Comments on: FAIR conference day 1 – open thread

By: FAIR Conference 2008 Live Blog | TempleStudy.com - LDS Temple Study Blog - Sustaining and Defending the LDS (Mormon) Temple

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:16:05 +0000

[...] Scott Gordon has also announced that there is a liveblogging commentary going on at http://www.fairblog.org/2008/08/07/fair-conference-day-1-open-thread/ [...]

By: Best of the Week 5: Academic LDS : Mormon Metaphysics

Best of the Week 5: Academic LDS : Mormon Metaphysics — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:39:33 +0000

[...] they had a live blogging of the sessions. (Day 2 here) The Fair Blog also had up open threads for day 1 and day [...]

By: Bryce Haymond

Bryce Haymond — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:09:13 +0000

I liveblogged this session at TempleStudy.com too, if anyone is interested in looking at the notes I took throughout. Bill Hamblin even popped in and added some commentary from Oxford, England.

By: Mormon Mentality - Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People » Attending the FAIR Conference

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:42:24 +0000

[...] going to liveblog what’s going on, but you can look at FAIR’s open conference thread here. 2 Comments | leave a commentRSS 2.0 for this post | [...]

By: blooit

blooit — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:09:20 +0000

Todd – are you here at the conference? I didn’t see you there.

By: Todd Wood

Todd Wood — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:36:00 +0000

When it comes out on DVD, I will watch it and provide a review for Margaret.

By: Mike Parker

Mike Parker — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:02:20 +0000

Darius Gray and Margaret Young just showed portions of their film Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons. It’s still being edited, but it’s well worth owning once it’s out on DVD.

By: BHodges

BHodges — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:13:29 +0000

Good stuff so far. I am posting notes at the end of each speaker over at Life On Gold Plates.

By: Mike Parker

Mike Parker — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:03:20 +0000

Todd,

Ash was clarifying that he was referring to Mormon “fundamentalists” in a similar sense to evangelical fundamentalists — belief in an inerrant scripture and an interpretation that rejects scientific evidences (insistence on a young earth, a global Flood, etc.)

He did that to make sure that conference participants didn’t misunderstand his use of “fundamentalist” to mean something like Islamic fundamentalist/extremists, or the common use of “Mormon fundamentalists” referring to polygamous groups.

By: Todd Wood

Todd Wood — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:35:26 +0000

Evangelical Fundamentalism.

Nice Topic.

What are his sources?

Ehrmann?

By: Keryn

Keryn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:15:57 +0000

I was struck by Brother Ash’s analogy of “inoculation” from shaken faith syndrome–how we need to reach level C in our understanding of Church doctrine and history. (Level C meaning realizing that Church history is good and wonderful, but definitely has warts.) We need to choose our timing and type of inoculation carefully, though, just as a doctor will give small doses of vaccine that the patient’s body can handle. You don’t want to overwhelm a new or young member with too many warts all at once!

By: Russell Anderson

Russell Anderson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:14:41 +0000

A great introduction to the book. Also great graphics and images. Great job Mike.

By: Mike Parker

Mike Parker — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:40:14 +0000

I like Mike Ash's observation that the issue around shaken or lost faith is often the individual believes too rigidly -- s/he is a fundamentalist in the sense of evangelical fundamentalism, which demands an infallible Bible, etc. When scholarly or scientific evidence runs up against their rigid beliefs, they struggle to adapt their views. This reminds me of Wendy Ulrich's observation at the 2005 conference: "I have noticed that many of the people I have known who have left the Church did not do so because they believed too little, but because they believed too much."

By: Mike Parker

Mike Parker — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:24:16 +0000

If you’re having trouble streaming or need to sign in, please email streaming (AT) fairlds (DOT) org. Trevor will help you out.

By: JT

JT — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:12:27 +0000

I was signed up for the live feed, but it says I’m failing to connect to the server. Anyone else having problems/success?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:54:24 +0000

Is there a link to a live stream somewhere?