John Taylor: From British Convert to OUTLAW PROPHET
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Video Transcript: In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we hear a lot about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. But we don’t hear much about the 3rd president of the Church, John Taylor. And that’s a shame...
The Truth about Why Joseph Smith CHANGED His Revelations
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Video Transcript: Fun fact: across the various editions of The Doctrine and Covenants, a whole lot of changes have been made to the text. Most changes are small things — spelling, grammar, copyist errors, etc. — but in...
Reaction to American Primeval
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Let’s talk about what American Primeval gets right and very, very wrong about Latter-day Saints, or “Mormons”. The main storyline really has little to do with Latter-day Saints — it’s the story of a mother and son trying...
Brigham Young, Slavery, and the Apostle that Said NO
To watch this interview on YouTube, click HERE. W. Paul Reeve is the Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history, and the history of the U.S. West. He is the author of the...