S4 E13 Being Elect (D&C 25)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

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Kerry's Book "The Easter Connection" is now available as an audiobook on the Deseret Book Bookshelf. Check it out at Deseretbook.com, and let Kerry help you gain a new appreciation for Easter.

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In this episode Kerry and Mary Jane Woodger discuss the background to the revelation given to Emma Smith. They talk about what she was like, what life was like for her at this time, and what God has to say about her. They also talk about her being elect and the things God asked her to do. They help us apply it to both men and women today. Did you know you can donate to The Scriptures Are Real from a donor advised fund or any other way you would like? Email us at TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.com and we will tell you how.

We are grateful for our generous donors and sponsors, including B. Fisher, our executive producer. We are also grateful for Launchpad Consulting Studios for producing the podcast, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

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0:00.0	President Nelson said, tune in.
0:02.3	There you go.
0:03.0	This is for you.
0:04.7	Hello, and welcome to the scriptures, a real podcast.
0:17.7	This is the podcast where we talk about things in the scriptures that make them more real to us. If we that helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get. I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so happy to have with me with a friend and colleague, Mary Jane Woodger. Thanks for being with us. Oh, my pleasure. Yeah, Mary Jane teaches in the same college I teach in at religious education.
0:38.3	She teaches in the Department of Church History and Doctrine and has been teaching there for a long time.
0:43.7	She has been studying church history for a while, has a long time, and has been published, I think, over 20 books.
0:51.5	Yes.
0:51.9	And lots and lots of articles.
0:57.8	I remember that your work influenced me,
1:03.3	your work on David O. McKay's. I was helping to work on the Johnny O. Whitsow biography.
1:09.6	Oh, yeah. And just lots of great stuff that you've done. But tell us more about yourself, Mary Jane.
1:12.5	Well, I'm really more of a 20th century church historian, which is kind of opposite ends from what you do, Kerry. But I,
1:20.2	David O. McKay and his era was my main focus for a long time. But I'm especially interested in women's church history. And so that's why I'm
1:31.6	delighted to share Section 25 today. Yeah, which is so powerful. So yeah, let's talk about that.
1:38.3	The reading assignment for this week covers a number of sections, and there's no way we can cover all
1:43.8	that here. On our Patreon
1:45.6	website, we'll all cover a couple things from some of the others. We don't try and cover
1:52.1	everything in all of them, but I'll cover a couple things from some of the others and set up
1:56.1	how some of those things influence future sections and so on. So we'll just invite everyone
2:00.6	to join that Patreon website.
2:02.5	We're grateful for those who do.
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