Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin. It's November 10th 2022

and we are in episode number 29 of our epic series with Mike from LDS discussions covering Mormon Church Truth claims in as neutral and as

Dispassionate of a tone and as an approach as we possibly can for those of you who are new or just joining us in the

middle of this series, there's this amazing website called LDS discussions calm where you can find a bunch of really important valuable footnoted essays that provide you with the information you need to understand Mormon Church Truth claims.

We are in part six of a six part series within the series on polygamy. So we're in the final episode covering polygamy. We'll be giving you an overview of what you've missed just to kind of summarize.

But today we're doing part six, which is called polygamy apologetics and conclusions and the essay for today's episode can be found at LDS discussions dot com slash polygamy dash final before we actually jump into the content for

day. I just want to remind everybody there's a lot of people who have asked, you know, of course LDS discussions episodes are integrated into the Mormon stories podcast feeds on both Spotify and Apple podcast and on YouTube or wherever you consume your podcasts for Mormon stories, but a lot of you have expressed the desire

either for yourself or for loved ones to be able to watch or listen to all these episodes back to back without all the other Mormon stories episodes integrated in. And so for that purpose, please know we do have a Spotify dedicated podcast feed for LDS discussions that you can search in Spotify and you can listen to or view those episodes in Spotify because Spotify allows video now.

And then if you just want to view the YouTube videos in sequence, you can also do that through the LDS discussions playlist on the Mormon stories podcast YouTube channel and of course that Spotify playlist can also be found in Apple podcast. So that is what we're doing today.

And we're excited to welcome back to our program Mike, who's the author of the LDS discussions that says, hey, Mike.

Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us. It's good to be back. Finish up on polygamy. Are you done with polygamy or are you excited for to get one more crack at it? Which one is it?

I guess both. I mean, it's such an important topic. So you want to make sure you cover it in a good way. And this just doing these six episodes with you makes me understand why Lindsey Hansen Park has over 100 because it really we're we're not getting into the weeds like you'll see with like, your polygamy. And it's just it's such a.

It's just a messy topic and it's really important to understand the history behind it, especially today against the way it's framed in the way we were all taught that polygamy was so I'm not necessarily I mean, I'm I think we'll be I think everybody listening to these episodes will probably be good to get a break from it after this episode.

But at the same time, I feel like it's important to give it the the six episode treatment to make sure that we cover as much ground as we can and to make sure we're giving fair coverage to what the church says as well.

And I've been getting amazing feedback on this entire series and the the mini series of polygamy and on that note, we are so thrilled to have back an LDS discussions superstar Alistra.

I'm so excited to be here. I really appreciate being able to come on and give my commentary. I'm really just still such a learner in this department, but I love this topic. It continues to fascinate me.

Polygamy is one of those things that I feel like has my lens has changed since I've gotten older. I'm a lifelong member, seventh generation Mormon, as I've mentioned before.

And I don't know if it's just parenting having young adults and teenagers of my own. I don't know my lens for the history of Mormon polygamy has really changed.

And so I'm I just it continues to fascinate me even after deconstructing my faith. And I'm just so impressed with the work that Mike has done here. So anyway, thank you for having me.

I'm excited to take part in the conversation today. Learn a little more.

Yeah, and it's our pleasure. And look from the comments, Alicia, people are loving your feedback. So we're really hoping to get you back for other episodes of Mormon stories and and for all the discussions as well.

I appreciate that. I adore this community. I just have such a passion for connecting with this community. I just love it so much. So thanks, John.

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