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- Why Are Mormons Going MAGA?Journalist Sarah McCammon watched the Evangelical community shift from reviling Donald Trump to embracing him. The Latter-day Saints seem to have done the same thing. Drawing on…
- Episode 169: Murder in the Kingdom · 1 h 2 minTwo unsolved murders. One Black Mormon born into slavery. A doctor who challenged Brigham Young’s power. And a mutilated body left on Arsenal Hill with a warning pinned to its…
- E216: The Gay Mormon Play that Changed Hearts: Facing EastIn 2006, Carol Lynn Pearson’s play “Facing East” premiered in Salt Lake City. Then it had runs off Broadway and in San Francisco. Focusing on the Mormon parents of a gay man who…
- Episode 168: Guns Above Zion: Fort Douglas · 54 minWhy did the U.S. Army build a fort above Salt Lake City with its guns pointed toward the Mormon capital? Lindsay Hansen Park and Bryan Buchanan trace the explosive history of…
- E215: Young Washington vs. Odysseus: A Tale of Two Myths · 35 minYoung Washington and Odysseus walk into a fast and testimony meeting. Only one will emerge triumphant! Both are violent. Both play fast and loose with their source material. And…
- Episode 167: Before They Were Famous: Orson Hyde · 58 minHe dedicated Jerusalem for the return of the Jews, renamed Nevada’s oldest town, nearly became president of the LDS Church, and may have helped create one of Mormonism’s most…
- E214: The Genesis of a TikTok Bible Scholar · 46 minDan McClellan has done the seemingly impossible. He has made Bible scholarship not only accessible, but cool on his TikTok channel. In this episode, he talks about how he became…
- Episode 166: The Morrisite War · 55 minOn Friday the 13th, 1862, a thousand armed men surrounded a muddy little fort on the Weber River, where Joseph Morris and his followers waited for the Second Coming. What…
- E212: Where Have All the Roadshows Gone? · 39 minRoadshows, Boy Scouts, MIA, basketball leagues, potlucks—the LDS Church was once buzzing with community activities. But most of that has disappeared. How did it happen? In this…
- Episode 165: The Peak of Mormon Polygamy · 1 h 11 minIn this episode, Lindsay and Bryan dive into the 1860s, the decade when Mormon polygamy reached its statistical and cultural peak. Drawing on census data, diaries, oral…
- E211: The Apostle Who Tried to Retire. · 37 minWhat if apostles were given emeritus status at 70 years of age? This was the question apostle Hugh B. Brown proposed to the Quorum of the Twelve as President David O. McKay…
- E120: What’s in the Sacred Sauce? · 33 minWhat do Latter-day Saints mean when they say temples are sacred? Intrepid reporter Stephen Carter braves three tours of the Lindon Temple to find out. (Hint: It’s definitely not…
- Episode 164: Mormon Mail and the Pony Express · 1 h 6 minBefore texts, tracking numbers, and two-day shipping, a letter could take months to cross the continent, assuming it arrived at all. In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan saddle up…
- Episode 163: The Old Salt Lake TheatreWhile Eastern theaters staged plays depicting Mormons as bloodthirsty polygamists, Brigham Young was building a Drury Lane replica in the Utah desert. It would go on to host…
- Episode 162: Madam Pattirini Built UtahWhat do Brigham Young’s flamboyant son, a legendary local gin, the University of Utah, the Huntsman Center, and a web of Mormon architecture all have in common? In this episode…
- Episode 161: Brave Little Book of MormonWhat happens when the Book of Mormon slips into the public domain and someone entirely outside the faith decides to publish it? In this episode of the Sunstone Mormon History…
- Episode 160: The Heber J. Grant Journals—Fruits of a New PolicyLindsay and Bryan are back in video form — and they’ve got a lot to talk about. The Church History Library just dropped a remarkable new digital resource: the Heber J. Grant…
- E209: From Villains to Heroes: Mormons in Italy’s “Tex” ComicsPolygamists, Danites, and guns! The Italian cowboy hero Tex has met with them all over the course of more than 75 years of comic book stories. But the portrayal of Mormons in the…
- Episode 159: Books of the MassacreA long overdue Books of Mormons Report, and we’re making it an episode. Lindsay and Bryan trace how the Mountain Meadows Massacre got written about, argued over, buried…
- E208: Religion Is Dangerous. You Should Try It!New York Times columnist Ross Douthat thinks that believing in the divine and joining a religion is not only a rational thing to do, it’s the best way to interact with reality…
