2019 summer sunstone symposium THE FUTURE OF FAITH mountain a m e r i c a 9575 State St. JULY 31- expo center Sandy, Utah AUG 03 INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS GUIDE TO NUMBERING: WEDNESDAY = 000s, THURSDAY = 100s, FRIDAY = 200s, SATURDAY = 300s ALLRED, JANICE 321 DRAPER, SHIRLEE 223 JOHNSON, PARKER 227 PECK, CHRIS 152 ALLRED, JOSH 122, 165, 231, DRAUGHON, KRISTEN 358 JONES, CALEB 362 PERKINS, KRISTIN 152, 165 337, 358 EASTMAN, ALAN 091, 111, 242, JONES, EVAN 275 PERRY, WENDY 334 ANDERSON, DEVERY 142 251 JONES, MATT 251 PETERSEN, MARK 134, 167, 237, ASLAN, REZA 091 EASTMAN, VICKIE 242 KASSENBROCK, BRIAN W. 125 315, 325 BAIRD, JOSHUA 356 ECCLESTON, MICHAEL 171 KESLER, JOHN T. 175, 374 PETERSON, AMYLIN 311, 328 BAKER, PAULA 166, 331, 377 ELEVEN 11 391 KIMBALL, CHRISTIAN 251 PETERSON, HAROLD 323 BARKDULL, NATALIE SHEP- ERICKSON, CHARLOTTE 272 KIMBALL, TOM 124, 132, 291, 314 PETREY, TAYLOR 111 HERD 121, 136, 163 FLAMM, BRENT 154, 212 KLEIN, LINDA KAY 291 PINBOROUGH, ELIZABETH 127 BARLOW, LISA 171 FLAMM, LANEECE 155, 222, KOSKI, JENNIFER 162, 173, 261, PLATT, MCKAY LYMAN 162 BARNARD, CHELSI 391 356 275 POOL, JERILYN HASSELL 343, BARRUS, CLAIR 211, 323, 364 FLORMAN, STEVE 125, 223, 235 LARSEN, JOHN 173 391 BATEMAN, ROMAN 177 FOSTER, CRAIG L. 368 LAURITZEN, RACHAEL 157 POPPLETON, LANDON 365 BENNETT, JIM 213 FRAZIER, GRANT 275 LENART, TANNER 171 PUGLSEY, MARK 373 BENNETT, RICK C. 218, 225, 327 FURR, KELLY 237 LIU, TIMOTHY 377 QUINN, D. MICHAEL 233, 273 BENNETT, TOM 122, 215, 234, GARRETT, JAKE 176 LOGAN, AMY 212 RANSOM, DEVEN 272 265 GHNEIM, JABRA 354 LOPEZ, FRANCHESCA 275 RASHETA, ANISSA 172 BENNION, ZINA 331 GLEASON, TOM 262 MACKAY, LACHLAN 353 REEL, BILL 355 BENSON-GILLIES, SUZY 315, GOMEZ, BECKY 271, 357, 378 MANDELIN, NATALIE SPERRY REES, BOB 133, 175, 216, 266, 325 GREENWELL, ROBERT A. 337 131, 226, 322 271, 301 BLAIR, BEN 312, 362 GRIFFITH, JANE 323, 335 MARQUARDT, H. MICHAEL 211, REES, GLORIA GARDNER 133, BOND, KYLE 152 GRIFFITH, JAY 213, 236, 271, 364 374 BOWMAN, MATTHEW 232 326 MCAFEE, KELLY 261 RFM 267 BRADFORD, DALLIN 362 GRISWOLD, STEPHANIE 265, MCCALL, KIM 091, 111, 251, 314, ROBERTS, ALICE FISHER 336, BRADLEY, MICHAELANN 352, 376 351 351, 372 GARDNER 342, 362 GULL, BETHANY MIDDLETON MCCAUSLAND, SARA 375 ROGERS, TOM 216 BRUNO, CHERYL 211 291 MCCONKIE, THOMAS 374 ROSETTI, CRISTINA 174, 221, BUCHANAN, BRYAN 273 HALES, BRIAN C. 311 MCCRANEY, SHAWN 163 361 BURTON, D. JEFF 316 HAMER, JOHN 153 MCDANNELL, COLLEEN 361 ROSS, NANCY 121, 324, 366 BUTTERWORTH, LISA 231, 278, HAMILTON, ANDREW 156 MCDONALD, RENEE 391 RUSSELL, BILL 235 357 HANKS, SARA 331, 356 MCGEE, BILL 266, 321 SCHMIDT, ROY 153, 214, 316, CALLENDER, JOSEPH 224, 264 HANKS, MAXINE 091, 244 MCHOOD, REBECCA 172 364 CAMP, BARBARA LEWIS 364 HANSEN, JODY ENGLAND 333, MCLEMORE, PHILIP 236, 335 SHAFFER, BENJAMIN 327, 373 CANFIELD, ERIC 262 376 MELONAKOS, KATHLEEN SHAFFER, DONNA 217 CANNON, LINCOLN 312, 352 HANSEN, NADINE MCCOMBS KIMBALL 132, 371 SHAFFER, HEATHER BEUTLER CARLSON, APRIL 238 151, 313, 361 MILLER, ANTHONY D. 081, 155, 176 CARTER, STEPHEN 127, 133, HARRIS, IAN 155 268 SIMONSEN, SØREN 144, 157 161, 215, 262, 301, 316 HARRISON, METTE 131, 338, MOUNT, ALLAN 176, 214 SIMPER, BRIAN 167 CHADWICK, TYLER 127, 154 377 MOUNT, KATTIE NIU 214 SMITH, CHRISTOPHER C. 317, CHRISTENSEN, DANE 243 HARTLINE, DANNA 326 MURDOCK, GALEN 271 368 CLEMENTS, MARY ANN 367 HARWARD, MATT 155, 214 OGDEN, BECCA 372 SMITH, JOANNA 272, 373 COLVIN, GINA 262 HARWARD, TRICIA 214 OGDEN, JON 372 SMITH, SILVIA 342 COMPTON, TODD 313, 323 HATCH, DAVE 391 OSMOND, RUSSELL 136 SMITH, WENDY 262, 342 CONNORS, BILL 135 HATCH, JILL 391 OSTLER, BLAIRE 101, 276, 312, SMYRNIOTOPOULOS, REBECCA CORDELL, ZACH 363 HAUGLID, BRIAN 221, 232 332, 355, 373 137, 164, 263 CREGO, MARK 081, 124, 375 HAYMORE, PAUL 324 OSTLER, DREW 174, 274, 312, SONNTAG, KATHRYN KNIGHT CROW, JENNIFER 366 HINCKLEY, SUSAN M. 123, 154, 332, 365 127 CURTIS, JESSE 238, 277 375 OTTESON, STEVE 134 SPANGLER, JANA 222, 268, DANIELS, MADISON 157 HOLLAND, HEATHER 377 PACKER, CONNIE 342 271, 357 DARGER, JOE 272 HUGHES-ZABAWA, SARA 231, PARK, LINDSAY HANSEN 091, SPARKS, PAUL 164 DARGER, VICKIE 391 268, 278, 357 111, 174, 273, 313 SPIKES, ALLIE 377 DAVIS, ANDI PITCHER 101 HURTADO, LAURA 216 PARKER, NATASHA HELFER SPRIGGS, GEORGE ANDREW DAVIS, RANDALL 225 IVIE, CRYSTAL SCOTT 336 231, 357, 378 137 DECKER, ROD 142 JESSOP, DONIA 151 PATRICK, DAVID 218 STARK, JULIA 275 DEMANDANTE, WENDY 278, JOHNSON, DALLIN 176 PATTERSON, DAYNA 127, 154, STEPHENSON, JOHNNY 126, 333 JOHNSON, MELVIN C. 156, 176, 377 233, 362 DODGE, ETHAN GREGORY 373 224, 353 PEASLEY, CHRISTINE 227, 268 STEWART, NICHOLAS R. 155,

2 | SUNSTONE 2019 | SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 214, 276 WATSON, MARIANNE 368 COMMUNITY. Meet old friends and make new ones—fellow STODDARD, CHRISTINA 377 WELLBORN, TERRESA 127 seekers whose thoughts and experiences inform your own. STONE, ROBBIE 267 WHARTON, JASON LEROY 274 STROMBERG, LORIE WINDER WHITE, BLAIR M. 144, 171, 228, KNOWLEDGE. Gain insights that can come only from rigorous 175, 342, 374 276, 318 examination of Mormon doctrine and culture from insider and TANNER, JEN PERLMUTTER WHITE, JENNIFER 231, 278, 357 outsider perspectives. 123, 152, 234, 264 WHITELEY, AMBER CHORUBY FUN. Find your people at Sunstone! Come enjoy a community TEODORO , HEATHER MCGEE 166, 226 of diverse scholars, intellectuals, and thinkers who celebrate 277 WILCOX, RICHIE 273, 334, 354 the wide spectrum of Mormonism in a variety of ways. Enjoy THOMPSON, KENT A. 328 WILDE, ANNE 273 the uniqueness of the Mormon community with friends. TONGA, KALANI 172, 338, 363 WILLIAMS, LASHAWN 251 Browse and purchase interesting books and art made by TUCKER, EMILY 217, 343, 371 WILLIAMS, TIM 228 Mormon artists. Round out your symposium fun at our closing VERTNER, LAURIE 135, 177 WIMMER, RYAN 126 potluck picnic and kickball game! VIDRINE, JACOB 174, 317 WINDER, ANDY 367 VRANES, SARA 172 WORWOOD, JARED 318 WARBURTON, CAROL THAYNE WOTHERSPOON, DAN 251, 375 SYMPOSIUM CODE OF CONDUCT 161 YOUNG, MARGARET 175 We welcome the honest ponderings of all individuals and WASHBURN, JAXON 091, 322 YOUNG, SAM 263 expect that everyone speaking at or attending the symposium will approach every issue—no matter how difficult—with 2019 SUMMER intelligence, respect, and good will. We expect speakers to engage in rigorous inquiry and thoughtful participation that is respectful of what others hold sacred. SUNSTONE If you express disagreement, please do so without personal SYMPOSIUM attacks on the character, religious observance, or intelligence of other parties. We strongly discourage the use of profanity. Sunstone offers a diverse selection of topics, formats, and The Future of Faith perspectives. Be excited to hear views that coincide with your own, but also prepare to hear presentations that offer a different SYMPOSIUM PURPOSE perspective. As Elder Hugh B. Brown told BYU students in 1958, “I have mentioned freedom to express your thoughts, but I caution The Sunstone Summer Symposium is an annual gathering you that your thoughts must meet competition in the marketplace of Latter-day Saints, scholars, and others interested in the of thought, and in that competition truth will emerge triumphant. diversity and richness of Mormon thought and experience who Only error needs fear freedom of expression.” enjoy pondering the past, present, and future of the unfolding Restoration. The Symposium is a public conference based on the HARASSMENT POLICY principles of an “open forum,” meaning that we invite rigorous inquiry and thoughtful, respectful participation, trusting that both Sunstone is dedicated to providing a harassment-free the cause of truth and the society of the Saints are best served conference experience for everyone regardless of gender, by free and open exploration and discussion. gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion. We do This symposium is dedicated to the idea that Mormonism and not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. its impact extend far beyond dogma, tradition, or orthodoxy, Some examples of harassment may include: sexual language and and that the truths that exist within the gospel of Jesus Christ imagery, inappropriate physical contact, and/or verbal comments are better understood and lived when they are freely and about another attendee’s identity intended to intimidate. frankly explored. Consumption of any intoxicating substance is neither an excuse Because Mormonism recognizes that “all are alike unto God,” nor an invitation for harassment. These examples are neither we believe that each voice that seeks for understanding comprehensive nor exhaustive. Conference participants violating is part of the rich tapestry of the human experience. We these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at acknowledge that multiple experiences generate a multitude the discretion of the conference organizers. of understandings. We seek to facilitate better communication and foster empathy through diversity of thought and belief as FINANCIAL SUPPORT we strive to remember that each soul has worth. This year, to keep Sunstone affordable for all those who would FAITH. Hear words that promote inspired living by exploring like to attend, Sunstone introduced a pay-what-you-can model gospel truths, sharing spiritual journeys, and facing difficult for registration. Please make a donation to Sunstone to help us challenges head-on. keep our events affordable. As a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, all contributions to the Sunstone Education Foundation are tax

SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/SUNSTONE | 3 4 | SUNSTONE 2019 | SUMMER SYMPOSIUM deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please give generously to Saturday night, Sunstone is hosting a closing potluck and ensure that the quality and quantity of our programs and services kickball game at Crescent Community Park with Eleven 11, Jerilyn continue to grow. Please visit the registration desk, a staff member, Hassell Pool, and Sunstone Kickball Teams Higher Law and Outer or visit Sunstone.org/donate to make a donation to Sunstone. Darkness. Tickets for the closing picnic can be purchased at the resistration desk for $10 per person. See page 53 for directions SESSION PROCEEDINGS and parking information. AND RECORDINGS Symposium proceedings are not published in the magazine. NEW ATTENDEES DINNER Audio recordings of sessions (excluding film sessions) will be Join Sunstone for our third annual New Attendees Dinner available for purchase at the Sunstone audio desk. Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 5:00 pm at the HuHot Mongolian Barbeque located at 10835 S State St, Sandy, UT 84070. SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION This dinner is for anyone attending the conference for the very first time or for people who would like a refresher. Registration opens daily thirty minutes before sessions begin. It’s also a great opportunity for old attendees to meet new Full registration, one-day passes, and single-session* admission attendees and offer advice on how to Sunstone! Cost: $25 tickets are available for purchase onsite along with Sunstone per person. merchandise that helps support the organization. Admission to the closing potluck and kickball game with Eleven 11, Jerilyn Hassell Pool, and Sunstone Kickball Teams Higher Law and Outer WIRELESS INTERNET Darkness is also for sale at registration desk for $10 per person. Wireless internet is available for purchase on a by-device basis. Sunstone cannot guarantee admission to preferred sessions.** Please plan your schedule accordingly. If the session you wish to attend fills up, you will have to choose another session on the CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS program. The Fern Foundation is sponsoring children’s workshops * There are a limited number of single session tickets. Please that will run concurrently with this year’s symposium. An purchase your ticket early and be on location 10–15 minutes instructor who is background-checked, along with a youth before your session starts to secure your single-session seat. staff group, will provide this service for children ages 2–11 in room 400. Projects and snacks are included. **As a courtesy to our attendees, we request that rooms be cleared immediately after each session to make room for Children’s workshops will be provided Thursday–Saturday in those attending the next session. two blocks each day: 8:30 am–12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm–6:30 pm. The cost is $5 per hour per child. PARKING Utah state law requires licensed childcare providers to limit Sunstone attendees may park in the exposition center parking the number of children per adult. The children’s workshop is lot in front of the building. Attendees do not need a parking limited to 40 children. Please arrive early to ensure a spot permit or to pay for parking in any way. for your child. Walk-ins are welcome as space permits. If children’s workshops are something you would like to support Attendees who are staying at the Hyatt House can park for at Sunstone conferences, please make a donation at the free in the hotel’s parking lot and take the free shuttle to the registration desk or at Sunstone.org/donate. exposition center. *Sunstone cannot reimburse parking fees incurred by parking BOOKSTORE in the incorrect parking lot Please visit the bookstore located in the Main Concourse and patronize the businesses and organizations that have displays DINING there. Be sure to pick up titles from both Benchmark Books The exposition center’s concession stand as well as the and Signature Books, who are loyal supporters of Sunstone. Chile Verde stand will be open through the duration of the conference to purchase snacks and lunches. HANDCRAFTERS ROW No outside food or drink is allowed inside the venue. Please Mormon artisans will showcase their talents at this year’s consume all food and drink before entering. symposium. Handcrafters Row offers an array of unique gifts Thursday and Friday evening dinners will be off campus. for both children and adults, featuring hand-made art from Please feel free to visit local restaurants such as Joe’s Crab talented creators. Come peruse the halls of the symposium Shack, Mulan Chinese Restaurant, Pulp, India House, and and support Mormon artists. Crown Burger.

SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/SUNSTONE | 5 MANY THANKS 2020 SYMPOSIUM DATES AND THEME AUDIO/VISUAL: We couldn’t manage the event without 29 July – 1 August 2020 the help of TIM CORAY, WADE GREENWOOD, ANDREW The call for papers for our 2020 symposium will open on HAMILTON, RICHARD HOLDMAN, and MICHAEL J. STEVENS. 1 September 2019, and the deadline for proposals will be 1 PLANNING AND OFFICE VOLUNTEERS: Our thanks to those March 2020. Please submit proposals by using the Call For who have gone the extra mile in managing preparations Papers form at Sunstone.org. for this year’s events. The Symposium couldn’t happen The theme will be “Grief and Gratitude.” without them: BOB AHLANDER, HOLLY ALDEN, CHELSI BARNARD, CHRIS BENCH, CURT BENCH, COMMUNITY OF CHRIST, ALLAN COOK, MARK CREGO, CHRIST CHURCH THE SUNSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION MISSIONARIES, THE DARGER FAMILY, ANDI PITCHER The mission of the Sunstone Education Foundation is to DAVIS, ALAN EASTMAN, VICKIE EASTMAN, JOHN HATCH, sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experience. JOHN LARSEN, RACHAEL LAURITZEN, DAVE HATCH, JILL Under the motto, “Faith Seeking Understanding,” we HATCH, RENE MCDONALD, BILL MCGEE, ANTHONY D. examine and express the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, MILLER, BLAIRE OSTLER, JACK DAVID SHAPIRO, ANDREW and artistic qualities of Mormon history and contemporary SPRIGGS, JEREMY TUCKER, DANIEL WEBB, and DAN life. We encourage humanitarian service, honest inquiry, WOTHERSPOON. and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all WEB AND TECH: ERIC CANFIELD, KIM MCCALL, people and what they hold sacred. and JAKE SPURLOCK. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: BILL MCGEE (chair), ON-SITE VOLUNTEERS: It takes a village to help the KIM MCCALL, ROBIN LINKHART, BLAIRE OSTLER, symposium run smoothly. We give our heartfelt thanks to all of LINDSAY HANSEN PARK (ex officio), KAREN PETERS, our many volunteers for helping with registration desk duties HEATHER TEODORO, GEORGE ANDREW SPRIGGS, and other tasks. MICHAEL J. STEVENS. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Once again STEVE MAYFIELD, PERRY STAFF: PORTER, and KIM TURNER will be capturing symposium LINDSAY HANSEN PARK (executive director) highlights on film, so smile when you see them approach! STEPHEN CARTER (director of publications) MUSIC: We are pleased once again to have ALAN EASTMAN at the GRACE POOL (events director) piano for our plenary music as well as our Friday lunch sing-along. KIMI MAYO (office manager) VENUE: We’re pleased to return to the Mountain America #HONORNATIVELAND Exposition Center in Sandy, Utah. We’re especially thankful for the support of GERRI MORGAN and our AV team for As a step toward honoring the truth and achieving healing and their help as we navigate this venue. reconciliation, Sunstone commits to open all public events and gatherings with a statement acknowledging the traditional PRESENTERS: We’re excited to have both new and returning Native lands on which we stand. Such statements become presenters on this year’s program. We value their participation truly meaningful when coupled with authentic relationships and hope they continue to join us as both presenters and and sustained commitment. We therefore commit to move audience members. beyond words into programs and actions that fully embody a commitment to Indigenous rights and cultural equity. THANKS TO OUR DONORS & SPONSORS For more than five hundred years, Native communities across Sunstone depends on generous donors to operate and develop the Americas have demonstrated resilience and resistance new events and programs for the Sunstone community. To in the face of violent efforts to separate them from their support our ongoing work, or to show your appreciation for a land, culture, and each other. They remain at the forefront of job well done, please set up a monthly or one-time donation movements to protect Mother Earth and the life it sustains. with us at the registration desk. Today, corporate greed and federal policy push agendas This year’s sponsors include: to extract wealth from the earth, degrading sacred land in blatant disregard of treaty rights. Acknowledgment is a THE SMITH-PETTIT FOUNDATION, SYMMETRY SOLUTIONS, critical public intervention, a necessary step toward honoring MORMON ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE, Native communities and enacting the much larger project of THE MORMON TRANSHUMANIST ASSOCIATION, decolonization and reconciliation. Because of this, we would BENCHMARK BOOKS, and SIGNATURE BOOKS. like to recognize that the area we sit on was first used by nomadic bands of Paiute, Shoshone, and Bannock Indians who roamed along the base of the mountains as they travelled from their winter home at Utah Lake to their summer fishing grounds at Bear Lake.

6 | SUNSTONE 2019 | SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 6:30 pm 181. Break Dinner Sunstone Many planning are attendees Crab to eat at Joe’s the Shack, just north of center. expo

5:00–6:30 pm 175. Radiant Mormonism 176. to a What’s Crisis? A Faith of Breakdown the Process 172. 172. Mormons and ERA 173. Overcoming the Anger: How to Let Go and On Move 174. Theological Development in Mormon Fundamentalism 177. Finding Spiritual Paths after Mormonism 171. and Liquor Mormons 3:45–4:45 pm 161. 161. The Primary and My Colors Duct-taped Shelf 164. Crisis as Faith Disorienting Dilemma 165. Babel’d : A Contemporary Performance 166. Abuse and Sex Resources 162. True The Only and Living Mood Church: Confusion 163. Smith, Smithereens 167. 167. Mesa Easter Pageant and of the Future Church LDS

2:00–3:30 pm 154. of A Reading the Winning England Contest Essays 151. 151. of Mayor Hildale 152. Movement a Toward Spectrum of Belief 153. the for Church Unchurched 155. the Across Aisle 156. John Pierce and Hawley at the Temple Zodiac 157. Religious Case for Environmental Stewardship pm

12:30–2 141. Lunch will be available at the Expo Center concession and Chile Verde. 142. Decker: Rod Utah Politics 143. Film Screening: Straws THURSDAY 1 AUGUST THURSDAY 131. 131. When God A White Isn’t CisHet Dude 136. What Color Faith Is Your Crisis? 135. ERA NOW’s Missionary Project 132. Epistemology of Two Different Questions 137. 137. Works, Grace, Devotion...and Video Games? 11:30-12:30 pm 11:30-12:30 133. 133. Malnourished of Children Madagascar 134. Bringing to Artifacts Augmented Reality am 10:15-11:15 124. 124. Mormon Theology and Game of Thrones 127. 127. and Poetry the Prophetic Imagination 125. B of Mormon Yesterday, and Today, Tomorrow 122. to Ways Future a Past Explore Faith 121. 121. Religion Your is Showing 123. “Shh, From Be Still” to Speaking Up 126. 126. Israelite Origins and Mormonism 9:00-10:00 am 9:00-10:00 111. 111. The Future with of Faith Petrey Taylor 8:30-9:00 Registration Doorbuster prize for 50 first attendees Support Mormon art and scholarship Mormon art and scholarship Support and Benchmark Books patronizing by the corridor. in Row Handcrafters 200-C 300-A 300-C ROOM 300-B 200-B 200-D 200-A

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6:30–8:00 281. Dinner Many Sunstone attendees will be eating at Crown Burger just west of the expo center.

5:00–6:30 pm 278. The Mormon Mind-game: Thinking Errors 271. Imagining Mormonism at Mid-century 277. 277. The Return of the Divine Feminine 274. the How Succession Crisis Is Solved 272. 272. Different Views on Priesthood 276. and Bisexuality Mormonism 273. Behind History the Label Mormon 275. BYU Students and Homogeniety

3:45–4:45 pm 262. 262. to Two I Go Churches 261. The Art of Polygamy 265. 265. What Became of the Woolleys? 268. 268. Nurturing and Growth Development 266. 266. Jesus Would Attend Sunstone? 264. 264. Quantum Physics and the Light of Christ 267. Free Radio Mormon 263. Every Protect Child 2:00–3:30 pm 251. 251. Stay We Why

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FRIDAY 2 AUGUST FRIDAY 12:30–2 241. Lunch will be available the from Expo Center concessions and Chile Verde. 243. 243. Film Screening: Faithful 242. 242. Sunstone Hymn Sing-along

232. 232. The Roots of Mormon Correlation 237. 237. Lingering From toLonger AloneBowling 238. Mormon Mean Girls 233. 233. John W. as Woolley Trusted Highly 231. 231. Not It’s Hopeless! Mixed Faith 234. City Colorado Music Festival 236. 236. Yoga Classic Scriptures: The Yoga Sutras 235. 235. of The Role in Reason Church RLDS 11:30–12:30 pm

10:15-11:15 am 10:15-11:15 223. Re-membering of the Wake in Crisis a Faith 225. Developing Human True Connection 227. that The Truth Once Was Spoken 224. and Revelation Relativity 226. 226. Healing After Abuse Sexual 221. 221. can What LDS Learn from Catholicism 222. An Alternative for Orthodoxy Mormonism 228. Urantian: LDS Pursuing Personal Religion 9:00-10:00 am 9:00-10:00 216. Jon McNaughton: Right-Wing Propogandist 218. Jesus Was Married 213. 213. Finding Consensus in Controversy 217. Misplaced Priorities, Fixation on Ideals 211. 211. Mormonism and Masonry 212. Unstuck From Crisis the Faith Narrative 214. From Lessons Mixed-faith Marriages 215. Polygamy: Beyond Mormonism

8:15–8:45 Doorbuster Doorbuster prize for 50 first attendees Support Mormon art and scholarship Mormon art and scholarship Support and Benchmark Books patronizing by the corridor. in Row Handcrafters 200-D 300-C 300-D 200-C 300-B 300-A ROOM 200-A 200-B

8 | SUNSTONE 2019 | SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 7:00–9:00 pm 7:00–9:00 381. Epic Mormon Potluck Community at Crescent Park $10 ticket per Featuring: Presentation Comedy by So Venn” “You’re Pool Jerilyn Hassel 11 Eleven Music by Live Sunstone Kickball Game with Teams Law and Outer Higher Darkness

5:00–6:30 pm 378. 378. Ask a Sex Therapist 371. Anti-Masonry and Joseph Smith 377. 377. Post-Mormons with Carpal Tunnel 374. 374. Faith: Evolving Building Spiritual Mansions 373. 373. for Prophet a Day 372. 372. Families How Will Find Purpose 376. Talk Can We About It Sacred Now? Symbols 375. 375. Difficulties of and Joys Work” “Inner 3:45–4:45 pm 362. 362. and The Near Distant Future of Faith 361. 361. Colleen and McDannell Sister Saints 365. The God-Image in Mormonism 368. New Views on Fundamentalism 366. the Who Wears Pants? 364. 364. of Evolution the Name of the Church 367. 367. Transgender Spirituality and the Church 363. 363. Food, Faith, and Culture, Science 2:00–3:30 pm 358. Mainstream Mormon Women Go Plural 355. Finding Human Connection Mormon Post 357. 357. and Fostering Maintaining Healthy Boundaries 354. Adult Refugee Entrepreneurs in Utah 356. Tarot, Mormonism, & the Fool’s Journey 353. 353. of Community Christ Meets Postmodernism 352. The New God Argument 351. 351. What the Second Coming Means pm

342. Meet the of Women the MTA 343. So You’re Venn Pre-Show 12:30–2 341. Lunch SATURDAY 3 AUGUST SATURDAY 337. Church LDS and the NAACP 338. an Toward Inclusive Heaven 333. 333. Open Break the Vessel, the Oil Pour 334. 334. Great Many and Important Things 336. of The Role Science in Spirituality 335. Yoga Classic Scriptures: Gita Bhagavad 11:30–12:30 pm 332. Mormon Queer Transhumanism 331. 331. Post-Mormonism and Witchy View World

10:15-11:15 am 10:15-11:15 323. The Beatles, and Mormonism 325. The Rising Process Strong Continued 326. Navigating through Church Trauma 327. Joseph Adam- Smith’s God Teachings 324. Paradisiacal Glory: Our Lives Future 321. 321. Revelation: Foundational Principle 322. Millennials, Mormonism(s), and Myth 328. Clash: Culture Postmodern Religious Identity 9:00-10:00 am 9:00-10:00 316. On Beyond in the Faith Borderlands 317. 317. Joseph, Brigham, and John, and the “King Israel” over 311. 311. Naturalistic Explanations B of Mormon for 312. Welcome to Mormon Transhumanism 313. of The Wives Joseph Smith 315. The Rising Strong Process 314. and Graffiti the Kirtland Temple 318. Relational Trajectories of Ex-LDS Children

8:15–9:00 Association Association Track Mormon Transhumanist 301. Devotional: “Hope” Doorbuster prize for 50 first attendees Support Mormon art and scholarship Mormon art and scholarship Support and Benchmark Books patronizing by the corridor. in Row Handcrafters 200-D 300-B 300-C 300-D 200-C 300-A ROOM 200-A 200-B

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WEDNESDAY 31 JULY faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the 5:00-6:30 PM concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how 081. NEW ATTENDEES DINNER the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits Join Sunstone for our third annual New Attendees Dinner! and emotions, and eventually transformed into a This dinner is for anyone attending the conference for the very single Divine Personality: the God known today by first time or for people who need a refresher. It’s also a great such names as Yahweh, Father, and Allah. opportunity for old attendees to meet new attendees and offer closing song “God Is Love” (87) advice on how to Sunstone! benediction MAXINE HANKS

The dinner will he held at the HuHot Mongolian Barbeque at 10835 moderator LINDSAY HANSEN PARK

S State St, Sandy, UT 84070. Admission to the dinner is $25. room 200-C During the dinner you will be given a Sunstone Symposium Orientation, hosted by our New Attendees coordinators, This lecture is FREE and open to the public. This ANTHONY MILLER and MARK CREGO. lecture has been made possible by the generous support of the Smith-Pettit Foundation.

SMITH-PETTIT LECTURE, 7:00-9:00 PM

091. THE FUTURE OF FAITH The Smith-Pettit lecture is FREE and open to the public. accompanist ALAN EASTMAN has been enlivening Sunstone symposia with his piano playing for more years than anyone can remember. He has been playing the piano since age 10, studying the organ with Dr. Robert Cundick at the Tabernacle. He had a jazz trio for 30 years, and currently plays with two local swing bands. chorister KIM MCCALL opening song “Draw the Circle Wide” invocation JAXON WASHBURN presenter REZA ASLAN is an Iranian-American scholar of religious studies, writer, and television host. He has written three books on religion: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization, and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Aslan is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the International Qur’anic Studies Association. He is also a professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside. He is currently a board member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). abstract In God: A Human History, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind’s relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of

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presenter TAYLOR PETREY is an associate professor THURSDAY 1 AUGUST of religion at Kalamazoo College. He was REGISTRATION, 8:30 AM–9:00 PM Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Sexuality and Research Associate Badges and single-session tickets are available at the in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at registration table in the center lobby of the Mountain America Harvard Divinity School in 2016-17. He teaches Expo Center. biblical studies, gender studies, and theory and method in religious studies classes.

DOORBUSTERS FOR Dr. Petrey received his ThD and MTS from THE FIRST 50 ATTENDEES Harvard Divinity School in New Testament and Early Christianity, and a BA in philosophy and room MAIN CONCOURSE religion from Pace University in New York City. His research and scholarship focus on the 8:30 AM–9:00 PM intersection of postmodern gender studies and 101. SUNSTONE ART SHOW religion, methods of scriptural interpretation, and the impact of modernity on religion. curators BLAIRE OSTLER is a philosopher specializing in queer studies, and is a leading voice at Among his publications, he is the author of the intersection of queer, Mormon, and the book Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians transhumanist thought. She is an author on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference publishing her first book, Queer Mormon (Routledge, 2016) and a forthcoming book, Theology: An Introduction. She is a board Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Sexual member of the Mormon Transhumanist Difference in Modern Mormonism. In addition, Association, the Christian Transhumanist he is a co-editor of two forthcoming volumes, Association, and Sunstone. Blaire is also an The Bible in Latter-day Saint Tradition and The artist and poet, and spends her spare time Routledge Handbook on Gender Studies and hiking, painting, writing, and bickering with her Mormonism. friends about almost any topic imaginable. Dr. Petrey’s articles “Toward a Post- ANDI PITCHER DAVIS is a conceptual Heterosexual Mormon Theology” in Dialogue: artist, photographer, and general purveyor A Journal of Mormon Thought and “Rethinking of happiness. She is also the art editor for Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother” in Harvard Dialogue, as well as a longtime maven of Theological Review have received wide Mormon art. Her favorite pastime is feeding a readership. culture by creating spaces for fellow makers A native of Sandy and South Jordan, Utah, Dr. and doers within our creative community. Petrey is a practicing Latter-day Saint. abstract This exhibit showcasesMormon art that abstract In order to understand the future of faith, expresses both past and future visions of we need to also understand its past and the Mormonism. present. A currently beleaguered faith is part of Purchase art by contacting the artist directly. a broad paradigm shift in how we understand Price cards and contact info are provided at the the nature of reality in the modern era. These exhibition. challenges are not easily dismissed. At the same time, many, including Latter-day Saints, room MAIN CONCOURSE have undertaken the hard work of reconciling faith and modernity. But what about faith and post-modernity? How might faith contribute to the critique of modernity’s shortcomings, not OPENING PLENARY, 9:00AM–10:00AM through nostalgia for something lost, but as a paradigm for where to train our attention? 111. THE FUTURE OF FAITH closing song “Press Forward Saints” (81) opening song “Redeemer of Israel” (6) moderator LINDSAY HANSEN PARK accompanist ALAN EASTMAN room 200-C chorister KIM MCCALL This session generously sponsored by Symmetry Solutions.

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:15AM–11:15AM 123. FROM “SHHH, BE STILL” TO SPEAKING UP—REMAKING THE 121. “YOUR RELIGION IS SHOWING:” CHURCH EXPERIENCE NEGOTIATION AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN LDS GARMENTS presenter SUSAN M. HINCKLEY is an Arizona artist/ writer and a graduate of the University of Utah. presenter NANCY ROSS is an assistant professor in the She enjoys desert living, creating the webcomic Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Department Gray Area, moderating Waters of Mormon at Dixie State University. She has published Facebook group, and endless examination of on Mormon feminism, LDS attitudes toward both her faith and her lack thereof. women in the priesthood, and has forthcoming publications on LDS garments. abstract After decades of feeling alone, I’d almost given up seeking a place for myself at church. When abstract This session examines 4,500 survey responses I accepted the calling to teach in a new ward, I from members of LDS Church answering wasn’t sure what I believed but I felt inspired to questions on the practice of wearing garments, try building the space I needed into my lessons. or sacred underwear. Men and women report I knew what I had found lacking, and what I different experiences with their garments. This longed for. After five years of consistently study looks at responses from both those who saying the things I need to hear at church, are still wearing their garments and from those there’s been a transformation in our Relief who have stopped wearing their garments. Society. It seems the more I’m willing to speak my truth, the more I create space for others to moderator NATALIE SHEPHERD BARKDULL do the same. room 200-A moderator JEN PERLMUTTER TANNER

room 200-C 122. FUTURE WAYS TO EXPLORE A PAST FAITH: A POST-MORMON NATURE PHILOSOPHY 124. MORMON THEOLOGY AND THE GAME OF THRONES: DISCERNING THE presenter TOM BENNETT is a roaming mystic and full-time traveling musician. He has been a DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KING-MEN Baptist, a Mormon, a Mormon Fundamentalist, a AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD Buddhist, and an occultist. presenter MARK CREGO is the founder of the Identity Strategy foundation. His work includes the abstract “I am constantly in awe of the great mystery Unique Identity program of India, providing which surrounds us,” is the defining statement suffrage and financial inclusion for over 1.2 of the Holy Order of Wildlife, or H.O.W.L.: an billion people. amalgamation of early Mormonism, Buddhism, Luciferianism, and Gnostic Christianity amongst abstract Both the Book of Mormon and the Game of other paths. We seek a sacred grove of our Thrones present personal struggle against the own as we turn to nature as the primary source backdrop of violent war narratives, differing of connection to the divine. While we believe only in level of explicit detail. Both use the strongly in spiritual experiences and the seeking symbol of the steel sword as that which of such experiences we also believe in science enforced good. Both are tragedies. The true and the laws of nature. heroes in both are those who are internally transformed away from the banality of the moderator JOSH ALLRED sword into personal nonviolence. In the room 200-B vignettes of these heroes, whether Alma or the Hound, Ammon or Arya, Samuel or the Red Woman, the futility of violence gives way to the personal transformation of the Kingdom of God within.

moderator TOM KIMBALL

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125. THE BOOK OF MORMON YESTERDAY, 127. MORMON POETRY AND THE TODAY AND TOMORROW: PROPHETIC IMAGINATION: OPENING HOW DIGITAL ANALYSIS, (THE) FAITH TOWARD POSSIBILITY HERMETICS, AND CHAOS THEORY CHANGE WHAT WE SEE presenters TYLER CHADWICK lives in Ogden, Utah with his wife, Jess, and their four daughters. He teaches presenter BRIAN W. KASSENBROCK has an MA in writing at Utah Valley University and is the German literature from New York University; editor of Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon matriculation in modern literature, Medieval Poets (Peculiar Pages), co-editor of Dove Song: German, and linguistics at the Bayerische Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry (Peculiar Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg; and Pages), and author of Field Notes on Language a PhD in German literature from New York and Kinship (Mormon Artists Group). University, where his dissertation focused on the early Romantic movement. DAYNA PATTERSON is the author of If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her abstract The Book of Mormon has a long history, but creative work has appeared or is forthcoming how it was seen by its original readers is in POETRY, AGNI, Crab Orchard Review, Hotel quite different from how it is seen today. This Amerika, Passages North, Sugar House Review, presentation explores the path from the early Western Humanities Review, and Zone 3. She is 19th century to today and how Mormonism’s the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, founding text may be seen in the future. a former managing editor of Bellingham Review, and poetry editor for Exponent II Magazine. She moderator STEVE FLORMAN is a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. room 300-A

ELIZABETH PINBOROUGH lives in Salt Lake City. Her work has appeared in Dove Song: 126. ISRAELITE ORIGINS Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry, Dialogue: A AND MORMONISM Journal of Mormon Thought, Exponent II, and Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets. She presenter RYAN WIMMER received a BA in history from edited the book Habits of Being: Mormon Women’s the University of Utah and an MA from BYU. Material Culture, published by Exponent II. She He has been published in the John Whitmer is currently researching an LDS theology of the Historical Journal. He has presented papers body and working on her first book of poems. at MHA and other conferences on Japanese Americans in Utah and Mormon/Native TERRESA WELLBORN has been published in American relations. BYU Studies, Dialogue, Segullah, and several anthologies including Fire in the Pasture, Dove abstract Aware of the growing number of LDS members Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry, and exiting the Church, the LDS hierarchy have Monsters and Mormons. She has a BA in English responded to some of the cause with the Gospel literature and a MLIS degree in library and Topic Essays; many of which focus on Mormon information science. When not on a mountaintop, origins, but the problems with the traditional she prefers to dwell in possibility. narrative are much larger. The biblical record of Israelite origins is based primarily on myth KATHRYN KNIGHT SONNTAG is the author of presenting problems for literal beliefs of all The Tree at the Center (By Common Consent religions that have grown out of the ancient Press). Her poems and essays have appeared Israelite traditions. Mormon theology centers in many publications, including: Shades: The on many of these origin myths, such as the University of Utah’s Literary Magazine, Wilderness gathering of Israel. What does this all mean to Interface Zone, Exponent II, Psaltery & Lyre, the future of Mormonism and related traditions? Segullah, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She has a BA in English, a BS in moderator JOHNNY STEPHENSON environmental studies, and a master’s degree in landscape architecture and environmental room 300-B planning.

abstract The prophetic imagination as a mode of consciousness disrupts mainstream cultural trends and seeks to expand individual and

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communal faith using language ripe with Mormon history and has produced cutting edge poetic rhythms and imagery. Whereas dogma information of how secret counterfeiting among intends to pin down and flatten out ideas and early Mormon leaders affected their fate in to narrow the conceptual frames through Secret Combinations: Evidence of Early Mormon which people view the world, poetry relies Counterfeiting 1800-1847. on metaphor, nuance, ambiguity, and emotion to open audiences toward the abundance and abstract Many formerly faithful Mormons leave the possibilities of human knowledge, experience, Church because it no longer makes them happy, relationships, organizations, and culture. In or they discover it is not true, or both. They this session, five poets/editors consider the often face a spiritual crisis affecting their jobs, work of poetry and the prophetic imagination in their relationships, their ethics, and their mental the ongoing development of our Mormon faith health. Sometimes they become confused and community. lose faith in their own ability to sort out what is good, true or real. This paper will explore ways moderator STEPHEN CARTER of knowing what is good and true about the world including emotions, logic, reasoning, and room 300-C the evaluation of evidence. We will discuss the scientific method as a means of guiding one’s decisions and its limits.

moderator TOM KIMBALL

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM room 200-B 131. WHEN GOD ISN’T A WHITE CISHET DUDE 133. THE MALNOURISHED CHILDREN presenter METTE HARRISON is the author of The Bishop’s OF MADAGASCAR Wife and multiple essays for Huffington Post. She recently launched a new podcast The Mormon presenters BOB REES is co-founder and current vice Sabbatical. president of the Bountiful Children’s Foundation. He has traveled to a number of countries to abstract Many post-Mormons reject God altogether after address children’s malnutrition. rejecting the Mormon temple god with a beard, but what other versions of God might work for GLORIA GARDNER REES has studied with both the rest of us? John T. Kessler and Thomas McConkie in the IPP Institute, Lower Lights, and Pacific Integral’s moderator NATALIE SPERRY MANDELIN Generating Transformative Change (GTC). Teaching in China, India and Nepal, plus travel in room 200-A the Philippines, Spain and Madagascar have fed her awareness—seeing others where they are. She is the mother of six. 132. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TWO DIFFERENT QUESTIONS: abstract The Bountiful Children’s Foundation is an NGO WHAT DO I THINK WILL MAKE ME that addresses malnutrition among Latter-day HAPPY VS. WHAT IS TRUE? Saint and other children in the developing world. The foundation is currently serving presenter KATHLEEN KIMBALL MELONAKOS is the needs of malnourished children in over descended from Heber C. Kimball, graduated 200 congregations in 20 countries. Recently from BYU in nursing, and has worked at the Foundation expanded its operation to Stanford University Medical Center. She Madagascar, one of the poorest (and yet most authored the bestselling Saunders Pocket beautiful) countries in the world. This session Reference for Nurses. She has studied liberal reports on the work of the foundation in arts and philosophy at eight universities Madagascar and the challenges of addressing including the University of Toronto, Loyola children’s malnutrition in an increasingly global University in Chicago and Cambridge University. church. She earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Stanford University in 1996. Most moderator STEPHEN CARTER recently she has spent ten years researching room 200-C

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134. BRINGING BOOK OF MORMON 136. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR FAITH ARTIFACTS TO AUGMENTED REALITY CRISIS? presenter STEVE OTTESON is a software developer living presenter RUSSELL L. OSMOND’s doctoral dissertation in Redmond, Washington. His interests outside (Syracuse University, 1979) contained an in- of software include Mormon history, Biblical depth literature review of “Why Men Rebel (& academics and early Christianity. Combining his Convert)”. It developed a quantitative model interests in 3D software and Mormon history for identifying who might most lean toward resulted in “Book of Mormon AR,” a mobile becoming a terrorist (a.k.a. “True Believer”). application for viewing and interacting with His advisor, Dr. Michael Barkun, published the Book of Mormon artifacts in augmented reality. classic studies of millenarianism conversions across the centuries of Western Civilization. abstract Through the power of augmented reality, Book of Mormon artifacts come to life! Learn how the abstract Faith crises are not all the same. This session gold plates, the Urim and Thummim (breastplate presents their differing roots and how and spectacles) and other artifacts were understanding where your roots are can help modeled in 3D using historical research and you deal with your faith crisis more effectively. eyewitness accounts. See how these and other This session gently invites each attendee to artifacts can be viewed on your mobile device ponder their own “burnings within” by providing as if they existed in the real world. attendees with a method to answer: “What’s in my conversion wallet?” moderator MARK PETERSEN moderator NATALIE SHEPHERD BARKDULL room 200-D room 300-B

135. MISSIONARIES TO THE MORMONS: NOW’S ERA MISSIONARY PROJECT 137. GRACE, WORKS, DEVOTION ... AND VIDEO GAMES? presenter BILL CONNORS recently completed a master of theological studies degree at Harvard Divinity presenter GEORGE ANDREW SPRIGGS is a terrible gamer School with an area of focus in American (that is, someone that more hardcore gamers religious history and Mormon studies. His might call a “filthy casual fake gamer”) and a master’s thesis from BYU won the MHA award nonbelieving, non-practicing cultural Mormon for best dissertation or thesis. Professionally, (that is, someone that true believing members Bill is a consultant in the field of nonprofit and of the LDS Church might call a “filthy casual education fundraising. fake Mormon” if they used gamer vocabulary.) Notwithstanding these deficits, he still enjoys abstract In the summer of 1981, the National Organization discussing video games through musical cover for Women sent feminist “missionaries” to Utah stories on YouTube, and discussing Mormonism to advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment. through blog posts, Facebook, and Reddit This presentation tells this never-before- discussions. published story based on NOW’s institutional records from the Harvard Schlesinger abstract Each year, the population of “nones,” Library. NOW was upset at the LDS Church’s disenfranchised from conventional religion, participation against the ERA and recruited increases. But the decline in traditional religions and trained women and men to go door to does not result in a lack of appreciation for door in the major cities of Utah on a program religious concepts like works, devotion, and modeled after the LDS missionary program. self-improvement. The rise of video gaming Their purpose: to demonstrate and increase represents a new interactive model for myth- Utah support for the ERA and to reveal the LDS making, the practice of works, and devotion. Church’s opposition in the national press. By looking at age-old religious tensions (such as the fraught relationship between works and moderator LAURIE VERTNER grace) through the seemingly secular lens of games like Celeste, Cuphead, and Sekiro, we can room 300-A gain new insights about these eternal questions.

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141. LUNCH BREAK, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM abstract A colorful straw history animation narrated by Oscar winner Tim Robbins, Straws leaves See page 5 for dining options. Lunch is available at the expo audiences with a clear understanding of the concession stands and Chile Verde. problems caused by plastic pollution and empowers individuals to be part of the solution. The film lasts 30 minutes.

LUNCH PRESENTATIONS, 12:45 PM–1:45 PM moderator BLAIR M. WHITE

142. UTAH POLITICS: room 300-A THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM presenter ROD DECKER is known for his reporting on Utah’s KUTV Channel 2, as well as for his CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM column and editorials in the Deseret News. A graduate of the University of Utah, he attended 151. MAYOR OF HILDALE: SHORT graduate school at the University of Chicago CREEK’S FIRST FEMALE LEADER and spent a year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow before enlisting as a military intelligence officer presenter DONIA JESSOP, mayor of Hildale, Utah, was during the Vietnam War. His first book, An born and raised in Hildale/Colorado City and Environment for Murder, turned his intimate from birth has had a love and devotion to her acquaintance with sagebrush politics into a hometown and considered everyone in town her page-turning mystery. friend. She graduated from CCUSD, married the love of her life, Joe, and together over the next abstract Utah became a Republican state because Latter- 30 years they raised a beautiful family, day Saints disagreed with changes brought by the sexual revolution. Abortion, pornography, abstract Donia Jessop, the first woman mayor of Hildale gay marriage, as well as the decline of traditional and a driving force behind the Utah town’s families and the rise of out-of-marriage births ongoing transition away from its notorious led them to Republicanism; Utah non-Mormons, past will speak about her experiences in the facing a seemingly permanent religious-political last several years, how her work has impacted majority, became Democrats. LDS adherence to herself and her community. the old morality also affected Utah demography, moderator NADINE MCCOMBS HANSEN making the state the youngest and most married. Decker’s new book, Utah Politics, changes the room 200-A story of Utah history and shows how the state assimilated until the mid-1970s, when political and demographical changes reoccurred. Decker offers a new look at Utah history, politics, and 152. MOVEMENT TOWARD government, one that highlights the importance A SPECTRUM OF BELIEF of Latter-day Saint moral and family differences. presenters KRISTIN PERKINS is pursuing a master’s moderator DEVERY ANDERSON degree at the University of Texas at Austin. room 200-C CHRIS PECK has a master’s degree in education and teaches English in Orem, Utah. He is a published essayist and poet. 143. FILM SCREENING: STRAWS KYLE BOND is an English teacher in Orem, and will receive his master’s degree in English this presenter SØREN SIMONSEN is the director of the fall. Jordan River Commission, and an urban planner, architect, educator, community-builder abstract These essays will show how the future of and social entrepreneur. Over the past three Mormonism exists through the creation of what decades, including 17 years of public service we term a “spectrum of belief,” arguing for more as an appointed and elected official, he has inclusivity within Mormonism. Perkins’s essay worked to create sustainable places and livable argues for inclusivity for LGBTQ+ communities communities in Utah and the West. without direct authority from LDS leadership. Peck’s essay incorporates existentialism as a way to bring about a spectrum of belief through

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subjectivity and an emphasis on meaningful Amerika, Passages North, Sugar House Review, choice. Finally, Bond discusses the portrait of Western Humanities Review, and Zone 3. She is a “none,” and argues for greater inclusivity for the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, spiritual diaspora within a Mormon context. a former managing editor of Bellingham Review, and poetry editor for Exponent II Magazine. She moderator JEN PERLMUTTER TANNER is a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. room 200-B TYLER CHADWICK lives in Ogden, Utah with his wife, Jess, and their four daughters. He teaches 153. CHURCH FOR THE writing at Utah Valley University and is the UNCHURCHED REVISITED editor of Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets (Peculiar Pages), co-editor of Dove Song: presenter JOHN HAMER serves as the pastor of the Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry (Peculiar Toronto congregation in Community of Christ Pages), and author of Field Notes on Language and was the co-creator of the congregation’s and Kinship (Mormon Artists Group). Toronto Centre Place facility. He serves in the priesthood office of Seventy in Community abstract The winners of the 2018 Eugene England of Christ, and is the president of Sionito, the Memorial Personal Essay Contest will come church’s Toronto-based social housing charity. together to read their essays: 1st Place: “The Process of Staying,” by Susan abstract For the past three years, John Hamer has built up a new community at Toronto Centre M. Hinckley. For many people, it looks like Place committed to a five-point mission: (1) Hinckley, with her independent ways, is in the invite everyone into community, (2) continually process of leaving the LDS Church. But she learn and grow, (3) abolish poverty and end argues that she’s actually in the process of needless suffering, (4) pursue peace and staying. justice, and (5) live life meaningfully together. 2nd Place: “Fledglings,” by Dayna Patterson. Regular participants at Centre Place include a Raising daughters in the LDS Church, and in vast diversity of backgrounds and beliefs from America, is a difficult undertaking. Among the Mormon to Protestant, Ethiopian Orthodox tools one needs to succeed are seagulls, Star to Quaker, from Isma’ili to Sunni Muslim, as Trek, and King Lear. well as Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, humanists, and atheists. Hamer will outline Honorable Mention: “The Gods Step Out of Their the formula for the Toronto Centre Place and Hiding Place: Meditations on Divine Presence,” Creating Connection communities. by Tyler Chadwick. A flock of doves, Walt Whitman, and Emma Lou Thayne come together moderator ROY SCHMIDT in this meditation on how words guide the soul and the community it is part of. room 200-C moderator BRENT FLAMM

154. A READING OF THE WINNING room 200-D ESSAYS FROM THE 2018 EUGENE ENGLAND MEMORIAL PERSONAL ESSAY CONTEST 155. ACROSS THE AISLE: COMMUNICATING THROUGH presenters SUSAN M. HINCKLEY is an Arizona artist/ DIFFERENCES IN FAITH AND BELIEF writer, and a graduate of the University of Utah. She enjoys desert living, creating the webcomic presenters MATT HARWARD is active in the LDS Church: he Gray Area, moderating Waters of Mormon went on a mission, attended BYU, and got sealed Facebook group, and endless examination of in the temple. He has served as a bishop and on both her faith and her lack thereof. the stake high council. Matt has four kids; the oldest and second are both out of the Church. He DAYNA PATTERSON is the author of If Mother and his wife Tricia are raising their youngest two Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her in the Church. creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, Crab Orchard Review, Hotel

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ANTHONY D. MILLER is a business owner and a contextualization of Hawley’s insight into education enthusiast with graduate degrees the changing of the endowment and other in business and in financial services. After ordinances through those years. a lifetime of faithful LDS Church activity, Anthony traversed an acute faith crisis that moderator ANDREW HAMILTON began after stumbling across the Gospel Topics Essays while searching for resources to room 300-B support his adult gay son. Anthony frequently contributes to progressive and post-Mormon communities online and in-person. He blogs at 157. THE RELIGIOUS CASE FOR UnpackingAmbiguity.com. ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

NICHOLAS R. STEWART has a masters degree presenters SØREN SIMONSEN is the director of the in urban planning from San Jose State. He grew Jordan River Commission, and an urban up in the Mormon Church, got married in the planner, architect, educator, community-builder Los Angeles temple, and served in four elders and social entrepreneur. Over the past three quorum presidencies. He is no longer an active, decades, including 17 years of public service believing member of the LDS Church. as an appointed and elected official, he has worked to create sustainable places and livable IAN HARRIS was born into a part-member communities in Utah and the West. family and went on to serve a mission, despite resistance from his non-member father. Shortly MADISON DANIELS is the faith community before his mission in Provo, he began to be organizer for Southern Utah Wilderness introduced to information that challenged his Alliance based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He loves understanding of the Church’s truth claims. dirty feet, hugging trees, and gardening. He has Ian ceased to be a fully believing member a degree in environmental humanities from BYU. somewhere around October of 2015. RACHAEL LAURITZEN is a fiber artist, a writer, abstract This session is a discussion group centered a Waldorf handwork teacher, and a dedicated on the theme of how to engage with people environmentalist. In 2005, she received the whose faith/belief is different than your own. Individual Recycler of the Year Award from the Both active, believing Mormons and post/ex/etc- Utah Recycling Coalition for organizing a city Mormons will be represented. This session will recycling program; this effort led to her being be a discussion with ample participation from a city planning commissioner for eight years. the attendees, with the panelists mostly there to She has an English degree from Brigham Young help guide the conversation and share their own University and is a board member for the Salt insights. Lake Knitting Guild. moderator LANEECE FLAMM abstract Joseph Smith’s first visionary experience with the Divine was occasioned by pondering the room 300-A swirling stars, radiant sun, and powerful Earth. Early Mormonism was tied directly to the land, be it the banks of the Susquehanna, Nauvoo, 156. JOHN PIERCE HAWLEY or the Salt Lake Valley. Sacred land is an idea AND THE TEMPLE AT ZODIAC TEXAS rooted deeply within the Mormon psyche. But 1849–1851 that connection seems to be waning in modern Mormonism. This panel will discuss and explore presenter MELVIN C. JOHNSON is the author of Polygamy the idea of sacred land within Mormonism— on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon including rumination on how Mormonism has Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858, and The lost this land ethic and why Mormonism needs Life & Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon to reclaim that land ethic to confront both, Ulysses of the American West. our individual role in anthropogenic climate change, and to create a faith worthy of a more abstract This presentation will give an overview sustainable future of temple development—from Kirtland to Nauvoo to Zodiac and to the Endowment moderator MADISON DANIELS House. The center of the presentation will be room 300-C

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:45PM–4:45PM 163. SMITH, SMITH, SMITHEREENS

161. THE PRIMARY COLORS presenter SHAWN MCCRANEY has taught over 700 AND MY DUCT-TAPED SHELF ninety-minute verse-by-verse studies through the New Testament and has hosted over 1000 presenter CAROL WARBURTON THAYNE has a BFA and hour-long weekly programs dealing with BS degree in art education and English. She religion. He is working on a new translation of is a novelist with five published novels from the Apostolic Record. He is married to Mary and Covenant Communications and Walnut Springs, is the father of three daughters and lives in Salt a wife, mother, and blogger. Lake City, Utah. abstract Using my favorite Primary songs as a abstract The powerful Restorationist movement framework for growth, I’ve learned to live of the 19th century, couched in a fervent without fear, trust my gut, be an advocate for eschatological view of an eminent Second social justice, heal from crippling depression, Coming of Christ, helped establish the notion recognize that there are many spiritual paths, in thousands of earnest hearts and minds and understand that Mormonism is just one that doctrinal and practical reform was possible path to the top of the mountain. Using needed as a means to help usher in Jesus’ Primary lyrics, I will share stories of courage return. Most churches focused on any level from friends I have known, especially among of restoration readily accepted the standard the LGBTQ community. My own prompting to Catholic/Protestant view of end times without “do what is right, let the consequence follow” much resistance or alternative view. After led me to become a proactive ally for the nearly 2000 years American Evangelicalism LGBTQ community, and start an Affirmation- (along with Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, type group in Cache Valley. “Nature is my and Mormonism) continues to perpetuate the church, Love is my religion.” idea that Jesus’ return is imminent despite a preponderance of evidence to the contrary. moderator STEPHEN CARTER moderator NATALIE SHEPHERD BARKDULL room 200-A room 200-C

162. THE ONLY TRUE AND LIVING CHURCH: A CASE OF MOOD 164. FAITH CRISIS AS CONFUSION DISORIENTING DILEMMA: ROAD TO TRANSFORMATION presenter MCKAY PLATT is a medical doctor and surgeon, president of the Amasa Mason Lyman presenter PAUL SPARKS directs the Learning Historical Society (2003–2008), and author of Technologies EdD program and is former Hear The Words of the Book: Big Precepts in the chair of the award-winning MA in Learning Book of Mormon You May Have Missed. He is a Technology at Pepperdine University. He lifetime member of the LDS Church and served leads courses in learning theory, social media in eight bishoprics, three times as bishop. and design, and guides delegations to D.C., Singapore, and Dubai for global perspectives abstract A subjunctive statement in the Lord’s voice about the “only true and living church” (D&C and policy. His past lives include stints in 1:30) has been widely misunderstood as a aerospace, Internet startups, and K–12 math. statement of fact. Statements made as hopes abstract As greater numbers of believers suffer a faith or possibilities can be misunderstood as crisis, better tools are needed to help with declarations. Mood confusion occurs when a understanding and recovery. Mezirow’s Ten statement made in one mood is understood Phases of Transformative Learning—an adult to have been made in another mood and learning theory—can assist in alleviating pain causes us to misunderstand God’s meaning by guiding reflection and an exploration of new and to misquote God. A basic understanding possibilities. Indeed, with a healthy process of the subjunctive mood can prevent us from of acquiring new knowledge, identity, and mistaking an invitation from God for a divine relationships, transformation can be transcendent. endorsement of our present state before him. moderator REBECCA SMYRNIOTOPOULOS moderator JENNIFER KOSKI room 200-D room 200-B SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/SUNSTONE | 19 THURSDAY 1 AUGUST

165. BABEL’D: A CONTEMPORARY 167. THE MESA EASTER PAGEANT AND PERFORMANCE THE FUTURE OF THE LDS CHURCH presenter KRISTIN PERKINS has an MA in performance presenter BRIAN SIMPER is an active member of his ward as public practice from the University of and serves in a Young Men’s presidency. He is Texas at Austin. Her thesis focuses on the an Arizona native and served a full-time mission representations of LGBTQ+ Mormons in in Alberta, Canada. Most of the time he manages American theatre. She was the 2017 recipient network security for financial firms. He is of the Susa Young Gates Award for her married and has four children. undergraduate thesis. She was the recipient of the Mayhew Playwriting Award for excellence in abstract The Mesa Easter Pageant is an annual passion playwriting for three consecutive years. play of the life of Christ on the grounds of the Mesa Arizona Temple with a distinctive LDS abstract Babel’d is an exploration of queerness, flavor. During its two-week run up to Easter, the Mormonism, community, and memory through pageant attracts up to fifteen thousand people solo performance. Centering around a game of every night. It features a live cast of 500 local giant jenga, the audience pulls blocks randomly people and is one of the few pageants that will that trigger scenes; from questions asked be continued even after Manti and others are while blowing bubbles, to a monologue by the ended. It is a community event that attracts the ghost of Morris Young. Babel’d uses texts and Christian community in Phoenix as the elements visuals from interviews, anecdotes, scripture, in the event have become more mainstream and Mormon history to ask: where do “peculiar Christian over time. and queer intersect?” While grounded in queer theory and Mormon history, this presentation moderator MARK PETERSEN uses performance epistemology to assert an alternative way of knowing—a knowing that room 300-C comes through the lived experiences of queer Mormons in Mormon communities. CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM moderator JOSH ALLRED 171. LIQUOR AND MORMONS room 300-A presenters TANNER LENART is an attorney at Christensen & Jensen, with a practice focused on working 166. SEX ABUSE AND RESOURCES: with hospitality businesses and aiding the WHAT OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE navigation of Utah’s liquor laws. Before FOR VICTIMS? attending law school at the University of Utah, Tanner worked as a ski instructor and a bar presenter AMBER CHORUBY WHITELEY has a PhD in tender. Originally from Alabama, Tanner now counseling psychology from the University of lives in Salt Lake with her husband and young Utah. She conducted her dissertation on the daughter. healing processes of Latter-day Saint sexual abuse survivors. She is completing her doctoral LISA BARLOW is the owner of multiple brands, internship at the University of Utah Counseling including Vida Tequila, and owns her own Center. lifestyle branding marketing company, Luxe Marketing. abstract Whiteley will speak to the current state of sexual abuse within the LDS Church. A brief MICHAEL ECCLESTON is the owner of the presentation will be made regarding the current Quarters Arcade Bar. systems put in place by the Church to support abstract Utah liquor laws are constantly evolving, survivors and how these systems can be and they don’t always reflect what’s best for problematic at times. The presenter will review businesses, customers, or even the safety of the how to access resources that help survivors. community. The majority of people who make The presentation will include a question and the laws in Utah don’t drink, and this leads to answer period. frustration, misunderstandings, and bad press for the state. moderator PAULA BAKER moderator BLAIR M. WHITE room 300-B room 200-A

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172. MORMONS AND ERA 173. OVERCOMING THE ANGER: HOW TO LET GO AND MOVE ON presenters ANISSA RASHETA is on the leadership board of the ERA Task Force AZ and Mormons for presenter JOHN LARSEN is the host of the Sunstone ERA. She is the Arizona State Chair for Citizen Podcast and former host of the Mormon Advocacy for CARE, a leading international Expression Podcast. humanitarian organization. She won the I CAN award in 2017, a national award for abstract When individuals leave the Church they are advocates. She is also on the United States often overwhelmed with negative emotions: Global Leadership Coalition Arizona Advisory anger, betrayal, hurt, loss, and loneliness to Committee. name a few. While righteous indignation can seem cathartic at first, hosting negative feelings REBECCA MCHOOD made her Sunstone can begin to feel burdensome. Based on his debut in 2016 with Operation Underground many years working with individuals in faith Railroad where she talked about fighting sex transition, John will discuss ways to move on trafficking and shutting down fake massage from the pain and embrace more peace and joy. parlors in Arizona. She has a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies focusing on moderator JENNIFER KOSKI anthropology and political science from Arizona State University. She is a founding member room 200-C of ERA Task Force AZ and co-founder of iseeuhope.org. 174. THEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT SARA VRANES works as a midwife, doula, and IN MORMON FUNDAMENTALISM lactation specialist. She has a BS from BYU in sociology and international development, presenters LINDSAY HANSEN PARK is host of the Year of focusing on international women’s health. She is Polygamy podcast and executive director of the a co-founder of the Briana Project, a nonprofit Sunstone Education Foundation. that provides care throughout the childbearing year to homeless, refugee, and underserved JACOB VIDRINE is a student, independent women throughout Northern Utah. historian, and researcher. abstract The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has a long CRISTINA ROSETTI has a PhD in religious history beginning in 1923. It is still not part of studies from the University of California, the U.S. Constitution. This would guarantee Riverside. Her research focuses on Mormon constitutional equality of the sexes. The LDS fundamentalism and the emergence of new Church had an impact on the bill’s inability to movements within a religious tradition. be ratified by the arbitrary deadline, yet there has been a recent shift within the Church. With abstract This panel will explore “doctrinal formation” in the Women’s Marches, #MeToo movement, and a broader sense: where different fundamentalist growing numbers of female representation ideas came from, and how different groups and in our government, the ERA is back in the individuals have interpreted, rejected, or altered spotlight. We will discuss the history of the ERA, doctrine based on their historical understanding, why and how the ERA is still relevant, and what experiences, and beliefs. it will take to be ratified. moderator DREW OSTLER moderator KALANI TONGA room 200-D room 200-B

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presenters BOB REES is a professor and Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union. He has just completed editing the second volume of Why I Stay: The Challenge of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons.

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MARGARET YOUNG worked with Darius Gray JAKE GARRETT was born and raised in Davis for twenty years on race issues in the LDS faith, County, and comes from pioneer ancestors that writing three historical novels and producing lived in Nauvoo. three documentaries with him. Since 2014, her work has been in the DR-Congo, where she is DALLIN JOHNSON graduated magna cum laude the project director of a humanitarian agency from Utah State University with degrees in called Congo Rising, which, among other things, economics and international business before has produced three films, the first of which will moving to Washington, DC, where he works premiere in Kinshasa in October 2019. with a nonprofit dedicated to helping people understand, use, and shape the law. JOHN T. KESLER—an attorney, community facilitator, consultant and lecturer—is founder abstract What leads to people transitioning out of the and president of the Salt Lake Civil Network— Church? How do transitions evolve? How do the sponsor of YOUNIFY. John has also relationships with the Church and still active developed an awareness practice called integral loved ones look once someone has transitioned? polarity practice (IPP) and the IPP Institute. This panel will explore these questions, and others, through hearing the transition stories of abstract Richard Bushman coined the term “Radiant the panelists. Mormonism,” which suggests that certain Latter-day Saints radiate their influence “like moderator MELVIN C. JOHNSON rays of light and beams of energy from the sun.” He adds, “They are not official, but a part room 300-B of each of them originates in the church and in core Mormonism. They are part of a great Mormon sphere of influence that reaches 177. FINDING SPIRITUAL PATHS far beyond the church itself. . . . Radiant AFTER MORMONISM Mormonism is elevating. It improves the world. It operates on the principle of good will. presenter ROMAN BATEMAN was born and raised in the Underlying it is the desire to work for the good largest polygamist group in North America, of mankind.” This session consists of half-hour the FLDS. He was pulled out of the third grade interviews with two Radiant Mormons, followed to work, apostatized when he was 16, and by a question and answer period. wandered through his own wilderness. He is now a Utah artist. moderator LORIE WINDER STROMBERG TBA room 300-A abstract Though some leave the faith of their fathers, they still continue to seek truth and knowledge. This panel will explore how different individuals 176. WHAT’S A FAITH CRISIS? in the Mormon spectrum have connected with A BREAKDOWN OF THE PROCESS their own spirituality post-Mormonism. presenters ALLAN MOUNT experienced religious trauma as moderator LAURIE VERTNER he familiarized himself with LDS Church history over the course of 2017. At the beginning of 2018, room 300-C he and his wife started the mixed-faith marriage podcast Marriage on a Tightrope under Bill Reel’s Mormon Discussion family of podcasts.

HEATHER BEUTLER SHAFFER is an English teacher who loves reading, listening, and learning. She lives with her husband, Scott Shaffer, who has the mind of a scientist and the hands of an artist. They have two young sons who give their life a lovely Calvin and Hobbes blend of wonder and chaos.

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FRIDAY 2 AUGUST moderator H. MICHAEL MARQUARDT REGISTRATION, 8:30 AM–9:00 PM room 200-A Badges and single-session tickets are available at the registration table in the lobby of the Mountain America Expo 212. GETTING UNSTUCK Center. FROM THE FAITH CRISIS NARRATIVE

presenter AMY LOGAN is an artist, entrepreneur, BYU DOORBUSTERS FOR graduate, and life coach. Her weekly vlog can be THE FIRST 50 ATTENDEES found on her YouTube channel: Amy Logan Life, where she speaks weekly about healing and room MAIN CONCOURSE moving on after a Mormon faith crisis.

8:30 AM–9:00 PM abstract The Thought Model empowers a person to understand how they process thoughts, make SUNSTONE ART SHOW decisions, and take action in order to make lasting changes in their lives. People often See pages 10–11 for information. get stuck in the circular thinking/questioning phase of a faith crisis when they feel deceived room MAIN CONCOURSE by the current church narrative and newfound information. This tool helps people break out of the victim mentality. CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 9:00AM–10:00AM moderator BRENT FLAMM 211. MORMONISM AND MASONRY: EMERGING EVIDENCE room 200-B presenters CLAIR BARRUS is a senior systems engineer for a large company in Utah. He has published in the Journal of Mormon History and the 213. FINDING CONSENSUS John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, IN MORMON CONTROVERSY and manages ‘Today in Mormon History’ presenter JIM BENNETT is an LDS writer and blogger (TodayInMormonHistory.com). whose response to the CES Letter has been CHERYL L. BRUNO has a BS in recreation downloaded over 100,000 times. He is one of management from Greensboro College. She the co-founders of the United Utah Party and is an independent researcher on Mormon ran as its first candidate in 2017, becoming history, with an emphasis on the intersection of the most successful third-party congressional Mormonism and Freemasonry. She is working candidate in Utah history. on a book titled Method Infinite: Freemasonry abstract Skeptics insist that the evidence makes it and the Mormon Restoration, to be published by impossible for Mormons to confront thorny Kofford Books. historical and doctrinal questions with their faith intact. But just as there’s more than one abstract Clair Barrus will investigate how Joseph Smith’s treasure seeking changed direction way to Mormon, there’s also more than one in the 1820s in response to Masonic ideology, way to ex-Mormon. Jim Bennett explores the opening the way for the restoration of scripture. multiplicity of legitimate ways to evaluate the truth claims of the Church and looks for Cheryl Bruno will investigate the underlying opportunities for people across the entire objectives of Nauvoo Freemasonry, Mormon spectrum to find common ground. demonstrating their cross-purposes with the Grand Lodge. The dramatic clash of moderator JAY GRIFFITH Mormons and Masons from New York to the room 200-C Western frontier mirrors the modern Church’s dissociation with prevailing social currents in the contemporary world. The Mormon/Masonic experience is a template for today.

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214. HAPPILY EVER AFTER: LESSONS 215. POLYGAMY: BEYOND MORMONISM FROM MIXED-FAITH MARRIAGES presenters TOM BENNETT is a roaming mystic and presenters NICHOLAS R. STEWART grew up in the full-time traveling musician. He has been a LDS Church, got married in the Los Angeles Baptist, a Mormon, a Mormon Fundamentalist, Temple, and has served in four elders quorum a Buddhist and an occultist. His spirituality is presidencies. He is now active in transitioning, ex-, defined by the statement, “I am constantly in and post-Mormon social media groups. He has a awe of the great mystery which surrounds us.” master’s degree in urban planning. abstract Polygamy is common in most large mammals, ALLAN MOUNT, with his wife, Kattie Niu Mount, from deer to elk to the great apes and more. started the mixed-faith marriage podcast Is polygamy natural amongst humans? Would Marriage on a Tightrope under Bill Reel’s Mormon modern young people benefit from practicing Discussion family of podcasts. He is a director a non-patriarchal polygamy? How do modern of enterprise sales for South Jordan-based Americans feel about polygamy? Tom has InMoment. Allan and his wife Kattie have four traveled the country asking these questions, and children ages five to 13. the answers may surprise you.

KATTIE NIU MOUNT studied creative writing at moderator STEPHEN CARTER BYU from 2004–2007, and started the podcast Marriage on a Tightrope to tell her story as a room 300-A believing spouse in a mixed-faith marriage. Kattie loves baking, playing games with her four kids, and all things Disney. 216. JON MCNAUGHTON MATT HARWARD is active in the LDS Church: he MORMON ARTIST, RIGHT-WING went on a mission, attended BYU, and got sealed PROPOGANDIST: TAKE TWO in the temple. He has served as a bishop and as a presenters BOB REES is former Assistant Dean of Fine stake high councilor. Matt has four kids; the oldest Arts and Director of Continuing Education in the and second are both out of the Church. He and his Arts at UCLA and the Director of the UCLA- wife Tricia are raising their youngest two in the Royal College of Arts Program. Church. LAURA ALLRED HURTADO is a writer, TRICIA HARWARD, along with her husband, curator, and museum director. Formerly global Matt, is a moderator at the Mormon Mixed Faith art curator for the Church History Museum Marriage Facebook group. She’s a mom of (2013–19), she currently is executive director of four, a suburban chicken farmer, and organic the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. gardener. She has her Crossfit L1 and Gymnastics certifications and is pursuing a degree in abstract Latter-day Saint painter Jon McNaughton, anthropology at the University of Houston. who promotes himself as “America’s Artist,” continues to produce paintings that abstract How does your relationship with the Church are reminiscent of the propagandistic art affect your spouse and your relationship? of totalitarian regimes. For all the color Is your spouse willing to talk about things McNaughton uses in his paintings, the vision from their point of view? Can a mixed-faith of the world he presents is starkly black marriage work? In this session, people (both and white—Obama, Democrats, liberals, and believing Mormon and not) who are in mixed- progressives are all shown as being on the faith marriages share their stories as well side of Satan while Trump, Republicans, the as tips and strategies for making mixed-faith Founding Fathers and the common man are marriages work. triumphantly on the side of God, angels, and McNaughton himself. McNaughton’s art, which moderator ROY SCHMIDT he claims is inspired by the Holy Ghost, seems room 200-D more beholden to Fox News. McNaughton’s work isn’t simply bad art: like all propaganda, it is dangerous.

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217. MISPLACED PRIORITIES, FIXATION ON moderator RICK C. BENNETT IDEALS, AND THE ROAD TO HEALING room 300-D presenter DONNA SHAFFER converted to the LDS Church as a teen. After 16 years in an abusive marriage, and without any formal education, she fought CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:15AM–11:15AM her way out, raised her sons alone, became a Deseret Book author and corporate technology 221. WHAT THE LDS CHURCH CAN LEARN trainer with a degree in software, and is FROM THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE TO currently a real estate professional, landlord, FUNDAMENTALISM and investor. presenter CRISTINA ROSETTI has a PhD in religious abstract Ideals should never be more important than studies from the University of California, human beings. If we want actions to improve, Riverside. Her research focuses on Mormon we need to elevate hope, not increase despair. fundamentalism and the emergence of new This session addresses the causes as well as movements within a religious tradition. the harm of misplaced priorities and challenges religion to understand and embrace its own abstract From 1970 to 1995, Veronica Luekin reported doctrine. It discusses lesser and even hijacked ecstatic visions of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. identities stemming from such priorities, as well As the visions become more widely reported, as the need for healing vs. the hindering role Luekin developed a following that culminated in the ego plays in it. It begins a discussion into the building of a shrine in Bayside, New York. Her the power of conscious presence and the value visions reported that the end was near and that of being authentically good vs. needing to look a Vatican infiltration caused the Second Vatican good, and offers many resources for healing. Council. moderator EMILY TUCKER Lueken is one of many women whose intense religious experiences led to resurgences in room 300-C Catholic traditionalism. However, despite their controversial beliefs and practices, traditionalist Catholics are not always condemned by Catholic 218. JESUS WAS MARRIED: leadership. I argue that the lack of condemnation THE LOST DISCIPLE AND WOMEN’S benefits the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy and RELATIONSHIP TO THE CHRIST leads to less schism in the Catholic movement and that the LDS Church can learn something from presenter DAVID PATRICK was brought up by his mother this approach. and step father straddling mainstream LDS and fundamentalist LDS doctrines, which gave him moderator BRIAN HAUGLID a unique experience with and passion for the room 200-A origins of Mormon doctrine. After serving an LDS mission to the Japanese he found his way into Christ’s Church. He has served multiple callings in the Temple, Seventy, and missionary 222. AN ALTERNATIVE program. But his favorite is Sunday school ORTHODOXY FOR MORMONISM teacher. presenter JANA SPANGLER is a certified Integral abstract Evidence of Jesus’ marriage was once a Professional Coach. She works with Symmetry common teaching of the Church, but has been Solutions where she specializes in working lost as the Church has given up “the principle” with individuals and couples affected by faith for a more convenient world view. How can transition. She is a student at The Living School a perfect being and example that followed and the Center for Action and Contemplation. all of God’s laws not follow that one great law to multiply and replenish the earth? This abstract Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, a prominent Catholic presentation will explore evidences, lore, and priest, writer, and teacher, has referred to Church history on the subject of Jesus Christ’s his Franciscan teachings as an alternative marriage(s) to put his family’s story back orthodoxy that “doesn’t throw out the mainline in plain view. Who were the most important tradition; [it] simply place[s] our effort and our women in Jesus’ life? energy on overlooked or misunderstood aspects

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of the tradition.” In this session, we will use Fr. abstract The 4.1-million solar mass black hole at the Rohr’s alternate orthodoxy as a guide to explore center of our galaxy, closely surrounded by what an alternative orthodoxy might look like in thousands of typical (25 – 40 solar mass) black the Mormon tradition if we emphasize certain holes, is “the great one,” Kolob, with “many aspects of the radical wisdom teachings of great ones near unto it.” Recent scientific Jesus of Nazareth combined with the mystical studies indicate black holes likely involve teachings of Joseph Smith. What might this higher-dimensional portals leading out of our approach open up for spiritual seekers and universe and into an alternate reality. It is this younger Mormons who are feeling a disconnect sense in which Kolob is “nearest to the throne in today’s LDS Church? of God.” In addition, terms and phrases such as “one planet above another,” “set time,” and moderator LANEECE FLAMM “the order of that upon which thou standest,” all become clear in terms of relativity. room 200-B moderator MELVIN C. JOHNSON

223. RE-MEMBERING OURSELVES room 200-D IN THE WAKE OF A FAITH CRISIS presenter SHIRLEE DRAPER was born and raised 225. DEVELOPING TRUE HUMAN in Colorado City, Arizona, within the CONNECTION IN THE MIDST fundamentalist polygamous sect now known OF DOUBT as FLDS. She left when Warren Jeffs began his reign of terror. She obtained a bachelor of presenter RANDALL DAVIS has been a language educator social work and master of public administration and teacher trainer for more than 30 years in and returned to offer social services for other the US and overseas. victims of Jeffs. She specializes in bridging fundamentalists with mainstream society. abstract One of the tensions within faith communities is the binary view that faith and doubt are on abstract Many people who leave high-demand religions opposite sides of the spectrum, when faith or cults are ashamed of their upbringing and and doubt may be better viewed as uneasy past. This pathology can be reinforced by siblings. Unfortunately, when doubt is viewed well-meaning “helpers” who contend that in narrow terms, people who deeply question the refugee’s former life was bad, but that if are often afraid of revealing their uncertainties they disown it, they can now be good. This to family and friends. Consequently, emotional can cause disastrous consequences, both connection and intimacy are lost. In this session, psychologically and emotionally, for the refugee. the presenter discusses how doubt can lead This session examines the harm of disowning to healthy paradigms of faith and facilitates a and dismembering the self, with suggestions for discussion on ways of supporting one another practices to “re-member” ourselves for healing in mixed-faith marriages and friendships and growth. where doubt exists. Audience participation is encouraged. moderator STEVE FLORMAN moderator RICK C. BENNETT room 200-C room 300-A

224. REVELATION AND RELATIVITY: BLACK HOLES, TIME DILATION, 226. HEALING AFTER SEXUAL ABUSE AND THE THRONE OF GOD IN AN LDS CONTEXT presenter JOSEPH CALLENDER is a scientist, engineer, presenter AMBER CHORUBY WHITELEY is a recent and elder. He is the author of Faith and Physics: graduate of the University of Utah counseling How the Light of Christ Bridges the Gap. He lives psychology doctoral program where she in San Tan Valley, Arizona with his son, Chris. primarily conducted research on various social justice topics including sexual assault/sexual abuse, therapy with religious LGBTQ clients, and teaching multicultural counseling.

26 | SUNSTONE 2019 | SUMMER SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY 2 AUGUST abstract This presentation will review the results of 228. LDS URANTIAN: PURSUING Amber’s doctoral dissertation, which was a PERSONAL RELIGION THROUGH qualitative research study with adult survivors SOCIAL EXPERIENCES of childhood sexual abuse. The research was conducted with diverse participants presenter TIM WILLIAMS is an optessimist (one who including varying gender and sexual identities. hopes for the best but expects the worst). Results include a gender analysis to show the He is active in the LDS Church, the Urantia differing experiences participants experienced Foundation, the United Methodist Church, and across their gender identities. A theoretical Community of Christ. model will also be reviewed, which shows the intersections of church experiences and abstract Discovering Christ’s pursuit of personal internalized guilt and shame a survivor may religious expression using the Bible, Book experience. of Mormon, and Urantia Book can help us understand how all enlightened worlds (not us) moderator NATALIE SPERRY MANDELIN saw Christ, his mission, and his gospel. It also helps us understand how power from heaven room 300-B comes through personal religious pursuit in social and religious association with our fellow brothers and sisters.

227. THE TRUTH THAT ONCE WAS moderator BLAIR M. WHITE SPOKEN: LOVE AS THE FUFILLMENT OF OUR FAITH room 300-D presenter PARKER JOHNSON served a mission in Reno, Nevada where his love and appreciation for the Book of Mormon grew. After his mission, he attended BYU and Utah State University where he got involved in the “Remnant” movement. He CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 11:30AM–12:30PM now lives in Cache Valley where he works as a utility bill processor. He actively attends an LDS 231. IT’S NOT HOPELESS! NAVIGATING YSA ward as well as Remnant fellowships. MIXED-FAITH MARRIAGE presenters LISA BUTTERWORTH is a licensed professional abstract The future of institutional Mormonism does not counselor who specializes in faith transitions, look very bright. It has become what Moroni mixed-faith marriage, and sexual concerns. She prophesied of in Mormon chapter 8. However, is the founder of Feminist Mormon Housewives the Book of Mormon teaches that there will be and likes to play nerdy board games with her a latter-day City of Peace called Zion, a city that husband and three kids. is defined by everyone knowing the Lord and being of one heart and mind with each other SARA HUGHES-ZABAWA is a licensed clinical without poverty. The future of true, authentic social worker, wellness coach, and yoga Mormonism (and Christianity) is inseparably tied instructor who specializes in treating trauma, to coming back into the presence of the Lord, depression, and anxiety. She often works and loving others. with LGBT+ individuals and their families to foster acceptance and advocacy skills as well moderator CHRISTINE PEASLEY as individuals and couples experiencing life room 300-C transitions related to their faith. NATASHA HELFER PARKER is the owner and founder of Symmetry Solutions. She is a licensed clinical marriage & family therapist in the states of Kansas and Wisconsin and a certified sex therapist. Natasha has been in practice for over 20 years and works with adults and adolescents, specializing in mental health therapy, sex therapy and sexuality concerns, family/couple services, and faith transitions within spiritual journeys.

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JENNIFER WHITE is a therapist who specializes commissioned in 1886–87 by President John in helping people with depression, anxiety, Taylor to preserve plural marriage if the Church sexuality concerns, trauma, and faith transitions/ officially abandoned it. After Woolley was journeys. excommunicated in 1914 for performing plural marriages in violation of the Church’s 1890 abstract As more Mormons experience faith transitions “Manifesto” and its 1904 “Second Manifesto,” and faith awakenings, many couples find LDS leaders and LDS historians have portrayed themselves unexpectedly in mixed-faith him negatively. As a counter-balance, this marriages. This session presents both personal presentation examines his activities from 1886 and professional insights into honoring both the to 1913 (as seen mainly in sources from the time challenges and benefits of differing beliefs in a period), when LDS General Authorities clearly marriage. We will highlight the gifts associated regarded him as a trustworthy Latter-day Saint. with individualization and fostering mutual respect for each person’s spiritual journey. We moderator JOHNNY STEPHENSON will offer suggestions for reducing conflict, improving communication, and strengthening a room 200-C couple’s emotional connection and intimacy. moderator JOSH ALLRED 234. THE COLORADO CITY room 200-A MUSIC FESTIVAL

presenter TOM BENNETT is a roaming mystic and full-time traveling musician. He has been a 232. ZION: THE ROOTS Baptist, a Mormon, a Mormon Fundamentalist, OF MORMON CORRELATION a Buddhist and an occultist. His spirituality is defined by the statement, “I am constantly in presenter MATTHEW BOWMAN is the Howard W. Hunter awe of the great mystery which surrounds us.” Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. abstract The Colorado City Music Festival, held in a polygamist hotbed, is the first festival of its abstract This presentation will explore the practical, kind. Bennett, one of its founders, will outline theoretical, and theological underpinnings of the the relationships built, the challenges, and how correlation movement, a bureaucratic reform he found Mormon fundamentalists open to movement which spanned the first two thirds sharing their culture. He’ll also talk about the of the twentieth century and reinvented the changes he has seen in the community since the organization and culture of the Church. event began three years ago. moderator BRIAN HAUGLID moderator JEN PERLMUTTER TANNER moderator 200-B room 200-D

233. JOHN W. WOOLLEY’S ACTIVITIES 235. THE ROLE OF REASON AS A HIGHLY TRUSTED MORMON IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RLDS CHURCH TO presenter D. MICHAEL QUINN is a Yale-trained historian ‘COMMUNITY OF CHRIST’ researching a book titled Plural Marriage Among the Mormons, 1906-1926. presenter BILL RUSSELL is professor emeritus of American history and government at Graceland abstract Most “Fundamentalist Mormons” have honored University in Lamoni, Iowa. He is a past John W. Woolley (born in 1831) as the man president of the Mormon History Association who became senior “High Priest Apostle” and the John Whitmer Historical Association. following the death in 1918 of LDS Church president Joseph F. Smith. According to that abstract The RLDS Church went through the process of belief, both were among the six men allegedly transitioning itself from sect to denomination over the past half-century or so. Two causes often cited are the increase in graduate education and

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the effect of missionary work in non-Christian interplay between social capital, community, nations. This paper will contend that the life of and religion in the Mormon context, and will the mind is the primary reason for the theological tackle the following questions: What happens divide, and the Wesleyan Quadrilateral is a useful when a faith transition causes one to lose social tool in the pursuit of religious truth. capital? How can those who leave rebuild a new community? What can the institutional Church moderator STEVE FLORMAN do to keep unorthodox member engaged? How does one’s social capital and sense of room 300-A community affect one’s mental health?

moderator MARK PETERSEN 236. ESSENCE OF THE CLASSIC YOGA SCRIPTURES: room 300-C THE YOGA SUTRAS presenter PHILIP MCLEMORE served as the LDS Institute 238. MORMON MEAN GIRLS of Religion director at Auburn University and (IT’S NOT JUST GIRLS!) the University of Georgia from 1977–1984. He then served as an active duty Air Force presenter APRIL CARLSON is a licensed clinical social Chaplain for 21 years, followed by work as a worker specializing in grief and transitions. hospice chaplain until 2012. He is the author of She has degrees from both the University the Sunstone articles: “Mormon Mantras,” “The of Southern California and the University of Yoga of Christ,” “Hindering the Saints,” and California, Berkeley. April facilitates a monthly “Becoming the Beloved of the Lord.” faith transition group and most recently has worked intensively with maternal mental health. abstract Yoga, not to be confused with the modern yoga movement of physical postures, is one of the abstract Mormon mean girls terrorize their peers major schools of Hindu philosophy, referring to with emotional violence inflicted through the an awakened state of Oneness with and in God weapons of relational aggression: gossip, and the path that leads to that realization. Why social exclusion, conditional friendship, silent do so few Christians and Mormons experience treatment, concern trolling, betrayal, doxing, inner transformation and rebirth? What are belittling (under the guise of joking), or stealing the main obstacles to spiritual awakening? the work of others. But it’s not just the girls! Are there clear steps one can take to realize Learn why relational aggression thrives across Oneness with and in God? The Yoga Sutras age and gender in Mormon spaces. Discover has clear answers to all of these questions and what works to make it better and protect much more. yourself. Hear stories from survivors and join in a community discussion of how to address moderator JAY GRIFFITH relational aggression when it shows up in your network of connection. room 300-B moderator JESSE CURTIS

237. FROM LINGERING LONGER TO room 300-D BOWLING ALONE: TRACKING THE CHANGES IN COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL RELATED 241. LUNCH BREAK, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM TO FAITH TRANSITIONS See page 5 for dining options. Lunch is available at the Expo presenter KELLY FURR is a licensed associate marriage Center concession stands and Chile Verde. and family therapist in Yuma, Arizona. She serves on the board of the Mormon Mental Health Association. abstract The LDS Church has historically been a social hub for many of its members, and as one’s orthodoxy wanes, often so too does one’s sense of community and belonging. This presentation will examine Robert Putnam’s research on the

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LUNCH PRESENTATIONS, 12:45 PM–1:45 PM PLENARY SESSION, 2:00PM–3:30PM 251. WHY WE STAY 242. SUNSTONE HYMN SINGALONG opening song “Where Can I Turn for Peace?” (129) accompanist ALAN EASTMAN pianist ALAN EASTMAN is a chemist and principal research scientist and co-founder of Green Fire chorister KIM MCCALL Energy. He is also an award-winning pianist and hymn writer. presenters LASHAWN WILLIAMS is a lifelong member of the LDS Church in an African American, chorister VICKIE EASTMAN is a frequent participant part-member, military family. She is on Sunstone panels dealing with Mormon a divorced mom to three children who culture. She has a BA in English from Stanford thoroughly loves the gospel for its leveled University, and is a retired freelance executive nuance. recruiter. CHRISTIAN KIMBALL is a grandson of abstract This session honors the tradition of music Spencer W. Kimball (his father is Ed Kimball). and singing at Sunstone. The Eastmans are a He is a cancer survivor (losing his belly beloved part of the Sunstone community and button and several internal organs you’ve will lead the symposium congregation in singing never heard of along the way) and a former some of the hymns of the restoration. bishop. room 200-C MATT JONES has an MBA from the University of Southern California and served for six years as bishop of the Bothell Ward in the Seattle, Washington area. 243. FILM SCREENING: FAITHFUL abstract This perennially well-received session features presenter DANE CHRISTENSEN is an immersive media the stories of those who have chosen to remain documentary filmmaker, believing that the active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the stories we tell make change happen. Dane face of challenges to traditional faith. received an MFA in documentary film from Stanford University. closing song “Lord, I Would Follow Thee” (220) abstract A love story between two women, their faith, moderator DAN WOTHERSPOON and their God. room 200-C room 300-A

244. MORMON FEMINIST NETWORKING & MOONSTONE 20TH BIRTHDAY CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:45PM–4:45PM presenter MAXINE HANKS is a feminist theologian 261. THE ART OF POLYGAMY who writes and lectures on women’s studies in religion, particularly LDS and Christian presenter KELLY MCAFEE teaches first grade and special traditions. She founded Moonstone in 1999. education at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. In her spare time, she abstract As the Moonstone Foundation turns 20 this is a volunteer tour guide at the Kirtland Temple. year, Maxine Hanks will share images and web Kelly is also a writer and an artist. pages about Mormon women’s resources and feminist networking, designed to support and abstract Kelly McAfee became interested in early aid research and work on women in religion and Mormon polygamy when she learned she was the LDS tradition. related to Fanny Alger. She pulled out her watercolors and began painting what would room 300-B become over one hundred portraits of the men and women of early Mormon polygamy over a nine-week period. She then took on a five-week task of painting faces and sewing clothes for character dolls of Joseph Smith’s 40 wives,

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along with dolls of Joseph Smith and Jane 263. PROTECT EVERY CHILD Manning. Taking a step back from the project, the results were not what she expected. Come presenter SAM YOUNG is the founder of Protect LDS see for yourself. Children and now Protect Every Child. In 2018, this former bishop was excommunicated for moderator JENNIFER KOSKI speaking out against policies that facilitate physical and psychological abuse in the LDS room 200-A Church. In 2019, several actions will culminate in another march for the children on October 5.

262. I GO TO TWO CHURCHES abstract In 2018, thousands in the Mormon community rallied to protect LDS children from presenters STEPHEN CARTER is the director of ecclesiastical abuse. In 2019, Mormons have publications for Sunstone, author of Mormonism formed a coalition to protect children of all for Beginners, editor of Moth and Rust: Mormon religions. Encounters with Death, and the voice of the Sunstone Magazine Podcast. moderator REBECCA SMYRNIOTOPOULOS WENDY SMITH serves on of the board of room 200-C directors for the Mormon Transhumanist Association. Active in local politics and her community, she is passionate about advancing 264. QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE human rights, her career, and her family LIGHT OF CHRIST IN THE BIBLICAL CREATION STORY GINA COLVIN is a research fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New presenter JOSEPH CALLENDER is a scientist, engineer, Zealand with an interest in cultural and post- and elder. He is the author of Faith and Physics: colonial studies. She will be joining the panel How the Light of Christ Bridges the Gap. He lives via Zoom. in San Tan Valley, Arizona with his son, Chris.

ERIC CANFIELD is a husband, Dragon Dad, abstract Modern cosmology reveals Genesis 1 as a wildflower geek, and a reluctant Mormon who metaphor for creation of the universe, and the plays bass in a progressive American Baptist dual, wave/particle personality of light—the praise band. “complementarity principle”—defines the spiritual and physical creations and provides a TOM GLEASON is an accidental gospel doctrine scientific basis for the “fall.” God’s observation teacher in his ward and an enthusiastic vocalist (“God saw…”) was the trigger that manifested in the Debra Bonner Unity Gospel Choir. He each “day’s” physical creation from the also enjoys singing Christian praises at mega spiritual.” Adam’s “transgression” was partaking churches on the weekends and has recently of the “fruit” of physical sensory experience via started his own home-centered praise group the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” (the nervous system and senses), manifesting the abstract It seems strange to go to another church when you already attend the only true and physical universe to his consciousness, which living church on the face of the earth. But the thereafter competes with consciousness of members of this panel have actually found that God, as symbolized by the commandment not to supplementing their LDS church-going with partake. another religious tradition has enriched their moderator JEN PERLMUTTER TANNER spiritual lives and made them better people. room 200-D moderator STEPHEN CARTER room 200-B

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265. WHAT BECAME OF THE WOOLLEYS?: 268. NURTURING GROWTH AND MORMON FUNDAMENTALISM’S DEVELOPMENT POST-ORTHODOXY FOUNDING FAMILY presenters SARA HUGHES-ZABAWA is a licensed clinical presenter TOM BENNETT is a roaming mystic and social worker, wellness coach, and yoga full-time traveling musician. He has been a instructor who specializes in treating trauma, Baptist, a Mormon, a Mormon Fundamentalist, a depression, and anxiety. She often works Buddhist, and an occultist. with LGBT+ individuals and their families to foster acceptance and advocacy skills as well abstract In 1886 John Taylor had a revelation to continue as individuals and couples experiencing life plural marriage. The Woolley family was in transitions related to their faith. attendance and was charged to help him. They were pivotal in the founding of Short Creek and JANA SPANGLER is a certified Integral early Mormon Fundamentalism but their name Professional Coach. She works with Symmetry is not commonly found amongst the principal Solutions where she specializes in working figures today. What became of the Woolleys? with individuals and couples affected by faith transition. She is a student at The Living School moderator STEPHANIE GRISWOLD and the Center for Action and Contemplation. room 300-A ANTHONY D. MILLER is a business owner and education enthusiast with graduate degrees in business and in financial services. After 266. WOULD JESUS ATTEND SUNSTONE? a lifetime of faithful LDS Church activity, Anthony traversed an acute faith crisis that presenter BOB REES is a professor and Director of began after stumbling across the Gospel Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Topics Essays while searching for resources to Union. He has just completed editing the support his adult gay son. Anthony frequently second volume of Why I Stay: The Challenge of contributes to progressive and post-Mormon Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons. communities online and in-person. He blogs at UnpackingAmbiguity.com. abstract Some Latter-day Saints feel that attending or presenting at Sunstone or publishing in abstract As more Mormons experience faith transitions Sunstone Magazine—or even reading it is— and faith awakenings, many find themselves inappropriate or, worse, dangerous. It is popular looking for continued growth and expansion for Latter-day Saints and other Christians to ask without knowing how to pursue that in WWJD—”What would Jesus do?” This session emotionally safe and intellectually stimulating attempts to answer that question in relation to ways. This session aims to explore approaches Sunstone. to individual and/or spiritual growth outside of an orthodox framework. We invite others to moderator BILL MCGEE be empowered in their personal development by discussing our personal and professional room 300-B experiences in owning and expanding individual development post-orthodoxy. We will also explore how nurturing our own individual 267. RADIO FREE MORMON growth and progression can foster a greater BROADCASTING BEHIND ability to sit with others in their differences. ENEMY LINES moderator CHRISTINE PEASLEY presenter RFM is the host of the Radio Free Mormon room 300-D Podcast. abstract For the first time, RFM will personally meet his listeners and others who want to ask about anything and everything that is happening behind enemy lines. moderator ROBBIE STONE room 300-C

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 5:00PM–6:30PM 272. DIFFERENT VIEWS ON PRIESTHOOD

271. IMAGINING MORMONISM: presenters JOE DARGER is a multigenerational Mormon THE CHURCH AT MID-CENTURY fundamentalist. He coauthored the book Love Times Three: Our True Story of a Polygamous presenters BOB REES is a professor and Director of Marriage with his three wives, Alina, Vicki, and Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union. Valerie. He has just completed editing the second volume of Why I Stay: The Challenge of Discipleship for JOANNA SMITH is the CEO of The Wave, a Contemporary Mormons. women’s coworking space in Utah. She is also the former president of Ordain Women. JANA SPANGLER is an Integral Professional coach. She works with Symmetry Solutions CHARLOTTE ERICKSON grew up in the specializing in faith transitions and their impact mainstream LDS Church but she’s currently on identity, relationships, and spirituality. She is a an independent Mormon fundamentalist who student at The Living School under the direction makes her own sacramental wine and keeps of Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM. the Biblical feasts. She’s the owner of the blog SpeakingOfPolygamy.com. GALEN MURDOCK is founder and chairman of Veracity Solutions, a software development abstract There is a diversity of thought about priesthood consulting company for clients including and its role in the Mormon cosmology of Ancestry, Microsoft, Logitech, GE Healthcare and authority. This panel of individuals from Lumeris. Galen significantly contributed to the various Mormon movements will discuss their evolution of the Agile development process, and understanding of how priesthood functions and to the growth of the software industry in Silicon who has authority. Valley and Silicon Slopes. A lifelong member of the LDS Church, Galen spends his Sundays moderator DEVEN RANSOM teaching elders quorum and Gospel Doctrine classes. room 200-B JAY GRIFFITH facilitates two monthly discussion groups, FaithAgain, and ThinkAgain. He serves African refugees through an LDS branch. 273. WHAT’S IN A NAME? THE HISTORY By profession, Jay is a designer/art/creative BEHIND THE LABEL “MORMON” director. By avocation he mindfully runs in presenters BRYAN BUCHANAN works at Benchmark the mountains. He and his wife, Jane, live in Books, an independent bookstore in Salt Lake Millcreek, Utah. City specializing in Mormon history. He is interested in various Mormon history rabbit abstract Thirty years ago, no one—likely not even holes, particularly fundamentalist Mormon prophets and visionaries—could have imagined history and the 1890–1930 transition period. today’s LDS Church, especially with the advent of modern technology like the Internet, iPhones, LINDSAY HANSEN PARK is the executive and other inventions. So, how can we begin director of the Sunstone Education Foundation. to imagine the Church at mid-century? This She also hosts the popular Year of Polygamy session consists of a panel of futurists and podcast and recently started the Sunstone other visionaries who gaze into the globe of the Mormon History podcast with co-host Bryan future to tell us what the Church may be like in Buchanan. thirty years. Attendees will be invited to preset their own soothsaying prognostications. D. MICHAEL QUINN is a Yale-trained historian researching a book titled Plural Marriage Among moderator BECKY GOMEZ the Mormons, 1906-1926. room 200-D ANNE WILDE was raised in the mainstream LDS Church and graduated from BYU in business education. She has been an independent Fundamentalist Mormon for over 50 years, during which time she co-authored the book

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Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women 275. BYU STUDENTS TAKE ON Celebrate Plural Marriage, was the managing A HOMOGENEOUS CAMPUS editor of the fundamentalist magazine, Mormon Focus, and was co-founder of the advocacy presenters FRANCHESCA LOPEZ is a 20-year-old senior group “Principle Voices.” majoring in sociology and minoring in global women’s studies at BYU. She grew up in abstract Over the course of Mormonism’s history, Southern Texas, near the Texas-Mexico border, followers of the Restoration have struggled with which fueled her passion for social justice what to call themselves. This panel will explore at a young age. She is a second-generation the historical context of the label “Mormon.” immigrant and first generation college student. Baptized into the LDS faith at 8 years old, she moderator RICHIE WILCOX has grown into her testimony after coming to BYU and critically engaging with bad policy and room 200-C harmful revelation.

JULIA STARK is an artist and art educator 274. HOW THE SUCCESSION CRISIS entering her fourth year at BYU. Now a self- IS SOLVED BY KNOWING THE proclaimed “cafeteria Mormon,” her spirituality SEALED PORTION is built upon an affinity toward the mystical, metaphysical, impossible-to-explain aspects of presenter JASON LEROY WHARTON grew up a the religion she was raised in. mainstream Mormon. He served a mission in South Korea and later served as CIO for the GRANT FRAZIER serves as co-president of the Arizona Secretary of State. Now he is president BYU College Democrats, the campus’s largest of the Firebird Foundation, president of the academic club. His dedication to liberal activism World School of the Prophets, and founder of within Mormonism also led him to organize the LDS Restitutionist Movement. Jason is the BYU’s first protest in over a decade, fighting creator of ScriptureBrowser.com. against unjust procedures and practices within the school’s Honor Code Office. abstract One of the hottest debates among Mormon fundamentalists is about who has the EVAN JONES is a former BYU student (now at priesthood keys and authority. Many Mormon Utah Valley University) studying anthropology, offshoot groups claim to have it, but there can Mormonism, and psychology, preparing for only be one legitimate successor. Who is right? graduate studies in the social sciences. His passion for the study of Mormonism stems Wharton will argue that the answers have from his faith crisis at BYU, his queer Mormon- been there all along in the scriptures, hidden in spectrum friends, and his desire to introduce the sealed portion. He will present on how to nuance into a polarized religious scene. decipher the symbology of the sealed portion to determine when and where the keys of abstract In a campus environment known for its the priesthood have been transferred and to marked homogeneity, some students at BYU positively identify where they are now. struggle to find a home within the ranks of Mormon orthodoxy. Four students and former moderator DREW OSTLER students talk about their experiences of carving out space for nuanced belief. With an room 200-D array of experiences with and beliefs about the LDS Church, they will discuss the effects that BYU has had on their individual faith journeys and how they’ve challenged some of the dogma that exists in the BYU community.

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276. BISEXUALITY AND MORMONISM 278. THE MORMON MIND-GAME: COMMON MORMON THINKING ERRORS presenters NICHOLAS R. STEWART grew up in the Mormon Church, got married in the Los Angeles presenters JENNIFER WHITE is a therapist who temple, and has served in four elders quorum specializes in helping people with depression, presidencies. He is now active in transitioning, anxiety, sexuality concerns, trauma, and faith ex-, and post-Mormon social media groups, He transitions/journeys. has a master’s degree in urban planning and a BA in American history. SARA HUGHES-ZABAWA is a licensed clinical social worker, wellness coach, and yoga BLAIRE OSTLER is a philosopher specializing instructor who specializes in treating trauma, in queer studies, and is a leading voice at depression, and anxiety. the intersection of queer, Mormon, and transhumanist thought. She is a board member LISA BUTTERWORTH is licensed professional of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, counselor who specializes in faith transitions, the Christian Transhumanist Association, and mixed-faith marriage, and sexual concerns. She Sunstone. is the founder of Feminist Mormon Housewives and likes to play nerdy board games with her abstract This session will explore the experience of husband and three kids. bisexual people in Mormonism. Where in the framework of Mormonism do bisexual people abstract Every culture, organization, religion, and fit? What additional challenges exist within person experiences thinking errors, which are Mormonism (versus outside of Mormonism) commonly called cognitive distortions. Cognitive for bisexual people? How does being bisexual distortion can cause individuals to perceive impact ones faith/belief? reality inaccurately, producing, and reinforcing negative thoughts and emotions. This session moderator BLAIR M. WHITE will build off of the popular session “Mormon Thinking Errors” which addressed typical room 300-B ways myth and overgeneralizations present themselves in our LDS families and church settings. This session will take the conversation 277. THE RETURN OF OUR DIVINE further and offer concrete strategies to combat MOTHER AND THE SEARCH the cognitive distortions we are personally FOR MAGIC WITHIN experiencing and how to address them internally as well as in our interactions with family and presenter HEATHER MCGEE TEODORO works in impact friends. investing, where she has observed the major shifts happening globally as the financial moderator WENDY DEMANDANTE markets begin to direct capital intentionally room 300-D towards social and environmental good. She sees this work as the beginning of new “impact economy” that values positive impact on people and our planet in the same way as financial 281. DINNER BREAK, 6:30PM–8:00PM profit. See page 5 for dining options. Many Sunstone attendees are abstract This session will explore our spiritual and planning to eat at Crown Burger just west of the expo center. energetic nature as humans, including our light body, our auric field, and our chakra system. This session will also explore the relationship between the magnetic energy of the Divine Feminine and the electric energy of the Divine Masculine, and give tools for balancing these energies within our own lives. moderator JESSE CURTIS room 300-C

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PLENARY SESSION, 8:00 PM–9:30 PM 291. “PURE” AND PURITY MOVEMENTS opening poem “Cannibal Mormon Crickets,” by TOM KIMBALL. presenter LINDA KAY KLEIN is the founder of Break Free Together—a not-for-profit organization that uses story exchange to help people claim their stories, their bodies, and themselves. She is also the author of the award-winning book PURE: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. It was named one of the best books of 2018 by Library Journal, and was a finalist for the Association of American Publishers’ 2019 PROSE Award for an Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher. Linda’s work has been featured by CBS, NPR, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Vice, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Post, Fox News online, the Savage LoveCast, and other major media outlets. Her interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air was named one of the top ten episodes of 2018. A regular speaker and teacher, Linda has presented on the TEDx stage and at major gatherings such as the 92Y’s SHE Summit and the Apollo Theater’s Women of the World Festival. A Midwesterner at heart, Linda has lived everywhere from the mountains of Montana to an Italian villa. Today, she lives in New York City where she can be found dancing in her apartment or walking Pearl-the-Boy-Dog around the neighborhood. She is the wife of a writer and social change agent who inspires her every day, and the “bonus mom” to a very cool 17-year-old girl. abstract From a woman who has been there and back, this session will take an inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—and how these lessons can also apply to Mormon interpretations of purity. moderator BETHANY MIDDLETON GULL room 200-C This session generously sponsored by Symmetry Solutions.

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SATURDAY 3 AUGUST CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 9:00AM–10:00AM REGISTRATION, 8:30 AM–9:00 PM 311. NATURALISTIC EXPLANATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE BOOK Badges and single-session tickets are available at the OF MORMON: 1829 TO 2018 registration table in the entrance lobby of the Mountain America Expo Center. presenter BRIAN C. HALES is the author of Setting the Record Straight: Mormon Fundamentalism and also Modern Polygamy and Mormon DOORBUSTERS FOR Fundamentalism: The Generations after the THE FIRST 50 ATTENDEES Manifesto, which received the “Best Book of 2007 Award” from the John Whitmer Historical room MAIN CONCOURSE Association.

abstract Even before it was published, alternate stories were issued to compete with Joseph Smith’s explanation of the Book of Mormon’s origin. Five 8:30 AM–9:00 PM will be introduced and tracked chronologically: SUNSTONE ART SHOW 1. The original manuscript of the Book of See pages 10–11 for information. Mormon was written by Solomon Spaulding. 2. Collaborators helped Joseph Smith create the room MAIN CONCOURSE text. 3. Joseph Smith’s mental illness enhanced his writing ability. 4. Automatic writing: Joseph functioned as a spirit-medium while dictating the Book of Mormon. 5. Joseph Smith, perhaps DEVOTIONAL, 8:15 AM–8:45 AM with help from his environment, the Bible, and 301. HOPE other books, was capable of producing the Book of Mormon from his own intellect. presenter BOB REES is a professor and Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological moderator AMYLIN PETERSON Union. He has just completed editing the room 200-A second volume of Why I Stay: The Challenge of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons. abstract Emily Dickinson says that “hope is a thing with 312. WELCOME TO MORMON feathers.” St. Paul included hope in his golden TRANSHUMANISM triad of Christian virtues, in between faith and love. This devotional considers the dimensions presenters BLAIRE OSTLER is a philosopher specializing of hope in a world that often seems hopeless, in queer studies, and is a leading voice at examining it through the prism of scripture, art, the intersection of queer, Mormon, and poetry, and music. transhumanist thought. She is a board member of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, moderator STEPHEN CARTER the Christian Transhumanist Association, and Sunstone. room 200-A LINCOLN CANNON is a founder, board member, and former president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. He is a founder and board member of the Christian Transhumanist Association. He is CEO at Thrivous, the human enhancement company. He holds degrees in business administration and philosophy.

BEN BLAIR has a PhD in philosophy and education from Columbia University. He is a co-founder of Newlane University, and a board member and VP of the Mormon Transhumanist Association.

SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/SUNSTONE | 37 SATURDAY 3 AUGUST abstract People are starting to recognize parallels 314. GRAFFITI AND and complements between Mormon and THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE Transhumanist views. On one hand, Mormonism is a religion of the Judeo-Christian tradition presenter TOM KIMBALL is a full-time student at Lakeland that advocates immersive discipleship of Jesus Community College in Kirtland. Christ. On the other hand, Transhumanism is a mostly secular ideology that advocates ethical abstract Tom Kimball has worked as a volunteer handyman use of technology to expand human abilities. and tour guide at the Kirtland Temple since 2016. However, Mormonism and Transhumanism At some point, he began actively looking for and advocate remarkably similar views of human logging the existing graffiti in the temple. Some nature and potential. of it is likely from teens gathered in the bell tower over a 1920’s RLDS reunion campout, but some of moderator DREW OSTLER it is much older. From a scrawled 1956 date next to initials in the bell tower and stylish Italian cursive room 200-B under Aaronic alters, to initials and possible signatures of 1830s church leaders, the discoveries Part of the Mormon Transhumanist Association track. are historical and fantastic.

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313. REFLECTING ON THE WIVES room 200-D OF JOSEPH SMITH presenters LINDSAY HANSEN PARK is host of the Year of Polygamy podcast and executive director of the 315. THE RISING STRONG PROCESS: Sunstone Education Foundation. OFFICIAL DARE TO LEAD™ BRENÉ BROWN CURRICULUM TODD COMPTON is author of In Sacred Loneliness: the Plural Wives of Joseph Smith presenter SUZY BENSON-GILLIES founded and directed (Signature Books 1997), A Frontier Life: the African Promise Foundation for 10 years. Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary She trained under Dr. Brené Brown to become (University of Utah Press 2013) and Who Wrote a certified Dare to Lead™ facilitator. She is the Beatle Songs? A History of Lennon-McCartney a Certified Professional Coach and has a (Pahreah Press 2017). He is preparing a sequel certificate from the International Coaching to In Sacred Loneliness, concentrating on the Federation. writings of Smith’s wives. abstract Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, abstract In this paper Compton will tell the story of how he Dare to Lead is an empirically based courage- came to write In Sacred Loneliness: the Plural Wives building program. Learn the role that curiosity of Joseph Smith. For years he had been studying and recognition of emotion play in developing Classics, ancient Greek and Latin, but a series of rising results. Recognize common strategies odd accidents led him to start transcribing and for offloading hurt and learn more effective annotating the diaries of Eliza R. Snow Smith. This behaviors for managing emotion. Learn the in turn led him to try to come up with a reliable, physics of vulnerability. Learn to rise after the scholarly list of Joseph Smith’s wives, so he could fall. Learn how to write down the story we make understand the women Eliza was associating up (SFD) that helps us make meaning of our with. To create that list he found that he needed experiences. Identify patterns of overfunctioning/ to understand the full lives of those thirty-three underfunctioning with others. Explore grief, women, and so ended up reading their diaries, anxiety, and forgiveness. letters, and autobiographies. Eventually he began writing biographies of each of them. Problems and moderator MARK PETERSEN complexities in their marriage history led him on an exciting scholarly/detective quest. In addition, their room 300-A writings were so moving that he ended up feeling deeply connected to each of them. moderator NADINE MCCOMBS HANSEN room 200-C

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316. ON BEYOND FAITH 318. RELATIONAL TRAJECTORIES IN THE BORDERLANDS OF EX-LDS CHILDREN AND THEIR ACTIVE LDS PARENTS presenters D. JEFF BURTON is the author of For Those Who Wonder and the “Braving the Borderlands” presenter JARED WORWOOD has a BA in communication column in Sunstone. studies at Utah State University and was recently accepted into the communication STEPHEN CARTER is director of publications studies masters program at Illinois State for the Sunstone Education Foundation, author University. He is a research assistant in the of Mormonism for Beginners, and the voice of Family Communication and Relationships Lab. the Sunstone Magazine Podcast. abstract Ex-LDS individuals face a unique and perhaps abstract Many troubled LDS members dwell in the turbulent time in their relationship with their Borderlands of the Church. Acceptability parent if the individual decides to leave the is always an issue for Borderlanders. But LDS Church. To explore this phenomena, we acceptability has two facets: (1) what we need propose the following questions: “What turning to do to be acceptably faithful, and (2) what can points exist within the relationships of ex-LDS be done to make Borderland members like us children and their active LDS parent?” and more acceptable and better perceived as “being “What trajectories occur in relationships of faithful.” This session will explore these two ex-LDS children and their active LDS parent?” facets of acceptability and their relationships to Thirty participants were interviewed using “being faithful.” the retrospective interview technique (RIT). Through turning point analysis, we identified moderator ROY SCHMIDT 155 turning points and nine relationship trajectories.” room 300-B

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317. JOSEPH, BRIGHAM, AND JOHN, room 300-D AND THE “KING OVER ISRAEL” CORONATION CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:15AM–11:15AM presenter JACOB VIDRINE is a student, independent historian, and researcher. 321. REVELATION: FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLE abstract While it might be surprising to some, the first AND THE GROUND OF EQUALITY three LDS prophets were secretly anointed to an office described as the “Ruler over Israel” presenter JANICE ALLRED is an independent scholar who and the “Prophet, Priest, and King” over the speaks and writes on theological topics. Her Kingdom. In recent years, new sources about publications include God the Mother and Other this ordinance have come to light, including a Theological Essays and “LDS Gender Theology: revelation in John Taylor’s own handwriting A Feminist Perspective” in Voices for Equality: to be anointed to this office. This new Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism. document and others illuminate the history and significance of this ordinance. The never- abstract We usually consider faith from the human fully-implemented office of the Queen over perspective. If we fail to reach out to God, will the Kingdom, originally intended to preside God abandon us? The good news of the gospel alongside the Prophet, Priest, and King, will also is that God loves all people and initiates the be discussed. work of salvation through revelation. Revelation is a foundational principle of the gospel, moderator CHRISTOPHER C. SMITH bringing all people into equality in Christ. It is the ground of equality because it gives every room 300-C person direct access to God through the Holy Spirit. It is a foundational principle of the church because it establishes communication between God and his people and unifies them through the Holy Spirit.

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322. MILLENNIALS, MORMONISM(S), broadly, he sees great art, music, and literature AND MYTH as part of the gospel, so the Beatle albums are part of his canon of holy writ. Clair will explore presenter JAXON WASHBURN is pursuing a major in how Beatles backwards masking in the 60s religious studies at Arizona State University. He influenced CES curricula in the 80s, which recently returned from serving in the Armenia/ influenced Clair’s views of rock music and Georgia mission and is a member of the spirituality. Mormon Transhumanist Association. moderator JANE GRIFFITH abstract With rates of religious non-affiliation on the rise in the West, many find themselves inclined room 200-C to see the role of myth as being outdated, unappealing, and no longer useful for both individuals and communities. This presentation 324. PARADISIACAL GLORY: OUR FUTURE will give special focus to how myth has LIVES IN THE MORMON MILLENNIUM functioned and shaped various historical and contemporary Mormon worldviews, as well presenter PAUL HAYMORE is a life-long member of the as how younger generations of Mormons may LDS Church, following the patented Mormon uniquely utilize such as part of their religious male path of Eagle Scout, mission, temple identity. marriage, Church-school degree, multiple children, MBA, and priesthood callings moderator NATALIE SPERRY MANDELIN before learning that polyandry and the Book of Abraham translation are a great way to room 200-B deconstruct a dearly cherished faith. Part of the Mormon Transhumanist Association track. abstract When Joseph Smith wrote the 10th Article of Faith in 1842, what did our Mormon ancestors imagine the future of the faith to look like? 323. THE BEATLES, ROCK AND ROLL, Mormonism, born from Millennialism, has its AND MORMONISM own unique take on the great and dreadful day, but has less to say about the particulars of the presenters TODD COMPTON has written Who Wrote the 1000-year personal reign of Jesus Christ. What Beatle Songs? A History of Lennon-McCartney would life look like for the average person born (Pahreah Press 2017), the first book to take a 600 years into the Millennium? How would the careful, scholarly look at how the Beatle songs LDS Church perfectly govern the inhabitants were written and which writers—Paul, John, or of the renewed earthly paradise as a promised George—were dominant on which songs. theocracy? Would you want to live there?

CLAIR BARRUS was given the gift of music moderator NANCY ROSS lessons at age eight—which was by far the worst gift he ever received (or so he thought)— room 200-D and a gift that lasted a full, tense, ten years. But his determined mother made him practice an hour a day, and he got through it by sneaking in tunes by Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and Chicago 325. THE RISING STRONG PROCESS: when his mother wasn’t paying attention. Today, OFFICIAL DARE TO LEAD™ BRENÉ the piano in the basement is gathering dust BROWN CURRICULUM CONTINUED while Clair still jams to rock & roll tunes presenter SUZY BENSON-GILLIES founded and directed HAROLD PETERSON has been a Beatles fan the African Promise Foundation for 10 years. for 55 years and a Mormon for 65 years. He is She trained under Dr. Brené Brown to become a collector of Beatles albums, books, films and a certified Dare to Lead™ facilitator. She is documentaries. a Certified Professional Coach and holds a certificate from the International Coaching abstract In this panel, Mormons who have written Federation. about the Beatles will discuss their “Mormon” experience with the band. For Compton, Paul abstract See session 315. McCartney’s emphasis on love, family, and moderator MARK PETERSEN home after the Beatle breakup led him to see Mormonism a little more sympathetically. More room 300-A

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326. NAVIGATING THROUGH 328. POSTMODERN RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CHURCH TRAUMA (RE)CREATION AND MORMON INSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM presenter DANNA HARTLINE is the founder and creator of the Mormon Trauma Mama, and organizer presenter KENT A. THOMPSON is a PhD student at the of the “When Church Hurts” initiative. She has University of Arizona in educational leadership. a bachelor’s degree in elementary education His dissertation research utilizes sociological from Western Illinois University and a master’s identity theory to understand how new public- degree in pastoral counseling from California school principals navigate and narrate their Southern University. identities and roles under various neoliberal accountability regimes. abstract The future of the Mormon faith is going to find many people grappling with just that—their abstract This exploratory paper seeks to understand the faith. As the Church continues to increase in impact of postmodernism on spiritual identity its organizational behavior and knuckle down (re)creation through the lenses of sociological on policies, church trauma is going to see an identity theory and critical social theory. The increase. How does one navigate through that? author argues that the emancipatory nature What even is church trauma? What are the root of postmodern epistemologies on person and causes? What are the consequences? Where group identity (re)creation render traditional does one go for help and healing post trauma? religious institutions, such as the Mormon All of these questions will be explored in this Church, ill-equipped to appeal to postmodern session. individual and societal spiritual needs. This fundamental disconnect is explored through an moderator JAY GRIFFITH analysis of rhetoric of current and past Mormon leaders and its impact on the identity (re) room 300-B creation process. Finally, the author proposes criteria for successful postmodern religious institutions for further discussion. 327. JOSEPH SMITH’S ADAM-GOD TEACHINGS: A HISTORICAL LOOK moderator AMYLIN PETERSON room 300-D presenter BENJAMIN SHAFFER is a researcher, writer, and historian. He served in the LDS Church as a temple worker in the Taipei Taiwan, St. George Utah, and Mesa Arizona temples from CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 11:30AM–12:30AM 2004–2010. He has a bachelor’s degree from Southern Utah University in history, with a 331. POST-MORMONISM focus on American and Mormon history. An AND THE WITCHY WORLD VIEW Institute of Religion graduate multiple times, he was trained by the Church Educational System presenters ZINA BENNION is a marketing and business to be a seminary teacher and taught seminary in director, tarot reader, cat mom, and leader of Utah and Arizona. community circles and Good Folk Faerie School for children in Utah County. She began working abstract This presentation will review many with the tarot in 2014 and progressed to reading statements from Joseph Smith, including new for others in 2016. documentation that has come to light in the Joseph Smith Papers Project, to argue that the SARA HANKS is a writer, editorial assistant, Adam-God teachings in Mormonism originate tarot reader, and mother-of-two living in with Joseph Smith and not with Brigham Young. northern Utah. Her work with tarot began Correcting the record to indicate that Joseph in 2014 and eventually led to the launch of Smith is the origin of Adam-God teachings has Cottonwood Tarot in 2017. Sara is co-editor of broader implications for the LDS movement in Where We Must Stand, a compilation of essays general, and the narrative in the LDS Church about the Mormon feminist experience from the as well. How this affects approaches to writing Feminist Mormon Housewives blog. LDS theological history will also be explored. moderator RICK C. BENNETT room 300-C

SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/SUNSTONE | 41 SATURDAY 3 AUGUST abstract Zina Bennion and Sara Hanks are two Utah- author’s life, and the often overlooked examples based, post-Mormon tarot readers. In the of women in our history and scriptures that spring of 2019, they launched “Roots, Seeds, offer a great pattern for claiming authority that and Weeds,” an online course for post- is greater than any given by men. How much Mormon women and femmes seeking spiritual of our hesitation to claim personal revelation reclamation on their own terms. Join Zina and comes from the divisive and limiting, but Sara for a discussion of mystical, sovereign, constantly repeated rhetoric of a few men? It earth-based spirituality, the unique challenge is time to cut the cords that bind us to an altar facing those who step away from Mormonism built to the false Gods of our fathers. and still crave a thriving devotional life, and how to cultivate a spiritual garden with roots moderator WENDY DEMANDANTE from the ancestors, seeds of new discovery, and discernment for the weeds that spring up room 200-C unexpectedly. moderator PAULA BAKER 334. MANY GREAT AND IMPORTANT THINGS: THE DOCTRINE OF room 200-A CONTINUED REVELATION TODAY

presenter WENDY PERRY has a master’s degree in 332. QUEER MORMON TRANSHUMANISM counseling psychology from South Texas State University. She is a former adjunct professor presenter BLAIRE OSTLER is a philosopher specializing of communications from Collin College and in queer studies, and is a leading voice at the Alamo College District and is currently a the intersection of queer, Mormon, and psychotherapist in private practice in the Dallas transhumanist thought. She is a board member area. of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, the Christian Transhumanist Association, and abstract One of the hallmark doctrines in Mormon Sunstone. theology is belief in the reality of direct and continuing revelation from God to his prophets. abstract In the broadest sense, transhumanism is the Whenever there has been an established idea that we should use science and technology “kingdom of God” on earth, we are taught to to improve humanity. Transhumanists tend to “follow the prophet” who is God’s mouthpiece. have grand and optimistic visions of what the As LDS doctrines do change over time, how future of humanity could achieve or become. do we process changes policy/revelation that Mormons do to. According to both, the future of are tantamount to reversals? We are asked humanity is godhood. This includes the queer to manage our belief systems at a seemingly community too. Queer Mormon Transhumanism increasing rate. We will discuss timelines is the story of how queer folks rise into regarding significant doctrinal changes from the godhood. past, i.e., polygamy, race and priesthood, LGBT issues, as well as current changes and discuss moderator DREW OSTLER options for a broad understanding based on historical context, and social psychology. room 200-B moderator RICHIE WILCOX Part of the Mormon Transhumanist Association track. room 200-D

333. BREAK OPEN THE VESSEL, POUR THE OIL, CUT THE CORDS presenter JODY ENGLAND HANSEN is a writer, speaker, activist, advocate, suicide prevention trainer, and mixed-media artist. abstract I sense that many women are following an inner call to claim direct connection to divine presence and power. This paper looks at the ebb and flow of this movement through the

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335. ESSENCE OF THE CLASSIC YOGA 337. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCRIPTURES: THE BHAGAVAD GITA THE LDS CHURCH AND THE NAACP, 1918–2019 presenter PHILIP MCLEMORE served as the LDS Institute of Religion director at Auburn University and the presenter ROBERT A. GREENWELL is an independent University of Georgia from 1977–1984. He has researcher in Mormon history, presenting been teaching meditation and spiritual growth a paper on Mormonism’s one-drop rule practices for 20 years, and was ordained as a and its application in regards to a devout minister in a lineage of the Kriya Yoga tradition Mormon family in Utah at last year’s Sunstone in 2008. Symposium. abstract The Bhagavad Gita (The Song of The Lord) is abstract This session is a discussion of the relationship the most famous and influential Hindu scripture. between the NAACP and the LDS Church, which It was a source of inspiration for Albert went through four phases: (1) the LDS Church Einstein. It was a handbook for Gandhi. It had a being ignorant of the existence of the NAACP, major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson, who (2) contention between the two organizations, called it, “the first of books,” and Henry David (3) cautious recognition of the existence of the Thoreau, who said, “In the morning I bathe my two organizations, and (4) friendly cooperation intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonical between the two organizations. philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita; in comparison . . . our modern world and its literature seem moderator JOSH ALLRED puny and trivial.” Join McLemore for exploration of the essential teachings of the Gita along with room 300-C some comparisons and contrasts to Mormon philosophy and the teachings of Jesus. 338. TOWARD AN INCLUSIVE HEAVEN moderator JANE GRIFFITH presenter METTE HARRISON is the author of The Bishop’s room 300-A Wife, multiple essays with the Huffington Post and RNS, and was recently diagnosed with autism. 336. THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SPIRITUALITY abstract What are some ways to think about how disabled, neuro-atypical, mentally ill, non-binary, presenter CRYSTAL SCOTT IVIE has worked as a transgender, gay/bi and others will manifest in professor, both full and part time, since 2005. the resurrection? Is a cured/fixed version the Crystal has published on a variety of topics in best we can offer? Who might be offended/hurt the fields of microbiology, tissue engineering, by this approach? and virology. moderator KALANI TONGA abstract In the US, the number of people identifying with religion continues to increase. Even the LDS room 300-D Church has experienced drastic changes to its core teachings in the last five years. With the advent of science and technology, this trend is 341. LUNCH BREAK, 12:30PM–2:00PM likely to only increase. Can a person be spiritual without ignoring all scientific thought? See page 5 for dining options. moderator ALICE FISHER ROBERTS room 300-B

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LUNCH PRESENTATIONS, 12:45PM–1:45PM abstract The quickly advancing rate of science and technology developments in our modern world 342. MEET THE WOMEN OF THE MORMON has particularly interesting implications for TRANSHUMANIST ASSOCIATION women, gender, and gender roles. What does it mean to be a woman if babies can be born presenters MICHAELANN GARDNER BRADLEY is the CEO in artificial wombs or your gender expression of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. can be enhanced or changed through hormones She also serves as director of United Way of and other technology? How have “time saving” Utah County’s EveryDay Strong initiative. She household technologies changed the balance served on the board of directors of LDS Earth of gender roles? In a world where women Stewardship from 2013–2018. are often closed out of both STEM fields and CONNIE PACKER is a registered dietitian religious authority, both critical influencers on who works in long-term care and writes society and daily life, how does Transhumanism about emerging research on nootropics and help women claim their power and equality? geroprotectors for human enhancement. She is moderator LORIE WINDER STROMBERG a board member of the MTA. room 200-B WENDY SMITH serves on the MTA board of directors. She holds a BA in economics and Part of the Mormon Transhumanism Association track. has built her career as a mortgage broker since 2004. Wendy is passionate about human rights and advancement, and is active in local politics and her community. 343. YOU’RE SO VENN PRE-SHOW

SILVIA SMITH, an engineer and athlete, has presenter JERILYN HASSELL POOL lives in Provo where spent plenty of time in male-dominated spaces, she runs QueerMeals, a nonprofit that feeds and has always been interested in women’s and supports queer folks in crisis. All of her issues and roles in society. She strongly biological kids now live in Utah, so you’d think identifies as a nerd and loves supporting she’d be happy already. women’s professional soccer. abstract In the Venn diagram of jokes and graphs, the overlap is “You’re So Venn.” (I’ll bet you think this chart is about you.) (Don’t you?) (Don’t you?!) Faith transitions can be frightening and painful. 54% of the jokes are about Mormons 82% are about my haters We specialize in enabling 18% were written in a fever dream you with the tools to master 27% are me just avoiding therapy your spiritual journey. 69% are nice 2% are actually funny.

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 2:00PM–3:30PM 353. COMMUNITY OF CHRIST MEETS POSTMODERNISM 351. WHAT THE SECOND COMING MEANS TO PEOPLE LIKE ME presenter LACHLAN MACKAY is a member of Community of Christ’s Council of Twelve Apostles, assigned presenter KIM MCCALL is a long-term devotee of the to the Northeast USA Mission Field. He also Sunstone gatherings and community, where serves as Historic Sites director and Church he loves to direct singing. He has a BA in History team lead. Born and raised in Jackson philosophy and an MS in computer science from County, Missouri, Lachlan has made his home in Stanford University. He hopes to be an ally of all Nauvoo, Illinois since 2007. things wise and/or beautiful. He is fairly happy to find himself with a critical/skeptical mind in a abstract The rapidly shifting religious landscape in body full of hoping/believing DNA. North America and Western Europe has had a profound impact on Community of Christ. This abstract In this sacrament meeting talk, after discussing paper explores the ways in which this faith with at some length why I’m uncomfortable a future is navigating the challenging terrain. with the whole idea/doctrine of the Second Coming, I consider what the Second Coming moderator MELVIN C. JOHNSON meant to earlier members of the faith and how that understanding resonates for me. room 200-C Most importantly, I reflect personally on what it means for a person like me to believe something. 354. ADULT REFUGEE moderator ALICE FISHER ROBERTS ENTREPRENEURS IN UTAH room 200-A presenter JABRA GHNEIM is a Palestinian-American and owner of Global Language Systems in Kaysville, Utah, which has provided language services to the military and intelligence 352. THE NEW GOD ARGUMENT community as well as the refugee community in Utah for the last 17 years. He joined the LDS presenter LINCOLN CANNON is a founder, board Church in the Kingdom of Jordan in 1990 and member, and former president of the Mormon was the first convert to the Church there. He is Transhumanist Association. He is a founder and finishing a PhD dissertation on adult refugee board member of the Christian Transhumanist education at BYU. Association. He is CEO at Thrivous, the human enhancement company. He holds degrees in abstract As an educational researcher and a Palestinian- business administration and philosophy. American Mormon living in Utah, Ghneim will discuss whether Gordon B. Hinckley’s criteria abstract The New God Argument is a logical argument of “friend, job, and nourishment by the word” for faith in God. Given assumptions consistent can be the basis of a formula for refugee with contemporary science and technological resettlement in a new place. Can we use it in trends, the argument proves that if we trust in whole or in part to make newcomers to the our own superhuman potential then we should United States feel welcome and at home?. also trust that superhumanity probably would be Second, how strongly does the Book of Mormon more compassionate than we are and created emphasize the Christian obligation to the our world. Because a compassionate creator stranger, and how pertinent is that message in may qualify as God in some religions, trust in the Trump era? our own superhuman potential may entail faith in God, and atheism may entail distrust in our moderator RICHIE WILCOX superhuman potential. room 200-D moderator STEPHANIE GRISWOLD room 200-B Part of the Mormon Transhumanist Association track.

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355. FINDING HUMAN CONNECTION moderator LANEECE FLAMM POST MORMONISM room 300-B presenter BILL REEL Is the founder and producer of Mormon Discussion podcast. He is also the author of the Mormon Primer. Bill seeks to help 357. FOSTERING AND MAINTAINING Latter-day Saints deconstruct Mormonism in HEALTHY BOUNDARIES WITHIN healthier ways along with helping people wake A MORMON CONSTRUCT up into human development. presenters NATASHA HELFER PARKER, LCMFT, CST is abstract Humans have always sought out human the owner and founder of Symmetry Solutions. connection. Belonging inside one’s tribe has She has been in practice for over 20 years always been a priority. This session will discuss and works with adults and adolescents. She the role that evolution has played in human specializes in mental health therapy, sex therapy survival and help deconstructed Mormons sense and sexuality concerns, family/couples services, what it means to lean into human connection in and faith transitions within spiritual journeys. a new way, where authenticity and vulnerability matter to a greater degree. LISA BUTTERWORTH is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in faith transitions, moderator BLAIRE OSTLER mixed-faith marriage, and sexual concerns. She is the founder of Feminist Mormon Housewives room 300-A and likes to play nerdy board games with her husband and three kids. 356. TAROT, MORMONISM, SARA HUGHES-ZABAWA is a licensed clinical & THE FOOL’S JOURNEY social worker, wellness coach, and yoga instructor who specializes in treating trauma, presenters SARA HANKS is a writer and tarot reader depression, and anxiety. She often works with from Washington, Utah. She is the co-editor LGBT+ individuals and their families to foster of Where We Must Stand: Ten Years of Feminist acceptance and promote advocacy skills as well Mormon Housewives, an anthology of Mormon as individuals and couples experiencing life feminist essays. Her tarot work can be transitions related to their faith. found on Instagram @cottonwood.tarot and cottonwoodtarot.com. JANA SPANGLER is an Integral Professional coach. She works with Symmetry Solutions JOSHUA BAIRD is an artist, musician, teacher, specializing in faith transitions and their impact and filmmaker. Josh’s work can be seen in on identity, relationships, and spirituality. She various museums, collections, and galleries is a student at The Living School under the across the Intermountain West. For more direction of Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM. information visit JoshuaBaird.com. To learn more about the Mormon Tarot project go to JENNIFER WHITE is a therapist who MormonTarot.com and facebook.com/mormontarot. specializes in helping people with depression, anxiety, sexuality concerns, trauma, and faith abstract The 22 Major Arcana cards of the Tarot transitions/journeys. represent the soul’s archetypal journey through life. These cards have a remarkable ability to abstract Boundaries are the simple declaration of what illuminate reality, including iconic moments you are comfortable with and what you are not and figures in Mormon history, and to support comfortable with. Yet, fostering and maintaining spiritual growth. The core of this presentation healthy boundaries can be anything but simple, will be an overview of the Major Arcana with especially within a religious construct. This commentary on the traditional Tarot, followed by session brings together a panel of mental health how they relate—sometimes with remarkable professionals and wellness coaches from coincidence—to significant events & individuals Symmetry Solutions, LLC to provide suggestions of early Mormon history, represented in on creating healthy boundaries and to explore Joshua’s depiction of the Tarot. Sara will how to address the challenges you may be also do a simple Tarot exercise for audience experiencing. members and conclude with a daring reading for Mormonism as a whole. moderator BECKY GOMEZ

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358. PANEL DISCUSSION: MAINSTREAM 362. THE NEAR AND DISTANT MORMON WOMEN GO PLURAL FUTURE OF MORMONISM presenter KRISTEN DRAUGHON grew up a mainstream presenters BEN BLAIR is a board member and VP of the Mormon and served as a worker in the Mesa Mormon Transhumanist Association. He is a Arizona Temple. She has a BA in psychology co-founder of Newlane University and has a and a BA in human services. She serves as PhD in philosophy and education from Columbia editor for the World School of the Prophets. University. Ben is married to Gabrielle Blair; they are the parents of six children. abstract This session features a panel of women who chose to leave mainstream Mormonism to live the MICHAELANN GARDNER BRADLEY is the CEO polygamous lifestyle. Panelists include the stars of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. of a popular reality show and women from a She also serves as director of United Way of variety of polygamous sects. This is your chance Utah County’s EveryDay Strong initiative. She to pick their brains on how and why each came served on the board of directors of LDS Earth to choose plural marriage, how their family and Stewardship from 2013–2018. friends have been affected, and what the various benefits and challenges of the polygamous DALLIN BRADFORD is the humanitarian and lifestyle are. membership director for the MTA. He is an actor and narrator, graduating in 2018 from The David moderator JOSH ALLRED Scott School for the Applied Art of Acting. room 300-D CALEB JONES has a computer science degree from BYU and works as a senior architect at Disney focusing on large-scale data. He serves as a board member of the Mormon CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:45PM–4:45PM Transhumanist Association. He co-authors the 361. BOOK REVIEW: COLLEEN blog NavagatingDiscipleship.com with his wife, MCDANNELL’S SISTER SAINTS Irene. abstract Traditional forms of faith drawing on divine presenters COLLEEN MCDANNELL is the Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies at authority claims, doctrinal certitudes, resistance the University of Utah. Her research covers to science, and detachment from “the world,” topics such as the history of Heaven, Vatican II, etc. are showing their wear. In the near term, material culture, and now, Mormon women. if faith is to survive to rising generations in a meaningful way, it will likely need to be CRISTINA ROSETTI has a PhD in religious constituted differently and draw its claim to studies from the University of California, authority and vitality from transformed and Riverside. Her research focuses on Mormon renewed sources. In the future, when humans fundamentalism and the emergence of new have evolved beyond present conditions, or movements within a religious tradition. have realized visions such as a renewed world, immortality, and eternal life (spoiler: these abstract Cristina Rosetti sits down with Dr. Colleen aren’t just religious visions anymore), traditional McDannell to talk about her new book, Sister religious norms will have run their course. This Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of session draws on Mormon and transhumanist Polygamy. themes to make portraits of near and distant futures of enduring faith. moderator NADINE MCCOMBS HANSEN moderator JOHNNY STEPHENSON room 200-A room 200-B Part of the Mormon Transhumanist Association track.

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363. FAITH, FOOD, The second paper examines the intersection CULTURE, AND SCIENCE of magic, Masonry and early Mormonism— with a close look at the Smith family magic presenter ZACH CORDELL is a registered dietitian parchments (Lamens) and the Faculty of Abrac. nutritionist, hosting The Latter-day Saint Nutritionist podcast where he mixes food, faith moderator ROY SCHMIDT principles, culture, and the science behind health claims. He has a master’s degree in room 200-D community nutrition from the University of Massachusetts. 365. THE GOD-IMAGE IN MORMONISM abstract LDS members tend to put their primary focus on the Word of Wisdom when discussing nutrition presenter LANDON POPPLETON has a JD from Lewis and in the Church community. In doing so, we may Clark College and a PhD in clinical psychology be missing the bigger impact that our faith can from BYU. He has been a practicing forensic have on our dietary behaviors and overall health. psychologist for over a decade, and is the But what happens when the current science founder and director of NW Family Psychology. doesn’t uphold revelation? How do we best care for our health, and why would God care about abstract The image of God in Mormonism is not static, our lunch? but an archetypal phenomenon that is revealing itself to us and transforming in an often moderator KALANI TONGA unsettling way. This session will provide an intellectual understanding of the numinous room 200-C experience of God (the mysterium tremendum et fascinans) as it relates to Mormonism. Specifically, how it promotes individuation from 364. EVOLUTION OF THE NAME OF herd psychology and how becoming more of THE CHURCH; THE MASONIC MAGIC an individual allows one to connect with the MORMON CONNECTION transcendent and experience more cohesion in one’s culture. presenters H. MICHAEL MARQUARDT is the compiler of Early Patriarchal Blessings of The Church of moderator DREW OSTLER Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2007); Later Patriarchal Blessings of room 300-A The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2012); and co-author with William Shepard of Lost Apostles: Forgotten 366. WHO WEARS THE PANTS? Members of Mormonism’s Original Quorum of Twelve (Signature Books, 2014). presenter JENNIFER CROW is a graduate student studying the sociology of religion and gender at Middle CLAIR BARRUS is a senior systems engineer Tennessee State University. She recently for a large company in Utah. He has published completed additional coursework in religious in the Journal of Mormon History and the studies at the University of Kent in the UK John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, where she hopes to complete her doctoral and manages ‘Today in Mormon History’ studies. (TodayInMormonHistory.com). He has presented papers at the John Whitmer Historical abstract Recently, the LDS Church changed the dress Association, the Mormon History Association, code for its female missionaries. This change Sunstone Symposium, and Sunstone retreats on was widely accepted by the Latter-day Saint a variety of topics. community as a nod to the evolving views of its members and leaders. However, in 2012, BARBARA LEWIS CAMP Mormon feminists began a campaign called ‘Wear Pants to Church Day’ in an effort to abstract Over the years all branches of Mormonism have normalize the wearing of pants to church struggled with the name of their organization services. Some participants in this ‘quiet and how to adjust to change. The first paper protest’ reported that they were not well examines the location of the first church received in their congregations when breeching meeting. It also follows the development of the three church names.

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social norms of acceptable Sunday attire. Church as early as the nineteenth-century, In this session we will discuss the ways in and their experience poses unique questions which religion informs processes of social about what our doctrine means when it says identification and community construction in the that gender is eternal. This piece will highlight Latter-day Saint community. notable transgender Mormons in history as well as how teachings on gender identity moderator NANCY ROSS have changed over time, as well as the unique perspectives transgender members bring room 300-B to our community and the challenges they currently face.

367. ALL ARE ONE IN CHRIST: moderator MARY ANN CLEMENTS TRANSGENDER SPIRITUALITY AND THE CHURCH room 300-C presenter ANDY WINDER has written for Bustle and FTM magazine, and works as a writer for an early 368. NEW VIEWS INTO FUNDAMENTALISM literacy nonprofit. He identifies as a transgender Mormon and is passionate about helping trans/ presenters CRAIG L. FOSTER is a sixth-generation member non-binary people of faith find authenticity in of the LDS Church and great-grandson of their religious and gender identities. Mormon polygamists. He is the author/coauthor of three books and co-editor of the three- abstract When Dallin H. Oaks mentioned those who volume The Persistence of Polygamy series. For “confuse or alter gender” in his talk “Truth almost thirty years he has worked at the Family and the Plan” last October, many members History Library in Salt Lake City. interpreted his comments as condemning transgender members. But the history—and MARIANNE T. WATSON, of Lehi, Utah, was born future—of gender variance in the LDS Church and raised in a plural family as a fundamentalist is as rich as it is a vital part of our community. Mormon in the group known commonly as Transgender members may have existed in the the “Allred Group,” or more recently the AUB (Apostolic United Brethren). In 2000, she coauthored the book Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage.

abstract “The Plural Wives of John W. Woolley and Lorin C. Woolley,” by Marianne T. Watson. This paper will show there were more plural wives of both John and Lorin Woolley than previously known. They will be identified and discussed within Find a mental health professional who the context of pre and post-Manifesto plural understands the Mormon experience. marriages. “The Interconnectedness of the Early The MMHA’s number one priority is to provide Fundamentalists,” by Craig L. Foster. Like professionals with the tools, resources and cultural early members of the LDS Church, early competence they need to succeed in the work they Fundamentalists took the good news of engage in within the broader Mormon community. continued authority to marry plurally to fellow We strive for the ability to respectfully and family members and friends. As fundamentalism adequately treat and educate Mormons self-identifying grew, it did so among kith and kin until modern in any manner of religious belief or non-belief, sexual fundamentalism represents a large network orientation or preference, gender identity, or any other of families. Examples from the book American area they may find themselves in, through an Polygamy: A History of Fundamentalist Mormon evidence-based, best-practice approach consistent with Faith and other research will be given. professional ethics first and foremost. moderator CHRISTOPHER C. SMITH mormonmentalhealthassoc.org room 300-D

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 5:00PM–6:30PM 373. PROPHET FOR A DAY: THE TRUTH & TRANSPARENCY FOUNDATION 371. HOW COUNTERFEITING, ANTI- MASONIC SENTIMENT, AND THE presenters BLAIRE OSTLER is a philosopher specializing SECOND GREAT AWAKENING in queer studies, and is a leading voice at AFFECTED JOSEPH SMITH’S the intersection of queer, Mormon, and RELIGION transhumanist thought. She is a board member of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, presenter KATHLEEN KIMBALL MELONAKOS is the Christian Transhumanist Association, and descended from Heber C. Kimball, graduated Sunstone. from BYU in nursing and studied liberal arts and philosophy at eight universities including the MARK PUGSLEY is a partner at the law firm of University of Toronto and Cambridge University. Ray Quinney & Nebeker in Salt Lake City, and She earned a master’s degree in philosophy chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Group. from Stanford University in 1996. Most recently He has been working to recover money for she has spent ten years researching Secret victims of investment fraud and Ponzi schemes Combinations: Evidence of Early Mormon throughout the United States for over 25 years. Counterfeiting 1800–1847. ETHAN GREGORY DODGE started his career abstract Evidence suggests that the Joseph Smith as a cyber-security engineer in Silicon Valley. family was involved in counterfeiting long In late 2016, he was a founding member of the before the Book of Mormon emerged. MormonLeaks.io team. A year later, he co- Therefore, what was Joseph Smith’s founded the Truth & Transparency Foundation, a relationship to the Christian society around non-profit newsroom dedicated to empowering him? Since the Christian Second Awakening the disenfranchised by promoting transparency and the Anti-Masonic movement were both in within religious institutions. full swing, what might be Joseph’s reasons for creating the Christian/Masonic syncretism that BENJAMIN SHAFFER is a researcher, writer, is Mormonism? If we understand the past we and historian. He served in the LDS Church can chart a better future. as a temple worker in the Taipei Taiwan, St. George Utah, and Mesa Arizona temples from moderator EMILY TUCKER 2004–2010. He has a bachelor’s degree from Southern Utah University in history with a focus room 200-A on American and Mormon history. An Institute of Religion graduate multiple times, he was trained by the Church Educational System to be 372. HOW FAMILIES WILL FIND PURPOSE a seminary teacher and taught seminary in Utah AND VALUES IN TOMORROW’S and Arizona. RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE abstract If you could be prophet of the LDS Church presenters BECCA OGDEN is a writer and activist involved for a day, what would you change? In this with the Provo Girls Summit. session, we’ll ask three different panelists, all from different walks of life, this question. JON OGDEN is the author of When Mormons Each panelist will outline their changes and Doubt. address potential concerns from the moderator. The proposed changes will all be rooted in abstract The role of traditional religion is changing as each panelist’s expertise and the moderator more people leave and carve their own paths. will concentrate on how the ideas could affect How can we transcend harmful religious overall retention. The remaining portion will be traditions while still including some of the given to the audience to ask questions and raise values and sense of purpose that religion can concerns. Join us in a light-hearted discussion bring? Join us to explore how to create hope for as we explore effective change to the policies the future. and doctrines of Mormonism’s most influential organization. moderator ALICE FISHER ROBERTS moderator JOANNA SMITH room 200-B room 200-C Part of the Mormon Transhumanist Association track.

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374. EVOLVING FAITH: BUILDING MORE MARK CREGO is the founder of the Identity STATELY SPIRITUAL MANSIONS Strategy foundation. His work includes the Unique Identity program of India, providing presenters THOMAS MCCONKIE is an author, public suffrage and financial inclusion for over 1.2 speaker, and mindfulness teacher. He is the billion people. founder of Lower Lights School of Wisdom where he teaches developmental psychology DAN WOTHERSPOON, PhD, is the host of and meditative practice, which he has studied the Latter-Day Faith podcast and former for more than 20 years. He is the creator of the editor and executive director of the Sunstone Mindfulness+ podcast, and has been featured on Education Foundation. Each year he curates and NPR, Religious News Service, Tricycle, and the moderates the Why I Stay panel. 10% Happier Podcast. abstract In this session, leaders of the Faith Journey JOHN T. KESLER—an attorney, community Foundation, the non-profit organization that facilitator, consultant and lecturer—is founder manages and facilitates Latter-day Faith and president of the Salt Lake Civil Network. He and several other podcasts, will share their developed an awareness and life practice called reflections on their attempts to walk the integral polarity practice (IPP), which focuses challenging but rewarding path of spiritual on the full spectrum of human development. development (“inner work”) that involves entirely changing how we approach life, hold GLORIA GARDNER REES has studied with our beliefs, interact with others, and understand both John and Thomas in the IPP Institute, God and ourselves. Inner work is difficult, but as Lower Lights, and Pacific Integral’s Generating we pursue it we are opened to joys that at one Transformative Change (GTC). Teaching in time we could not even imagine as possibilities. China, India and Nepal, plus travel in the Philippines, Spain, and Madagascar have fed her moderator SARA MCCAUSLAND awareness—seeing others where they are. She is the mother of six. room 300-A abstract Jesus taught in parables so people at different levels of spiritual openness and preparedness 376. CAN WE TALK ABOUT IT NOW?: could expand their vision—from where Christ SACRED SYMBOLS OR RITUAL found them to where he called them to move. DISSONANCE. We do not go lock-step into heaven; rather, each of us goes according to the light and love presenter JODY ENGLAND HANSEN is a writer, speaker, we choose to live by. This session emphasizes activist, advocate, suicide prevention trainer, the democracy of salvation, suggesting that and mixed media artist. we all have the choice of evolving to higher states of consciousness and intelligence. It also abstract The recent changes in the temple ceremonies presents ways of seeing oneself and others included language that many had asked and where they are, and focuses on individual and hoped for. They also included changes that organizational evolution. are upsetting. Nearly every day since then, someone has called me trying to process the moderator LORIE WINDER STROMBERG trauma that has surfaced for them. I came from a background where much of the temple room 200-A experience was discussed in most settings at home and church, honoring the few parts that are only for a temple setting. I think we 375. THE DIFFICULTIES can honor each other, and honor the ritual, in AND JOYS OF “INNER WORK” learning to do so again. presenters SUSAN M. HINCKLEY is an Arizona artist/ moderator STEPHANIE GRISWOLD writer, and a graduate of the University of Utah. She enjoys desert living, creating the webcomic room 300-B Gray Area, moderating Waters of Mormon Facebook group, and endless examination of both her faith and her lack thereof.

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377. POST-MORMONS WITH CARPAL CHRISTINA STODDARD is the author of HIVE, TUNNEL: WRITING THE WAY OUT which won the 2015 Brittingham Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press) and was a presenters METTE HARRISON is the author of The Bishop’s finalist for the 2016 Washington State Book Wife, many essays for the Huffington Post and Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in Crab RNS about Mormonism. She’s currently working Orchard Review, Tupelo Quarterly, storySouth, on a new podcast: The Mormon Sabbatical. Iron Horse Literary Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. TIMOTHY LIU’s latest book is Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain (1992–2017). Widely HEATHER HOLLAND is an assistant professor published, his accolades include the Norma at Snow College, where she teaches English Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society and creative writing. She completed an MFA of America; a Beyond Margins / Open Book in creative writing, with a minor in gender and Award from PEN America; and a Book-of-the- women’s studies, at the University of Wyoming. Year Award from Publishers Weekly. Her poetry and essays have appeared in saltfront, The Found Poetry Review, Segullah, DAYNA PATTERSON is the author of If Mother Exponent II, and her chapbook Mastering the Art Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her of Joy. creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, and Crab Orchard Review. She abstract Leaving Mormonism can be an excruciating is the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, process with heaps of emotional, social, and a former managing editor of Bellingham Review, psychological backlash. In this session, a and poetry editor for Exponent II Magazine. She distinguished group of post-Mormon writers will is a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in share excerpts of their exit narratives and poetry. Mormon Poetry. They will discuss the role writing has played, and continues to play, in their faith transitions. ALLIE SPIKES is a writer whose work often focuses on faith, gender, and family moderator PAULA BAKER relationships. She earned her MA in English literature and linguistics from Texas Tech room 300-C University and is an MFA student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.

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378. ASK A SEX THERAPIST ELEVEN 11 consists of lead singer Marji Mozart on piano, James Morgan Jessop on bass and presenter NATASHA HELFER PARKER, LCMFT, CST is rhythm guitars, Luke Jessop on drums, and Jay the owner and founder of Symmetry Solutions. Draper on lead and bass guitars. Although the She has been in practice for over 20 years band is very versatile in its styles and genres of and works with adults and adolescents. She music, its sound is most often centered around specializes in mental health therapy, sex therapy pop, soul, and rock. and sexuality concerns, family/couples services, and faith transitions within spiritual journeys. organizers VICKIE DARGER abstract Come enjoy a candid Q&A where any question is CHELSI BARNARD welcome. This has been a well-attended session JILL HATCH in the past where sexual topics can be broached in a sex-positive, evidence-based, and humorous DAVE HATCH approach. Coming from a culture where sexuality RENE MCDONALD can be treated in rigid ways, it can be healing to have safe spaces to talk openly about questions directions Crescent Community Park 230 E 11000 S, and concerns. Sandy, UT 84070 moderator BECKY GOMEZ Turn left out of the expo center parking lot and head south on State Street for 1.7 miles. room 300-D Turn left on E 1100 Street (right after Mark Miller Subaru on the right) and continue for half a mile. 381. EPIC MORMON POTLUCK, 7:00-9:30 PM Turn right on 230 E. Sunstone’s Epic Mormon Potluck will feature the best food The park has its own small parking lot. that Mormonism has to offer! Pack up your best Jell-O spoon Overflow parking can be found at the end and picnic with Sunstone staff and attendees at our casual of 230 E in the Crescent Elementary School post-conference picnic dinner at the pavilion in Crescent parking lot. Street parking also available on the Community Park. north side of the park.

The picnic requires a separate registration fee of $10, either pre- purchased online or on-site, to cover the cost of the meal. This will also cover admission into the session. SUNDAY 4 AUGUST

If you didn’t purchase a dinner ticket in advance, ask about The Community of Christ will hold a post-Symposium Sunday availability at the symposium registration desk. service on Sunday 4 August at its Salt Lake City chapel.

10:00 am: Sunday School for all ages — adult class taught by 391. EPIC MORMON POTLUCK COMEDY President of Seventy Karin Franklin Peter on the topic Scrip- PRESENTATION, KICKBALL GAME, tures in Community of Christ AND LIVE MUSIC 11:00 am: Worship with Sacrament of Communion. Sermon by abstract Laugh while you eat with our dinner Apostle Robin Linkhart. presentation, “You’re So Venn” by Jerilyn Hassell Pool. 12:00 pm: Community lunch. All are welcome. Watch or compete in our post-symposium kickball game with teams Outer Darkness and The Salt Lake City Community of Christ chapel is located at Higher Law. 2747 Craig Drive (2747 East 3640 South) Salt Lake City, UT, 84109. presenters JERILYN HASSELL POOL lives in Provo where she runs QueerMeals, a nonprofit that feeds and supports queer folks in crisis. All of her biological kids now live in Utah, so you’d think she’d be happy already.

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