Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard

Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life

and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide

context for events of the past. They approach the

history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.

Hi, welcome to another episode of 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 episode, we're going to talk about the sermon on the Mount and Joseph's thoughts and comments on that.

But before we do, we have a couple of emails that we're going to get to. This comes to us. He gave us our name, he gave us his name, but we're going to just say

anonymous, just to provide an additional layer of protection. Should we give like a letter that his first

name starts with? R. So like Richard. Did you send this email?

I said this email.

Dear Dr. Durkman, Professor LaDucke, why don't you talk more about Richard's research

and what he's doing at the University of Utah and imply...

Are you sure you didn't write this?

Yeah, no.

All right.

Here we go.

Dr. Dirkmont, Professor LaDuke, I've been a listener from the beginning. I was captivated from the first episode where you shared a story where you were a visitor

in the audience of a Fast and Testimony meeting and got the meeting back on track after

Antis tried to take it over.

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