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The First Vision: Joseph Smith—History 1:1–26

The Lord's Preface - Doctrine & Covenants 1

The Restoration - Intro to the Doctrine & Covenants

Temple Q&R with Dr. Richard Bennett

Temple Garments and Temple Changes in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Temple Work Without Temples

The Second Anointing, The Law of Adoption, & Non-Temple Prayer Circles

Marriage Sealings: A High Fusion of Theology + Ritual

An Interview with an LDS Freemason

The Origins of the Temple Endowment

Q&R! What About Others Who Claimed Similar Visions in Joseph Smith’s Day? Etc.

How Do 2nd and 3rd Hand Accounts Add to Our Understanding of the First Vision?​

How Did Orson Pratt Influence Joseph Smith’s 1842 First Vision Narrative?

What's Unique About Joseph Smith's 1835 and 1838 Accounts of His First Vision?​

Why Are There Different Accounts of the First Vision?

Joseph Smith's First Vision

Q&R! Tackling Tough Book of Mormon Translation Questions

What is the Best External Evidence for the Book of Mormon?

If Not a Supernatural Translation, Then What? Examining the Other BM Translation Theories

Translating the Book of Mormon with Stones in a Hat?

Joseph Smith's Creative Efforts to Outsource the Book of Mormon Translation​

Joseph Smith's “Second Vision” and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon​

The Book of Mormon Comes Forth

Q&R! Tough Polygamy Questions with Dr. Brian Hales!​

The Rocky End to Plural Marriage in the Church​

Plural Marriage Troubles (part 2): Emma’s Fury and Joseph’s Martyrdom​

Plural Marriage Troubles (part 1): John C. Bennett, Hyrum Smith, & Emma​

Joseph Smith’s Trial and Error Approach to Plural Marriage

Why Did Plural Marriage Begin in the Church?​

Joseph Smith's Plural Marriage

Q&R! Tough Questions with Paul Reeve

The 1978 Revelation of Reversion and Repair

Was the Racial Ban Church Policy or Doctrine? Setting the Stage for a Revelation (from 1908-1978)

How the Priesthood-Temple Ban Became Fully Entrenched Policy in the Church

1852 and The Beginnings of the Priesthood-Temple Ban in the Church

Joseph Smith and Black Africans

The Racist American Context the Church was Born Into

Race, Priesthood, and Temple

Q&R with Dr. Kerry Muhlestein! Tough Book of Abraham Questions

Beyond Book of Abraham Controversies

The Abraham Facsimile Conundrum: Is it All or Nothing?

The Book of Abraham: Origins and Controversies

How Has Canonizing/De-Canonizing Happened in the Doctrine & Covenants?

Exploring the Divine-Human Partnership in Scripture Creation | Featuring the D&C

Q&R! Tough JST Questions with Kent Jackson

Did Joseph Smith Plagiarize Part of the JST?

The JST as Revelatory Springboard?

What Do We ACTUALLY Know About the JST?

Revelations and Translations

Seekers Wanted: Interview with Dr. Anthony Sweat

Real vs. Rumor: An Interview with Dr. Keith Erekson

Why Evidence-Based Faith Matters

Why Contextualizing Facts Matters So Much

Why Mental Flexibility is So Crucial for Durable Discipleship

Are Criticisms of the Book of Mormon Witnesses Defensible?

Learning to Think Like a Historian

Workshopping the Three Lenses

How Do We Become Doctrinally Confident?

What Do You Know? And How Do You Know It?

Good Thinking

Q&R w/Prof. Aaron Miller - Modern Money Controversies

Early Church Finance Q&R! w/Drs. Elizabeth Kuehn & Jeffrey Mahas

Modern Church Financial Controversies

Zion-Building Through Poverty Elimination

Consecration in Nauvoo & Utah

Did Tithing Replace Consecration?

Are Church “For-Profit” Businesses Okay?

Consecration and the Beginning of Church Finances

Consecration and Church Finance

Restoration of “the Priesthood” Through Temple Ordinances?

The Kirtland Endowment: What it Was and Why it Matters

The Beginnings of LDS Temple Worship

Temple Worship

Church History Matters: Come Follow Me

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<p>The Church History Matters Podcast features in-depth conversations between Scott and Casey inviting you to dive deeper into both the challenges and beauty of Latter-day Saint Church History</p>
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Church History Matters