814: Wealth and Corporate Power - D. Michael Quinn Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
These episodes of Mormon Stories include a recording of our live interview on 10/23/17 with renowned author, Dr. D. Michael Quinn, author of the final volume of the “Mormon Hierarchy” trilogy. In his newest book, Wealth & Corporate Power, Michael provides a comprehensive look into how the LDS Church acquired wealth from the early days of the church until the 21st century.
We cover in detail:
- How Michael was persuaded to expand the project from an appendix, to a full-fledged book
- Michael’s meticulous methods in gathering and remembering information
- His thoughts on the ethics of receiving “leaked” information, and whether he uses such information in his work
- His observations in the changes of church financial strategy and salaries throughout the decades of church leadership
- His views of the contemporary Mormon Church
…and so much more
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| 0:38.0 | We're back with Michael Quinn for part three of our interview. |
| 0:42.0 | As we've been discussing the Mormon hierarchy, wealth and corporate power, we've done our best to dig into some of the details. |
| 0:50.0 | Some of the details, but obviously we're not going to cover enough. So definitely check out, purchase this book, published by Signature Books, to dig into the wonderful wealth of information that Michael shared with us about that book. |
| 1:03.0 | I thought that we'd end to our last segment and just kind of talk about Michael where he is now and maybe some of his views on the contemporary church. |
| 1:13.0 | So I've just got like 20 questions and we can just rifle through them. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay, that's all right. |
| 1:19.0 | Sure. |
| 1:20.0 | So recently the church released the council 50 minutes. |
| 1:28.0 | Was there anything new or interesting there? |
| 1:31.0 | Well, I guess at all I read the footnows was to see if they quoted me and what other sources they quoted and I actually did not even read one page of the text or those. |
| 1:42.0 | Those minutes. |
| 1:43.0 | Not curious? |
| 1:44.0 | Well, it's not that I'm not curious. |
| 1:46.0 | It's that I, you know, I just don't read what I don't need to read for writing what I ran into right and there was nothing that I expected about finance and there that was significant from my book. |
| 1:57.0 | And that's when it came out. |
| 1:58.0 | It came out while I was still working on this book, putting on finishing touches. |
| 2:05.0 | So I can't comment about those revelations other than what I've heard their, their editors say about them. |
| 2:17.0 | And it's what I expected. |
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