'After Happiness': Surviving today’s challenging economic and polarizing climate | Episode 450
In her new book, “After Happiness: Living with Faith in a Time of Crisis,” Natalie Brown, a Salt Lake Tribune guest columnist, calls on readers to develop a deeper, richer, more resilient faith amid l...
29 Jul 40min
His scribe’s diaries provide further evidence of Joseph Smith’s secret polygamy | Episode 449
William Clayton is likely known to most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the author of the beloved pioneer hymn, “Come, Come, Ye Saints.” To historians, though, Clayton wa...
22 Jul 41min
About Brazil's Latter-day Saints | Episode 448
Brazilian Helvécio Martins was the first Black general authority in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was named a dozen years after the Utah-based faith ended its 126-year priesthood...
15 Jul 52min
The search for what Joseph Smith looked like and why it matters | Episode 447
“As a Latter-day Saint artist, Joseph Brickey had painted church founder Joseph Smith dozens of times. So he was naturally skeptical in 2022, when he first saw headlines about a recently discovered da...
8 Jul 40min
Why this past LDS anti-communist zealot is relevant today | Episode 446
There was a time in the 1960s when W. Cleon Skousen, who died in 2006 at 92, was a widely known and controversial conservative figure in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Skousen was a ...
1 Jul 37min
How LDS of all backgrounds can integrate African American spirituals into worship | Episode 445
Earlier this month, general authority Seventy historian Kyle McKay apologized for remarks he made at a regional worship service in Oklahoma. In his controversial comments, McKay, the official historia...
24 Jun 57min
The beliefs and battles of Marion D. Hanks | Episode 444
There was a time in the 1960s and ’70s, when Marion Duff Hanks was better known than almost any other Latter-day Saint leader. The boyish, handsome, charismatic and deeply literate Hanks was tapped in...
17 Jun 39min
Why many evangelicals don't see Latter-day Saints as Christians | Episode 443
For about a decade, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been in a costly rebrand aimed in part at shoring up its bona fides as a Christian denomination. Not everyone is convinced, incl...
10 Jun 30min
