155 - Was Zions Camp a Success or Failure? With Matt Godfrey - E38C September 15-21

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

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Welcome to Church History Matters Come Follow Me Edition where we are systematically diving into every section of the Doctrine and Covenants throughout the year 2025! In this episode Scott and Casey cover Voices of the Restoration with Matt Godfrey, while covering the context, content, controversies and consequences of this important history.

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0:00.0	Let's get to the hardest question, I think, in my mind.
0:02.9	Was Zion's camp a failure, or was it a success?
0:06.8	The vast majority of people who left accounts of their time on Zion's camp did not see
0:13.2	Zion's camp as a failure.
0:14.7	And they didn't focus on this notion of, did we get the lands back or not.
0:20.5	They focused instead on what did i learn from
0:24.5	this expedition a lot of it is what they chose to gain from the experience maybe my expectation was
0:30.8	wrong and the lord's definition of success was different from how i was defining it. Hello, Casey. Hello, Scott.
0:38.3	Welcome to our special edition. What do we call these?
0:41.3	The Voices of the Restoration.
0:43.3	Voices of the Restoration.
0:44.3	And it feels like we've had kind of a drought.
0:46.3	We haven't done one since Section 76.
0:49.3	There's a lot coming up with the Curtland Temple and Navu and a bunch of important topics. And we are
0:56.6	fortunate today to have here with us probably the, well, one of the leading experts for sure on
1:02.7	Zion's camp, Matthew Godfrey. So say hi, Matt. Hello. It's great to be here. Happy, happy to
1:09.5	be with you and excited to talk a little bit about Zion's camp today.
1:13.4	You and I were talking, but if you Google Zion's Camp, your name comes up quite a bit.
1:18.7	You've done articles and chapters. And there's even a book. The book is called Zion's Camp.
1:24.8	Yeah, Zion's Camp March of Faith.
1:27.1	And you were the general editor. You
1:28.7	wrote a lot of the material in the book, but who were some of the other contributors?
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