This page collects my recorded presentations, screencasts, podcast interviews, etc.

• January 2014 “The Rediscovery of the World of the Old Testament” screencast 
  • How the discoveries of the last 150 years have radically changed our understanding.

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

• July, 2017 LDS Perspectives podcast on Genre in the Bible
  • A lot of people have found this helpful in reorienting how they think about scripture and resolving various concerns.

• August 2017, FAIRMormon “Truth, Scripture, and Interpretation: Some Precursors to Reading Genesis”
  • Audio/podcast, transcript with footnotes, follow-up post. 

• Oct 2017, Sperry Symposium screencast, on Reading the Old Testament in Context

 

• Dec, 2017 LDS Perspectives podcast on Genesis chapter 1
  • I discuss some of the content from my book manuscript, on where Genesis 1 came from and what it means.

• 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. 

• June 2018, LDS MissionCast- “Prooftexting and Understanding the Bible as a Missionary Tool.”
  • Latter-day Saints read the Bible within a very different framework of authority than Protestants, but this is something we often forget.

• 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. The video is not yet available for free. 

• Feb 2019, I did a long 8-part interview on LDS history, scripture, and Evolution with Mormon Tangents. Note that the videos are listed in reverse order (#8 comes first instead of #1), and you can buy a transcript from Amazon.

 

• 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