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 https://www.fairlds.org/conf11a.html, or go to www.fairlds.org and click on the conference link.
