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MormonX VII · Program

Three days, two keynotes a day, and the conversations between.

The shape of the weekend, in detail. The program is finalized in the weeks before the gathering — small adjustments are normal and welcome.

Day One

Friday, October 9, 2026

Arrival & Opening

3:00 PM
Gathering

Registration & Welcome Tea

5:00 PM
Keynote

Opening Reflections

MormonX Conveners

5:45 PM
Keynote

What the Schisms Knew

Miriam Ashford

A reading of the Restoration's first fifty years through the disagreements that shaped it.

7:00 PM
Gathering

Opening Dinner

8:30 PM
Gathering

Fireside: A Hymnal for No One Church

Anna Whitmer

An evening of music drawn from the wider Restoration tradition.

Day Two

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Study, Conversation, & Practice

8:00 AM
Gathering

Morning Coffee

9:00 AM
Keynote

Reading the Book of Mormon Without America

Samuel Okeke

10:15 AM
Session· Theology

Matter, Spirit, and the Land

Rebecca Pratt

10:15 AM
Session· Culture

How a Room Teaches

David Haight IV

11:30 AM
Break

Tea & Conversation

12:00 PM
Keynote

Covenant Without Empire

Esther Young Bear

1:00 PM
Gathering

Lunch

2:30 PM
Workshop· Primary Sources

Sources, Annotated — A Working Session

Jonas Mendel

2:30 PM
Session· Education

Teaching the Text

Naomi Pierce

4:00 PM
Break

Coffee & Books

4:30 PM
Panel

Panel — Plural Mormonisms in the Twenty-First Century

Ashford, Okeke, Rigdon, Young Bear

Four perspectives on what it means to claim the tradition without claiming an institution.

6:00 PM
Gathering

Community Dinner

8:00 PM
Gathering

The Other Saints — Screening & Q&A

Ezra Call

Day Three

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Reflection & Sending

8:00 AM
Gathering

Morning Walk & Coffee

9:30 AM
Session· Economy

What the United Order Was Actually For

Marcus Bennion

10:45 AM
Session· History

Dissent as Inheritance

Thomas Rigdon

12:00 PM
Gathering

Long Lunch

2:00 PM
Keynote

Scripture as Source Material — A Reading

Lydia Thorne

3:15 PM
Keynote

Closing Conversation & Sending

MormonX Conveners

4:30 PM
Gathering

Farewells

All times local. Working sessions run in parallel; attendees choose one per slot. A printed program with venue maps is included in the registration packet on arrival.