Dr Cristina Rosetti grew up pretty uninterested in religion, and had a sort of born again faith crisis. She converted both to the Pentecostal Church and then Catholicism, while finding great joy studying not just Mormonism but Mormon Fundamentalism as well. Find out more about her faith journey, starting with a born again faith crisis, and the Juanita Brooks Conference. Check out our conversation....

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Meet Cristina Rosetti

GT  00:50  Welcome to Gospel Tangents. I'm excited to have my first--I'm going to call you a Catholic Mormon scholar.

Cristina  00:57  Do it.

GT  00:57  Yeah. So, tell us who you are and where we are.

Cristina  01:01  I'm Cristina Rosetti and we are in sunny St. George, Utah.

GT  01:05  Yes. Very nice. I was in Florida a couple months ago. St. George in March is really nice.

Cristina  01:14  It's supposed to be [nice]. It's kind of cold.

GT  01:16  It was a little colder than St. George is normally, but it was still good weather. So, what did we do this weekend? What did you organize this weekend?

Cristina  01:25  Well, me and I guess, Joseph Stuart, at BYU and I organized a conference in honor of the legacy of Juanita Brooks. And Rick very kindly came down for it.

GT  01:37  Yeah, it was fun. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, so it's the first--is it going to be an annual event?

Cristina  01:46  I mean, a lot of people want it to be. We had a really good turnout. The hope is that it can continue. We'll see. I'm going to talk to Utah Tech where I work, and [the school] helped host it. And so, it's up to them. We're going to be sending out surveys.

GT  02:08  Oh, you are? It was great.

Cristina  02:11  And so we're going to, I mean, hopefully--we had a really good turnout for a very first time conference. I mean, getting 110 people to the Mountain Meadows Massacre site, and also, getting 110 people to stay through a whole day of conference talks, that's [good.] I feel like people clearly wanted to be here. I was shocked. When Joey and I planned it, I said [that] I just want 40 people to show up.

GT  02:40  Oh, wow.

Cristina  02:42  So, I was really pleased. And it was really great to have so many friends from northern Utah and beyond come.

GT  02:47  So, you counted it was 110 that actually traveled to the Mountain Meadows massacre sites.

Cristina  02:52  Yeah.

GT  02:52  Okay.

Cristina  02:53  Yeah, we had, well 109 at out all the sites. We had 110 on Friday, and we had about 50 watching online. And then the stream, at this point, has been watched about 206 something times.

Cristina  03:08  Now we're at 188.

GT  03:10  You'll have to send me that link, and I'll let people know to watch it again.

Cristina  03:13  Yeah, that's be great, just because it is, I mean, some of the speakers were, I mean, all the speakers were great, but...

GT  03:19  Who were the headliners?

Cristina  03:21  Well, the keynote was Elder Steven E Snow, Emeritus Church Historian and Recorder.

GT  03:26  Former Gospel Tangents guest, I will add.

Cristina  03:29  Former Gospel Tangents guest. He also did the Saints series, which I think is how most people probably, how most people probably would remember his legacy. He also did the Gospel Topics essays. He was the Church Historian behind that. And then we had, I mean, we had so many incredible people. We had Amanda Hendrix-Komoto. We had we had Richard Turley. He did the tour of Mountain Meadows and spoke on it with Barbara Jones Brown. We had Paul Reeve. We had so many people.

GT  04:00  Greg Prince.

Cristina  04:01  Greg Prince was also [a speaker.] Yeah, Greg Prince was the first speaker of the day. He spoke on Lester Bush. We also honored Lester Bush with an award. We were really grateful that his wife was able to come out and acc...

Is Satan the Fruit of Tree of Knowledge? Is Divine Mother in the Temple ceremonies? We'll talk about these and other issues like why Christ was baptized, and why Dr Val Larsen thinks Moral Influence is the best atonement theory. Check out our conversation...

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Is the Jerusalem Temple the Great & Spacious Building mentioned in the Book of Mormon? Is Divine Mother, theosis/exaltation in the Book of Mormon? Dr Val Larsen says "Yes!" He also thinks Laman & Lemuel tried to kill Nephi for religious reasons! Check out our conversation!

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Dr Val Larsen thinks Lehi was a polytheist! That's quite a statement! Val holds two Ph.D. 's, one in English and the other in Marketing. He teaches at James Madison University. He shares how he thinks Lehi synthesized the Canaanite & Israelite religions and shares his insights into theosis/exaltation in the Book of Mormon, divine mother, and lots of other interesting Book of Mormon topics. Check out our conversation...

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Link to Val's article: https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/theosis-in-the-book-of-mormon-the-work-and-glory-of-the-father-mother-and-son-and-holy-ghost/

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Last time we discussed the pros of the Delmarva Theory of the Book of Mormon. This time we'll dive into the skeptics questions. How does Laura Hathaway handle iron swords, horses, silk, DNA, 3 days of darkness? Check out our conversation...

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Laura Hathaway has a relatively new Book of Mormon Geography Theory. She thinks the Book of Mormon lands encompass the Delmarva Peninsula on the east coast of the United States, near the Chesapeake Bay area. She'll tell us why she thinks these are Book of Mormon lands. Check out our conversation....

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There are many epistles attributed to the Apostle Paul in the New Testament. Did everyone mistranslate Paul? What mistranslations are in these letters? Did Joseph correct or misinterpret Paul? Did Paul start Christianity? We'll dive deep into these and other questions with Dr. Thomas Wayment. Check out our conversation...

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We'll discuss the controversy of Thomas Wayment's recent paper about the Joseph Smith Translation & Adam Clarke. What do people get wrong? We'll also discuss some New Testament scholarship. Did Joseph Smith and/or other translators mistranslate Paul? Did Paul start Christianity? Dr Thomas Wayment has a new edition and new publisher of is translation of the New Testament! Check out our conversation....

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I visited the weeklong World Conference in April 2023 and gave a daily recap of events. Here's what I thought in realtime! Check out my visit!

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0:00 Day 0 Registration

2:09 Day 1 Inside Temple

7:43 African Musical Group

8:01 Day 2 Tour of Temple, Seminary, Auditorium

14:45 Day 3 Fire Alarm!

18:48 Temple Chapel (Day 3 cont)

22:13 Day 4 Recap/Met a Prophet!

25:05 Phoenicia Warehouse (Iowa)

30:14 Day 6 Recap

33:40 Stone Church Day 7 Conclusion

What's the difference between LDS General Conference & Community of Christ World Conference? A LOT! Deb Luce says not everyone attends CoC Conference, there is much more debate, and it lasts a week instead of 2 days! Find out more!

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