By April 5, 2009
I attended both days of the Mormonism in the Public Mind Conference at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. I took some lazy notes on the first day, so I will provide my notes and links to reports made in other venues. I took much more copious notes on the second day, which I am cleaning up now for posting, probably today. Here is the conference program.
By April 4, 2009
View Elder Andersen’s biography here.
Last October’s General Conference featured a talk by Elder Andersen entitled “You Know Enough”. Never was there a more appropriate talk for review by our readers. 🙂
Elder Andersen has not authored any books that I am aware of. It will be interesting to see if that changes in the coming years.
By April 1, 2009
On March 5 of this year, UVU hosted a panel discussion on the Mountain Meadows Massacre featuring Rick Turley, Will Bagley, and Forrest Cuch and was moderated by Alex Caldiero. Brent Brizzi was on the scene and has provided a transcript of the proceedings. He consulted a recording and notes provided him by the participants. Thank you, Brent for you hard work putting this together for those of us who couldn’t make it.
By March 30, 2009
I was unable to attend this conference, but Trevor Holyoak did attend and has been kind enough to share some notes from the sessions he attended. He notes at the end a website where past years booklets have been posted. These booklets are well worth a look as they are loaded with great information and are very well designed. Hopefully the program directors will publish this year’s booklet soon. When it is, we’ll link to it on our sidebar. Thanks Trevor!
By March 30, 2009
I’ve probably been one of the more positive and hopeful through this undying one-upmanship of Joseph Smith photo-finding that we’ve experienced in the last year. With this latest edition to the fold of false Josephs, I just may be losing hope, and Ardis may just be proving prophetic yet again.
Check out this crank on Ebay.
By March 17, 2009
On July 17, 2008 Curt Bench discussed his work on the Parallel Book of Mormon, now sold out. Our thanks to Brent Brizzi for painstakingly transcribing the proceedings and making them available to the Juvenile Instructor.
By March 11, 2009
Last year, to much fanfare, Eborn Books released S. Michael Tracy’s Millions Shall Know Brother Joseph Again: The Joseph Smith Photograph which argues that a daguerreotype (known as the Scannel Daguerreotype) owned by the Community of Christ is an authentic daguerreotype of Joseph Smith. Here is a gratuitous me reference that came out the day of the book’s release and here is a story from the Mormon Times the day after that better shows the image.
By March 7, 2009
We’re pleased that Trevor Holyoak, who attended last week’s Symposium on Preserving Church History at BYU, has agreed to share his notes here with all of us. Including notes from the presentation of our own Ben P. Enjoy!
By March 2, 2009
I haven’t seen this CFP mentioned in the ‘Nacle (but then again, I haven’t been too up on the ‘Nacle lately, so if this is old news, please forgive the repeat info), so I thought I’d put in a plug for it. I was able to attend last year (see my notes: part 1, part 2), and it was a splendid little conference. Though I truly was surprised at how small and intimate it was. I’d love to see more of my fellow history nuts there this year.
By December 29, 2008
On December 10, 2008 Benchmark Books hosted a lecture/book signing with George Smith for his newly released Navuoo Polygamy: “But We Called It Celestial Marriage”. We hope to have a review up soon of this book. In the mean time, we want to provide a transcript of the proceedings. Special thanks go to Brent Brizzi for his painstaking work in providing a transcription of the evening’s lecture.
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