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Mormon Stories Podcast

1804: Legendary Mormon Whistleblowers w/ John Larsen

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Since the beginning of the Church, there have been former members who turn whistle-blower and have written exposés. In this episode we will do a review of the most impactful of these through history.
  1. 1834 Mormonism Unvailed EB HOWE
  2. 1842 The History of the Saints or an Expose of Joe Smtih and Mormonism John C. Bennett
  3. 1844 Nauvoo Expositor William Law et al
  4. 1853 Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith by His Progenitors Lucy Mack Smith
  5. 1855 Female Life Among the Mormons CH Clarke
  6. 1872 Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons Fanny Stenhouse
  7. 1873 The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons TBH Stenhouse
  8. 1876 Wife No 19 By Ann Eliza Young
  9. 1877 Mormonism Unveiled John D Lee
  10. 1904 Brigham's Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah
  11. 1945 No Man Knows my History Fawn Brodie
  12. 1950 The Mountain Meadows Massacre Juanita Brooks
  13. 1963 Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? Jerald and Sandra Tanner
  14. 1985 Studies of the Book of Mormon BH Roberts
  15. 1994, 1997, 2017, The Mormon Hierarchy Series Micheal Quinn
  16. 2002 Insider’s View Grant Palmer
  17. 2005 Rough Stone Rolling Richard Bushman
  18. 2013 CES Letter Jeremy Runnells

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host for today John DeLin. It is August 28th, 2023 and today we have for you another monthly Mormon expression themed episode on Mormon Stories podcast with the one with the only John Larson and my co host for the month.

0:23.0

Carol also known as new on so hey John Larson. Hey, how are you all doing? Amazing. Good. Yeah. All right.

0:35.0

Carol, I think you have a really important announcement. Do you want to give us a preview for that announcement?

0:43.0

Everybody, I decided to just play with the big boys and I started a nonprofit called the new on hug foundation and I'm going to be starting a podcast.

0:53.0

Conjoining with it and so I will talk about it tell you about an event that I'm going to do at the end and when I'm up to so I've been working on this project for three or four months.

1:04.0

Let's try to get it off the ground and would appreciate your support. So I'll talk about it at the end of the day and the date for this event is what so people can put it in the counters right now.

1:13.0

September 9th Saturday, September 9th and in Conwood Heights, right? Yep.

1:19.0

All right. So everybody stay tuned to the end of the episode. Carol's going to tell you all about it. All right, John Larson. How are you doing, brother?

1:28.0

I'm doing well. We're in the middle of the harvest doing a lot of canning. What are you canning?

1:34.0

We've been doing applesauce all weekend and I'm doing some pickles and some tomatillo salsa.

1:42.0

That sounds amazing.

1:45.0

Well, we've got another really quickly. We've got another exciting episode with John Larson. Today we are going to be.

1:53.0

I think we're going to be talking about the whistleblowers and we'll talk a little bit more about what that entails in a minute, but just for those who don't know,

2:00.0

John Larson in the past hosted one of the most important Mormon theme podcasts in the history of Mormonism called Mormon Expression Podcast.

2:08.0

We at the open stories foundation have helped resurrect that podcast so that it's available on Spotify and Apple podcasts and wherever you get your podcasts.

2:18.0

And also we bring John Larson back monthly to do an episode because we value his work so much. So please, please check out Mormon Expression Podcast.

2:27.0

There's a 300 plus episodes of some of the best Mormon themed podcasting content ever and it's great stuff.

2:35.0

And John Larson, anything you want to add to that?

2:37.0

No, thanks for hosting it. I'm glad it's still out there making an impact.

2:41.0

It's been rewarding over the years to hear from people who it helps them to realize that it's not them. They're not the one that's crazy.

2:50.0

And so, yeah, I'm glad it's still tickling people's fancy.

2:54.0

Absolutely. And for those who value John Larson and nuanced on Mormon stories and the Mormon Expression content, you can go to Mormon Stories.

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