Joseph Smith's School of the Prophets - John Turner pt. 13 | Ep. 2056

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode with Dr. John Turner as we cover his new book “Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet.” Today we are covering chapter thirteen titled “Zion is Fled” that covers 1833-1834 in Kirtland, Ohio.

We answer important questions like: What is the importance of scriptures and what does that mean for this religious movement? Is Joseph Smith credible as a prophet, seer, and revelator? Even the Mormon church today is calling the Book of Mormon a “revelation” not a translation. Is the Book of Mormon a work of genius or is it from God?

We also cover topics such as the School of the Prophets, how the Word of Wisdom came to be and Joseph Smith’s vision of the grand Zion Community in Independence, Missouri.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast,
0:03.4	Joseph Smith Podcast Edition.
0:05.4	I'm your host, John DeLinn.
0:06.8	It's August 22, 2025.
0:09.6	And today we are on part 13 of our multi-part series on Joseph Smith, beginning with this book,
0:18.9	Joseph Smith, The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet by Professor
0:23.8	John G. Turner.
0:25.7	So just really quickly, I have some really good news.
0:28.4	We're 13 episodes in, and we've been trying to raise sufficient funds to be able to fund
0:34.5	my time and John's time all the way through this series and also the production
0:39.2	work that that happens behind the scenes and I have really good news. The good news is, is that
0:44.7	thanks to one very large, generous donor, I think we're fully funded through the end of this book,
0:51.7	which is, I guess, the epilogue, which is, I guess, technically 32 episodes.
0:56.6	So we're funded. So thank you to that one very generous donor that made this possible.
1:02.0	In addition to thank you to all the donors who have independently contributed to make this
1:07.3	possible. Now, I talked to John about this. We are still welcoming your donations,
1:12.8	number one, because the truth is this isn't fully funded. We have production costs behind the scenes
1:17.9	that the OSF is just up until now funding ourselves. So anyway, and also there's possible
1:25.3	future episodes that John and I might consider doing beyond the 32 episodes, depending on his availability and demand and interest and other sorts of things.
1:37.3	So if you want to continue supporting this collaboration, we welcome it.
1:42.4	You just go to donorbox.org slash Joseph Smith.
1:45.9	And John and I will figure out what other mischief we can be engaged in.
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