Family Feud & Scandal in Early Mormonism - John Turner pt. 18 | Ep. 2072
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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šļø 17 October 2025
ā±ļø 74 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Part 18 of our Joseph Smith Podcast series, where we continue our in-depth exploration of Dr. John Turnerās groundbreaking biography, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet.
In this episode, we dive into parts of Chapter 16 and 17 ātwo of the most dramatic and revealing sections yet. We cover the explosive sibling feud between Joseph Smith and his brother William, explore the first child abuse scandal in 1835, and trace Josephās evolving leadership and spiritual promises as the Restoration movement matures.
From the aftermath of Zionās Camp and early church discipline to visions of divine power and the early roots of temple ritual, these chapters reveal a prophet under pressure āand a family and faith community in turmoil. This is an episode you wonāt want to miss!
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To support this series please donate ā hereā . One half of all donations will go to Dr. Turner for as long as he is participating in the series.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast, Joseph Smith Edition. |
| 0:05.3 | I am your host, John Dillen. It's October 14th, 2025. And today, we are in part 18 of our series with the |
| 0:15.7 | Professor John Turner. We are covering his amazing book, Joseph Smith, The Rise and Fall of an American |
| 0:23.2 | Prophet. I told John last episode, I am now officially converted to this being the single |
| 0:30.2 | best biography on Joseph Smith that I know of that I would recommend. I would recommend this book |
| 0:36.9 | over Fawn Brody's No Man Knows My History, which is something |
| 0:40.4 | that I never thought I would ever say. |
| 0:43.3 | But I'm now officially there. |
| 0:45.3 | John Turner, welcome back to our podcast. |
| 0:48.6 | Please forgive my effusive praise. |
| 0:51.6 | You are totally forgiven. |
| 0:52.9 | May you go out and convert others. Amen. Okay. So we covered last |
| 1:00.4 | week, the book of Abraham. I do want to remind everybody, this is a multi-part series, which is inferred |
| 1:07.2 | when I say part 28, part 18. But we do recommend that y'all go back and watch the first 17 episodes. |
| 1:13.6 | We think you'll get a lot more out of it. |
| 1:16.6 | You can see it in, there's a Mormon Stories podcast feed on YouTube called the Joseph Smith |
| 1:22.6 | podcast on the Mormon Stories YouTube channel where you can watch it. You can get it integrated into the |
| 1:29.8 | Mormon Stories feed on YouTube and on Spotify. And we've even made a dedicated Spotify or |
| 1:36.6 | Apple podcast channel if you want to consume it there. We want to thank everyone who has donated |
| 1:43.2 | to make Mormon stories possible |
| 1:45.5 | and this series possible. I will ask everybody if you value this series, if you value |
| 1:52.7 | having John Turner on the podcast and you want to see it continue, you are all welcome to |
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