1074: Joseph Smith's Involvement in Folk Magic and Treasure Digging
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
As part of the Mormon Stories "Truth Claims" initiative, today I will be reading the essay on Joseph Smith's involvement in Folk Magic and Treasure digging.
This is the first of several essays we will be releasing, with an accompanying billboard and series of interviews with historians.
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| 0:41.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm your host John D'Alene. |
| 1:00.8 | It's February 15th, 2019 and I am very excited to be bringing to you today's episode of |
| 1:09.0 | Mormon Stories podcast and to be doing something new and exciting. |
| 1:13.6 | For those of you who have been following Mormon Stories podcast over the past couple months, |
| 1:16.8 | you'll know that we have launched a new Truth Claims initiative where we are slowly adding |
| 1:23.2 | essays to the Mormon Stories.org website. |
| 1:26.0 | You can find them at Mormon Stories.org slash Truth Dash Claims and it's a series of, |
| 1:32.2 | you know, ultimately a couple dozen essays involving various truth claims issues that the |
| 1:38.0 | church, you know, makes. |
| 1:41.4 | And the idea is each month we will release a new essay and an accompanying billboard along |
| 1:48.9 | I-15 that leads people to the essay and then release within that month several episodes |
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