W. Grant McMurray’s surprise resignation this past November as president/prophet of the Community of Christ created what could be termed a succession crisis. This paper will discuss McMurray’s career, as well as the succession issues it raised, and how Steve Veazey, one of the younger members of the Twelve, was selected as the new president/prophet. …
Speaker: Ron Romig
Seeing Joseph Smith: Visual And Verbal Images Of The Mormon Prophet
How do we visualize the Prophet? From early drawings, sketches, political cartoons, daguerreotypes, and eyewitness descriptions to modern artistic renditions in film and poetry, the Prophet has been portrayed variously as heroic, comic, demonic, and at times, plainly human. What do these portraits tell us about the Prophet and ways in which he saw himself, …
PROPHETS AND PROPHECY IN THE MORMON TRADITION
A work in progress, an exploration of the place of prophets and the function of prophecy in Mormonism, this paper will point both to differences across time—in early versus recent years—and to variations in the role of prophets and the function of prophecy in alternative forms of Mormonism. Jan Shipps, Ron Romig, J. Bonner Ritchie