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Podcasts about Church History, Doctrine, and Culture
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129 EpisodenEpisode 130: Welcome to Latter-day Saint Perspectives
Welcome to the Latter-day Saint Perspectives Podcast. I’m your host Laura Harris Hales.
I created this podcast over four an...
Episode 129: Learning of Joseph Smith Anew
The Interview
In this episode of Latter-day Saint Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales interviews R. Eric Smith and Mat...
Episode 128: What Is the Restoration? with Patrick Q. Mason
About the Interview:
Celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the Restoration has proven to be one of the few highligh...
Episode 127: The Kinderhook Plates with Mark Ashurst-McGee
The Interview: In this episode of the Latter-day Saint Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales interviews Mark Ashurst-McGee, co-author of a new in-d...
Episode 126: From Conflict to Closeness with Emil Harker
About the Interview:
Many relationships may be improved simply by practicing good communication skills.
Episode 125: Latter-day Saint Beliefs on the Apocalypse with Christopher J. Blythe
About the Interview: The mayhem of 2020 has brought the Apocalypse to the forefront of many people’s minds, but for Latter-day Saints, this kind of th...
Episode 124: Producing Ancient Scripture with Mark Ashurst-McGee
The Interview: In this episode of the LDS Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales interviews Mark Ashurst-McGee, a co-editor of a new book, Producing...
Episode 123: Producing Ancient Scripture: “Approaching Egyptian Papyri through Biblical Language: Joseph Smith’s Use of Hebrew in His Translation of the Book of Abraham” with Matthew J. Grey
This is Laura Harris Hales, and I am pleased to introduce a special series for the Latter-day Saint Perspectives Podcast’s fourth season. We will be h...
Episode 122: Producing Ancient Scripture: Thomas Wayment on Joseph Smith’s Use of Adam Clarke in the JST
For the Latter-day Saint Perspectives Podcast’s fourth season, we will be highlighting chapters from the much-anticipated volume, Producing Ancient Sc...
Episode 121: Despite All We Can Do with Daniel O. McClellan
About the Interview:
Daniel O. McClellan won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2nd Annual Book of Mormon Studies Associa...
Episode 120: Spiritual Anxiety with Debra Theobald McClendon
About The Interview:
In this episode of Latter-day Saint Perspectives, Laura Harris Hales interviews licensed psychologist,...
Episode 119: The First Vision with Spencer W. McBride
About the Interview:
The First Vision is a podcast produced by the Joseph Smith Papers and published by the Latter-day Sai...
Episode 118: Part 2–How the Book of Mormon Counters Anti-Semitism with Bradley J. Kramer
Horrified by the Holocaust and fearful that the New
Testament, as it has been traditionally understood, may have contributed to
this trage...
Episode 117: Part 1–A New Approach to Studying the Book of Mormon with Bradley J. Kramer
The Book of Mormon contains a multitude of short, impressive statements, which Latter-day Saints often memorize and even “master,” so they can repeat...
Episode 116: Joseph Smith, Nauvoo Leader with Christian Heimburger
The editors of the Joseph Smith Papers Project spend years poring over the documents that are featured in each volume. After marinating themselves in...
Episode 115: Jesus Christ in the Topical Guide with Stephanie Dibb Sorensen
In 1979, the first Latter-day Saint edition of the Bible was published. Notably, it included a "Topical Guide with Selected Concordance and Index." Ap...
Episode 114: The Book of Revelation with Nicholas J. Frederick
Nick Frederick has a gift for sharing thought-provoking insights about familiar topics. In Episode 92, we discussed intertextuality in the Book of Mor...
Episode 113: Religion, Politics, and Community Involvement with George B. Handley
Laura Harris Hales interviews George B. Handley about If Truth Were a Child: Essays. They dive into such diverse topics as religion, politics, and com...
Episode 112: The Council of Nicaea and Its Creed with Lincoln H. Blumell
Dr. Lincoln Blumell discusses the landmark Council of Nicaea, the Nicaean Creed, and a new book he edited about New Testament times.
Episode 111: A Church History Moment with J. B. Haws
About the Interview:
With the release of Saints last year, the study of church history officially moved beyond the dusty cobwebs of the C...
Episode 110: The Global Church and Lived Religion with Melissa Inouye
“Dear Reader,” Melissa Inouye opens her memoir, “I’ve always been fuzzy about deadlines, but in May 2017 when I was diagnosed with colon cancer, every...
Episode 109: The Power of Godliness with Jonathan Stapley
Just one day before Jonathan Stapley was awarded the best book award for The Power of Godliness by the Mormon History Association, I visited with him...
Episode 108: The Latter-day Saint’s and Zion with Matthew C. Godfrey
Historian Jedediah S. Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey recently co-edited a collection of essays on Latter-day Saint environmental history entitled The E...
Episode 107: Why Does Latter-day Saint Art Matter? with Jennifer Champoux
In this episode, I discuss with Jennifer Champoux, an art history scholar, how biblical women are depicted in the art of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Episode 106: The Symbol of the Cross with Gaye Strathearn
Good Friday is seen as the holiest day in the Christian tradition, yet it is not particularly emphasized in Latter-day Saint dialogue. And outside of...
Episode 105: Discipleship with Eric Huntsman
In this episode of LDS Perspectives Podcast, Laura Hales interviews Eric D. Huntsman about his new book, Becoming the Beloved Disciple: Coming unto Ch...
Episode 104: Silent Souls Weeping with Jane Clayson Johnson
In early January, I sat down with Jane Clayson Johnson, a former news correspondent for CBS and ABC news, to discuss her research on mental illness. O...
Episode 103: The Need for Historicity of the Book of Mormon with Stephen Smoot
In a recent article published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship titled “Et Incarnatus Est: The Imperative for Book o...
Episode 102: The Fourth Gospel with Joshua Matson
Even a casual, first-time reader quickly notices that the Fourth Gospel, or the Gospel of John, is different than the other New Testament gospels. Fro...
Episode 101: Studying the Book of Mormon with Grant Hardy
In this episode of the LDS Perspectives Podcast, Stephen Smoot interviews Grant Hardy, editor of the newly released Maxwell Institute Study Edition of...
Episode 100: The Myth of Redemptive Violence with David Pulsipher
For this episode of the Latter-day Saint Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales interviews BYU–Idaho professor David Pulsipher about some of the sub...
Episode 99: Luke’s Jesus with S. Kent Brown
There are four books in the New Testament that tell the story of the life and ministry of Jesus. Each one does it quite differently. The gospel of Luk...
Episode 98: Translation of the New Testament with Thomas A. Wayment
In this interview, Laura Harris Hales interviews Dr. Thomas A. Wayment about modern Bible translations and the lasting heritage of the King James Bibl...
Episode 97: The Book of Abraham with Robin Scott Jensen
In the latest episode of LDS Perspectives Podcast, guest interviewer Stephen Smoot visits with Latter-day Saint Church historian Robin Jensen about th...
Episode 96: The Apocrypha with Jared Ludlow
LDS Perspectives Podcast recently interviewed Jared Ludlow on Exploring the Apocrypha from a Latter-day Saint Perspective, a new book that introduces...
Episode 95: The LDS Church in India with Taunalyn Rutherford
When Taunalyn Ford Rutherford was a member of the Young Ambassadors she had the opportunity to visit and perform in India. While there, the group spen...
Episode 94: Day of Atonement Symbolism in LDS Discourse with Shon Hopkin
Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. The themes of this day are atonement and repentance, which...
Episode 93: Isaiah 2.0 with Joseph M. Spencer
In this episode of the LDS Perspectives podcast, Laura Harris Hales discusses tips for understanding Isaiah in the Old Testament with Joseph M. Spence...
Episode 92: Intertextuality in the Book of Mormon with Nick Frederick
In this episode of the LDS Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales interviews scholar Nicholas (Nick) J. Frederick about New Testament intertextualit...
Episode 91: Part 2: W. W. Phelps and Early Mormonism with Bruce Van Orden
Part 2 of Laura Harris Hales' interview of Bruce A. Van Orden about the life and work of W. W. Phelps, a unique witness to the events of the early Chu...