Conference Introduction
Lincoln Cannon opens the 2012 MTA conference by articulating its core purpose: bringing together two things many consider diametrically opposed—science and religion, technology and spirituality. He contends that these domains are not merely compatible but mutually reinforcing, made for each other in their best manifestations. Drawing on Doctrine and Covenants 88’s exhortation to seek learning “by study and also by faith,” Cannon frames the conference as a modern continuation of Joseph Smith’s School of the Prophets, combining wisdom and inspiration to explore what it means to be human.
