This page collects my recorded presentations, screencasts, podcast interviews, etc. It’s missing several, and I hope to update it soon. Ordered from oldest at top to newest at the bottom.

  • Summer 2015, “Christian Accommodation at Corinith” BYU New Testament Conference

 

  • February 2018 USU invited paper, “The Scientific Deformation and Reformation of Genesis: How Science Messed it Up, but Also Fixes It.”
    • This is about how and why the creation chapters of Genesis came to be seen as scientific in nature, and also how we came to know that that interpretive assumption about its nature actually distorts Genesis. 
    • Video link (no slides or subtitles). My post with a link to the slides and references.  
    • If that video link doesn’t work, go here, scroll down to the bottom, and click on my name to launch the video. 
  • August 2019, FAIRMormon Conference, “A Paradoxical  Preservation of Faith: LDS Creation Accounts and the Composite Nature of Revelation”
      • Revelation is not purely divine, but will always have a strong human component to it.
      • Transcript with extensive notes. Audio
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZIYar6FyaM

 

  • Nov 2019, Interview about the history of LDS manuals, Seminary, preparing students for missions, etc.

 

  • February 2020, two firesides in Washington DC.
        • “‘Science Falsely So Called’: How Latter-day Saints Came to Misread Scripture as Science” Some LDS interpretive history.

 

      • “Reconciling the Temple with Science, Creation and Evolution: A Faithful Approach” Here I talk more about how to make sense of conflicting LDS creation narratives- Genesis, Moses, Abraham, and the Temple.

 

 

  • March 2020, Zoom Q&A for Uplift. (This was supposed to be a conference in Provo, but a pandemic got in the way.) Youtube.

 

  • August 2020, interview with Cwic Media

 

  • March 2021, Conversation with UVU biology professor Heath Ogden, about LDS history, scripture, interpretation, and evolution

 

  • I did a thing for Seminary seniors who didn’t get Old Testament at all in seminary, because of the schedule realignment. It’s basically an introduction to reading the Old Testament, a good intro. (Link to supporting post with citations)

 

    • ?? This is video from a Stake class I taught for a while, pre-pandemic. 

  • I recorded three videos with Saints Unscripted, below. The first one is more about the history of biological evolution among Latter-day Saints.

 

 

            • January 30, 2022 I appeared on the Interpreter Foundation radio show (broadcast on KTALK AM 1640) and podcast, here. The topic was scripture study and the early chapters of Genesis.
            • After the Church published its Organic Evolution Church History topic, FAIR released my 2021 Conference talk, “Through a Glass, Less Darkly: The 20th Century History of Genesis and Evolution.” Please note, since I prefer to speak over my slides extemporaneously, I consider the print version with footnotes (and minor corrections and updates) to be the “authoritative” version. 

            • August 2022, I appeared on the official Saints podcast to expand on chapter 21 of Saints vol 3. The topic was Latter-day Saints in the 1920s and 30s and science/religion conflict, especially biological evolution.
            • March 2023. As the Mormon Studies Fellow of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, I made a public presentation on part of my dissertation research. I decided to talk about some of the intellectual machinery “under the hood” of twentieth-century creationism. See my post here for background and references. 

            • I gave a second lecture at the University of Utah, sponsored by Mormon Studies, on Henry Eyring Sr. and Melvin Cook. These two men were very similar— devoted Latter-day Saints and internationally recognized physical chemists— but one became a committed creationist and the other preached an old earth and evolution. What made the difference, and what does their story illustrate about the broader debate? 

             
        • In April, I also appeared on Saints Unscripted twice. The first one was very popular. 

In August, I appeared on the Spanish-language podcast La Hoja del Olivo, but as my Spanish is conversational, I am subtitled (and will be dubbed in a future version.)

 

Last updated 09-19-2023

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