Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host for today, John Delin. It is February 28,

2024, last day of February, and we are here today to what I think we're going to be doing is

breaking some new historical ground. We're going to be answering the question

did the Book of Mormon inspire Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves and influence his position both on God and America and you know America as allegedly a covenant people, etc.

And of course the reason why we're covering this topic

is because Tim Ballard, the former CEO of Operation Underground Railroad

before he got super famous about Operation on Grand Railroad, he published several books

about American history. One of them, you know, I think the book is called the Lincoln hypothesis.

Yeah, the Lincoln hypothesis.

And you know, he's made a lot of money,

and Deseret book has made a lot of money

sort of selling the idea to Mormons that the book of Mormon is so incredibly awesome and

Joseph Smith is so incredibly awesome that they shaped the future in the history of American

Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. We're going to be bringing on today a face that will be familiar to all of you.

We're bringing back Julia, Julia Sanders.

Hey Julia. Hi back Julia, Julia Sanders. Hey Julia,

Hi, Julia, you're the one I first learned about your research

from your amazing Tik-Tok. I think it's called Analyzing Mormonism, right?? Yeah so like when you had said that

because this book the Lincoln hypothesis was published in 2014 so that was 10 years ago is

has no one else done this type of research just to verify his facts? I'm not aware of

any if somebody has I know that like Ben Park just hates Tim Ballard's history

and is critical of it but I don't know that anybody's ever super fact effective.

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