Densley, Steven T., Jr., and Geret Giles. “Barriers to Belief.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.Links to available media:
Ulrich, Wendy. “‘Believest thou…?’: Faith, Cognitive Dissonance and the Psychology of Religious Experience.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Norwood, L. Ara. “Benjamin or Mosiah: Resolving an Anomaly in Mosiah 21:28.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.Links to available media:
Mayfield, Steven L. “Big Love: The truth, the Whole Truth and, Well, Maybe Not?” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.
Young, Margaret Blair. “Black Latter-day Saints: A Faith-FULL History.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Links to available media:
Martins, Marcus H. “A Black Man in Zion: Reflections on Race in the Restored Gospel.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Gray, Darius. “Blacks in the Bible.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Perkins, Marvin. “Blacks in the Scriptures.” Paper presented at the 2014 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2014.Links to available media:
Hauglid, Brian M. “The Book of Abraham.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.
Ash, Michael R. “Book of Abraham 201: Papyri, Revelation and Modern Egyptology.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Muehlstein, Kerry. “The Book of Abraham and Unnoticed Assumptions.” Paper presented at the 2014 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2014.Links to available media:
Gee, John. “Book of Abraham, I Presume.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Rhodes, Michael D. “The Book of Abraham: Dealing with the Critics.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Links to available media:
Gardner, Brant A. “The Book of Mormon as a Seer Stone: Having Faith In and Through the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.Links to available media:
Keywords: Faith; Revelation; Seer stone
Perego, Ugo A. “Book of Mormon Genetics: A Reappraisal.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Poulsen, Larry. “Book of Mormon Geography.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
Fields, Paul J. “Book of Mormon Voices.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
Peterson, Daniel C. “The Book of Mormon Witnesses: Sincerity and Reality.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
Peterson, Daniel C. “The Book of Mormon Witnesses: Variety and Complexity.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Fields, Paul J. “Book of Mormon ‘Wordprint’ Analysis: How to do it wrong…and how to do it right.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.
Lange, Cynthia J. “Borders and Boundaries: The Immigration Fervor that Threatens to Divide Us.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.
Byrd, A. Dean. “Born That Way? Facts and Fiction about Homosexuality.” Paper presented at the 2004 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2004.Links to available media:
Hill, Kevin. “Breaking Down Barriers with Wrecking Balls of Fallacy.” Paper presented at the 2000 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2000.Links to available media:
Brown, Matthew B. “Brigham Young’s Teachings On Adam.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.Links to available media:
Gee, John. “By the Numbers.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Dennis, Ronald D. “Captain Dan Jones: Defender of the Faith in Wales.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Walker, Jeffrey N. “A Change of Venue: Joseph Smith’s Escape from Liberty Jail.” Paper presented at the 2007 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2007.Links to available media:
Skousen, Royal. “Changes in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.Links to available media:
Tvedtnes, John A. “The Charge of ‘Racism’ in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Determined to read the Book of Mormon in purely naturalistic nineteenth century terms, rather than as an ancient text, recent criticisms of that volume of scripture are offended by some descriptions of Lamanites in the text. This is particularly true when the Nephites describe the Lamanites in pejorative terms, such as blood-thirsty, idolatrous, ferocious, idle, lazy, and filthy. The question is whether these terms can be considered “racist,” and whether supposed “racist” attitudes of the Nephites are evidence against the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.
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Keywords: Curse; Lamanite; Nephite; Racism; Skin Color
Barksdale, Darryl L. “Cherry Picking in the Orchard of God’s Word: John 4:24.” Paper presented at the 2000 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2000.
Cook, Roger D. “Christ, the Firstfruits of Theosis.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.Links to available media:
Wilson, Lynne Hilton. “Christ’s Emancipation of Women in the New Testament.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Hedelius, Cassandra S. “Compassion and Evidence: The Wisdom of Church Guidelines for Transgender Individuals and Their Families.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.Links to available media:
Hales, Brian C. “Controversies in Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: New Evidences and New Observations Indicate Fawn Brodie Should Have Done More Research.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.
Gee, John. “The Corruption of Scripture in the Second Century.” Paper presented at the 1999 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 1999.Links to available media:
Mason, Patrick Q. “The Courage of Our Convictions: Embracing Mormonism in a Secular Age.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.Links to available media:
Halverson, Taylor. “The Covenant Path in the Bible and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Morris, Larry E. “The Cowdery Controversies.” Paper presented at the 2007 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2007.Links to available media:
Shirts, Kathryn H. “‘Daughters of Christ’: Finding Language to Talk about Women and Priesthood.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.Links to available media:
Jones, McKay V. “Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Blood Atonement Balance Sheet.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.
Heaton, Tim B. “Dealing with Demographics.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.Links to available media:
Clark, John E., Wade Ardern, and Matthew P. Roper. “Debating the Foundations of Mormonism: The Book of Mormon and Archaeology.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Galorath, Dan. “Decisions Determine Destiny, My Road to Christ.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Gardner, Brant A. “Defenders of the Book: Surveying the New World Evidence for Book of Mormon Historicity.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Ekins, Roger. “Defending Zion.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Links to available media:
Wright, Mark Alan. “Deification: Divine Inheritance and the Glorious Afterlife in the Book of Mormon and Ancient Mesoamerica.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
Mackley, Jennifer Ann. “Discovering Church History: The Wilford Woodruff Papers Project.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
Welch, Rosalynde Frandsen. “Disenchanted Mormonism.” Paper presented at the 2013 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2013.Links to available media:
Olson, Renee. “Dispelling the Black Myth.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.Links to available media:
Woodward, Scott. “DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.Links to available media:
Parr, Ryan. “DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Stewart, David G., Jr. “DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Roper, Matthew P., and Kirk Magleby. “Time Vindicates the Prophet.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Gordon, James D., III. “Faith and Scholarship.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Hafen, Bruce C., and Marie K. Hafen. “Faith is Not Blind.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Isom, Ally. “Faith-Centered Dialectics: Talking About Differences Transforms.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.Links to available media:
Ostler, Blake T. “The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Krywult, René. “Fear Leads to the Dark Side: How to Navigate the Shallows of (Mis)Information.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Baron, Ross David. “Feeding the Multitudes: Being Fishers of Men.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.Links to available media:
Stubbs, Brian D. “A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Richardson, Jelaire, and Nathan Richardson. “Filling a Critical Needs-Gap for the Rising Generation: A New Family Proclamation Curriculum.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Kuehn, Elizabeth A. “Finances and Faith in the Kirtland Crisis of 1837.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.Links to available media:
Skousen, Royal, and Stanford A. Carmack. “Finishing up the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: An Introduction to The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.Links to available media:
Keywords: Book of Mormon Translation; Conjectural Emendation; Critical Text; Foreign Language Translation; Grammar; Language – Early Modern English; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon’ Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon
Reeder, Jennifer. “‘Fire In My Bones’: Women’s Stories on churchhistorianspress.org.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.Links to available media:
Hudson, Valerie M. “The First Political Order and the Priesthood.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Spackman, T. Benjamin. “First Things, Faith, and Reading Scripture Literally: Why It Matters.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Reeder, Jennifer. “First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
Burgin, Barrett. “Five Pillars for a New Wave of Latter-day Saint Cinema.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.Links to available media:
Rutherford, Taunalyn F. “‘For We Shall See Him as He Is’: Understanding Mormon Women in India.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.Links to available media:
Welch, John W. “Forty-five Years of Chiasmus Conversations, Criteria, and Creativity: What Chiasmus Proves and Does Not Prove.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Andrewsen, Brent. “Foundational to Our Faith: ‘The Family: A Proclamation to the World’” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Christensen, Craig C. “Foundations of Our Faith.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Harper, Steven C. “Four Accounts and Three Critiques of Joseph Smith’s First Vision.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.Links to available media:
Reeve, W. Paul. “From Not White Enough, to Too White: Rethinking the Mormon Racial Story.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Gardner, Brant A. “From the East to the West: The Problem of Directions in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Seariac, Hanna. “Handmaids of the Lord: The Ancient Function of Women in Temple Ordinances.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.
Perego, Ugo A. “Haplogroup X in Light of Recent Book of Mormon Claims.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.
Wilcox, Bradley R. “‘Have You Been Saved By Grace?’ How Do We Respond?” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.Links to available media:
Wright, Mark Alan. “Heartland as Hinterland: The Mesoamerican Core and North American Periphery of Book of Mormon Geography.” Paper presented at the 2013 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2013.Links to available media:
Hales, Laura Harris. “Helen Mar Kimball’s Polygamy Story.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Brown, Matthew B. “Historical or Hysterical? Anti-Mormons and Documentary Sources.” Paper presented at the 2004 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2004.Links to available media:
Sweat, Anthony. “History and Art: Mediating the Rocky Relationship.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Hedelius, Cassandra S. “A house of order, a house of God: Recycled challenges to the legitimacy of the church.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Lawrence, Gary. “How Americans View Mormonism and What We Can Do About It.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.
Lawrence, Gary. “How Comfortable Conversations About the Gift of Agency Lead to Interest in the Gospel.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Pinegar, Ed J. “How to help young Latter-day Saints deal with criticisms against the Church and the doubts they cause while remaining faithful.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Perkins, Marvin. “How to Reach African-Americans.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Peterson, Daniel C. “Humble Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
Bitton, Davis. “I Don’t Have a Testimony of the History of the Church.” Paper presented at the 2004 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2004.Links to available media:
Pyle, D. Charles. “I Have Said, ‘Ye are Gods’” Paper presented at the 1999 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 1999.Links to available media:
Ash, Michael R. “The Impact of Mormon Critics on LDS Scholarship.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.Links to available media:
Vukich, Robert. “An Incident Concerning Page 81 of ‘Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?’” Paper presented at the 2000 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2000.Links to available media:
Kuehn, Elizabeth A. “Insights from Joseph Smith’s Life in the Summer of 1842: Trials, Tenacity, and Gratitude.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Godfrey, Matthew C. “Insights from the Joseph Smith Papers into John C. Bennett’s Dismissal from the Church.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Ostman, Kim. “An International Perspective: Opposition to Mormonism in Finland 1845-2006.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Boyé, Alex. “International Perspectives of a Black Member in a ‘White’ Church.” Paper presented at the 2004 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2004.Links to available media:
LaCour, Tarik D. “Intro to Mormon Natural Theology.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
Hauglid, Brian M. “Investigating the Kirtland Egyptian Papers.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Olsen, Steven L. “Is the Church Archives Closed?” Paper presented at the 2007 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2007.Links to available media:
Rappleye, Neal. “Ishmael and Nahom in Ancient Inscriptions.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Brown, Matthew B. “The Israelite Temple and the Early Christians.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
Petersen, Scott R. “Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever: A Restoration of Primitive Christianity.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.Links to available media:
Bickmore, Barry R. “Joseph Smith Among the Early Christians.” Paper presented at the 2014 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2014.Links to available media:
Hellings, Ron. “Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.Links to available media:
Bokovoy, David E. “Joseph Smith and the Biblical Council of the Gods.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Roper, Matthew P. “Joseph Smith and the Question of Book of Mormon Geography.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Perego, Ugo A. “Joseph Smith DNA Revealed: New Clues from the Prophet’s Genes.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
McBride, Spencer W. “Joseph Smith in Van Buren’s White House: Lessons in Electoral Politics and Religious Freedom.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.Links to available media:
Bushman, Richard Lyman. “A Joseph Smith Miscellany.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Esplin, Ronald K. “The Joseph Smith Papers.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
Perego, Ugo A. “Joseph Smith, the Question of Polygamous Offspring, and DNA Analysis.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.
Dale, Bruce E., and Brian Dale. “Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser – A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative Correspondences Between the Book of Mormon and The Maya, 9th Edition.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Hales, Laura Harris. “Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Hales, Brian C. “Joseph Smith’s Sexual Polyandry and the Emperor’s New Clothes: On Closer Inspection, What Do We Find?” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Ashurst-McGee, Mark. “Joseph Smith’s ‘New Translation’ of the Bible, His Use of Adam Clarke’s Bible Commentary, and the Question of Plagiarism.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Cook, Roger D. “Joshua the High Priest and the Council of the Gods in the Book of Zachariah: a Post-Exilic Jew in King Yahwey’s Court.” Paper presented at the 1999 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 1999.Links to available media:
Gee, John. “The Larger Issue.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.Links to available media:
Griffin, Tyler J. “Latter-day Lessons from Alma 30: Recognizing and Combating Anti-Christ Teachings and Tactics.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.Links to available media:
Ash, Michael R., and Kevin L. Barney. “LDS Apologetics 101.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Links to available media:
Mauss, Armand L. “The LDS Church and the Race Issue: A Study in Misplaced Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Links to available media:
Bentley, Joseph I. “Legal Trials of the Prophet: Joseph Smith’s Life in Court.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Gee, John. “Lessons On Doing Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
Nash, Brittany Chapman. “Let’s Talk About Polygamy.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
McBride, Matthew S. “The Life and Faith of William Paul Daniels: Reflections on Church Membership and Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Foster, Craig L. “Like Two Crazy Aunts in the Attic: Latter-day Saints and Popular Polygamy Stereotypes.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Kuehn, Elizabeth A. “The Lives and Letters of the Twelve Apostles and their Wives during the Second British Mission, 1839-1841.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Bushman, Claudia L. “The Lives of Mormon Women.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.Links to available media:
Young, Bruce W. “Living and Sharing the Essence of the Gospel in the DR-Congo.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Peterson, Daniel C. “The Logic-Tree of Life, or, Why I Can’t Manage to Disbelieve.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.Links to available media:
Dirkmaat, Gerrit J. “Lost Teachings of the Prophets: Recently Uncovered Teachings of Joseph Smith and Others from the Council of Fifty Record.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.Links to available media:
Hancock, Ralph C. “‘Love Wins,’ and Charity Loses.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.Links to available media:
Mansfield, Ty. “Loving Truth and Truly Loving: Mapping the Problems and Possibilities in the Latter-day Saint/LGBTQ+ Conversation.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.
Harper, Steven C. “Making Saints: A Look into the Writing of the New Church History.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.Links to available media:
Gee, John. “Marginal Characters in the Book of Abraham Manuscripts.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Schryver, Will. “The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers: Part 1.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Schryver, Will. “The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers: Part 2.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Kearney, Greg. “The Message and the Messenger: Latter-day Saints and Freemasonry.” Paper presented at the 2005 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2005.Links to available media:
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The Message of the Joseph Smith Translation: A Walk in the Garden.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
Hales, Brian C. “Mind the Gap.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.Links to available media:
Thayne, Jeffrey. “Moral Intuitions and Persuasion: Exploring the Psychology of Conversion and Deconversion.” Paper presented at the 2022 FairMormon Conference. August, 2022.Links to available media:
Hardy, Grant R. “More Effective Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.Links to available media:
Watkins, Peter. “A Mormon in the White House.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Mayfield, Steven L. “The Mormon Murders – The Hoffman Forgeries.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.
Gordon, Scott. “Mormon Temples and Freemasonry.” Paper presented at the 2017 FairMormon Conference. August, 2017.Links to available media:
Hancock, Ralph C. “Mormonism and the New Liberalism: the Inescapability of Political Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2013 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2013.Links to available media:
Bickmore, Barry R. “Mormonism in the Early Jewish Christian Milieu.” Paper presented at the 1999 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 1999.Links to available media:
Sherlock, Richard. “Mormonism in the Public Square.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.
Peterson, Daniel C. “Mormonism, Islam, and the Question of Other Religions.” Paper presented at the 2011 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2011.Links to available media:
Bachman, Danel W. “Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?: History or Propaganda? Joseph Smith as a Case Study.” Paper presented at the 2000 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2000.Links to available media:
Mansfield, Ty. “‘Mormons can BE gay, they just can’t DO gay’?: Deconstructing Sexuality and Identity From an LDS Perspective.” Paper presented at the 2014 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2014.Links to available media:
Gardner, Brant A. “Mormon’s Editorial Method and Meta-Message.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.Links to available media:
Barker, Margaret. “The Mother in Heaven and Her Children.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Midgley, Louis C. “Naturalistic Terms: Some Reflections on a Motto and Type of Historical Explanation.” Paper presented at the 2001 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2001.Links to available media:
Johanson, Joshua. “Navigating the Labyrinth Surrounding Homosexual Desire.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Roper, Matthew P. “Nephi’s Neighbors: Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columbian Populations.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Links to available media:
Gray, Darius. “No Johnny-Come-Lately: The 182-Year-Long BLACK Mormon Moment.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Gray, Darius, and Margaret Blair Young. “Nobody Knows, the Untold Story of Black Mormons.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.
Peterson, Daniel C. “The Obligation to Do Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2010 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2010.Links to available media:
Peterson, Daniel C. “Of ‘Mormon Studies’ and Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Foster, Craig L. “Old Themes and Stereotypes Never Die: The Unchanging Ways of Anti-Mormons.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.Links to available media:
White, Robert B. “On Being an Apologist: Imperatives, Predicaments, Perils and Blessings.” Paper presented at the 2009 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2009.Links to available media:
Otterson, Michael R. “On the Record.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Gordon, Scott. “Online Apologetics.” Paper presented at the 2008 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2008.
Larsen, David J. “The Order of the House of God: Ancient Practices and Modern Experiences.” Paper presented at the 2015 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2015.Links to available media:
Bradley, Don. “The Original Context of the First Vision Narrative: 1820s or 1830s.” Paper presented at the 2013 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2013.Links to available media:
McBaine, Neylan, Valerie M. Hudson, Wendy Ulrich, Kristine Wardle Frederickson, and Maxine Hanks. “Panel Discussion: Charity Never Faileth: Seeking Sisterhood Amid Different Perspectives on Mormon Feminism.” Paper presented at the 2013 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2013.Links to available media:
Anderson, Dana Kimmell, Karen Lyons, and Roger Nicholson. “Panel Discussion: Family Members Who Left.” Paper presented at the 2014 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2014.
Bradley, Don, Janet L. Eyring, and Maxine Hanks. “Panel Discussion: The Loss and Rekindling of Faith.” Paper presented at the 2013 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2013.Links to available media:
Welch, John W., and Jeannie Welch. “Parables of Jesus Revealing the Plan of Salvation.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Spackman, T. Benjamin. “A Paradoxical Preservation of Faith: LDS Creation Accounts and the Composite Nature of Revelation.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.Links to available media:
Wixam, Hartt. “Perception and Reality: Then and Now.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.Links to available media:
Wilson, Lynne Hilton. “Peter and Paul’s Paradoxical Passages on Women.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.Links to available media:
Bradley, Don. “Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages.” Paper presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2012.We Latter-day Saints are temple-centered people. So were the Nephites. But what do we know about their temple worship, how it worked and what it was for? How was it even possible for the Nephites to observe the Mosaic rituals without the Levitical priesthood, the Aaronite high priest, and the Ark of the Covenant? And given that our temple worship today isn’t about animal sacrifice, what, if anything, does their temple worship have to do with ours? Critics, and even friendlier outside observers like Harold Bloom, have sometimes come away from reading the Book of Mormon—in Bloom’s case not reading it very much—but they’ve sometimes come away thinking that there isn’t much “Mormon-ism” in the book. Let’s see whether our exploration of temple themes in the Nephite narratives contradicts this or bears it out.
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Keywords: Aminadi (Ancestor of Amulek); Ark of Cumorah; Ark of the Covenant; Book of Lehi; Early Church History; High Priest; Hill Cumorah; Interpreters; Law of Moses; Liahona; Lost 116 Pages; Mosiah the Elder; Sword of Laban; Temple
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