1052: Dan Vogel - Preeminent Joseph Smith Historian Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Dan Vogel is a sixth-generation Mormon most well known for his biography, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet—the product of decades of research into the life of Joseph Smith. In these Mormon Stories interviews, we are excited to delve into Dan’s own personal Mormon background and to begin to understand the motivations behind his ground-breaking work into the life of Joseph Smith.
What motivated Dan to deeply study the Smith family’s spiritual dynamics and financial circumstances, as well as Joseph’s history of learning to create an environment for belief through his treasure seeking activities?
With these 3 episodes, we hope to set the stage to delve deeper into Dan’s studies on Joseph Smith’s treasure digging and the creation of the Book of Mormon.
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| 0:35.7 | Okay so um get home from your mission and then tell us about what how your faith trajectory went and |
| 0:56.3 | what led to you kind of becoming a historian. So I got home too late to start a college and I wouldn't |
| 1:10.5 | have started college if it weren't for the church. You know the church wants you to be educated and |
| 1:16.9 | you know my family certainly you know didn't emphasize education. They were smart clever people but |
| 1:26.5 | they didn't excel in school. Both of my parents dropped out of high school really. |
| 1:35.6 | My sister never completed high school. I think she got her GED eventually and my brother and I |
| 1:42.3 | completed high school. So but I delayed it because I got home too late and |
| 1:51.2 | the next summer my friend and I, Randy, Moon, we hopped in the car and drove to Salt Lake because we |
| 2:04.6 | wanted to you know connect up with some of our old missionary companions but while we were there |
| 2:12.3 | I decided oh let's go find the tenors. Where's that uh you know ballpark? |
| 2:21.3 | So I drove around Salt Lake going where's that ballpark and people would go down here, make a |
| 2:28.8 | left. So I found the ballpark and then I drove around the ballpark until I saw the sign on the |
| 2:36.1 | that ribbon cutper mentioned there was a sign modern microfilm company you know so |
| 2:42.7 | I went in met Sandra I met Sandra Tanner. 76? Yeah well uh 77. Okay 77? Yeah all right 77. I met Sandra |
| 2:56.9 | in her little house in the front room of her house and her books and I went around and I talked |
| 3:05.3 | to her probably a noiter with my true believer you know position and I bought some of their stuff |
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