Episode 8: The Spirit of Sacred Sites (Craig Ostler)

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

You may or may not be able to visit foundational Church history sites like the Sacred Grove or Nauvoo, but thanks to Professor Craig Ostler and others at BYU you can go on a professionally guided video tour. For the last 20 years Dr. Ostler has worked to produce a series of 100 peer-reviewed videos of Church History locations called Hallowed Ground and Sacred Journeys. In this episode, get ready to go on an auditory Church history tour as Dr. Ostler gives insights from places like Palmyra, Mendon, Kirtland, Nauvoo, and Salt Lake City. What he shares helps us understand why there is power in experiencing the spirit of sacred sites.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Why Religion Podcast Friends, this is Professor Anthony Sweat from BYU.
0:04.6	Great to be with you again as always. As we produce these episodes and prepare to release them
0:10.3	were fast approaching summertime.
0:13.0	Normally most of us would be making travel plans to go on family vacations and visit some great places and probably spend $10 for an overpriced slice of pizza at some theme park.
0:25.0	But because of COVID-19, we don't really know how this summer is going to go, do we?
0:30.0	With the coronavirus keeping most of the country currently quarantined and gathering restrictions in place in many places,
0:37.0	we thought we would bring you a few podcast episodes to help you
0:43.0	to get to go out and travel again.
0:45.0	So our next two episodes are going to deal with research
0:48.0	publications and productions related to touring Latter-day Saint Church history sites.
0:54.0	This particular episode centers on the Hallowed Ground Sacred Journey's video series,
0:59.0	produced by BYU Religion Professor Craig Osler.
1:02.0	And our next episode, number nine, will be with Bo you religion professor Craig Osler.
1:02.5	And our next episode, number nine,
1:04.5	will be with B.O.
1:05.4	religion professor Scott Esplyn
1:07.6	on his publication on Carthage Jail and Dark Tourism,
1:11.4	or in other words, why we visit sites where tragic events have occurred.
1:16.4	For today's episode, Dr Craig Osler has been working for about 20 years to produce around
1:22.0	a hundred peer-reviewed videos on church history sites with experts explaining
1:26.9	and taking you on a church history video tour, it's called Howl Ground and Sacred Journeys.
1:34.0	And so the purpose of the videos was to take that experience and offer it to people around the world.
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