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...
Teen Brides Used to Be Common in Utah (Here’s Why)
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. YouTube video transcript: Hey guys, so the Church’s gospel topics essay on plural marriage in early Utah notes that in those days, many women married at relatively young ages: “16 or 17 or, infrequently, younger.”...