Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchE100: Joining a Cult Is Fun to Do, Fun to Do, to Do to Do
To believe is to be human. But belief has a price—one that has risen higher and higher in recent years. Can we afford it anymore? That’s the question…
4 years, 10 months ago
E50: Magical Mystery UK Tour
While the Mormons were building a Kingdom of God in the United States, they began to branch out across the pond. Join Lindsay and Bryan as they discu…
4 years, 10 months ago
E99: Queer Polygamy: A Conversation with Taylor Petrey and Blaire Ostler
“Queer polygamy” is probably one of the most provocative phrases you could throw into an LDS conversation. But Blaire Ostler thinks it can open up co…
4 years, 10 months ago
E49: BONUS TRACK: Deep Cuts from the Sunstone Mormon History Podcast
As promised, join Bryan and Lindsay for their special session at the 2021 Sunstone Summer Symposium. They discuss some of their adventures digging up…
4 years, 10 months ago
E98: Joseph Smith Led Me Out of the Closet
The idea that our spirits are the literal offspring of heavenly parents is found nowhere in LDS scripture or the writings, sermons, and contemporaneo…
4 years, 10 months ago
E48: The Mack/Daddy Smiths
How did Joseph Smith Jr.’s parents and their upbringings influence Mormonism? Join Lindsay and Bryan as they discuss the early cultures and ideas in …
4 years, 11 months ago
E97: The Impact of Religious Rigidity on Disaffiliated Young Adults
Liz Brown MacDonald interviewed fifteen young adults from rigidly religious homes who had left the LDS Church and was amazed by how many similarities…
4 years, 11 months ago
E96: Mad Bear at Temple Square: Unprecedented Protest
Displays showing the remains of Native Americans were pretty normal in LDS museums for many decades. In this episode, Thomas Murphy gives a brief his…
4 years, 11 months ago
E47: Before They Were Famous: Hosea Stout
He was the murderous, rough-and-tumble police chief in Nauvoo, but Hosea Stout was also a lot more than that. Join Lindsay and Bryan as they talk abo…
4 years, 11 months ago
E95: Queer Mormon Theology: Not an Oxymoron
Is an LGBTQ worldview more Mormon than Mormonism these days? After reading Blaire Ostler’s book “Queer Mormon Theology,” Stephen Carter thinks so. In…
5 years ago