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.”...
Response to Mr. Beat
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Transcript of David's YouTube video below: Mr. Beat (not to be confused with Mr. Beast) recently made a video about Latter-day Saint history and OH MY HECK, we’ve got a lot to talk about, so let’s get to it. 33:28 - 34:08...
Brad Wilcox: What We Get WRONG about Grace and Ordinances
To watch this interview on YouTube, click HERE. Brad Wilcox currently serves as the First Counselor in the Young Men General Presidency. He is also a professor in BYU’s Department of Ancient Scripture. Here, he discusses the real nature of grace and the actual...
What Ella Jensen saw after death (and who called her back)
To watch this video on YouTube, click HERE. Video Transcript: This is the story of Ella Jensen — a Latter-day Saint girl who died and came back again with quite the story to tell. As a short disclaimer: Stories like these can understandably be hard to believe. I...
Why Didn’t Emma Go West with the Saints?
To watch this video on YouTube, click HERE. Video Transcript: Hey guys! A couple of years after the murder of Joseph Smith, most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled west. Some people might be surprised to hear that Joseph’s first wife,...
Ancient Citation Technique Found in the Book of Mormon
To watch this on YouTube, click HERE. Video transcript: Hey guys! In this video, we’re going to look at the ancient Hebrew practice of inverting quotations, and we’ll see where this same ancient technique also shows up in the Book of Mormon. Let’s do it. So here’s...
LDS Historian: Be Ready, the Church Is Changing
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. In this episode, Latter-day Saint historian Ben Spackman talks about change in the Church — past, present, and future.
Response: The Angel “Nephi” Was a Clerical Error, not a Cover-Up
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Podcast transcript: A while back, a critic of the Church of Jesus Christ named Bethany Kay published a video in which she makes some rather interesting claims about the angel Moroni. Her video is a few years old now, but I...
LDS Bible Scholar: We Don’t Play by Protestant Rules
To watch this interview on YouTube, click HERE. An interview with Latter-day Saint scholar Ben Spackman explains that challenges from Protestants should be answered in a different way.
What This Catholic Apologist Isn’t Telling You About the Plates
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Trent Horn is a Catholic apologist. He works for Catholic Answers. He recently published a reel on Instagram aimed at discrediting the Book of Mormon by claiming that our 531 pages of the Book of Mormon would not have been...
Checking CES Letter Claims about “Imaginary Plates”
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Podcast Transcript: So we get comments ALL THE TIME claiming that the witnesses of the Book of Mormon plates never actually saw the plates. The claim is that it was just a vision, or entrancement, or imagination, or the...
Let’s Talk About the Martin Harris “Spiritual Eyes” Claims
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Podcast Transcript: Hello, my name is David Snell, and you’re listening to Keystone, where our goal is to fortify Latter-day Saint faith and combat misinformation through good old-fashioned research. Let’s jump right in!...