This session explores the concepts of race and lineage—especially that of African Americans—through the lens of LDS Church manuals and patriarchal blessings. The analysis utilizes never-before-seen documents from the Quorum of the Twelve and First Presidency. Matt Harris, Stirling Adams, Newell Bringhurst
Speaker: Newell Bringhurst
Race and Mormonism: A Roundtable Discussion with Experts
This session presents a roundtable discussion on the LDS Church’s former race-based restrictions, the fortieth anniversary of the revelation on priesthood, the “Be One” event, and the recent satire/hoax apology scandal. Newell Bringhurst, Devery Anderson, Darron Smith, LaShawn Williams, Lester Bush
Sunstone West 1993, 22: Whoa Man, What’s Not History? Hugh Had Better Believe It
From the 1993 Sunstone West Symposium Presentation: Whoa, Man, What’s Not History? Hugh Had Better Believe It Presenters: Chair: Matthew Hulse Samuel W. Taylor, author, Nightfall at Nauvoo Newell Bringhurst, instructor, History and Political Science, College of the Sequoias Abstract: How intellectually honest was Hugh Nibley’s attack on Fawn Brodie’s biography of Joseph …
SW07007: Divided Loyalties? Mitt Romney: The First Mormon President?
Divided Loyalties? Mitt Romney: The First Mormon President? In many ways, Mitt Romney is a dream candidate for Mormons: he is handsome, bright, charismatic, and articulate. He has been a successful businessman and politician as well as Church leader. He has a quintessential Mormon pedigree, polygamous ancestors; distinguished genealogy; son of a prominent political, business, …
CONSTRUCTING JOSEPH SMITH’S LIFE AND TIMES
This session will be a wide-ranging conversation between historians, a Mormon publishing insider, and the audience on the attempt to “know Brother Joseph again.” What makes a good biography? What is the relationship between history and faith, and is Mormonism and the faith of its members tied more closely to the historical record than they …
JOSEPH SMITH, WILLIAM MILLER, ELLEN G. WHITE, AND MARY BAKER EDDY: FOUR AMERICAN PROPHETS’ PERSPECTIVES ON SLAVERY, RACE, AND ETHNICITY
This presentation compares and contrasts Joseph Smith’s views and practices regarding slavery, race, and ethnicity with those of William Miller and Ellen G. White (founding leaders of Seventh Day Adventism) and Mary Baker Eddy (founder of the Christian Science movement). These issues figured prominently in all three religious movements, but while all four leaders were …
THE SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH OF THE CHURCH IN THE 1850’S: INSIGHTS FROM THE CAROLINE BARNES CROSBY DIARY
Caroline Crosby was one of the most detailed chroniclers of events related to the Mormons in California from the time of her passing through on her way to a mission in the Society Islands in 1850 until her family moved back to Utah at the end of 1857. For a year and a half, from …
JOSEPH SMITH, WILLIAM MILLER, ELLEN G. WHITE, AND MARY BAKER EDDY: FOUR AMERICAN PROPHETS’ PERSPECTIVES ON SLAVERY, RACE, AND ETHNICITY
This presentation compares and contrasts Joseph Smith’s views and practices regarding slavery, race, and ethnicity with those of William Miller and Ellen G. White (founding leaders of Seventh Day Adventism) and Mary Baker Eddy (founder of the Christian Science movement). These issues figured prominently in all three religious movements, but while all four leaders were …
THE SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH OF THE CHURCH IN THE 1850’S: INSIGHTS FROM THE CAROLINE BARNES CROSBY DIARY
Caroline Crosby was one of the most detailed chroniclers of events related to the Mormons in California from the time of her passing through on her way to a mission in the Society Islands in 1850 until her family moved back to Utah at the end of 1857. For a year and a half, from …
Twenty-Year Reflections On The Mark Hofmann Bombings
October 2005 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Mark Hofmann murders, a tragedy that claimed two innocent lives and that has continued to impact Mormon history, the Church’s national profile, and the world of document dealing and forensic science ever since. What has happened in the past twenty years? Where are the key players …