This panel brings parents, leaders, and advocates together to discuss the challenges and joys of bringing up special needs children and young adults in the Church. Given the lay nature of LDS leadership, teachers and advisors in a church setting may not have previous experience working with special needs children. What can leaders and individual …
Speaker: Brent Johns
SL09321 Making a Case for a Nineteenth-century Reading of the Book of Mormon
To interpret the Book of Mormon responsibly requires readers be brought into a historical conversation with early nineteenth-century North America and into a larger hermeneutical conversation with the text itself. This presentation will outline how this interpretive strategy will enable a more adequate reading of the Book of Mormon, including the perceived aims and purposes …