spirited congregational hymn singing. closing song benediction room SALTAIR

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SATURDAY 2 AUGUST 312. MARRIAGE AFTER A CHANGE IN BELIEFS: WHO IS HAPPY, WHO IS REGISTRATION, 8:00 AM–7:30 PM MISERABLE, AND WHY?

Admission to sessions is by Symposium name badge or ticket presenter ADAM FISHER is a doctoral candidate in only. This policy will be strictly enforced. Badges and single- counseling psychology at Indiana University, session tickets are available at the registration table by the abstract A presentation and discussion of preliminary ballrooms on the second floor of the Olpin Student Union. findings of a survey by researchers at Indiana University on LDS couples who have experienced conflict relating to one partner’s DEVOTIONAL, 8:00 AM–8:30 AM change in religious beliefs. Suggestions on how to weather such a storm will be offered.

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311. HOOK UP CULTURE, SAME-SEX room MARRIAGE, AND THE COLLAPSE OF RELIGION IN THE WEST 314. APOLOGETIC ETHICS: DEFENDING presenter CARRIE MILES PhD, is the executive director of Empower International Ministries. THE FAITH WITHOUT LOSING YOUR SOUL abstract In this session, I explain the reasons for the emergent “sex gap” and discuss the serious presenter SETH PAYNE graduated magna cum laude from problems it causes for individuals, especially Yale University with an MA in religion. the young. I’ll also show how this gap has abstract Effective apologetics must be done within the caused the last half-century’s massive decline context of a well defined ethical framework. in religious practices, credibility, and identity in Such a structure can help us become more the United States and Europe. effective in providing perspectives on difficult chair questions while demonstrating key aspects of Christian discipleship room chair

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abstract This presentation posits that we can better 315. SING UNTO THE LORD A NEW SONG: understand Ordain Women, and Mormon SINGING NEW HYMNS TOGETHER feminism at large, through feminist theologian panelists FRED VOROS is a Salt Lake City judge and Namsoon Kang’s concept of cosmopolitan founder of the Western Hymn Writers Workshop. theology. chair ALAN EASTMAN is a chemist, piano player, room and part-owner of a startup geothermal energy company. abstract This session will consist of the presentation of 322. BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: LGBTQ AND a number of new Mormon hymns. Lyricists and composers will comment, if available, followed THE MORMON CHURCH, 1995 TO THE by community singing of the hymns. PRESENT chair VICKIE EASTMAN presenter KAREN SMYTH is a fourth-year PhD candidate in American studies at Saint Louis University. room abstract This presentation details how the LDS Church has responded to LGBTQ issues from 316. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: WATERS “The Family: A Proclamation” in 1995 to the emergence of MormonsandGays.com in 2012. OF MORMON PROGRAM Official Church literature has both challenged presenter TBA and reaffirmed traditional gender and sexuality during that time. abstract A collection of short films. Winsome (2014, dir. Rebecca Thomas), a music video for The Moth chair and the Flame featuring a visual panoply of room mermaids, deserts, and body parts. Kites (2010, dir. Jed Henry), a BYU Animation Department film about a young boy grieving for his deceased grandfather in a unique way. My Ground 323. FROM DARK ALLEYS TO THE FOLD (2010, dir. Doug Fabrizio & David Casteton), OF GOD: TWO WORLDS BRIDGED BY a documentary about Heidi Redd, an aging THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST rancher in southern Utah. The Potter’s Meal presenter LAURIN CROSSON is a former sex worker who (1992, dir. Steve Olpin), a documentary about joined the LDS Church and founded RockStarr southern Utah potter Joseph Bennion. Drawing Ministries, a group dedicated to serving sex Horses (2013, dir. Steve Olpin), a follow-up workers and others in the adult industry. documentary two decades later about Bennion’s wife, painter Lee Udall Bennion. abstract This paper presents the story of an individual who was lured into sex trafficking and how the chair atoning power of Christ was not only available room for her, but stirred a desire to help illuminate the path for others.

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321. WALKING IN SOLIDARITY: ORDAIN WOMEN AND COSMOPOLITAN THEOLOGY presenter SARA ZOE PIKE teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College and is a rhetoric and composition PhD student at Texas Christian University.

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324. LIFE AFTER CHURCH DISCIPLINE CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 11:00AM–12:30AM presenter JANICE RIRIE FLIP JOHNSON 331. ORDAIN WOMEN IN THE 21ST abstract This panel will explore the spiritual and life CENTURY: STRATGIES AND trajectories the panelists have been on since IMPLICATIONS FOR CHANGE IN their church disciplinary rulings. A HIERARCHICAL RELIGIOUS chair TRADITION room panelists MARIE CORNWALL is former editor in chief of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

325. “TEXAS HAS ITS OWN VIEW OF DEBRA JENSON recently earned a PhD from POLYGAMISTS” the University of Utah in the areas of public policy and political communication. presenter KEN DRIGGS is a career criminal defense

lawyer specializing in the defense of death ROBIN LINKHART is president of the Sixth penalty cases. Quorum of Seventy of the Community of Christ abstract Join this discussion and analysis of the 2008 assigned to the Western USA Mission Field. Yearning for Zion Ranch raid and how the law abstract This panel examines the effectiveness of Ordain was used to expel the FLDS from Texas. Women’s strategies. How much support has chair the movement garnered from within the LDS Church, particularly among women? What is the room potential, long-range impact of Ordain Women on ecclesiastical structures and leaders? What are the prospects for women’s ordination within 326. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: Mormonism? TRANSMORMON chair presenter ERI HAYWARD is the transgendered woman room featured in TransMormon. ED HAYWARD is the father of Eri Hayward. TORBEN BERNHARD is the director of 332. A CIRCLE OF EMPATHY: HOW TransMormon. TO BUILD BRIDGES BETWEEN abstract A short documentary about Eri Hayward’s PROGRESSIVE AND CONSERVATIVE journey to recognizing that she is MORMONS transgendered. After the screening, Eri Hayward and her parents, who are profiled presenter MITCH MAYNE is an openly gay, active Latter- in the film, along with the director will hold day Saint who recently served as the executive a panel discussion on transgender issues in secretary in a San Francisco bishopric. Mormonism. ERIKA MUNSON is a high school English chair RANDY ASTLE teacher and a founder of Mormons Building room UNION THEATRE Bridges.

KENDALL WILCOX is an award-winning film producer and a founder of Mormons Building Bridges.

ANNE MCMULLIN PEFFER is the founder of Circling the Wagons and a member of the Mormons Building Bridges Steering Committee.

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SHERRI PARK has served two missions as a 334. BRIDGING MARITAL DIVIDES CAUSED senior adult and is a member of the Mormons BY A PORNOGRAPHY CRISIS Building Bridges steering committee. presenter NATASHA HELFER PARKER is a licensed marriage and family therapist and sex therapist COREY HOWARD is an avid genealogist, and author of The Mormon Therapist blog. amateur photographer, and member of the Mormons Building Bridges steering committee. JENNIFER FINLAYSON-FIFE is a licensed psychotherapist who wrote her dissertation DOREE BURT presides over a 15-stake mutual on Mormon women and sexuality in long-term program for special needs adults and is a relationships. member of the Mormons Building Bridges steering committee. abstract This presentation will provide strategies for dealing with the many different feelings and abstract Members of the Mormons Building Bridges identity issues that often arise in a couple when steering committee will present effective pornography viewing causes a marital rift. communication strategies in hopes of empowering both progressive and conservative chair Mormons. Chairs will be placed in a circle and room audience participation will be encouraged. chair 335. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: room TWO BROTHERS

presenter RICK STEVENSON has produced, written, and/ 333. MOVIES MOST MORMON: or directed twelve feature films and nearly 100 ONE RATED G, ONE RATED R hours of television. abstract This documentary follows the lives of Sam panelists RANDY ASTLE is a New York City-based filmmaker and writer focusing on indie film, and Luke Nelson, two LDS brothers, over the children’s media, and transmedia. course of a decade, even visiting them on their missions in Chile and Cambodia. LISA BUTTERWORTH is a founder of Feminist chair Mormon Housewives. room UNION THEATRE

STEPHEN CARTER is the editor of Sunstone.

JOHN HATCH is the acquisitions editor for LUNCH BREAK, 12:30PM–2:00PM Signature Books and is finishing an article See page three for dining options. examining early LDS negotiation of mainstream movies.

RACHEL MABEY WHIPPLE is the head of LDS CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 2:00PM–3:30PM Earth Stewardship and sponsors a weekly outdoor movie night in her neighborhood. abstract Each panelist will talk about two movies that 341. CUTTING DOWN THE TREE OF LIFE have made an especially profound impact on his TO BUILD A WOODEN BRIDGE or her understanding of Mormonism. One of the movies will be rated G, the other will be rated R. presenter DENVER SNUFFER is a practicing attorney in Star Wars, The Matrix, and Lord of the Rings will Sandy, Utah, and the author of thirteen volumes not be allowed. on Mormon doctrine and history. chair abstract From the 1890 manifesto to the present, Mormonism has altered its content to gain room

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approval from the larger United States’ respondent JAMES D. “MITCH” VILOS is a Utah attorney population. This paper will explore the many and gun advocate. “bridge building” changes Mormonism has chair undergone and consider the inevitable changes now required to match legal and cultural trends. room chair room 344. BE HAPPY, BE MORMON

presenter KIMBALL ALLEN is playwright and writer whose first solo show, Secrets of a Gay Mormon 342. SUN TALKS: “BRIDGING THE GAP Felon, ended its national run in 2013. BETWEEN OLD BELIEF AND NEW” abstract A voyeuristic look into the childhood of a presenters JOHN DEHLIN is a Ph.D. candidate in the Bambi-loving-vegetarian, ballet-slipper-wearing, clinical/counseling psychology program at Utah Diet-Coke-drinking gay Mormon Boy Scout. State University and host of the Mormon Stories Born into a large conservative Idaho family, podcast. Kimball Allen chronicles his upbringing as a fabulous black sheep through colorful narration, LINDSAY HANSEN PARK is the marketing and home movies, songs, dance, and occasional communications director for Sunstone and acrobatics. the host of the Feminist Mormon Housewives podcast. chair room RUSSELL OSMOND is a management and leadership consultant. 345. “SHADES OF FAITH”: WHAT IS JERILYN HASSELL POOL is permablogger for Feminist Mormon Housewives. “TRUTH” IN MORMONISM? presenter DENNIS POTTER is an associate professor of abstract A TEDx-esque session featuring four short, philosophy at Utah Valley University. visually stimulating presentations on “Bridging

the Gap Between Old Belief and New.” SHAWN TABRIZI was raised LDS in a home that chair had both Muslim and Christian influences. room CHELSEA SHIELDS STRAYER is a dual PhD candidate in cultural and biological anthropology. 343. THE GUN ISSUE IN THE LDS CHURCH AND COMMUNITY OF CHRIST abstract What is truth? Does it even exist? If so, how can it be apprehended and communicated? An presenters ROBERT A. REES teaches Mormon Studies at orthodox Mormon, a progressive Mormon, and a Graduate Theological Union and the University of former Mormon will discuss their perspectives California, Berkeley. He has never owned a gun. on the subject.

RICK SARRE is an Australian professor of chair criminal justice and a member of the Standing room High Council for the Community of Christ. abstract In today’s political rhetoric, it seems that guns are a necessary part of being human—and being Mormon. Discussion will include perspectives on guns from Latter-day prophets and scriptures exploring the place of guns in both the LDS Church and the Community of Christ. Please do not bring assault weapons, bazookas, or SAMs to this session!

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abstract Clergy from different faiths discuss how 346. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: THE FAITH their churches/denominations handle church OF AN OBSERVER: CONVERSATIONS discipline. Under what circumstances does WITH HUGH NIBLEY it occur? What are the triggers for official ecclesiastical involvement? What processes abstract Filmed on location among the ancient temples are in place to handle disciplinary matters? And and pyramids of Egypt, along the beaches of what kinds of outcomes usually result? Normandy, and against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest, this documentary explores chair various aspects of Hugh Nibley’s life and room teachings (1985, dir. Brian Capener). A panel discussion will be held after the film. panelists ALEX NIBLEY 353. COMPASSIONATE THEODICY AND panelists STERLING VAN WAGENEN JOSEPH SMITH’S LIMITED GOD panelists PETER CZERNY presenter MIRIAM ATTIA is a Jewish atheist pursuing an MA in Jewish Studies at the Graduate chair RANDY ASTLE Theological Union. room UNION THEATRE abstract Joseph Smith’s theodicy proposed that God must work within certain limits and can’t prevent some evils. But current LDS theodicy CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:45PM–4:45PM seems to describe apparent evils as having a higher purpose or leading to some greater good. How has the first theodicy become eclipsed by 351. THE BOOK OF MORMON AS the second? HISTORICAL ROMANCE chair presenter CHRISTOPHER SMITH is a PhD candidate room in religions of North America at Claremont Graduate University. abstract The Book of Mormon was part of a literary 354. THE MYSTICAL BODY OF MY SELF tradition that perceived “wildness” as being presenter EDWARD JONES III is an attorney and amateur threatening but also alluring. Using this trope, musician living in Salt Lake City. He is the the Book of Mormon narrative forges an author of “The Mystical Body of God the Mother” interesting affiliation with Native Americans (Sunstone 173). against the dominant white religious culture. abstract How can the separate self (co-eternal with chair God!) survive in the face of powerful groupings room such as Saint Paul’s mystical Body of Christ and the LDS Church? Can the Church offer a place for growth as a homosexual being and gay god- in-embryo? 352. CHURCH DISCIPLINE: AN ECUMENICAL OVERVIEW chair room presenters WILLIAM D. RUSSELL is past president of both the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Association. REVEREND ROBERT TRUJILLO, Vicar General of the Diocese of St. Michael, is married to Mark Dexheimerer Trujillo. They have a family of seven with two grandkids.

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355. CHIASTIC SEXUAL PATTERNS CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 5:00PM–6:30PM OF THE STORY OF SODOM & GOMORRAH, AND THE QUESTION OF LITERAL INTERPRETATION 361. “SUNDOWN SHOWDOWNS”: IS RELIGION VALUABLE? presenter CLAIR BARRUS has presented papers at Sunstone and MHA. He manages the Today in presenters JARED ANDERSON hosts the Mormon Sunday Mormon History Facebook page, and blogs at School podcast. WithoutEnd.org. JOHN LARSEN hosts the Mormon Expression abstract This presentation illustrates how the Sodom podcast. and Gomorrah story completes two Hebraic structures, one of which is perhaps the most moderator BLAKE MARSH sexual chaistic structure in the scriptures. abstract Following the official academic debate format, two This approach calls into question the anti- participants will discuss whether religion is a net homosexual interpretation of this story. benefit in the world. Does religion build bridges? Warning: this session includes frank discussions How can we foster the kind of community building of sexuality. that helps individuals flourish? chair chair room room

356. SUNSTONE FILM SERIES: 362. SHOW US OUR MONEY: THE CALLED TO SERVE MOVEMENT FOR LDS FINANCIAL presenter DISCLOSURE AND ACCOUNTABILITY abstract A collaboration of the husband-wife team panelists MICHAEL J. STEVENS is a professor of of director Michael Van Orden and producer management at Weber State University. Ashley Pacini, this inspirational television pilot portrays the lives of four Mormon missionaries WILL BAGLEY is an historian and author of as they goof off, tell jokes, and of course, preach South Pass: Gateway to a Continent. the Mormon gospel. panelists MICHAEL VAN ORDEN is the director of Called TIMMY CHOU is a serial entrepreneur and to Serve. business development consultant. chair JARED CARDON is a screenwriter, producer, abstract LDS Church members and leaders are largely interactive designer, and president of Tinder in the dark about the Church’s finances, even Transmedia. though they have a direct impact on local congregations and stakes. This panel will chair RANDY ASTLE discuss the consequences that might arise from room UNION THEATRE more transparency about the Church’s finances, investments, and holdings.

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363. THE BRIDGE BETWEEN FAITH 365. MODERATING MORMONS IN TRANSITION AND REDEFINING CYBERSPACE

SEXUALITY panelists ANDREW SPRIGGS moderates The Mormon presenter NATASHA HELFER PARKER is a licensed Hub Facebook group. marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, and JERILYN HASSELL POOL moderates the author of The Mormon Therapist blog. Feminist Mormon Housewives Society Facebook group. ADAM FISHER is a PhD candidate in counseling psychology at Indiana University starting an DERRICK LEE internship at BYU. abstract Though a place of beautiful diversity, the Internet can also become very contentious. abstract Faith transitions often mean redefining one’s relationship with sexuality and sexual values. A group of Facebook group moderators and This presentation provides strategies for bloggers will discuss the difficult process of building a healthy sexuality during and after a building bridges online. faith transition. chair NICOLE VELSQUEZ chair room room

BANQUET, 7:15PM 364. STUMBLING TOWARD ZION: INCLUDING LGBTI MORMONS IN THE Join us for the closing banquet and enjoy a delicious feast for PLAN OF SALVATION both body and mind! panelists DUANE JENNINGS has held many leadership The banquet buffet includes sun-dried tomato-, spinach-, and positions in Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian feta-stuffed chicken breast with red pepper cream sauce, Mormons. He received the Mortenson Award in poached salmon, chopped eggs / red onions / capers, crostin, 1996. tossed Caesar salad, seasonal vegetables, garlic bread sticks, Ital-

ian cannolis, refreshing cranberry spritzer, ice water, and coffee SARA JADE WOODHOUSE is an active Mormon service. transwoman living in Utah and a member of the

Mormons Building Bridges steering committee. The banquet session requires a separate registration fee of $30

to cover the cost of the meal. ROBERT A. REES teaches Mormon Studies at

Graduate Theological Union and the University If you didn’t purchase a banquet ticket in advance, ask about of California Berkeley. availability at the Symposium registration desk. Sorry, there is no abstract This presentation will use tools found in the “lecture only” admission to the banquet session. restored gospel, the scriptures, and Joseph Smith’s teachings to help us reexamine our beliefs and policies in order to become more inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex 371. A CELEBRATION OF ERIC (LGBTI) members of the LDS Church. SAMUELSEN’S WORK chair presenter ERIC SAMUELSEN is one of Mormonism’s foremost playwrights. room abstract Come listen as Eric Samuelsen, whose plays have influenced generation of Mormons, gives insight into his work and as parts of his plays are performed.

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