“Go Thy Way” Mexico City, Mexico; 23rd-25th May 2024 From friend-of-JI Valeska Griswold:  Registrations close May 1st due to requirements from the venue as the venues are government buildings and we have to submit a list of participants to them and this will also remove any entrance fees at those locations. The tours will meet at 5:30 am and return around 9 pm on May 26th. The meeting location is TBD. Those who signed up for the tour on the registration form will get meeting details emailed directly to them in the next week or so. Conference Theme “Go thy way unto thy brot ..read more

LINK TO AD HERE MUST HAVE GENEALOGICAL CREDENTIAL Assistant Director, Center for Family History and Genealogy (CFHG) The Center for Family History and Genealogy (CFHG) provides both free quality online research and resources for public use as well as extraordinary mentored-learning experiences for students learning the science and methods of family history research. We are now seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Assistant Director to collaborate with the Center director and play a vital role in student mentoring, center projects, and community outreach. Your commitment to the Center’s missi ..read more

We welcome this guest post from Jenny Champoux, Director of the Book of Mormon Art Catalog. You can see much of the work discussed here at https://meganknoblochgeilman.com/about. A recent insightful article highlighted Megan Knobloch Geilman’s artwork as epitomizing a movement the author labeled “Weird Mormon Art.”[1] Geilman, while fully embracing the strangeness of her art, prefers the term “theological realism.” Her phrase nicely evokes the literary and art style of magical realism, which places fantastical objects or events in a real-world setting. Yet, an important distinction must be mad ..read more

Register at this link The Latter-day Saint tradition maintains a finite conception of God that challenges key tenets of classical Christian theism. God is understood to have a literal body of flesh and bone (D&C 130:22) and to relate to human beings in exceptionally passable and interactive ways (Jacob 5:7 & Moses 7:29). God is said to have created human beings in the divine likeness such that it is possible for humanity to become divine (Moses 1:39). God’s design for humanity is to create the conditions for spiritual growth and to labor with them toward the glorification of both (Jaco ..read more

The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invites applications for grants to conduct research in its archival, art, and artifact collections in Salt Lake City, Utah. These grants are intended to offset travel and research expenses for performing research at the Church History Library and/or Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. We hope the grants will stimulate the examination of underrepresented groups and topics in Latter-day Saint history, such as women, youth, children, individuals outside the United States, immigrant groups, the globalization of the Church ..read more

As I mentioned over at Times and Season, I put together what we call our “safe-space group” to discuss all kinds of topics, and not surprisingly history stuff was one of the genre of topics the group wanted to go over. As all of my fellow JI bloggers know, that can be a bit of a difficult topic to try to do a crash course in because though our concepts of what happened in the past are very important to the larger culture and our church, we all know the study of history can be a tricky thing that often isn’t understood very well. And if such a discussion can get tricky in our larger societies ..read more

If you’re into Mormon history, someone you know has likely asked for resources on learning about the history of the Kirtland Temple and what the sale of the sacred site means for Latter-day Saints and members of the Community of Christ. Here’s a starter pack for you: Podcasts David Howlett on “MormonLand” (Salt Lake Tribune) Christopher James Blythe and Christine Elise Blythe (Angels and Seerstones) Books David J. Howlett, Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space (Illinois) Scott C. Esplin, Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo ..read more

DATE: October 10-12, 2024 LOCATION: Utah State University Inn SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 3, 2024 SUBMISSION EMAIL: bookofmormonsa (@) gmail.com The Book of Mormon Studies Association (BoMSA) is pleased to announce its eighth annual meeting, to be held on October 10-12, 2024, at Utah State University. The event is sponsored by USU’s Department of Religious Studies and with thanks to Patrick Mason, the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture. This annual event gathers a variety of scholars invested in serious academic study of the Book of Mormon. It has no particular theme but i ..read more

I’ve been working my “intellectual biography of Joseph Smith” for a long time now (hope to finish before too long), or an attempt to traced where Smith got his ideas. By “intellectual biography” I mean the focus on his ideas. Framing the project in this way is Inherently controversial from within the faith as his revelatory claims believed by followers are that the ideas came from God or from lost scriptures also with God as the ultimate source. I’ve been at this a while, but one part of my claim is that JS, it looks to me, would have had access to all the ideas he taught, to Mormonism, inclu ..read more

Please be sure to fill out the registration form if you plan to attend the Juanita Brooks Conference! It helps us plan the conference more effectively and make the most of our resources. Registration Link Juanita-Brooks-Conference-2024Download Thank you ..read more