Christine Blythe is the executive director of the Mormon History Association. She was previously the William A. Wilson Folklore Archives Specialist at Brigham Young University and a scholar of vernacular religion and belief. Christine is currently co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah.
Christopher James Blythe is assistant professor in English at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse (Oxford University Press, 2020) and was co-editor of the Journal of Mormon History.
Jay A. Burton is an archivist and Church history specialist in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a founding editor of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies.
1) Where did the idea for this project come from, how did the book come about, and
what’s next from here?
2) What do you guys mean by “scriptures of the Latter Day Saint tradition”?
3) In the book, you talk about the Joseph Smith Canon. What do you mean by that, and
how does it differ from other canons?
4) The foreword by Philip Barlow is a great endorsement for the project. Can you tell us
about how that came about?
5) Why would a Latter-day Saint want to read a book on non-LDS scripture?
6) Christine co-wrote a chapter on the Lectures of Faith. For those who don’t know,
can you tell us about the lectures and then tell us why did the LDS and RLDS churches
get rid of them?
7) Jay’s chapter is on the revelations of Sidney Rigdon. One of the interesting things
you introduce is that Phebe Rigdon helped with these revelations. Can you tell us more
about that?
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