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Annual Sperry Symposium Oct. 24-25 to consider Doctrine and Covenants

September 24, 2008

The 37th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium on the scriptures will be held at Brigham Young University Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25, featuring keynote speaker Elder C. Max Caldwell, emeritus member of the Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Elder Caldwell's address will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Joseph Smith Building Auditorium, with breakout sessions to follow that evening and beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Admission is free and registration is not required.

Presenters at this year's symposium, titled "The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context," will include faculty from BYU, BYU-Hawaii and the Church Education System.

A collection of papers from the symposium will be published in a new volume to be released jointly by Deseret Book and the BYU Religious Studies Center.

For more information, including a full schedule of conference proceedings, visit http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwsperry/ or call Patty Smith at (801) 422-3611.

Writer: Brady Toone

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