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2016 FairMormon Conference

The 18th annual FairMormon Conference was held on August 4 and 5, 2016 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.

Climbing a tree to find a fish: Insurgency in the Book of Mormon
Morgan Deane

Quorum Lost and Found: Eliza R. Snow and the 1868 Restoration of Relief Society
Jill Derr

“We, the People of the Kingdom of God”: Insights into the Minutes of the Council of Fifty, 1844-1846
Matt Grow

“Love Wins,” and Charity Loses
Ralph Hancock

More Effective Apologetics
Grant Hardy

Faith-Centered Dialectics: Talking About Differences Transforms
Ally Isom

The Courage of Our Convictions: Embracing Mormonism in a Secular Age
Patrick Mason

The Book of Mormon as a Communicative Act: Translation in Context
Ben McGuire

The Logic-Tree of Life, or, Why I Can’t Manage to Disbelieve
Dan Peterson

“To Inflict the Wounds of Death”: Mesoamerican Swords and Cimeters in the Book of Mormon
Matt Roper

“Daughters of Christ”: Finding Language to Talk about Women and Priesthood
Kathryn Shirts

Finishing up the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: An Introduction to The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon
Royal Skousen and Stan Carmack

Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now
Brian Stubbs

What I hope we will teach our daughters (and sons) about the priesthood
Wendy Ulrich

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