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062 Temple Garments and Temple Changes in the 20th and 21st Centuries
1904 marked the beginning of what would become a grueling 4-year-long senate hearing of US sentator and apostle Reed Smoot. It is intriguing—and impo…
2 years, 3 months ago
061 Temple Work Without Temples
Beginning in 1846, thousands of Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois and trekked over one thousand miles west to the Salt Lake Valley. Having, of…
2 years, 4 months ago
060 Discontinued/Obscure Temple Rituals
During the last years of his life, the prophet Joseph Smith gave multiple public sermons dealing with 2 Peter 1, wherein the apostle Peter encourages…
2 years, 4 months ago
059 Marriage Sealings: A High Fusion of Theology + Ritual
The prophet Joseph Smith’s final years in Nauvoo, IL constituted a season of rich theological and ritual convergence. It was a time when various thre…
2 years, 4 months ago
058 An Interview with an LDS Freemason
Welcome to our special bonus episode where Casey and I interview a friend of our show Lon Tibbitts. In our previous episode we discussed at length th…
2 years, 4 months ago
057 The Origins of the Temple Endowment
What Latter-day Saints today call the Temple Endowment was first given by the prophet Joseph Smith in 1842, two years prior to his death, to a small …
2 years, 4 months ago
056 Restoration of “the Priesthood” Through Temple Ordinances?
As the climax of the Kirtland endowment on April 3, 1836, Joseph Smith received sacred keys in rapid succession from Moses, Elias, and Elijah. This w…
2 years, 5 months ago
055 The Kirtland Endowment: What it Was and Why it Matters
In 1831 the Lord promised the New York saints that if they would gather together with Church members in Ohio they would there “be endowed with power …
2 years, 5 months ago
054 The Beginnings of LDS Temple Worship
Temples: It’s difficult to overestimate their importance in the Latter-day Saint movement. In fact, it could be said that what is accomplished inside…
2 years, 5 months ago
053 Q&R w/ Prof. Aaron Miller - Modern Money Controversies
Why did the Church file 13f documents with separate shell companies if there was no tax advantage for doing so? Could there be more to the story than…
2 years, 5 months ago