Did Joseph Smith Speak in Tongues? - John Turner Pt. 12 | Ep. 2053
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
We are back with Chapter Twelve of John Turner’s new book “Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet.” Today we are covering Chapter Twelve which is titled: “Olive Leaves” that covers the years 1832-1833 in Kirtland, Ohio.
We tackle topics like the excommunication of Jesse Gause, one of the first General Authorities and other conflicts between the Mormon leaders.
We also answer questions like...
-Was the idea of the different priesthoods original to Joseph Smith?
-Did Joseph Smith speak in tongues?
-Did Joseph Smith actually predict the Civil War?
-Is the School of the Prophets unique and where did the Solemn Assembly come from?
You won’t want to miss this important installment of the Joseph Smith Podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | Did Joseph Smith, the prophet of the Mormon Church, speak in tongues? |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast, Joseph Smith edition. |
| 0:10.2 | I am your host, John DeLynn. |
| 0:12.0 | It is Wednesday, August 13th, 2025. |
| 0:15.8 | And today you are joining us for part 12 in our series on Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ |
| 0:23.4 | of Lattery Saints, and we are using as our text as our curriculum for the first 30 episodes |
| 0:32.5 | or 31 episodes of this podcast, Joseph Smith, The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet by John G. Turner, |
| 0:39.9 | this series is best consumed in sequence. So you don't want to start at 12. You want to start at |
| 0:45.5 | one. So if you have not watched the previous 11 episodes, pause this, go back and watch them. |
| 0:51.1 | You can check them out on the Mormon Stories feed on Spotify, on iTunes. You can check them out on the morma stories feed on spotify on itunes you can check |
| 0:57.1 | them out in the morma stories feed on youtube there's also a joseph smith podcast playlist under the morma |
| 1:02.8 | stories channel on youtube and there's even a dedicated spotify podcast called the joseph smith podcast |
| 1:08.6 | which we're releasing these episodes in so many different |
| 1:11.3 | ways because we want you to learn all you can about Joseph Smith. Our goal in this series |
| 1:15.8 | is to talk about Joseph Smith in the most academic, non-polemic, non-hageographic. What's that |
| 1:25.3 | word, John Turner? Haggiographic. |
| 1:29.1 | Non-hagiographic way possible. |
| 1:31.7 | We want to just call balls and strikes, be good historians, and learn about what the documents |
| 1:38.0 | say, the historical documents say about the life of Joseph Smith. |
| 1:42.0 | Please buy this book, make it a New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:46.0 | You can buy it a benchmark books, which is our favorite bookstore, one of our favorite |
| 1:50.0 | bookstores here in Utah. |
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