Wilford Woodruff: The Prophet Who Cheated Death A LOT
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Episode transcript: This is Wilford Woodruff, who would later become the 4th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is actor Joel Edgerton, who’d better be playing Wilford Woodruff if there’s...
The Book of Mormon Helped Me Escape Jodi Hildebrandt
To watch this interview on YouTube, click HERE. Hulu just released Devil in the Family The Story of Ruby Franke. It tells the story of how the popular Latter-day Saint mom vlogger, along with a former mental health counselor named Jodi Hildebrandt, both ended up in...
Top Ten Flawed Arguments Used Against Latter-day Saints
To watch this video on YouTube, click HERE. Video transcript: Let’s talk about the top 10 flawed arguments or logical fallacies I see being used against Latter-day Saints. I want you to get familiar with them for 2 reasons: 1, so you can respectfully call ‘em out when...
What Devil in the Family Gets Wrong About the LDS Faith
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Video Transcript: Hulu just dropped their latest installment of Latter-day Saint-themed content: A new docuseries called Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. In this video, I’m going to catch you up on the Franke...
BYU Prof. on the Justice AND Mercy of Latter-day Saint Hell
To watch this interview on YouTube, click HERE. In this episode, David sits down with BYU law professor Shima Baughman to talk about Hell, criminal justice, divine punishment, and the Latter-day Saint conception of the afterlife. Shima Baughman is the Woodruff J....
The REAL Reason We Can’t Prove the Church is True
To watch this episode on YouTube, click HERE. Video Transcript: If The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true, then by divine design, no amount of historical analysis or scientific research will be able to categorically prove it to be true. That’s going...
The TRUTH about the Book of Mormon and View of the Hebrews
To watch this interview on YouTube, click HERE. Stephen Smoot is the co-author of Joseph Smith’s Uncanonized Revelations. He is a doctoral candidate in Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literature at the Catholic University of America. He previously earned a master’s...
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...
Did Joseph Smith’s Family Believe He Was a Prophet?
To watch this video on YouTube, click HERE. In 1836 Maria Monk published a shocking and scandalous exposé of a Catholic nunnery in Montreal. She claimed that nuns were being sexually exploited by the priests and that any offspring from these encounters were disposed...