Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions, manifestations,

and miracles.

Hi, welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard Leduc.

Hello, Garrett.

In this week's podcast, we're going to talk about some of the uncannonized revelations from the prophet Joseph Smith.

Before we do, we love receiving emails from listeners to the podcast.

And so I wanted to read one message that we received.

I thought this was very good.

Now, this is going to be coming.

As you know, we had Zion part one through 38.

We interrupted it with two episodes on the banner of heaven.

And so this is referencing that even though this podcast now is coming after the 38 part.

Yeah, at this point, I thought, people are wondering what podcast they turned into.

That's right.

That's right.

So here's the message.

This is from a listener, Eric.

I had hoped your podcast episode titled Under the Banner of Heaven would be you simply reading word for word from the prize-winning book.

Imagine my disappointment when instead we got an hour of the compromise of 1850 and bleeding Kansas.

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