Mormon Scholars Gather to Discuss Current Issues

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Mormon Scholars are gathering once again in Sandy Utah on August 4 & 5 at the FAIR Conference to discuss controversial issues that are facing members of the Church today. With Mitt Romney and John Huntsman in the spotlight, a new musical on Broadway, controversy over immigration laws, and a new Mormon basketball player, more and more journalists are calling this a Mormon moment. But, several controversial issues continue to be brought up by members of the press, as well as other critics of Mormonism.

On August 4 & 5 the scholars will meet to discuss these and other issues. It is open to the public and you won’t want to miss it. The schedule is as follows:

Thursday August 4 Schedule
Time	Presentation	Speaker
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks - Fair	Scott Gordon
9:30 am	Seehood, Pure Language, and Sacred Translation	Samuel Brown
10:30 am	A Reconciliation of Polygamy	Valerie Hudson
1:00 pm	Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Blood Atonement Balance Sheet	Mickay V. Jones
2:00 pm	The Sacred Embrace in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art	Stephen Ricks
3:15 pm	The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon	Brant Gardner
4:15 pm	Accounts of the First Vision	Steven C. Harper
5:15 pm	Closing

Friday August 5 Schedule
Time	Presentation	Speaker
8:00 am	Registration
8:50 am	Opening
9:00 am	W. Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.'s 2012 Quest for the Presidency: A Mormon Moment or Mormon Question...Revisited	Newell Bringhurst
10:00 am	Borders & Boundaries: The Immigration Fervor that Threatens to Divide Us	Cynthia J. Lange
11:00 am	Something Wiki This Way Comes: How Collaborative Editing is Changing the Face of Online LDS Apologetics	Roger Nicholson
1:00 pm	'President Joseph Has Translated a Portion': Solving the Mystery of the Kinderhook Plates	Don Bradley
2:00 pm	Book of Mormon 'Wordprint' Analysis: How to do it wrong...and how to do it right	Paul Fields
3:15 pm	Excavating the Text: Archaeological Expectations for Book of Mormon Peoples	Chris Watkins
4:15 pm	Mormonism, Islam, and the Question of Other Religions	Dan Peterson
5:15 pm	Closing

Find out more information about the conference, and register for the conference at http://www.fairlds.org/conf11a.html, or go to www.fairlds.org and click on the conference link.

On August 4 & 5 the scholars will meet to discuss these and other issues. It is open to the public and you won’t want to miss it. The schedule is as follows:

Thursday August 4 Schedule
Time	Presentation	Speaker
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks - Fair	Scott Gordon
9:30 am	Seehood, Pure Language, and Sacred Translation	Samuel Brown
10:30 am	A Reconciliation of Polygamy	Valerie Hudson
1:00 pm	Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Blood Atonement Balance Sheet	Mickay V. Jones
2:00 pm	The Sacred Embrace in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art	Stephen Ricks
3:15 pm	The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon	Brant Gardner
4:15 pm	Accounts of the First Vision	Steven C. Harper
5:15 pm	Closing

Friday August 5 Schedule
Time	Presentation	Speaker
8:00 am	Registration
8:50 am	Opening
9:00 am	W. Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.'s 2012 Quest for the Presidency: A Mormon Moment or Mormon Question...Revisited	Newell Bringhurst
10:00 am	Borders & Boundaries: The Immigration Fervor that Threatens to Divide Us	Cynthia J. Lange
11:00 am	Something Wiki This Way Comes: How Collaborative Editing is Changing the Face of Online LDS Apologetics	Roger Nicholson
1:00 pm	'President Joseph Has Translated a Portion': Solving the Mystery of the Kinderhook Plates	Don Bradley
2:00 pm	Book of Mormon 'Wordprint' Analysis: How to do it wrong...and how to do it right	Paul Fields
3:15 pm	Excavating the Text: Archaeological Expectations for Book of Mormon Peoples	Chris Watkins
4:15 pm	Mormonism, Islam, and the Question of Other Religions	Dan Peterson
5:15 pm	Closing

Find out more information about the conference, and register for the conference at http://www.fairlds.org/conf11a.html, or go to www.fairlds.org and click on the conference link.

On August 4 & 5 the scholars will meet to discuss these and other issues. It is open to the public and you won’t want to miss it. The schedule is as follows:

Thursday August 4 Schedule
Time	Presentation	Speaker
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks - Fair	Scott Gordon
9:30 am	Seehood, Pure Language, and Sacred Translation	Samuel Brown
10:30 am	A Reconciliation of Polygamy	Valerie Hudson
1:00 pm	Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Blood Atonement Balance Sheet	Mickay V. Jones
2:00 pm	The Sacred Embrace in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art	Stephen Ricks
3:15 pm	The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon	Brant Gardner
4:15 pm	Accounts of the First Vision	Steven C. Harper
5:15 pm	Closing

Friday August 5 Schedule
Time	Presentation	Speaker
8:00 am	Registration
8:50 am	Opening
9:00 am	W. Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.'s 2012 Quest for the Presidency: A Mormon Moment or Mormon Question...Revisited	Newell Bringhurst
10:00 am	Borders & Boundaries: The Immigration Fervor that Threatens to Divide Us	Cynthia J. Lange
11:00 am	Something Wiki This Way Comes: How Collaborative Editing is Changing the Face of Online LDS Apologetics	Roger Nicholson
1:00 pm	'President Joseph Has Translated a Portion': Solving the Mystery of the Kinderhook Plates	Don Bradley
2:00 pm	Book of Mormon 'Wordprint' Analysis: How to do it wrong...and how to do it right	Paul Fields
3:15 pm	Excavating the Text: Archaeological Expectations for Book of Mormon Peoples	Chris Watkins
4:15 pm	Mormonism, Islam, and the Question of Other Religions	Dan Peterson
5:15 pm	Closing

Find out more information about the conference, and register for the conference at http://www.fairlds.org/conf11a.html, or go to www.fairlds.org and click on the conference link.