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Faith Seeking Understanding: Over 40 years of Mormon scholarship, narratives, and thought from some of Mormonism's brightest minds.

  1. 28 May

    E120: What’s in the Sacred Sauce?

    What do Latter-day Saints mean when they say temples are sacred? Intrepid reporter Stephen Carter braves three tours of the Lindon Temple to find out. (Hint: It’s definitely not the symbolism.)

    33 min

  2. 8 May

    Episode 164: Mormon Mail and the Pony Express

    Before texts, tracking numbers, and two-day shipping, a letter could take months to cross the continent, assuming it arrived at all. In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan saddle up for the tangled story of Mormons, mail, freighting, and power in the American West, from Brigham Young’s ambitious Y.X. Company and the political chaos of the …

    1hr 7min

  3. 22 Apr

    Episode 163: The Old Salt Lake Theatre

    While Eastern theaters staged plays depicting Mormons as bloodthirsty polygamists, Brigham Young was building a Drury Lane replica in the Utah desert. It would go on to host Oscar Wilde, the Barrymore family across four generations, and Brigham Young’s own son performing in drag to packed houses. It was the most ambitious act of cultural …

  4. 2 Apr

    Episode 162: Madam Pattirini Built Utah

    What do Brigham Young’s flamboyant son, a legendary local gin, the University of Utah, the Huntsman Center, and a web of Mormon architecture all have in common? In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan follow one gloriously weird thread through Utah history, from Madam Pattirini, the stage persona of Brigham Morris Young, to the family empire …

  5. 18 Mar

    Episode 161: Brave Little Book of Mormon

    What happens when the Book of Mormon slips into the public domain and someone entirely outside the faith decides to publish it? In this episode of the Sunstone Mormon History Podcast, Lindsay and Bryan trace the strange journey of an 1858 “unauthorized” edition, a scrappy little volume caught between evolving copyright law, religious rivalry, and …

  6. 6 Mar

    Episode 160: The Heber J. Grant Journals—Fruits of a New Policy

    Lindsay and Bryan are back in video form — and they’ve got a lot to talk about. The Church History Library just dropped a remarkable new digital resource: the Heber J. Grant journals, spanning more than sixty years of Mormon history and now available to casual readers and serious researchers alike. But the journals themselves …

  7. 23 Feb

    E209: From Villains to Heroes: Mormons in Italy’s “Tex” Comics

    Polygamists, Danites, and guns! The Italian cowboy hero Tex has met with them all over the course of more than 75 years of comic book stories. But the portrayal of Mormons in the series has changed significantly, as presented by Michael Homer in this episode.

  8. 11 Feb

    Episode 159: Books of the Massacre

    A long overdue Books of Mormons Report, and we’re making it an episode. Lindsay and Bryan trace how the Mountain Meadows Massacre got written about, argued over, buried, resurrected, and fought over again, from Judge John Cradlebaugh and Major James Carleton’s early investigations, to decades of institutional silence and PR cleanup, to Juanita Brooks’ landmark …

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Faith Seeking Understanding: Over 40 years of Mormon scholarship, narratives, and thought from some of Mormonism's brightest minds.

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  • Creator
    Sunstone Magazine
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    250
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2016 Sunstone Magazine
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