The 17th annual FairMormon Conference was held on August 6 and 7, 2015 at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah. Transcriptions of the presentations are available at the links below, and will be added as they become available.
The Mother in Heaven and Her Children
Margaret Barker
Captain Dan Jones: Defender of the Faith in Wales
Ron Dennis
History and Historicity in the Book of Mormon
Brant Gardner
Faith and Scholarship
James D. Gordon III
Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding
Laura Harris Hales
A house of order, a house of God: Recycled challenges to the legitimacy of the church
Cassandra Hedelius
The Order of the House of God: Ancient Practices and Modern Experiences
David J. Larsen
An Act of Religious Conviction: Mormon Women and Nineteenth-Century Polygamy
Brittany Chapman Nash
On the Record
Michael R. Otterson
The Reasonable Leap into Light: A Barebones Secular Argument for the Gospel
Dan Peterson
From Not White Enough, to Too White: Rethinking the Mormon Racial Story
Paul Reeve
Why Mormon Materialism Matters
Stephen H. Webb
Christ’s Emancipation of Women in the New Testament
Lynne Wilson
