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, 2011D&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 [...]
Apostle Paul Thought Everybody Was Straight
April 9, 2010This is the second part of a posting on what the Apostle Paul might have to say to Community of Christ as it gathers for World Conference. Part 1 concerned baptism. Theologian Walter Wink put it this way in his much-lauded essay, “Homosexuality and the Bible.” “He [Paul] seemed to assume that those whom he [...]
Prophet, Seer, and Revelator
March 3, 2010The church website has recently put up a video interview of Steve Veazey conducted by Linda Booth. The link to the video is on the bottom of the main page, www.CofChrist.org Among other things, Steve discusses his experiences in bringing the Words of Counsel to the church. He relates some of the revelatory process as [...]
Do you get it?
January 4, 2010Awesome is the only word I can think of in describing a Christmas celebration I attended yesterday. It was indeed a worship service (although some there might not have realized it) involving loud rock, long hair, and shooting jets of fire. The enlightened readers will immediately perceive that I speak of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra or [...]
What if the Christmas Story Happened Today?
December 19, 2009Thought a Christmas themed post might be appropriate this time of year. Many people, it seems, wonder how the story of Christ’s birth would be different if it happened today. Some write their thoughts. I’ve heard a few different versions of how things might go, posted below is one person’s take. (I didn’t write this, [...]
Passivism
August 28, 2009I recently returned from a trip to Salt Lake City to attend the Sunstone Symposium. Driving back on 1-70 across the seemingly never-ending fields of Kansas gave me plenty of time to reflect on my whirlwind week of experiences there. We were within walking distance of the epicenter of Mormonism, Temple Square, but the conversations [...]
Call for Papers: 2010 Mormon History Association Conference in Independence, Missouri
July 16, 2009Call for Papers: The forty-fifth annual conference of the Mormon History Association will be held May 27-30, 2010, at the Kansas City Sports Complex Hotel in Kansas City, MO. It has been twenty-five years since the last MHA conference was held in Missouri. The 2010 theme, “The Home and the Homeland: Families in Diverse Mormon [...]
A Road Trip with Living History…
July 4, 2009A few years ago, I was driving across the state of Wyoming with a friend. It was a long road trip from Casper to Cody and we were remembering the many trips we had taken across some of our “flatter states,” like Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, etc. As one drives across the state of Nebraska you can’t help but count fence posts. Driving across the Mojave desert of California, one can see creosote bushes for hundreds of miles across the flat terrain and not much else. We both agreed that one’s traveling companion could either make or break the road trip.
Our conversation then drifted into a discussion of who we would prefer to have in the car with us. Since we began the trip at the Mormon History Association annual conference in Casper, our conversation naturally began with “who in Mormon history (living or deceased) would you like riding shotgun with you on a six hour car ride along 1-80 through Nebraska?”
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