Most rank-and-file Mormons would probably scoff at the idea of such a shift occurring within the Church. Philip Roberts, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, posed this question: “So just what’s going on in Salt Lake City? Are Mormons coming to their theological senses? Is there a doctrinal seismic shift afoot akin to what occurred with the World Wide Church of God just a few years ago when that group renounced their heretical views and embraced evangelical theology?” 3 Later, reflecting on the significance of the event, R. 1 The occasion was part of the evangelical/Mormon dialogues promoted by Standing Together Ministries, a Utah evangelical group focused on “Advancing Biblical Unity and Spiritual Transformation in Utah,” 2 and Robert Millet, BYU religion professor at the time and occupant of the Richard L. Mouw, then president of the Fuller Theological Seminary, and Ravi Zacharias-had been invited to speak, and a capacity crowd of evangelicals and Mormons were gathered together to hear what they had to say. Non-Mormon preachers, leading figures from the evangelical community-Richard J. In November of 2004 something so uncommon took place in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that nothing like it had occurred there during the previous 105 years. Or right-click to download the audio file: A Peculiar People? How Neo-orthodoxy Has Crept Into the LDS Church

Hunsaker is a clinical mental health counselor in Salt Lake City.

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