Thursday, September 28, 2006
8:00 PM – 9:15 PM SESSION 1 (PLENARY)
Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture
CHAIR:
Richard P. Howard,
Historian Emeritus, Community of Christ, JWHA Past President
1985
SPEAKER:
W. Grant McMurray,
Independence, Missouri, JWHA Past President 1981
"Reflecting on the Evolving Faith and Culture of the Community of
Christ"
9:30 PM – 10:15 PM
Opening Reception
Signature Books cordially invites you to a reception honoring
Vickie Cleverley Speek, author of "God Has Made Us a Kingdom": James
Strang and the Midwest Mormons
Friday, September 29, 2006
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM SESSION 2 (CONCURRENT)
An Author Meets the Critics
Melvin C. Johnson’s Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s
Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
CHAIR:
Biloine Whiting Young,
St. Paul, Minnesota, JWHA Past President 2002-03
PANELISTS:
Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University
Michael Van Wagenen, Brownsville, Texas
Additional panelist TBA
RESPONSE:
Melvin C. Johnson,
Angelina College
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM SESSION 3 (CONCURRENT)
The Remnant Church
CHAIR:
Steven L. Shields,
Independence, Missouri
SPEAKER:
Frederick N. Larsen,
President, Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
"Back to Basics…"
SPEAKER:
V. Lee Killpack,
Apostle, Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
"The Importance of Pattern…"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM SESSION 4 (CONCURRENT)
Latter Day Saint Struggles in Missouri
CHAIR:
Stephen C. LeSueur,
Washington, D.C.
SPEAKER:
R. Jean Addams,
Woodinville, Washington
"Struggles of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot)"
SPEAKERS:
Ronald E. Romig,
Community of Christ Archivist, JWHA Past President 1997-98
Michael S. Riggs, Senior Historian, Burns & McDonnell,
JWHA Past President 2001-02
"Latter Day Saints in Missouri: From Conflict to
Understanding"
RESPONSE:
Jason R. Smith,
Administrator, LDSGroups (Yahoo Group)
9:30 AM – 10:10 AM SESSION 5 (CONCURRENT/MINI)
Early Latter Day Saints in SW Iowa
CHAIR:
Margie Miller,
Coffeyville, Kansas
SPEAKERS:
Maurine Carr Ward,
Hyrum, Utah
Barbara J. Bernauer, JWHA Past President 1998-99
"Tracking Early SW Iowa Saints: Who Stayed, Who Left, Who Came
Back?"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
9:30 AM – 10:10 AM SESSION 6 (CONCURRENT/MINI)
Amasa Lyman and the RLDS Connection
CHAIR:
H. Michael Marquardt,
Sandy, Utah
SPEAKER:
E. Leo Lyman, Emeritus,
Victor Valley College
"Amasa Lyman’s Offer to Join with the Reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints in Opposition to Brigham Young,
1872-73"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
9:30 AM – 10:10 AM SESSION 7 (CONCURRENT/MINI)
Early Black Mormons and the LDS Priesthood Ban
CHAIR:
Michael A. Karpowicz,
JWHA Executive Secretary
SPEAKER:
Connell H. O’Donovan,
Santa Cruz, California
"The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis: ‘An Example
for His More Whiter Brethren to Follow’"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM SESSION 9 (CONCURRENT)
Mormon Fundamentalism
CHAIR:
William Shepard, Old
Voree Strangite Properties
SPEAKER:
Anne Wilde, Principle
Voices
"What Is a Fundamentalist Mormon?"
SPEAKER:
Kenneth Driggs,
Atlanta, Georgia
"This Will Someday Be the Head and Not the Tail of the Church: The
Fundamentalist Position"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM SESSION 11 (CONCURRENT)
Cutlerites and Wightites
CHAIR:
TBA
SPEAKER:
Danny L. Jorgensen,
University of South Florida, JWHA Past President 1996-97
"Back to Zion: The Cutlerites Return to
Independence"
SPEAKER:
Michael Van Wagenen,
Brownsville, Texas
"Lyman Wight’s Texas Commission"
RESPONSE:
Kenneth R. Mulliken,
University of St. Mary
NOON – 1:15 PM SESSION 12 (PLENARY LUNCH)
Distinguished Guest Lecturer
CHAIR:
Alexander L. Baugh,
Brigham Young University, JWHA President-Elect
SPEAKER:
Craig S. Campbell,
Youngstown State University
"Images from the New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction
Interpretations of Independence, Missouri"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM SESSION 13 (CONCURRENT)
Strangite History
CHAIR:
David August, Strangite
Historian
SPEAKER:
Robin Jensen, Joseph
Smith Papers Project
"In Search of Mormonism: Strangite Success,
1846-47"
SPEAKER:
Vickie Cleverley Speek,
Minooka, Illinois
"Strangite Influences on the RLDS Church"
RESPONSE:
John W. Quist,
Shippensburg University
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM SESSION 14 (CONCURRENT)
RLDS Leadership Controversies
CHAIR:
Norma Derry Hiles,
Lamoni, Iowa
SPEAKER:
Ron Smith
"R.C. Evans and the Toronto Schism"
SPEAKER:
Richard F. Neill,
Center Place Restoration School
"The Calling of Lynn Smith to Be Presiding
Patriarch"
RESPONSE:
W.B. "Pat" Spillman,
Editor, JWHA Journal
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM SESSION 15 (CONCURRENT)
The Restoration and the Old Jerusalem
CHAIR:
George M. Woloch,
Outremont, Quebec
SPEAKER:
Carol Freeman Braby,
Franklin, North Carolina
"The RLDS Mission in Palestine, 1911-20"
SPEAKER:
Reed Holmes, Jaffa
American Colony
"From Joseph to Jerusalem and Back"
RESPONSE:
Edward Warner, Indiana
State University, JWHA Past President 1999-2000
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM SESSION 16 (CONCURRENT)
Messengers to the Saints
CHAIR:
TBA
SPEAKER:
Kyle Walker, BYU
Idaho
"William Smith’s Quest for Ecclesiastical Station"
SPEAKER:
Paul D. Savage,
Apostle, The Church of Christ: "The Church With The Elijah Message"
"Otto Fetting, W.A. Draves and the Messenger of the
Lord"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM SESSION 17 (CONCURRENT)
Youth and the Restoration
CHAIR:
Margaret Rastle, Kirtland
Temple
SPEAKER:
David Howlett,
University of Iowa
"Independence Must Be Zion: The Kingdom and the Future as Viewed
by RLDS Children, 1927"
SPEAKER:
Jessie L. Embry,
Brigham Young University, JWHA Past President 1995-96
"Learning the Gospel by Playing: LDS and RLDS Youth
Programs"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM SESSION 18 (CONCURRENT)
Church and Families
CHAIR:
TBA
SPEAKER:
James E. Elliott,
Florissant, Missouri
"The Mormon Experience of the Elliott Family"
SPEAKER:
Richard K. Behrens,
Midway, Utah
"The Contributions of Joseph Smith Sr.’s Spiritual Development to
the Emergence of the Prophet Joseph Smith"
RESPONSE:
The
audience
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM SESSION 19 (CONCURRENT)
An Author Meets the Critics
Brian Hales’ Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism:
Generations after the Manifesto
CHAIR:
Newell G. Bringhurst,
JWHA President
PANELISTS:
Kenneth Driggs, Atlanta, Georgia
Anne Wilde, Principle Voices
Additional panelists TBA
RESPONSE:
Brian C. Hales,
MormonFundamentalism.com
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM SESSION 20 (CONCURRENT)
David Whitmer and the Whitmerites
CHAIR:
John J. Hammond, Kent
State University
SPEAKER:
Erin B. Jennings,
Jonesboro, Arkansas
"The Whitmer Family and the Church of Christ"
SPEAKER:
H. Michael Marquardt,
Sandy, Utah
"David Whitmer: His Changing Beliefs and
Recollections"
RESPONSE:
Ronald E. Romig,
Community of Christ Archivist, JWHA Past President
1997-98
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM SESSION 21 (CONCURRENT)
Restoration Expressions
CHAIR:
Jan Marshall,
Independence, Missouri
SPEAKER:
Jason R. Smith,
Administrator, LDSGroups (Yahoo Group)
"Zion’s Retreat: Schism in the Churches at Schell
City"
SPEAKER:
Rudy Leutzinger,
Independence Restoration Branch
"The Independent Restoration Branch Movement"
RESPONSE:
William D. Russell,
Graceland University, JWHA Past President 1977
7:30 PM – 8:45 PM SESSION 22 (PLENARY)
Senior Scholar Memorial:
The Impact and Legacy of Val Avery
CHAIR:
Jan Shipps, Emeritus,
IUPUI, JWHA Past President 2004-05
"Distinguished Senior Scholar Lecture 2006: What Val Might Have
Said"
MEMORIES AND TRIBUTES:
Barbara J. Bernauer
, JWHA Past President 1998-99
Paul M. Edwards, Emeritus, Community of Christ Temple School,
JWHA Past President 1979, 1984
William D. Russell, Graceland University, JWHA Past President
1977
The audience
Saturday, September 30, 2006
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM SESSION 23 (CONCURRENT)
An Author Meets the Critics
Matthew Bolton’s Apostle of the Poor: The Life and Work of
Missionary and Humanitarian Charles D. Neff
CHAIR:
Andrew Gallup, Greg
Kofford Books
PANELISTS:
Patricia Gates,
Independence, Missouri
Additional panelists TBA
RESPONSE:
Matthew Bolton,
Washington DC, London School of Economics and Political
Science
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM SESSION 24 (CONCURRENT)
Morrisites and the "One Mighty and Strong"
CHAIR:
TBA
SPEAKER:
Eric Paul Rogers
"Morrisites and the Sociology of Religious Schism"
SPEAKER:
William Shepard, Old
Voree Strangite Properties
"To Set in Order the House of God: The Search for the Elusive One
Mighty and Strong"
RESPONSE:
Alma Blair, JWHA Past
President 1975, 2000-01
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM SESSION 25 (CONCURRENT)
Perspectives on Plural Marriage
CHAIR:
Kenneth E. Stobaugh,
Independence, Missouri
SPEAKER:
Craig L. Foster, LDS
Family History Library
"The Life and Experiences of Barr White Musser"
SPEAKER:
Gary C. Vitale,
Springfield College
"Zenas H. Gurley, Jr., and His Fight against Polygamy and Mormon
Zion"
RESPONSE:
Mark A. Scherer,
Community of Christ Historian, JWHA Past President
2003-04
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM SESSION 26 (CONCURRENT)
An Author Meets the Critics
Vickie Cleverley Speek’s "God Has Made Us a Kingdom": James
Strang and the Midwest Mormons
CHAIR:
Robin Jensen, Joseph
Smith Papers Project
PANELISTS:
Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University
John W. Quist, Shippensburg University
William Shepard, Old Voree Strangite
Properties
RESPONSE:
Vickie Cleverley
Speek, Minooka, Illinois
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM SESSION 27 (CONCURRENT)
Jeffrey Lundgren’s Aftermath
CHAIR:
June Leslie, Mississauga,
Ontario
SPEAKER:
Rebecca Passman,
Graceland University
"The Case of Death Row Inmate Jeffrey Don
Lundgren"
SPEAKER:
William D. Russell,
Graceland University, JWHA Past President 1977
"Blaming the Victim: The Alice Lundgren Case,
1990"
RESPONSE:
Dale E. Luffman,
Apostle, Community of Christ
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM SESSION 28 (CONCURRENT)
Teaching Latter Day Saintism
CHAIR:
Jan Shipps, Emeritus,
IUPUI, JWHA Past President 2004-05
PANELISTS:
Robert B. Flanders, Emeritus, Southwest Missouri State
University, JWHA Past President 1973-74
Steven C. Harper, Brigham Young University
George Wiley, Baker University
Additional panelists TBA
RESPONSE:
The
audience
NOON – 1:15 PM Business Meeting and Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM SESSION 29 (PLENARY)
An Introduction to The Church of Jesus Christ (Headquartered at
Monongahela, Pennsylvania)
CHAIR:
John Hamer, JWHA
Executive Secretary
SPEAKERS:
Paul J. Benyola
, Apostle, The Church of Jesus Christ
Paul N. Liberto, Apostle, The Church of Jesus Christ
Larry Watson, Church Historian, The Church of Jesus
Christ
RESPONSE:
The
audience
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM TOURS
Temple Area Tours
SITE:
Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints Headquarters
Frederick N. Larsen, President, Remnant Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints
SITE:
The Church of Christ
(Temple Lot)
William A. Sheldon, Apostle, Church of Jesus Christ (Temple
Lot)
SITE:
The Church of Jesus Christ
(Alpheus Cutler)
Stanley Whiting, President, The Church of Jesus Christ
(Alpheus Cutler)
SITE:
The Archives of the Community of
Christ
Ronald E. Romig, Community of Christ Archivist, JWHA Past
President 1997-98
GUIDES:
John Hamer
, JWHA Executive Secretary
Steven L. Shields, Independence, Missouri
Jason R. Smith, Administrator, LDSGroups (Yahoo
Group)
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM SESSION 30 (PLENARY)
Presidential Banquet
CHAIR:
Alexander L. Baugh,
Brigham Young University, JWHA President-Elect
AWARDS:
TBA
SPEAKER:
Newell G. Bringhurst,
JWHA President
"Gender, Race and Ethnicity as Dynamics for Schism within
Mormonism following the Death of Joseph Smith"
Sunday, October 1, 2006
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM SESSION 31 (PLENARY)
Conference Theme Lecturer
CHAIR:
Greg Kofford, Greg
Kofford Books
SPEAKER:
Steven L. Shields,
Independence, Missouri
"Continuing along the Divergent Paths of the
Restoration"
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM SESSION 32 (PLENARY)
Interdenominational Worship Service and Musical
Program
