How prevalent was Joseph Smith’s treasure digging? Where all did Joseph Smith dig for treasures. What do we know about these treasure seeking sites? What… Read More »Mormonism LIVE !: 016: Peek Stones, Sheep’s Bones, and Gold Thrones all on Miner’s Hill
Today we tell a story. This story involves the Seer Stone used for the translation of the Book of Mormon but a story you likely… Read More »Mormon Discussion: 317: Dowsing Rods, Banded Jasper, and Gizzard Stones
This is an audio recording of the presentation “Mormon Discussion Presents: A Dialogue on Gospel Topic Essays”. This was held at the Home of Bill… Read More »Mormon Discussion Presents: An Exploration of the Gospel Topic Essays
To the Orthodox Believer who thinks that outside Joseph Smith’s leg surgery that we know very little. This gets more complex than that. We actually… Read More »228: A Nuanced View to Joseph Smith’s Youth
The Book of Mormon is a fraud you say? Joseph Made it up or stole the ideas from someone else? If only it were that… Read More »211: Fraudulent Narrative of the Book of Mormon
With The Church releasing photos of the Seer Stone it seems to beg the question what really is at the root of our discomfort with… Read More »168: Seer Stones, Folk Magic, and Alvin’s Hand
Critics cite The Church as intentionally creating a simple sanitized view of the Translation of the Book of Mormon. But what really happened? Here is… Read More »058: Seer Stones and Treasure Digging
Steven C Harper until recently was a professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU. He has written several books and has contributed to the… Read More »034: Steven Harper: The First Vision
I sit down with LDS author Brant Gardner to discuss his book “The Gift and Power – Translating the Book of Mormon” and ask him… Read More »031: Brant Gardner: Gift And Power
This much we know – Martin Harris was sent by Joseph Smith to visit the learned in New York with a Transcript in hand. One… Read More »021: Charles Anthon and the Lost 116 pages