Rebroadcast: Viewing THE MORMONS

Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

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A PBS series profiling the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will again bring Mormonism into the national spotlight. On an hour-long edition of Utah NOW, we're talking about the series and gauging the reaction to this latest portrait of the faith. Find out what Utahns say after viewing the documentary. Did it clear up misconceptions or reinforce them? Join us for a balanced, considered response to the national broadcast.

Program Features

  • Satellite interview with filmmaker Helen Whitney, who--over the course of three years--wrote, produced and directed both segments of the American Experience/Frontline Documentary: THE MORMONS.
  • Interview with Ken Verdoia and Terryl Givens, who are both featured in the documentary. Ken Verdoia is the director of production at KUED -TV Channel 7 and was one of the first experts contacted by Helen Whitney when she began her work more than three years ago. Terryl Givens is a Mormon author and a professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Richmond, Virginia.
  • One-on-one interview with LDS Church Historian and Recorder Elder Marlin K. Jensen, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, who is also the executive director of the Family and Church History Department.
  • Roundtable discussion with Jack Newell, emeritus professor at the University of Utah and a former co-editor of Dialogue Magazine; Elizabeth Sewell, associate director of BYU's International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Bob Goldberg, History professor and director of the University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center, and Robert Millet a professor of Ancient Scripture and past dean of Religious Studies at BYU.

Filed under the following topic(s): Arts and Culture.

Posted by Utah NOW, Monday July 9th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Viewer Comments

I have just finish watching the frontline program about the mormons. thank you for another excellent program it rang so true to me personally. having been raised mormon by an old mormon family and being a very courious and thoughtful person, this program expressed both the great joys and discusts of my experiance with the mormon church.

Posted by Taylor Myers, Friday July 13th, 2007 @ 10:54 am

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