Dr. Jan Shipps

Jan Shipps is a Professor Emerita of History and Religious Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.  A graduate of Utah State University, she received the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.  The premier non-Mormon scholar of LDS history and a member of the United Methodist Church, Dr. Shipps has been called "the Jane Goodall of Mormon studies."  Her many publications include Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons.

Topic at Seminar: "How Mormonism is Christian: Locating Mormonism on the Religious Landscape"

Dr. Richard Lyman Bushman

Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.  He earned the A.B. from Harvard College and the M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Harvard University.  He is a former Bishop and Stake President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the author of several books including: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, The Great Awakening: Documents of the Revivial of Religion 1740-1745, The Refinement of America, and the newly published Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.

Topic at Seminar: "The Lives of Joseph Smith"

Dr. Robert L. Millet

Robert L. Millet is Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding and Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University.  He received the B.S. and M.S. in Psychology from Brigham Young University and the Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Florida State University.  He is the author of numerous books and articles, including A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints and Getting at the Truth: Responding to Difficult Questions About LDS Belief.

Topics at Seminar: "The Risks and the Rewards of Interfaith Dialogue" and "An Evangelical and a Latter-day Saint in Dialogue"

Rev. Gregory Johnson

Gregory Johnson is an ordained Conservative Baptist minister.  He graduated from Westmont College with the B.A. in Social Science and received the Master of Divinity degree from Denver Theological Seminary.  He is President of Standing Together Ministries, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of cooperation and mutual understanding among Christian groups in Utah.

Topic at Seminar: "An Evangelical and a Latter-day Saint in Dialogue"