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This is Radio Free Mormon.

On the air, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

Tonight's episode, Church Historian on the Hot Seat.

As most of you know, back on April 25, 2023, the church historian, Kyle McKay went to Brigham Young University, Idaho,

where he gave an address to help shore up the faith of the students attending that institution.

That address was so remarkable I devoted an entire episode to breaking it down.

That episode was titled, Compelling Reasons to Doubt

Mormonism, mainly because Elder McKay admitted in his talk that there were, in fact,

compelling reasons to doubt Mormonism. What I did not know at the time was that the prior

Saturday, the Saturday before he gave this talk at BYU, Idaho, Kyle McKay went to the home

of a former seminary teacher named Joe. Now, I'm not including Joe's last name here at his request

and out of respect for his privacy. But Joe was a seminary teacher in Idaho for 14 years. He was very popular as a seminary

teacher, but things happened around 10 years ago that caused him to doubt his faith, and he stopped

being a seminary teacher at that time. At some point, he stopped going to church, as did his wife and their children.

Now, making the plot thicker is that Joe's father-in-law is the stake president. Yes, his wife's dad

is the state president, and this is how it happened, that the church historian was able to end up

coming into Joe's home. It was facilitated by his father-in-law,

the state president who had special access to Elder McKay and was able to carve out an hour

and a half on a Saturday to drop by Joe's house with the idea in mind, of course, that the church

historian would be able to answer

the questions that Joe had about church history. Well, in spite of the fact that that was almost

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