Exmormon Foundation 2005 Conference Report

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2005/10/21 - 7:07pm.

On Friday, October 22, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Mountain Daylight Time, the Exmormon Foundation conference began. This year, for the first time, we recorded a large portion of the conference, and are making the audio files available free-of-charge on the Internet, in the interest of supporting our core mission.

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These audio files are multi-hour releases. Stream size for audio is standardized on 16Kbit/sec (capable of streaming via a modem).

Disclaimer: The Exmormon Foundation is an educational foundation. The opinions of the speakers below are their own, and not necessarily the opinion of the Exmormon Foundation, its officers, or members.

Recordings (all times Mountain Daylight Time):
There are some gaps in the audio. For "Open Mic" time, these are intentional, out of respect for the wishes of the speaker. During some of the presentations, however, we had various technical difficulties with our recording equipment. It was a learning experience.

  • Friday - introductions and open-mic time:

    Note: One speaker who wanted to be included was excluded from this collection. If you are concerned about this removal, please contact the Foundation Board.

  • Saturday - introductions and Tal Bachman:
  • Saturday - Tom Donofrio:

    Tom's presentation can be found in greater depth at www.postmormon.org/tories.htm. Those of you following these streams with interest, and finding yourselves needing more before the next link is up, this will keep you busy :)

  • Saturday - Ken Clark:
    • Download (9.5 megabytes)
    • Stream (16 kbit/sec)
      Note:The first four minutes of this stream are very difficult to listen to. It clears up at about 4:04, and at 5 minutes in, we realized his body mic wasn't on, fixed it, and it becomes much better after this :)
  • Saturday - Duwayne Anderson
  • The Foundation Business Meeting was not recorded.

  • Richard's Keynote
  • Saturday - Richard Packham:
  • Saturday - Tal Bachman's performance:

    • Download (12 megabytes)
    • Stream (64 kbit/sec -- too fast for most modems)
  • We did not record Sunday's panel discussion and open-mic time.
  • The conference has generated some discussion:

    1. Ex-Mormons Find Community
    2. The opposition has their own conference now?
    3. Audio Files of the Ex-Mormon Conference now available for listening
    4. Van Hale Criticism of Ex-Mormon Conference