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FairMormon Conferences Index

All conference presentations are listed below by year. Click to go to the main FairMormon Conference page.

2016

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

2015

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

How to help young Latter-day Saints deal with criticisms against the Church and the doubts they cause while remaining faithful
Ed Pinegar

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

2014

The Book of Abraham and Unnoticed Assumptions
Kerry Muehlstein

Blacks in the Scriptures
Marvin Perkins

Joseph Smith Among the Early Christians
Barry Bickmore

Earl Wunderli’s Imperfect Book
Bob Rees

Scriptural Style in Early Nineteenth Century American Literature
Matt Roper & Paul Fields

“Mormons can BE gay, they just can’t DO gay”?: Deconstructing Sexuality and Identity From an LDS Perspective
Ty Mansfield

Why, Yes! I am a Mormon, Thank You Very Much!
Ann Cannon

Shouldering the Cross, or How to Condemn Racism and Still Call Brigham Young a Prophet
Russell Stevenson

The Preposterous Book of Mormon: A Singular Advantage (PDF)
Robert F. Smith

“This Is a Woman’s Church”
Sharon Eubank

The Story Behind the Revelations: Using the Joseph Smith Papers to Better Understand the Doctrine and Covenants
Matt Grow & Matt Godfrey

Panel Discussion: Family Members Who Left

Religious Liberty: What Latter-day Saints Need to Know to Preserve Our First Freedom
Hannah Smith

Some Reflections on That Letter to a CES Director
Dan Peterson

2013

Shaken Faith Syndrome, Part Deux
Michael R. Ash

Joseph Smith’s Visions: His Style and his Record
Ron Barney

Panel Discussion: Charity Never Faileth: Seeking Sisterhood Amid Different Perspectives on Mormon Feminism
Neylan McBaine
Valerie Hudson
Wendy Ulrich
Kristine Frederickson
Maxine Hanks

Mormonism and the New Liberalism: the Inescapability of Political Apologetics
Ralph Hancock

“Kidnapping” at Palestine Grove: Missouri’s Final Attempt to Extradite Joseph Smith
Morris Thurston

Why Mormonism Matters: Pastoral Apologetics and the LDS Doubter
Seth Payne

Why It is Important to Laugh at Ourselves
Robert Kirby

Was Joseph a Product of the Second Great Awakening
Lynne Wilson

Disenchanted Mormonism
Rosalynde Welch

The Original Context of the First Vision Narrative: 1820s or 1830s
Don Bradley

Heartland as Hinterland: The Mesoamerican Core and North American Periphery of Book of Mormon Geography
Mark Alan Wright

Working With the Church: Another Narrative
Maxine Hanks

Panel Discussion: The Loss and Rekindling of Faith
Don Bradley
Janet L. Eyring
Maxine Hanks

Toward a More Effective Apologetics
Dan Peterson

2012

Navigating the Labyrinth Surrounding Homosexual Desire
Joshua Johanson

Reading Mormon’s Codex
John Sorenson

To Do the Business of the Church: A Cooperative Paradigm for Examining Gendered Participation Within Church Organizational Structure
Neylan McBaine

Do We Need to Make Changes to the Book of Mormon Text?
Royal Skousen

No Johnny-Come-Lately: The 182-Year-Long BLACK Mormon Moment
Darius Gray

Joseph Smith’s Sexual Polyandry and the Emperor’s New Clothes: On Closer Inspection, What Do We Find?
Brian C. Hales

Book of Mormon Genetics: A Reappraisal
Ugo Perego

Forty-five Years of Chiasmus Conversations, Criteria, and Creativity: What Chiasmus Proves and Does Not Prove
Jack Welch

From the East to the West: The Problem of Directions in the Book of Mormon
Brant Gardner

Book of Abraham, I Presume
John Gee

Seeing the Light: Parallels in Mormon Conversion and De-conversion Stories
Rosemary Avance

Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages
Don Bradley

Perception and Reality: Then and Now
Hartt Wixam

Of ‘Mormon Studies’ and Apologetics
Dan Peterson

2011

Seerhood, Pure Language, and Sacred Translation
Samuel Brown

A Reconciliation of Polygamy
Valerie Hudson

Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Blood Atonement Balance Sheet
McKay V. Jones

The Sacred Embrace in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art
Stephen Ricks

The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon
Brant Gardner

Four Accounts and Three Critiques of Joseph Smith’s First Vision
Steven C. Harper

W. Mitt Romney & Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.’s Dueling Quest for the Presidency: A Mormon Moment…Or the Mormon Question, Revisited?
Newell Bringhurst

Borders & Boundaries: The Immigration Fervor that Threatens to Divide Us
Cynthia J. Lange

Something Wiki This Way Comes: How Collaborative Editing is Changing the Face of Online LDS Apologetics
Roger Nicholson

‘President Joseph Has Translated a Portion’: Solving the Mystery of the Kinderhook Plates (PDF)
Don Bradley

Book of Mormon ‘Wordprint’ Analysis: How to do it wrong…and how to do it right
Paul Fields

Joseph Smith, the Question of Polygamous Offspring, and DNA Analysis
Ugo Perego

Mormonism, Islam, and the Question of Other Religions
Dan Peterson

2010

Joseph Smith and the Biblical Council of the Gods (PDF)
David Bokovoy

The Apocalypse of Abraham: An Ancient Witness for the Book of Moses (PDF)
Jeffrey Bradshaw

Same-sex Marriage and the Role of Religion (PDF)
William Duncan

Like Two Crazy Aunts in the Attic: Latter-day Saints and Popular Polygamy Stereotypes (PDF)
Craig Foster

Marginal Characters in the Book of Abraham Manuscripts (PDF)
John Gee

The Two Trees (PowerPoint)
Valerie Hudson

The Obligation to Do Apologetics (PDF)
Daniel Peterson

Origin of Book of Mormon Names (PDF)
Stephen Ricks

Editing Hugh Nibley: From Manuscript to Book (PDF)
Shirley Ricks

Joseph Smith and the Question of Book of Mormon Geography (PDF)
Matthew Roper

The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers Video Part 1 Video Part 2
Will Schryver

Restoring the Original Text of the Book of Mormon
Royal Skousen

A Mormon in the White House (PDF)
Peter Watkins

2009

The Reliability of Mormon History Produced by the LDS Church
Ron Barney

Brigham Young’s Teachings On Adam (PDF)
Matthew Brown

Joseph the Seer—or Why Did He Translate With a Rock in His Hat?
Brant Gardner

The Larger Issue
John Gee

Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology (PDF)
Ron Hellings

“Uh oh!” to “Ah ha!” in Apologetics: 20/20 Foresight for a Faithful Future in Defending the Church
John Lynch

Science and the Book of Mormon
Wade Miller

The Temple as a Place of Ascent to God
Daniel C. Peterson

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Plural Marriage* (*but were afraid to ask)
Gregory Smith

The Sariah Dilemma: Finding Increased Faith When Our Children Misplace Their Own
Vickey Taylor

The Kirtland Safety Society
R. McKay White

On Being an Apologist: Imperatives, Predicaments, Perils and Blessings (PDF)
Robert White

2008

Shaken Faith Syndrome (PDF)
Michael Ash

The Message of the Joseph Smith Translation: A Walk in the Garden (PDF)
Jeffrey Bradshaw

The Israelite Temple and the Early Christians
Matthew B. Brown

The Joseph Smith Papers (PDF)
Ronald Esplin

Mormon’s Editorial Method and Meta-Message
Brant A. Gardner

Joseph Smith DNA Revealed: New Clues from the Prophet’s Genes
Ugo Perego

Humble Apologetics
Daniel C. Peterson

Book of Mormon Geography (PDF)
Larry Poulsen

Deification: Divine Inheritance and the Glorious Afterlife in the Book of Mormon and Ancient Mesoamerica (PDF)
Mark Wright

2007

Some Puzzles from the Joseph Smith Papyri (PDF)
John Gee

When Souls Had Wings: What the Western Tradition Has to teach Us About Pre-Existence
Terryl Givens

As Far as it is Translated Correctly: The Problem of Tampering with the Word of God in the Transmission and Translation of the New Testament
John Hall

Solomon’s Temple: Myth and History (PDF)
William Hamblin and David Seely

The Cowdery Controversies (PDF)
Larry Morris

Is the Church Archives Closed?
Steven Olsen

Spiritual Experiences as the Basis for Belief and Commitment
Blake Ostler

God and Mr. Hitchens (PDF)
Daniel Peterson

The Trajectory of Book of Mormon Studies (PDF)
John Sorenson

Reflections on Mountain Meadows
Richard Turley

Seeing Our Blindness: The Impact of Personal History on Our Understanding of God (PDF)
Wendy Ulrich

A Change of Venue: Joseph Smith’s Escape from Liberty Jail (PDF)
Jeffrey Walker

2006

Apologetics 101
Wayne Arnett

Book of Abraham 201: Papyri, Revelation and Modern Egyptology
Mike Ash

Legal Trials of the Prophet: Joseph Smith’s Life in Court
Joseph Bentley

Revised or Unaltered? Joseph Smith’s Foundational Stories
Matthew Brown

The Lives of Mormon Women
Claudia Bushman

Defenders of the Book: Surveying the New World Evidence for Book of Mormon Historicity (PDF)
Brant Gardner

Investigating the Kirtland Egyptian Papers (PDF)
Brian Hauglid

A Black Man in Zion: Reflections on Race in the Restored Gospel
Marcus Martins

Salamander Letters (PDF)
Steve Mayfield and George Throckmorton

An International Perspective: Opposition to Mormonism in Finland1845-2006
Kim Ostman

Tangible Restoration: The Witnesses and What They Experienced (PDF)
Daniel Peterson

Adam in Ancient Texts and the Restoration
Matthew Roper

DNA and the Book of Mormon
David Stewart

A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan (PDF)
Brian Stubbs

Zina and Her Men: An Examination of the Changing Marital State of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young
Allen Wyatt

2005

George Q. Cannon and the Apostates
Davis Bitton

A Joseph Smith Miscellany
Richard Bushman

Debating the Foundations of Mormonism: The Book of Mormon and Archaeology
John E. Clark, Wade Ardern and Matthew Roper

Blacks in the Bible
Darius Gray

The Message and the Messenger: Latter-day Saints and Freemasonry
Greg Kearney

The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions
Blake Ostler

DNA and the Book of Mormon
Ryan Parr

How to Reach African-Americans (PDF)
Marvin Perkins

What I Learned about Life, the Church and the Cosmos from Hugh Nibley
Boyd Petersen

Reflections on Secular Anti-Mormonism
Dan Peterson

Authentic Ancient Names and Words in the Book of Abraham and Related Kirtland Egyptian Papers (PDF)
John Tvedtnes

“Believest thou…?”: Faith, Cognitive Dissonance and the Psychology of Religious Experience
Wendy Ulrich

2004

Explaining Away the Book of Mormon Witnesses
Richard Lloyd Anderson

ABCs of the Book of Abraham (PDF Format)
Michael Ash & Kevin Barney

I Don’t Have a Testimony of the History of the Church
Davis Bitton

International Perspectives of a Black Member in a “White” Church
Alex Boyé

Historical or Hysterical? Anti-Mormons and Documentary Sources
Matthew Brown

Born That Way? Facts and Fiction about Homosexuality
A. Dean Byrd

The Case for Historicity: Discerning the Book of Mormon’s Production Culture
Brant A. Gardner

Empathetic Imagination: Reading Between the Lines in Standing on the Promises
Darius Gray and Margaret Blair Young

The Apostasy
Roger Keller

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Joseph Smith: Defending the Faith
David Paulsen

Autobiographical Notes on My Testimony
Daniel Peterson

The Place of Mormon Women: Perceptions, Prozac, Polygamy, Priesthood, Patriarchy, and Peace
Andrea G. Radke

The King Follett Discourse in the Light of Ancient and Medieval Jewish and Christian Beliefs
John Tvedtnes

2003

Defending Zion (PDF)
Roger Ekins

Old Themes and Stereotypes Never Die: The Unchanging Ways of Anti-Mormons
Craig L. Foster

Monotheism, Messiah, and Mormon’s Book
Brant Gardner

The Grace of Apologetics
Roger Keller

The LDS Church and the Race Issue: A Study in Misplaced Apologetics
Armand L. Mauss

The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon
D. Jeffrey Meldrum

Random Reflections on the Passing Scene
Dan Peterson

The Book of Abraham: Dealing with the Critics (PDF)
Michael Rhodes

Nephi’s Neighbors: Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columbian Populations
Matthew Roper

Shining New Light on the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Gene Sessions

Evolution and Latter-day Saint Theology: The Tree of Life and DNA
Trent Stephens

The Charge of “Racism” in the Book of Mormon
John Tvedtnes

Black Latter-day Saints: A Faith-FULL History
Margaret Blair Young

2002

The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith
Russell Anderson

The Impact of Mormon Critics on LDS Scholarship
Michael R. Ash

Christ, the Firstfruits of Theosis PDF Format
Roger Cook

The Gadianton Robbers in Mormon’s Theological History: Their Structural Role and Plausible Identification
Brant Gardner

Dealing with Demographics
Tim Heaton

Dispelling the Black Myth
Renee Olson

The Protean Joseph Smith
Dan Peterson

Changes in the Book of Mormon
Royal Skousen

The Mistakes of Men: Can the Scriptures be Error-Free?
John Tvedtnes

2001

Feeding the Multitudes: Being Fishers of Men
Ross Baron

Arabia and the Book of Mormon
S. Kent Brown

A Social History of the Early Nephites
Brant Gardner

Egyptian Influence in Ancient Israel (PDF)
John Gee

Nephi and Goliath: A Reappraisal of the Use of the Old Testament in First Nephi
Ben McGuire

Naturalistic Terms: Some Reflections on a Motto and Type of Historical Explanation
Louis Midgley

Benjamin or Mosiah: Resolving an Anomaly in Mosiah 21:28
L. Ara Norwood

The Divine Source of the Book of Mormon in the Face of Alternative Theories Advocated by LDS Critics
Daniel C. Peterson

Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon
Matt Roper

Scholarship in Mormonism and Mormonism in Scholarship
John Tvedtnes

DNA and the Book of Mormon (Audio/Video Format)
Scott Woodward

2000

Up In Smoke: A Response To the Tanners’ Criticism of the Word of Wisdom
Mike Ash

Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?: History or Propaganda? Joseph Smith as a Case Study
Danel Bachman

Cherry Picking in the Orchard of God’s Word: John 4:24
Darryl Barksdale

A Real People, Time, and Place: Contextualizing the Book of Mormon
Brant Gardner

Survey Says!
Scott Gordon

Breaking Down Barriers with Wrecking Balls of Fallacy
Kevin Hill

Nehors in the Land: A Latter-day Variation on an Ancient Theme
L. Ara Norwood

Easier than Research, More Inflammatory than Truth
Daniel C. Peterson

An Incident Concerning Page 81 of “Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?”
Robert Vukich

1999

A Tale of Two Restorations
Kevin Barney

Mormonism in the Early Jewish Christian Milieu
Barry Bickmore

Joshua the High Priest and the Council of the Gods in the Book of Zachariah: a Post-Exilic Jew in King Yahwey’s Court
Roger Cook

The Corruption of Scripture in the Second Century
John Gee

What Has Athens to do with Jerusalem?: Apostasy and Restoration in the Big Picture
Daniel C. Peterson

I Have Said, ‘Ye are Gods’
D. Charles Pyle

Salvation for the Dead: A Response to Luke Wilson
Matt Roper

Early Christian and Jewish Rituals Related to Temple Practices
John Tvedtnes

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