Hello, wire religion friends, Professor Anthony Sweat here from B.O.E.'s Department of

Church History and Doctrine. Welcome to another great episode of the wire religion podcast.

I want to kick off this episode with a little bit of a thought experiment with you.

If I say the name, Samuel the Lamanite. What pops into your mind?

Likely the first thought that you have is actually an image of Samuel, probably high up on

a massive stone wall, arms spread wide with his red cape flying in the wind, almost like a

superhero while dozens of archers from point blank rage take aim and divinely miss him.

Am I right? Well, we can think the great artist Arnold Freeberg for that epic painting that's

published in the front of missionary copies of the Book of Mormon to help us remember the story

of Samuel the Lamanite. But that's the problem. The problem is we only remember the story.

We don't remember Samuel the Lamanite's prophecies and his teachings.

Ironically, today we are a little bit like the Nephites who were rebuked by Jesus

when he came to minister to them in third Nephi, and he asked them why they had not written the

prophecies of Samuel the Lamanite about the resurrection. The scripture says this, quote,

and it came to pass that Nephi remembered that this thing had not been written,

and it came to pass that Jesus commanded that it should be written. End of quote.

Ryan Sharpe, one of our why religion team members and a frequent interviewer,

has recently published a chapter on remembering the contributions of Samuel the Lamanite

beyond his dramatic story on the wall. What would we lose if we did not have the story and the

teachings from Samuel the Lamanite? What would we lose? And so my chapter looks at it from

a historical perspective, from a prophetic perspective, and then from a doctrinal perspective,

what are these contributions from Sam of the Lamanite? In today's episode, we are going to remember

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