Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 10: Prophets, Revelation, Current Issues–LGBT, Female Equality In this episode, I discuss the definition and role of the prophet and compare how that fits with the more humanistic, metaphorical model I have of the Church. I also discuss the concept of revelation and how it fits with […]

  Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 9: Polygamy and Late Nauvoo Doctrine In this episode, I discuss the aspects of polygamy that are challenging in an LDS faith crisis and touch on other issues related to late Nauvoo doctrine. We will focus primarily on Nauvoo polygamy related to Joseph Smith. According to LDS […]

  I’m highlighting portions from my most recent podcast episode in blog posts right now. This week, I produced an episode on the Book of Abraham, Book of Moses, and JST. In this episode, I break down the Book of Abraham issues. In the last half of the episode, I get into the Book of […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 8: Book of Abraham and JST In this episode, I discuss apologetic aspects of the Book of Abraham (BoA) and Joseph Smith Translation. The LDS Gospel Topics Essay on the Book of Abraham provides background on the papyrus that Joseph Smith used to translate the Book of Abraham. […]

Transcript from a portion of my most recent podcast episode on the First Vision: This idea of LDS exclusivity and the idea that we are, God’s only true church. Jana Reese in her book, The Next Mormons, a brilliant book. I highly recommend it. It shares a lot of insights into kind of what’s going […]