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🗓️ 8 March 2023
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The interview discusses the tensions between Mormon historians and church leadership in the 1970s, focusing on the publication of a pamphlet responding to a critical book by the Tanners. Initially rejected by Mormon leadership for publishing due to their discomfort with the real history revealed in it, the pamphlet is instead published privately under the pseudonym, A Latter-day Saint Historian, or, as the Tanners dubbed him, "Mr. Clandestine."
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories Podcast. |
0:03.8 | I am your host for today, John Delin. |
0:05.7 | It's March 3rd, 2023. |
0:09.0 | And I am over the moon. |
0:10.6 | I say that every time, but this time I mean it extra, especially. |
0:14.2 | I'm over the moon excited about today's panel in studio discussion. |
0:21.7 | Today we are featuring something that was, you know, I don't pretend to be like a Mormon |
0:28.6 | historian, but I have been reading, you know, Mormon scholarship and Mormon studies for |
0:33.1 | 20 plus years. |
0:34.8 | And it's not often that I stumble on something that not only I'd never heard before, but |
0:39.2 | is super fascinating. |
0:40.9 | And for those of you who rule, remember in the past few months, I did an interview about |
0:46.8 | this book, Lighthouse Gerald and Sandra Tanner despised and beloved critics of Mormonism |
0:52.7 | by Ronald Huggins. |
0:54.5 | And we covered this amazing book by Sandra Tanner, published by Signature Books. |
1:00.2 | And there was a section in the book that talked about Dr. Klandestine. |
1:06.4 | And I don't want to give necessarily any of this away until we bring our panelists on, |
1:10.2 | but just to give a tiny bit of a primer, we all know that one of probably the crowning, |
1:15.4 | I don't know, Sandra, if you would agree that this is one of your crowning achievements. |
1:18.8 | Yeah, probably. |
1:19.8 | But this book, Mormonism, Shadow Reality, is some shoulders that we all probably stand |
1:24.6 | upon in one way or another. |
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