N o. 88. The Center Place for Latter Day Saint Studies 1st Q. 2010. Restoration Studies: Register Now! The third annual Restoration Studies / Sunstone Midwest Symposium will take place on Thursday and Friday, April 8-9, immediately prior to the World Conference of the Community of Christ. If you have not already done so, please register for the symposium immediately by filling out the online form on our website, JWHA.info, or by using the form provided on page 5 of this newsletter. (If you use the form on the website, your information will be automatically entered into the registration database.) All events of the symposium will take place at the Graceland University Independence Campus, 1401 West Truman Rd., in Independence, Missouri. Registration and book vendor tables will be open beginning 5:00 pm Thursday and 8:00 am Friday. The theme of this year s symposium is Identities & Relationships: Mormonism, Christianity, and the Community of Christ. As usual, the program committee was made up of representatives from the three sponsoring institutions: Bill Russell and Seth Bryant from JWHA, Don Compier and Dale Luffman from the Community of Christ Seminary, and Mary Ellen Robertson and Tom Kimball of the Sunstone Education Foundation. The committee is pleased to announce this year s program: Thursday, April 8 (1) 7:00 8:30 pm Welcome and Wallace B. Smith Lecture, Plenary Session Who is a Christian? The Perspective of Ecumenical Christianity. Presenter: Don Compier (2) 8:30 10:00 pm Opening Reception, First Floor Lobby You are invited to attend an opening reception with refreshments in honor of the publication of Volume XI of Restoration Studies. Continued on page 2.
Page The John Whitmer Historical Association Newsletter N o. 88. From the New Executive Directors After a decade or so as mere JWHA groupies, the two of us were startled to be chosen to replace Mike Karpowicz and John Hamer as Executive Directors. First of all, no one not even Emma Smith or Porter Rockwell could have gotten a bead on the seamless system by which Mike and John have honored us so well in recent years... the urbanity, the artisanship, the efficiency, the quiet authority. JWHA has surely enjoyed the gold standard in association management. But we have now come into possession of all the spreadsheets, the passwords, the archives, the phone messages, and the boxes in the swept corner of the storeroom. We don t promise all that former elegance and charm... just our dedication to our new task. After all, we can hardly ask more than the opportunity to do what we love for a cause that we love with people that we love. We re looking forward to it. Sherry and Bill Morain Restoration Studies 2010 Program (continued from page 1) Friday, April 9 (3A) 8:30 9:30 am Concurrent Session Open Thou My Eyes : Joseph Smith s First Vision as an Invitation into Seership Presenter: Don Bradley (3B) 8:30 9:30 am Concurrent Session Community of Christ as Emergent/ Emerging Church Presenter: Steve Shields (4A) 10:00 11:00 am Concurrent Session Hispanic Ministerial and Leadership Formation in the Community of Christ Presenter: John Glaser (4B) 10:00 11:00 am Concurrent Session Early Mormonism and Arminianism Presenter: Seth Bryant (4C) 10:00 11:00 am Concurrent Session God, Sex, and the Torah: Men, Women, and Homosexuality in a Biblical Context. Presenter: Carol Cease Campbell (5A) 11:15 am 12:15 pm Concurrent Session Religion and Cultural Antecedents of the Latter Day Restoration Presenter: George Smith (5B) 11:15 am 12:15 pm Concurrent Session One Lord, One Faith, Many Olive Branches, Presenter: Michael Humiston (6) 12:15 1:15 pm Lunch Break (7A) 1:15 2:45 pm Concurrent Session How Christian are Mormons? Presenter: Marcello Jun de Oliveira Continued on page 3.
N o. 88. The John Whitmer Historical Association Newsletter Page Restoration Studies 2010 Program (continued from page 2)...And how Mormon is the Community of Christ? Presenter: Ron Dawbarn (7B) 1:15 2:45 pm Concurrent Panel Session Mormon Cosmology, Theology and Culture in Contemporary Popular Culture Panelists: Stuart Palmer and others TBA (7C) 1:15 2:45 pm Concurrent Panel Session Studies of Twentieth-century Utah Mormon Sects Panelists: Phil Barlow (chair), Ryan T. Roos, Christopher Blythe, and Christine Magula (8A) 3:00 4:00 pm Concurrent Session Prophetic Discourse in RLDS Patriarchal Blessings Presenter: Gordon Shepherd (8B) 3:00 4:00 pm Concurrent Session The LDS Bible Dictionary, 1979-2009 Presenter: Ryan Combs (8C) 3:00 4:00 pm Concurrent Session The History of the Community of Christ in Continental France Presenter: Chrystal Vanel (9A) 4:15 5:15 pm Concurrent Session The Mormon Cross Taboo Presenter: Michael Reed (9B) 4:15 5:15 pm Concurrent Session Pelagian Theology and Joseph Smith s Conceptions of Free Will Presenter: TBA (9C) 4:15 5:15 pm Concurrent Session Needed: Civil Discourse in Church and Society Presenter: Bill Russell (10) 5:30 6:30 pm Closing Panel, Plenary Session Joseph Smith s July 1843 Revelation Known as Section 132 in the LDS Doctrine and Covenants: Two Different Perspectives Panelists: Newell Bringhurst and Craig Foster Reserve Your Hotel Room for Restoration Studies JWHA has reserved a block of rooms at the Crossland Economy Stuidos in Independence at a discounted conference rate: 33 + tax queen, 43 + tax double. Reserve your room by March 26 to be eligible for these rates. Be sure to mention JWHA when booking your room. Crossland Economy Studios 14800 E. 42nd St. Independence, MO 64055 (816) 350-2151 From Interstate 70, take Exit 12 (South Noland Rd.) south and travel approximately ¼ mile. Travel to the first stop light (East 42nd St.) Turn left onto East 42nd St. and travel approximately ½ mile. Crossland Economy Studios will be on the left.
Page The John Whitmer Historical Association Newsletter N o. 88. New from John Whitmer Books Mormon Graves in Kirtland: A Biographical Dictionary of Early Saints Buried in the Kirtland Area BY JANET LISONBEE Kirtland, Ohio, was the original gathering place of the Latter Day Saint movement. Home to the first Mormon temple, the Kirtland area is also the final resting place for over a hundred members of the early church. Many of these Saints died in Kirtland during the Mormon period (1831-37), while others continued to live in the area long after most of their coreligionists moved west. In this essential resource for family historians, genealogists, and anyone interested in early Mormon history, Janet Lisonbee tracks down the burial locations and familial information of these early members. Also included are brief biographies that help to bring their stories to life. ISBN 978-1-934901-12-0 120 pages, maps, photographs, index, paperback, 9.95 Alexander: Joseph & Emma Smith s Far West Son EDITED BY RONALD E. ROMIG Historian Ronald E. Romig, editor of Emma s Nauvoo and Emma s Family, continues his popular documents series with a documentary biography of Alexander Hale Smith. The third son of Joseph and Emma Smith to live to adulthood, Alexander was born at Far West, Missouri, in 1838. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, as a child and lived there half of his life. Alexander eventually served as an apostle, a member of the First Presidency, and as presiding patriarch of the RLDS Church. Much of Alexander s missionary ministry focused on the U.S. far west, including California and Utah. He also performed a South Pacific mission to Tahiti, Australia, and Hawaii. He died in the Nauvoo Mansion House in 1909. In this accessible new book, Romig paints a vivid picture of Joseph and Emma s Far West son using a wealth of contemporary writings and images. ISBN 978-1-934901-26-7 138 pages, maps, photographs, index, paperback, 9.95
N o. 88. John Whitmer Books The John Whitmer Historical Association Newsletter Page Mormon Graves in Kirtland 13 Alexander: Joseph & Emma s Far West Son 13 House of the Lord 18 Scattering of the Saints 28 Homosexual Saints 23 O R D E R J O U R N A L S O R D E R A D D I T I O N A L T I T L E S 18 13 13 28 Apostle of the Poor Emma s Nauvoo Martin Harris s Kirtland 13 13 Mormon Quest for the Presidency Emma s Family Lucy s Nauvoo ORDER 25 YEARS OF THE JWHA JOURNAL Restoration Studies, Vol. X 25 Restoration Studies, Vol. XI 25 Back issues of the JWHA Journal: Vol. 4 (15) Vol. 5 (15) Vol. 6 (15) Vol. 7 (10) Vol. 8 (10) Vol. 9 (10) Vol. 10 (10) Vol. 11 (10) Vol. 12 (10) Vol. 13 (10) Vol. 14 (10) Vol. 15 (10) Vol. 16 (10) Vol. 17 (10) Vol. 18 (10) Vol. 19 (10) Vol. 20 (10) Vol. 21 (15) Vol. 22 (20) Vol. 23 (25) Nauvoo (25) Vol. 24 (25) Vol. 25 (25) Vol. 26 (25) Vol. 27 (25) Vol. 28 (25) Vol. 29 (25) 125 Vols. 1-3 Reprinted, Vols. 4-6 Reprinted Vols. 7-25 original All prices include tax and domestic shipping. Allow two weeks for shipping. Total Enclosed: Make checks payable to JWHA and send them to: John Whitmer Historical Association c/o Lew Weigand 1401 Potter Rd. Bellevue, NE 68005-3116 Name Address City, State, Zip Phone E-Mail
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N o. 88. The John Whitmer Historical Association Newsletter Page Restoration Studies, Volume XI The most recent volume of Restoration Studies is now available for order. Edited by Peter A. Judd, the new volume contains fifteen original articles on theology and culture in the Community of Christ and the Latter Day Saint movement, including Stephen M. Veazey s 2009 Wallace B. Smith Lecture, Stepping into the River of Revelation in the Restoration Tradition, and John F. Glaser s 2009 Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture, Reading the Lamanite Narrative as a Visceral Theology: Negating the Identity, Relevance, and Catholicity of Mestizo Christianity. The journal s publication corresponds with our third annual Restoration Studies/Sunstone Midwest Symposium, to be held April 8 9 in Independence, Missouri. (For the complete symposium program, see pages 1 3 of this newsletter.) Copies of the new volume will be available for sale at the John Whitmer Books table at the symposium, or can be ordered using the form on page 5. Founded in 1980 and originally published periodically by Herald House, Restoration Studies is now printed as an annual by JWHA in conjunction with the Community of Christ Seminary Press. Also included in this volume: Sophisticated Dissent: Charles B. Thompson s Inspired Enoch a Case The John Whitmer Historical Association N E W S L E T T E R The newsletter is published thrice annually by and for the benefit of the membership of the John Whitmer Historical Association. Copyright 2010 by JWHA. All rights reserved. Visit us online and view back issues at www.jwha.info Staff JOHN HAMER, Editor MIKE KARPOWICZ, Copy Editor Please send letters and notices to the editor via e-mail: JHamer@JohnWhitmerBooks.com Restoration Studies Volume XI (2010) Edited by Peter A. Judd Includes: Stephen M. Veazey s Wallace B. Smith Lecture John F. Glaser s Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture 10 additional original articles 182 pages paperback 24.95 Study in Scriptural Rivalry and Narrative Theology in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Sects, by Christopher J. Blythe, The Bible within the Limits of Reason Alone and Other Theological Dead Ends, by Anthony J. Chvala-Smith, The Community of Christ in Africa: My Experience and Observations, by Bunda C. Chibwe, Twenty-First-Century Scripture in the Smith-Rigdon Movement, by Steven L. Shields, Assessing Joseph Smith Jr. s View of Jesus, by William D. Russell, Scriptural Antecedents of Nauvoo Polygamy, by George D. Smith, Making a Case for a Nineteenth-Century Reading of the Book of Mormon in the Community of Christ, by Dale E. Luffman, Joseph Smith s Bible Revision: Sources, Claims, and Present Role, 1830 2009, by Richard P. Howard, Women and the Priesthood: The Community of Christ Experience and the Invisible Ties that Bind, by Robin K. Linkhart, and Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Abraham Papyri: A Shared Scriptural Dilemma across the Restoration, by Seth L. Bryant. If you would like an article to be considered for publication in Volume XII of Restoration Studies, please e-mail a digital copy to Editor@RestorationStudies.org.
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