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.

• 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”
  • Youtube, 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, and also how we came to know that that interpretive assumption distorts Genesis. 
  • Video link (no slides or subtitles). My post with a link to the slides and references.  

• 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.
  • Post. Youtube video