Thursday, July 15, 2010

Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium

To see information regarding the 2011 Utah Symposium (held in Ogden), click here

Symposium theme, 2010:  REFLECTIONS ON MATURING FAITH
4-7 August 2010 at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel, 150 West 500 South
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/symposium/


Wednesday, 8:00 pm (free and open to the public )
  • The Fate Of New Religious Movements When They Are No Longer New: A Conversation Between Jon Butler And Jan Shipps - Jan Shipps, John Butler

Thursday
  • Devotional. The Call To Praise And Respond - Susan Skoor
  • Eugene England'S Calculated Risk: The Struggle For Academic Freedom And Religious Dialogue - Charlotte Hansen
  • Out Of Context; Using And Abusing Quotations - Barry Laga
  • Maturing Faiths; A Comparison Between Mormonism And Islam During Their First Two Centuries - Ann Chamberlin
  • Money Troubles: Fiscal And Psychological Crises At Kirtland - Richard Delewski
  • One Soul Shall Not Be Lost: A History Of The War In Heaven In Mormon Thought - Boyd J. Petersen
  • Bella'S Body: Physicality, Mortality, Spirituality, And Desire - Holly Welker
  • Authors Meet The Critic Curt Bench, Gary Topping - Polly Aird
  • More Stories From The LDS Borderlands D. Jeff Burton, John Dehlin
  • Francophone Mormons And The Internet: Discovering Space For Religious Expression, Dialogue, And Democracy Carter Charles - Boyd J. Petersen
  • Joseph Smith, Matthew Philip Gill, And The Dynamics Of Mormon Schism - Matthew Bowman
  • Panel: Rediscovering Eugene England In The 21St Century Charlotte Hansen, Charlotte England, Rebeccca England, Jody England Hansen - Dan Wotherspoon
  • Panel: Studies Of Twentieth-Century Utah Mormon Sects - Ryan T. Roos, Christopher Blythe, Christine Magula
  • Panel: Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons On The Page, Stage, And Screen - Michael Austin, Mark T. Decker, Aaron Sanders
  • Panel: Are We Moving Toward Wholenness? Women And The Feminine In Mormonism - Margaret Toscano, Lilly Shults, Alisa Bolander, Tresa Edmunds, Suzann Werner
  • Panel: A Walking Contradiction: Partly Truth And Partly Fiction - Fae Ellsworth, Larry Rigby, Whitney Mower, Richard Terry Lapointe, Paul Swenson
  • Line Upon Line: How The New Personal Progress/duty To God Programs Are Defining Tomorrow'S Leaders - Laura Compton, Tresa Edmunds
  • A Field Guide For Turning History Into Myth - H. Parker Blount
  • Toward An LDS Account Of Physician-Assisted Suicide - Samuel Brown
  • Two Short Plays: Adam & Eve And Prodigal Son - Davey Morrison Dillard, Bianca Morrison Dillard
  • A Crisis Of Faith In Newtonian Mormonism - Michael Farnworth
  • From Seer Stone To Trifocals: A Church'S Journey With Scripture - Robin Linkhart
  • Whose Wife Will She Be? Marriage, Embodiment, And Salvation - Janice Allred
  • Maturity, Meaning, And Mormonism - Lowell Lemesany
  • Adam-Ondi-Ahmen: An American Eden Boyd - J. Petersen
  • From C.s. Lewis To Owen Barfield: An Evolution Of Consciousness, An Evolution Of Faith - Julie J. Nichols
  • Panel: "Those Members Of The Body, Which Seem To Be More Feeble…are Necessary": Placing Disablity At The Heart Of Zion - Dan Wotherspoon, J. Mark Olsen, Anne Leahy
  • Panel: The Stories We Tell: How An Unpleasant Truth Can Be More Inspirational Than A Pleasant Fiction - Tresa Edmunds, Tracy Mckay, Kathryn Lynard Soper, Janet Garrard-Willis, Stephen Marsh
  • Panel: Some Sahd Stories - Stephen Carter, Mark England, John Gustav-Wrathall, Joseph West, Jr.
  • Panel: The Book Of Job - Holly Welker, H. Parker Blount, Joanna Brooks, Richard Delewski
  • Panel: Eternal Perdition? Bureaucratic Limbo? The Theological Ramifications Of Excommunication - Janice Allred, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Marvin Rytting, Margaret Toscano, Paul Toscano
  • Plenary. Double Feature: Performances By Sister - Dottie S. Dixon And Mr. Deity Brian Keith Dalton And Charles Lynn Frost
Friday
  • Wrestling Jacob'S Angel: On Trials And Maturing Faith - Michael Vinson
  • The Cost Of Discipleship: Thoughts On What It Means To Be A Mature Believer - Robert A. Rees
  • Sacred Secrecy In The Teachings Of President Boyd K. Packer - Hugo Olaiz, D. Michael Quinn
  • Joseph Smith Iii: From Reorganization To Community Of Christ - Lachan Mackay
  • Meditations On William H. Chamberlin And Why One Should Remain Mormon - James Mclachlan
  • Rachel Ann Nunes'S Ariana Series: A Fictional View Of Latter-Day Saints In Modern-Day France - Helynne Hollstein Hansen
  • Relief Society And The Invisible Hand Of Patriarchy - Tamara Taysom, Ellen Decoo
  • Instrumental Mysticism: The Inspired Fictionalization Of The Untied Firm Revelations - Christopher C. Smith
  • Spaceship Earth - Dennis Clark
  • Why Elijah (Or The Baptist) Must Come Before Christ'S Return - Paul Savage, Steve ShieLDS
  • Same-Gender Marriage & Religious Freedom: A Call To Quiet Conversations And Public Debates - Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy
  • Plenary Session: Why We Stay Alan Eastman - Carol B. Quist, Mark D. Thomas, Suzann Werner, Ron Frederickson
  • Responses To The Documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition - Laura Compton, Reobert A. Rees
  • In Memoriam: Linda Sillitoe - John Sillito, Paul Swenson, Phyllis Barber, Allen Roberts
  • What Was Responsible For The Willie And Martin Handcart Disaster? One Small Cow - Trent D. Stephens, Kevin HoLDSworth
  • Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil Vs Tree Of Life - Richard C. Russell
  • Life After: The Journey From Active Mormon To Reflective Unitarian - Marvin Rytting
  • More Precious Things: Evidence For Women'S Priesthood In The Earliest Christianity - Bridget Jack Jeffries
  • Is The Afghanistan War Just? A Book Of Mormon Approach - Joshua Madson, William Van Wagenen
  • In Memoriam: C. Jess Grosbeck - Karl Schnibbe, Reed Hunter, Susan Buhler Taber Anne Wilde, Beverly Hoppe, Karen Rosenbaum, Douglass Taber
  • The Big Fan: Joseph Smith And The Danites In Missouri - Todd Compton, D. Michael Quinn
  • The Will To Power And Exaltation: An Exploration Of Mormon And Nietzschean Conceptions Of Power - Rachel Morris
  • Film: Screening The Sonosopher, An Experimental Journey Through The Mind Of Sound Wizard And Poet - Alex Caldiero Alex Caldiero, Torben Bernhard, Travis Low
  • Panel. Our Voices, Our Visions: A Mormon Women'S Literary Tour Encore Performance - Julie J. Nichols, Whitney Mower, Elisa Pulido, Elizabeth Pinborough, Holly Welker, Joanna Brooks
  • Panel: Persistence Of Polygamy: A Mormon Anthology - Newell G. Bringhurst, Jeffery O. Johnson, Patricia Scott, Christopher Blythe, Todd Compton
  • Exit, Voice, And Loyalty In The Mormon Community - Kaimipono Wenger, Kristine Haglund, Bridget Jack Jeffries, John Dehlin
  • Developments From The Community Of Christ 2010 World Conference - William D. Russell, Mark A. Scherer
  • Plenary. Pillars Of My Faith - Eric Samuelson, Tracy Mckay
Saturday
  • Devotional. Gratitude: A Contagious Choice - Frances Lee Menlove
  • Film: Trouble In Zion, A Documentry - Kenneth Ballentine
  • The Descent Of Dissent: Or On The Origin Of Speciousness - Paul Toscano, Vickie Steward Eastman
  • Church, Priesthood, And The Gay/lesbian Journey Toward Spiritual Maturity - John. D Gustav-Warthall
  • Dating Fanny Alger: The Nature, Timing, And Consequences Of An Early Polygamous Relationship - Don Bradley
  • Toward A Mormon Theological Justification For Environmental - Activism Roger D. Hansen, Dan Wotherspoon
  • The Future Of Catholic-Mormon Dialogue: Bridges Between Rome And Salt Lake City - Donald Westbrook,
  • Film: Trouble In Zion, A Documentry - Kenneth Ballentine
  • Gender Differences In The Early Patriarchal Blessings Of The LDS Church 1834-1845 - Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd, Natalie Shepherd
  • Getting It Right: Changes In The Gospel Principles Manual From 1979 To 2009 - Steve Warren, Laura Compton
  • From "System Of Beliefs" To "Way Of Life": Fifty Years Of Transformation In Community Of Christ - Steve ShieLDS
  • Mormon Women Had The Priesthood In 1843 - Joshua Gillon
  • Joseph Smith'S Meditation On Power: Clear Evidence Of A Maturing Faith - Dennis Clark
  • Panel: Glenn Beck: Likely Mormon Or Unlikely Mormon - Robert A. Rees, Eric Samuelsen, Joanna Brooks, David King Landrith
  • Panel. The Gay Mormon Literature Project - Johnny Townsend, Alan Michael Williams, Gerald S. Argetsinger
  • Panel: The Role Of Feministmormonhousewives.org In The "Maturing" Of Mormon Feminism Lisa Butterworth - Melanie Franti, Shelah Miner, Tresa Edmunds
  • Panel. The Pros And Cons Of Writing Confessional Memoir In The Mormon Milieu - Phyllis Barber, Holly Welker, Keven Holdworth, Stephen Carter, Bruce Jorgensen
  • Panel. Mormonism And Radical Politics - Cory Bushman, Katy Savage, Tristan Call, Fernando R. Gomez
  • Growth And Dispersion Of Latter-Day Saints In "Zion" And "Babylon": The Consequences Of Mormon Demographic Transition - Rick Phillips, Ronald Lawson
  • Toeing The Line: Is The LDS Church A Moral Agent Or A Political Machine? - Laura Compton, Joseph West, Jr.
  • The Epistle Of Paul: Homosexual Spirituality And The Redemption Of Pleasure Paul Toscano - Michael J. Stevens
  • Faith In The Midst Of The Difficulties Of Life - Susan Skoor
  • Joseph Smith'S Personal Polygamy - Brian Hales, George D. Smith
  • The Mormon Bibles William D. Russell - Kim Mccall
  • 356: Lockean Ideology And D&c Section 134: The Adoption Of American Political Ideology As Scripture - Chris Henrichsen
  • Hindering The Saints: Taking Away The Key Of Knowledge - Philip G. Mclemore
  • Panel: The Mormon Feminist Community Of Exponent Ii: Its History, Its Legacy, Its Future - Barbara Taylor, Aimee Evans Hickman
  • Film: Two Loves: Documenting Gay Mormons' Stories - Michelle Ripplinger
  • Oliver Cowdery'S Rod Of Nature - Clair Barrus, D. Michael Quinn
  • Reasons For Technological Interpretations Of Mormonism - Lincoln Cannon, J. Mark Olsen
  • Bash: Mormonizing Euripides - Dai Newman
  • Panel. Gay And Mormon On The Stage And Screen - Charles Lynn Frost, Eric Samuelsen, Gerald S. Argetsinger
  • Panel. Seeing As Believing - Alex Caldiero, Cheryl L. Bruno, Paul Swenson
  • Panel: Men And The Priesthood: Taking On The Feminine - Tom Kimball, Holly Welker, Robin Linkhart, Lisa Butterworth
  • Where Is Your Faulkner? Mormon Fiction And America - Elbert Eugene Peck, Jane Barnes, Karen Rosenbaum, Ellen Fagg Weist, Steve Williams
  • Panel: No More Fellow Citizens But Still Strangers: Twenty Years Of Strangers In Paradox: Explorations In Mormon Theology - Janice Allred, Mark D. Thomas, Margaret Toscano, Paul Toscano
  • Faith And Narrative - Sheila Taylor, Sara Burlingame, Joanna Brooks
  • Banquet: LDS Women In The Twentieth Century: Witnesses To A Changing Church. - Claudia L. Bushman, Lisa T. Clayton, Lauren Kennard, Caroline Kline, Bethany Saunders

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