Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast, Joseph Smith Edition.

I am your host, John DeLinn. It's June 25, 2025, and today you are joining us for part

six of our opening series in this Joseph Smith podcast. And we are covering this new book

published by Yale University Press called

Joseph Smith, The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet. And we have back on our show for

the sixth time Dr. John Turner from, is it George, I keep forgetting, George Mason University, is that right?

You got it, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Yeah.

All right.

And for those who might be joining us without having had the benefit of the previous five episodes,

this series is best consumed in sequence. We've already talked about Joseph Smith's

family of origin, Joseph Smith's First Vision, Joseph Smith in the Golden Plates, Joseph Smith

in the translation of the Book of Mormon. And then we've talked about the three witnesses.

We've talked about Martin Harris and the last 116 pages in Lucy Harris.

And we've talked about the eight witnesses and general Book of Mormon witness credibility.

And that's kind of one through five of this book.

And today we're going to be covering chapter six,

which is the 1829 period.

And in the book, the chapter's called a choice seer.

And it's just talking about,

I would say part of it's talking about

Book of Mormon historicity,

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