S5E18 The Pope and Mary Magdalene

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we review General Conference 2 weeks late with a segment we like to call “Fun with General Conference”. Gerrit answers a litner question about how the Book of Mormon was distributed and Joseph and Hyrum’s preaching to the Native Americans. Richard’s dander is way up after reading a question about Mary Magdalene. Gerrit provides the history of the genesis of Mary’s bad reputation. As always, we depart slightly from things of a spiritual nature to discuss our favorite pies. Sweetwater Rescue Temple Project: Helping the Saints of Lithuania get to the Helsinki, Finland Temple https://www.sweetwaterrescue.org/current If you would like to donate, please click on the link: https://www.sweetwaterrescue.org/donate Standard of Truth Tour dates for the summer of 2026: ⁠ https://standardoftruth.com/tours/ Missouri/Nauvoo – June 14th through June 20th Palmyra/Kirtland – June 21st through June 27th Sign up for our free monthly email: ⁠ ⁠https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com⁠ If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirk-Mott and Dr. Richard
0:08.2	Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life
0:14.3	and teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide
0:20.4	context for events of the past.
0:23.1	They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.
0:37.2	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:41.1	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I am joined by my erstwhile friend, Professor, no, no, Dr. Richard Leduc.
0:50.4	Hello, Garrett.
0:51.6	I appreciate you calling me a doctor because I assumed the University of Utah is just so close to terminating my professorship at any moment. So, doctor, that holds regardless.
1:04.0	Is it because they found out you were a Latter-day Saint?
1:08.3	That's funny. And for all the University of Utah fans uh I will uh fain to be hurt by that comment
1:15.9	um that are listening to the podcast and so whoever those folks might be um I I I'm excited for
1:24.7	today's episode we did a little a little uh a little show prep, which we never do.
1:30.7	I mean, I feel like you're overstating that.
1:34.3	Well, yeah, we hopped on and you said, hey, you ready?
1:37.3	And I said, yep.
1:38.0	And then here we are.
1:39.5	Yeah, yep, that was your show prep.
1:41.5	There are a couple of things, a couple of matters of business to address at the beginning here.
1:48.4	First is a ridiculous thank you to all of the people that have donated to the Sweetwater Rescue Lithuania Temple Trip.
2:04.9	Insanely ridiculously ridiculously kind litters.
2:15.1	We have hundreds that have donated and just in the last week raised over $12,000, which is just insane. How many people does that represent getting to the temple, Richard?
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