1541: Visualizing Joseph Smith and Early Folk Magic - Mark and Erin Elwood
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 184 minutes
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Summary
Mark Elwood is the author and illustrator of a groundbreaking new graphic novel entitled "The Glass Looker: Collected Tales of Joseph Smith."
The Glass Looker follows an ordinary American farm boy named Joseph Smith who discovers he possesses the magical ability for seeing in stones. Learn the origin story of the American boy-prophet through illustrated accounts collected from Joseph, his family, neighbors and enemies. The Glass Looker illustrates the myths and legends surrounding the rise of Joseph Smith from a teen-aged treasure seer to the man who would become a prophet of God.
Join Mark, along with his partner Erin, for an illustrated historical adventure.
To order the novel, click here: https://theglasslooker.com/product/volume1/
To support Mark and Erin's ongoing work (future volumes in the works!, click here: https://theglasslooker.com/support/
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Show Notes:
- The Glass Looker: Collected Tales of Joseph Smith Vol. 1 by Mark Elwood
- Become of Patron of The Glass Looker
- Brigham Young's Journal of Discourses
- Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet by John G. Turner
- Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic by Adam Jortner
- “The Locations of Joseph Smith’s Early Treasure Quests," by Dan Vogel, Dialogue, 1994
- "Raiders of the Lost Mormon Cave," Gospel Tangents, July 4, 2021
- "Discovering Joseph Smith's Cave in Miner's Hill, Manchester, New York," by KC Kern
- Zion by Eli Brady
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel
- Mormon Doctrine vs. Science with Dr. Simon Southerton
- The Sacred Curse: How Native American DNA Exposes Mormonism's Lamanite Myth by Simon G. Southerton
- Thrive St. George and other upcoming events
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm your host, Dr. John Delin. |
| 0:05.8 | It's February 4th, 2022 and we are so excited for today's episode. |
| 0:12.4 | We have a double header. |
| 0:13.8 | We're doing two episodes today. |
| 0:15.5 | One later with Dr. Simon Sutherton about the creation. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm excited to announce that I will just say next weekend as a brief 10 second announcement |
| 0:23.0 | next weekend, there will be thrive St. George. |
| 0:25.6 | So if any of you want to hang out with Natasha Helfer and David Bockeboy and myself and |
| 0:30.7 | Jesse Funk and many other super cool people who are dedicated to healing and growth within |
| 0:36.3 | the post Mormon community, go to thrive beyond religion.com and you can register for thrive |
| 0:41.1 | St. George next weekend, which will be February, I guess 11th, 12th and 13th, maybe even Bill |
| 0:47.0 | Real will make a special appearance. |
| 0:48.9 | All right, without any further ado, I am so thrilled to be covering this amazing book |
| 0:54.3 | today on Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:56.4 | The book is called the Glass Looker collected tales of Joseph Smith illustrated by Mark |
| 1:02.7 | L. Wood. |
| 1:03.7 | It's a graphic novel. |
| 1:05.2 | The back part of the book says the glass liquor follows an ordinary American foreign boy |
| 1:09.0 | named Joseph Smith who discovers he possesses the magical ability for seeing in stones. |
| 1:13.9 | The glass liquor delivers the origin story of the American boy prophet through the larger |
| 1:19.2 | than life accounts of Joseph, his family neighbors and enemies and if you just thumb through |
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