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092 What Happened at Mountain Meadows?
The Mountain Meadows Massacre—easily the darkest and most violent episode in our Church’s history—happened on September 11, 1857, when a group of Lat…
1 year, 8 months ago
091 "Buchanan's Blunder" and the Utah War
After the 1838 “Mormon War” and their official expulsion from Missouri, Latter-day Saints relocated to Illinois where they built up the city of Nauvo…
1 year, 9 months ago
090 What Was the "Mormon War" of 1838?
The fall of 1838 marked the first time the Latter-day Saints engaged in organized retaliation against their enemies. The setting was Northern Missour…
1 year, 9 months ago
089 Was Zion's Camp Violent?
In November 1833, ruthless mobs of local settlers drove over a thousand Church members out of Jackson County, Missouri, plundering their property and…
1 year, 9 months ago
088 The First Violence Against Latter-day Saints
In the late summer of 1831, select groups of Church members began settling on the far western frontier of the United States in Jackson County, Missou…
1 year, 9 months ago
087 Does Religion Make People More Violent?
Did you know that one of the best selling books in Latter-day Saint history on Amazon.com was not written by a Latter-day Saint or a historian? It wa…
1 year, 10 months ago
086 Why Does God Guide Those Not of His Church? (w/Dr. Christopher Blythe)
From our brief survey of some of the various branches of the Restoration in this series, a few things have become apparent. First, it’s clear that me…
1 year, 10 months ago
085 Mormon Fundamentalism (w/Dr. Brian Hales)
Most of the main branches of the Restoration were formed within roughly two decades of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith. One clear exception…
1 year, 10 months ago
084 A Deep-Dive Into the Community of Christ (w/ Andrew Bolton)
Among many of those Nauvoo Saints who did not choose to follow Brigham Young and the Twelve Apostles into the mountains of Utah, there was an emergin…
1 year, 10 months ago
083 A Deep-Dive Into the "Bickertonite" Movement (w/Josh Gehly)
Following the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844, Sidney Rigdon, who had been Joseph’s 1st Counselor, made the claim to Church members in Nauv…
1 year, 10 months ago