The upcoming Sunstone Symposium in Utah has a screening of a documentary of an M2C voyage to Mesoamerica.
I can't be there but if anyone knows if the film is available online, I'd like to know about it.
https://sunstone.zohobackstage.com/SunstoneSymposium#/agenda?day=3&lang=en
The session focuses on the ethics of showing the film. Here's an excerpt from the description:
When the film was first presented to the public in a big auditorium at Stanford, it got laughs in unlikely moments that have led Jake to reflect on the ethics of this documentary. After the film, Jake will discuss the thoughts he's had on whether the film is making fun of the film's participants or providing them an audience to share their heartfelt testimony.
This blog has some fun with the M2C as a theory, but we like the M2Cers all as people and respect their various beliefs.
Still, it's not difficult to imagine why the screening generated laughs.
Description
In For the Love of God, a group of sixty Mormons study the scriptures in a dark room aboard a luxury cruise ship at sea, while the rest of the vacationers enjoy the pool, gambling, drinks, and other activities. The Mormon group is delighted to take in presentations by the likes of John Bytheway and lectures arguing that the Book of Mormon took place among the Mayan civilization. The cruise ship docks and an ethnically Mayan anthropologist and member of the LDS Church leads the group through the ruins at Tulum. He points out where he believes ancient Mayans did temple rituals that Mormons would be familiar with and several symbols carved in the stone architecture that might depict Book-of-Mormon stories. Members of the group describe their feelings at seeing the sites and the narrator, Jake Chamberlain, reflects on the entire tour phenomenon and notions of belief and evidence. When the film was first presented to the public in a big auditorium at Stanford, it got laughs in unlikely moments that have led Jake to reflect on the ethics of this documentary. After the film, Jake will discuss the thoughts he's had on whether the film is making fun of the film's participants or providing them an audience to share their heartfelt testimony.
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