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!...
Reacting to Johnny Harris: The Insane Story of How the Mormons Created Utah
To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. YouTuber Johnny Harris recently published the second installment of his series on Latter-day Saint history. In this episode, David Snell reacts to the video and offers some additional context to a few sections that deserve...
Would the Real Joseph Smith Please Stand Up?
To watch on YouTube, click here. Podcast Transcript: In 1831, Alexander Campbell wrote that the Book of Mormon “is without exaggeration, the meanest book in the English language … It has not one good sentence in it … It is as certainly [Joseph] Smith’s fabrication as...
New Research Reveals the Book of Mormon Likely Had Many Authors
To watch this interview on YouTube, click HERE. John Hilton III is a Professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University. John and his wife, Lani, have six children. They have lived in Boise, Boston, Miami, Mexico, Jerusalem, and China. John has a Masters...
Brigham Young Gave Native Americans Flour Laced with Glass?
To watch the YouTube video, click here. Podcast transcript: I recently heard the claim that Brigham Young had Latter-day Saint settlers in early Utah add shards of glass to sacks of flour, which were then given to Native Americans. Is it true? Let’s talk about it. ...