Hey everyone, so if you’ve watched some of the other videos we’ve done on polygamy, you know that this is a topic that I struggle with, as do many modern Latter-day Saints. It’s messy history, and it’s hard to separate fact from fiction sometimes. And if I’m going to...
Hey guys — we talk about a lot of controversial and heavy stuff in this segment of the show, but I wanted to lighten the mood a bit today and just talk about a piece of Latter-day Saint history that I find downright fascinating. We’re going to talk about something...
Hey guys, so reading the Old Testament can be really hard, partly because the authors of the Old Testament largely assume that you are already familiar with a lot of the historical context surrounding the stuff they’re writing about. In a past episode, we talked about...
In 3 Nephi 23, Christ issues a really interesting commandment: “Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah.” So let’s dig into Isaiah a little bit. There are a lot of different routes we could go with...
Hey guys, so Joseph Smith was killed in June of 1844. Today we’re going to talk about a letter purportedly written by his wife, Emma, to the editor of the New York Sun in 1845. The letter has some pretty intense things to say, but the most shocking is this: “I must...
Hey guys, so if you’ve read the Book of Mormon, you might notice that some verses contain text that is similar to or perfectly matches text from the Bible. So in this video, we’re going to explore some of the theories explaining why that is. We’ve got a lot to get to,...
