The Big Questions: What is the Legacy of Joseph Smith?
We invite you to participate, either in person or virtually, as we discuss some of the most fascinating theological and historical questions that will come up during this year’s study of the Doctrine and Covenants. We hope you find these conversations enriching and supportive as you walk the journey of faith.
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Jenny Reeder is a 19th century women's history specialist and curator for the Historic Sites division of the Church History Department in Salt Lake City. She has a PhD in American history from George Mason University, with a dissertation on material culture commemorating the Nauvoo Relief Society--a sort of "usable" past. She wrote First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith with Deseret Book in 2021, and co-edited At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women with the Church Historian's Press, as well as Witness of Women: Firsthand Experiences and Testimonies of the Restoration with Deseret Book. She has collected nearly 1300 discourses by Eliza R. Snow on the Church Historian's Press, with a print volume of selected discourses coming out in March 2026--Rise Up and Speak: Selected Discourses of Eliza R. Snow, also with the Church Historian's Press. Currently she is working on the Beehive and Lion Houses in Salt Lake City and the Whitmer farm in Fayette, New York.
Terryl Givens did graduate work in intellectual history (Cornell) and comparative literature (PhD UNC). He is the Neal A. Maxwell Senior Research Fellow at Brigham Young University and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Religion, University of Richmond (where he held the Jabez Bostick Chair of English for many years).
He has published several books on Latter-day Saint history, theology and culture as well as intellectual history. His current project is As I Have Loved You: A New Interpretation of Christian History.