2019 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Sessions to be held Friday, October 25, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, October 26, 9:00 a.m. until noon in the Joseph Smith Building on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah. Admission is free. No registration is required.
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Friday, October 25, 2019 |
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JSB Auditorium |
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6:30 p.m. |
Keynote Address What Is the Purpose of Suffering? - Tad R. Callister, Second Counselor, Sunday School General President, 2014–2019 |
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JSB Auditorium |
206 MARB |
207 MARB |
221 MARB |
W111 BNSN |
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7:30 p.m. |
Repentance: Progress, Not Punishment Brad Wilcox |
Look to the Lord! The Meaning of Liahona and the Doctrine of Christ in Alma 37–38 Matthew L. Bowen |
Alma, Ambiguity, and the Development of Doctrinal Understanding Ryan Sharp |
Parents Teaching Children to Believe in Christ: An Echo of a Celestial Pattern Byran B. Korth |
Born of God—Partaking of the Fruit Jennifer Lane |
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8:30 p.m. |
Alma as an Intentional Father Mark D. Ogletree |
Beyond Justice: Reading Alma 42 in the Context of Atonement Theories Mark D. Ellison |
Alma 36: Teaching Repentance to Today’s Stripling Warriors Brad W. Farnsworth |
Alma 36: A Call to Repentance, a Prophetic Call Kevin L. Tolley |
Well-Crafted Counsel Heather Hardy |
Saturday, October 26, 2019 |
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JSB Auditorium |
206 MARB |
207 MARB |
221 MARB |
W111 BNSN |
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9:00 a.m. |
Nurturing Faith: Literary Patterning in the Book of Alma Grant Hardy |
Justice, Mercy, and the Atonement in the Teachings of Alma to Corianton Daniel B. Sharp |
Alma’s Loving Counsel to His Sons about the Law of Justice Jared W. Ludlow |
Records and Relics: Covenantal Transition in Alma 37 David A. LeFevre |
Alma’s Chiasmus as Transformative Vicarious Experience Stephan Taeger |
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10:00 a.m. |
Rethinking Alma 36 Noel B. Reynolds |
Women and Nephite Men: Lessons from the Book of Alma Joseph M. Spencer |
Law of God/God of Law: The Law of Moses in Alma’s Teachings to Corianton Avram R. Shannon |
“Retain All Their Oaths:” Lehitic Covenant and Secret Combinations in Alma 37 Kimberly M. Berkey |
Words from the Wise: Alma 36–39 through the Lens of Proverbs 1–9 Jane Allis-Pike |
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JSB Auditorium |
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11:00 a.m. |
Endnote Address Mormon the Writer: Turning History into Story - Brant A. Gardner, Independent Scholar |