Visit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. In December 2013, Scott Hales bought himself an iPad and a digital drawing software program. He was in the final stages of finishing his PhD dissertation and was ready to try his hand at a lighter medium. Dusting...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. Lisa Olsen Tait claims that Susa Young Gates is the most important Mormon woman that most have never heard of. Susa grew up in a time when cultural gender roles were changing and women’s opportunities were...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. David F. Holland is a respected scholar and Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. On October 29, 2016, he spoke on the topic “Latter-day Saints and the Problem of Pain” at the Neal A....
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio file. Finding a balance between loyalty or commitment to one’s faith and sympathetic openness to other faiths is one of the biggest challenges Mormons face in an age of inclusiveness. The classic “theology of religions”...
read moreVisit the website, or list to a direct audio link. Gale Boyd is an ethnic Jew who convert to the LDS Church. In 1983, she and her husband decided to move their family to Israel to explore their Jewish heritage. She was unprepared for the culture shock she experienced...
read moreListen from the website, or the direct audio file. By June 1829 Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer had verbalized a desire to be the special three witnesses alluded to in the Book of Mormon. D&C 17 records a revelation affirming their roles as...
read moreGerrit Dirkmaat and LaJean Carruth examine some discrepancies between George Watt’s shorthand records of sermons and the printed versions that are found in the Journal of Discourses. Listen on the LDS Perspectives Podcast website. In their research, they...
read moreIn this episode, Laura Harris Hales interviews Brant A. Gardner. He is the author of several books and articles discussing the text of the Book of Mormon and ancient Mesoamerica. Listen here. The discussion covers the didactic model for translating the Book of Mormon...
read moreListen to an interview with Joseph Spencer about his new book discussing Isaiah in the Book of Mormon. Second Nephi has a reputation for being a bit dry. Missing is the drama of the Book of Mormon. Where the story line pauses, it is replaced with long passages...
read moreNeal is the office manager at Book of Mormon Central. Like most of his co-workers, he is a Millennial. His team is young and talented. Five days a week they pump out KnoWhys on some aspect of Book of Mormon scholarship. Each KnoWhy includes a one-minute video, a short...
read moreListen on the website, or through the direct audio link. Few aspects of Joseph Smith’s life have been scrutinized more in recent years than his personal practice of polygamy. Some readers’ first exposure to Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy comes from...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. Last summer Russell Stevenson sat down with Rachel Steenblik and Caitlin Connolly, two women who have studied the concept of a divine feminine–or Heavenly Mother. Rachel was the primary researcher on a BYU...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. Leta Greene never thought she would grow up to be a beauty consultant and motivational speaker. But she has overcome the scars of emotional and physical abuse and feelings of awkwardness and ugliness to excel at...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio file. Steven Harper points out that one of things the Revelations in Context series was designed to do was to encourage study of the history and doctrine of the LDS Church in order to get past folk doctrines. One of the...
read moreListen on the website, or directly from the audio file. Rita Wright is the curator for the Springfield Museum of Art. Formerly she taught art at Brigham Young University and was the curator for the LDS Church History Museum. Currently she sits on the worldwide...
read moreListen from the website, or directly from the audio file. Editors Jenny Reeder and Kate Holbrook, respectively 19th- and 20th-century women’s historians, discuss their multi-year project to bring LDS women’s speeches together in At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses...
read moreListen as Grant Hardy discusses the Book of Mormon as Literature in an LDS Perspectives Podcast. Grant Hardy became intrigued with world religions, especially those of the Near East, as a young missionary. He has researched and written widely on various topics, but...
read moreRussell Stevenson interviews Dr. Michael Mackay about the use of seer stones in the Book of Mormon translation process. (Here) Some may not realize that Joseph continued to use seer stones after the Book of Mormon was translated. He used them while translating the...
read moreIn this episode, Dr. Perego shares his findings on three topics: Joseph Smith’s posterity, DNA of North American peoples, and victims of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
In this fascinating and enlightening episode, Russell Stevenson of LDS Perspectives Podcast interviews Dr. Anthony Sweat, who is an artist, BYU religion professor, and illustrator of the resent publications From Darkness into Light and Joseph Smith’s Seer...
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