This is a two-day event that takes place at the JSB, BNSN, & MCKB buildings on BYU campus.
This year’s Religious Education Symposium in Honor of Sidney B. Sperry will focus on the Prophet Joseph Smith as a visionary. Throughout the history of the world, God has called and revealed His will to prophets, seers, and revelators (Amos 3:7). Visons have always been part of that revelatory process by which God has guided His people. Joseph Smith was, by all accounts, a “prophet’s prophet”—receiving an unparalleled number of visions, revelations, and inspired dreams. As the Lord Himself noted, of the Prophet Joseph Smith: “I will make him great in mine eyes; for he shall do my work” (2 Ne. 3:8). And so, this year we celebrate God’s work of giving visions to the Prophet Joseph, and the Restoration that took place through those remarkable revelatory encounters.
The Sperry Symposium, named in honor of pioneering Latter-day Saint scripture scholar Sidney B. Sperry and held on the campus of Brigham Young University, seeks each year to examine an aspect of the religious and cultural heritage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since 1973, this symposium has become one of the premier venues for Latter-day Saint religious study. The symposium originated to encourage faith-based religious scholarship on various Latter-day Saint topics.