S4 E1 What and How to Know about the Restoration with Steve Harper
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Join us for extra and fantastic content on our Patreon website each week (TSAR.website). This week Steve Harper talks about different ways to learn from the Restoration material there.
Also, you can get a 15% discount at Seagullbook.com on Church History and D&C products by using the code KERRY2025.
In this episode Steve Harper takes us through how we can know about the Restoration and how to learn about and think through the history and issues of the restoration. He helps us see family and other factors that brought Joseph Smith to the Grove, and how to think about that and understand that. He and Kerry discuss resources and go through little known stories that help us learn about Joseph Smith and those who knew and believed him.
We are grateful for our generous donors, and for Launchpad consulting studios for producing the episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have made them more real to us so that we can draw more power out of them because we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm your host, Carrie Mielstein, |
| 0:26.4 | and I am so happy and excited to have with me. He's a returning guest. He was with us before. |
| 0:31.8 | Dr. Stephen Harper, a dear friend of mine, thank you for being with us. Thank you, Carrie. I appreciate it. |
| 0:36.4 | Just so glad to have you with us. Let me tell the audience a little bit about you. |
| 0:39.5 | Be careful. Don't tell the bad things. |
| 0:42.9 | Well, your wife wrote this script, so we should be okay. |
| 0:51.0 | And you can go back. So Steve was on when we went through Section 109, which is actually the most popular episode we've ever had. I think the Saints were so excited to |
| 0:55.3 | follow the Council of President Nelson and study that that people just jumped in, but it's a |
| 1:01.1 | fantastic episode. So you can get a more full introduction of his academic background there. But I'll |
| 1:05.7 | tell you, first of all, just a really, really good guy. It helped me acclimate when I was going to B.Y. |
| 1:14.1 | Hawaii, and then actually I was hired into the slot he had. I followed him then to BYU. |
| 1:20.0 | But he was taken from BYU for a short while by the church to help write Saints Volume 1. Is that correct? Or did you write |
| 1:28.6 | more or just Saints Volume 1? I worked with a lot of other people on the whole project over time, |
| 1:34.8 | but I came back to BYU and Provo when Volume 1 was published. Okay. I knew that timing. So |
| 1:40.9 | we brought him back, but then he was made the editor of BYU studies and does a fantastic job with that. |
| 1:49.4 | If you're not familiar with BYU studies, you really should. |
| 1:51.7 | It's a journal that has literary things in it, articles, you know, like I've done stuff on the Book of Abraham. |
| 1:58.8 | Other people do things on church history in the Bible. |
| 2:01.6 | Also, just fantastic stuff in there. |
| 2:04.1 | Essays, poems, all sorts of LDS-oriented stuff. |
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