S4 E9 Priesthood Restored, Behind the Scenes (D&C 12-17)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In this episode Mark Staker, who helps direct the restoration and management of the Church's historic sites, tells us some of the process of figuring out more about when, where, and how the visit of John the Baptist took place. He and Kerry explore what it meant for Joseph and Oliver, and for all of us. This is a truly seminal event in the restoration that is worth studying.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | This is the podcast where we think talk about things and the scriptures that make them become real to us because we think that helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm your host, Kerry Mulestein, and I'm so glad to have with us a guest we haven't had before, |
| 0:26.1 | but I'm thrilled to have with us. This is Mark Staker. Thank you for being with us, Mark. |
| 0:31.2 | Harry, I'm glad to be here. Thank you for inviting me. |
| 0:34.6 | So let me tell the audience just a little bit about you, if that's all right. |
| 0:39.1 | Mark Staker, I know you did your studies at the University of Florida, and we'd love to hear a little bit about that. |
| 0:44.7 | But I believe your current title, correct me if I'm wrong, it's senior historian for the Department of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do I? |
| 0:55.4 | Well, it shifts from time, time. |
| 0:57.1 | They call me a master curator. |
| 0:59.8 | Okay. |
| 1:00.3 | It doesn't really mean much for most people. |
| 1:03.4 | So a senior historian is actually quite appropriate. |
| 1:06.9 | Okay. |
| 1:07.7 | Well, and I'd love to hear a little bit more about what you do. |
| 1:22.8 | I know you are over lots of the church history sites that we all love going to, or you have had a lot of influence over that. Just tell us a little bit more about that. |
| 1:34.3 | Okay. As Kerry mentioned, I have a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Florida, |
| 1:42.3 | and so my background is trying to understand people within their cultural context. And I've been working for the church history department for just over 30 years now, doing |
| 1:48.3 | museum exhibits first and then historic site restorations where I try to create an accurate |
| 1:55.4 | historic setting for the events that are being interpreted at these sites. |
| 2:01.6 | So everything that we can learn, by doing archaeology, building studies, |
| 2:08.6 | looking at the landscape, all those details that let us piece together what this setting was actually like. |
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