Thanks to friend of JI K. Pollock for putting this together!

Metamorphosis:

Scattered and Gathered Saints Emerge After Crises

Saturday, September 19, 2020, 5:30 p.m. CDT

Join the John Whitmer Historical Association from the comfort of your own home to see two great presentations on restoration history by Dr. Jane Hafen and Dr. David Howlett, to enjoy an awards ceremony honoring the top books and articles of 2019, and to participate in a hymn sing!

Find official event page and registration HERE.

This professionally produced digital event is JWHA’s gift to all JWHA members. Registration fee for non-members is $10.00 and student non-members is $5.00. Advance registration is required; registration closes September 15. 

Schedule:

2020 Awards Ceremony & Business Meeting

Categories: Best Historical Article, Best Theological Article, Best Book, Best Anthology, Best Biography, and Best Documentary History.

JWHA Article Nominees are HERE. JWHA Book Nominees are HERE.

Presentations

Dr. David J. Howlett

“The Story of the ‘Evacuees’: A Filipino Congregation, a Cold War Insurgency, and the Development of the First RLDS NGO, 1972-1974”

In 1972, the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, declared martial law to target political opponents of his regime. The New People’s Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, struck back, bringing armed conflict to several rural villages in northern Luzon. In one of those villages, members of a growing RLDS congregation found themselves caught in a war zone. This talk draws upon oral history interviews with congregation members who survived the conflict. It details their experience during the insurgency and their journey to establish new lives and a new congregation in a new area. In the process, this talk narrates the founding of the RLDS Church’s first humanitarian NGO and places the congregation’s story within a larger context of Cold War politics, religious affiliation in the Philippines, and changing Christian understandings of missions in the global 1970s.

Dr. P. Jane Hafen, co-editor of Essays on American Indian and Mormon History

“’Nor any manner of -ites’: American Indians and Mormons”

American Indians have long played a central role in Mormon history and its narratives. Their roles, however, have often been cast in support of traditional Mormon beliefs and as a reaffirmation of colonial discourses. With the aim of avoiding familiar narrative patterns of settler colonialism, this talk will seek to make American Indians the subjects rather than the objects of discussion in relation to Mormons, presenting new ways to explore and reframe these relationships.

Hymn Sing

Do your vocal warmups and prepare for the first JWHA digital hymn fest. We are pleased to announce that we will close our digital event with a virtual hymn fest to celebrate some the historical songs which unite and draw us together no matter how far we are scattered.