The John Whitmer Historical Association would like to cordially invite you to attend the 2011 Restoration Studies Symposium / Sunstone Midwest, this Friday and Saturday, April 15-16, at Graceland University Independence Campus, 1401 W. Truman Rd., Independence, Missouri. The registration table will open at 5:00 pm Friday, and the Wallace B. Smith Lecture will begin [...]
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April 12, 2011Church History Sunday (Month #1)
February 2, 2011I’ve begun teaching adult Sunday School once a month at my congregation in downtown Toronto. The other three weeks, we’re going through the Enduring Principles, but my week is “Church History Sunday.” I’m working without a manual, but I’m planning to write out what I do and post it here as a resource for anyone [...]
D&C 164: My Response to John-Charles Duffy
April 18, 2010Concerning my interpretation of the compromise underlying D&C 164, I’ve found my understanding to be in keeping with the understandings of the delegates and leaders I’ve interviewed here at World Conference in Independence. However, I have found that many folks on the internet don’t share this interpretation for various reasons, as we’ve illustrated in discussions [...]
Reminder: Plan to Attend Restoration Studies
April 7, 2010The third annual Restoration Studies Symposium (Sunstone Midwest) kicks off tomorrow (Thursday) night with the third annual Wallace B. Smith Lecture, presented by Don H. Compier, Dean of the Community of Christ Seminary. Dr. Compier will address the symposium’s theme by discussing: “Who is a Christian? The Perspective of Ecumenical Christianity.” The lecture begins at [...]
Summarizing the Church: Then and Now
March 26, 2010David Howlett, Barb Walden, and I have spent a lot of time in the past few months getting a new, 72-page, full-color illustrated history of the church ready in time for World Conference. (I’ve previously blogged about it and shared pictures of some of the mockups here.) I have the first printer’s proof in my [...]
Devastation in Haiti! Please Help!
January 14, 2010Much of Port-au-Prince has been destroyed, including even the Presidential Palace (above) and the United Nations mission. Outreach International has issued the following concerning the catastrophe in Haiti: Thousands of people, possibly 100,000, have been killed by the earthquake that hit Haiti at 5pm Tuesday evening. Outreach International has been working in Haiti since the [...]
Painting an Inspiring Story
December 15, 2009I’ve been working around the clock the past two weeks with Barb Walden and David Howlett to create a new, brief, illustrated history of the church. We want to have the book published in time for the sesquicentennial of the Reorganization next year, so time is tight. Our goal has been to tell the church’s [...]
Feast Your Soul on This: Church HQ Officiousness
November 26, 2009I’m just back from a week in Independence. One of the things I picked up there was an old 1980 souvenir booklet from the sesquicentennial of the church (bought from the Temple Library for 25¢). As we’re approaching another sesquicentennial — the first was 150 years since the organization of the church, next year is [...]
Ron Romig: Scholarship Catalyst, Scholar, and Missionary
July 7, 2009The Acknowledgments section of my very first essay in Mormon history begins: Ronald E. Romig of the Community of Christ Archives suggested this project to me when we met on April 6, 2003. From that moment to the present, his assistance in moving the project forward has been invaluable.[1] My indebtedness to Ron is hardly [...]
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