S5E6 Stillbirths and Miscarriages

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Gerrit addresses a heartfelt listener email on a deeply personal topic—miscarriages and stillbirths. Gerrit shares both historical and doctrinal perspectives, drawing on early Christian beliefs and statements from Latter-day Saint leaders while acknowledging the lack of definitive revelation on the subject. Rex’s Elders Quorum President Start Time: 14:05 Standard of Truth Tour dates for the summer of 2025: ⁠https://standardoftruth.com/tours/⁠ Missouri/Nauvoo – June 22nd through June 28th (4 spots available) Sign up for our free monthly (that doesn’t go out 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.
0:36.6	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:40.2	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend Dr. Richard Leduc.
0:45.3	Hello, Garrett.
0:46.6	We'll just jump right into the Phoebe Draper Palmer Brown mailbag.
0:50.6	No pleasantries.
0:51.5	Let's just get down to it.
0:52.8	I feel like we should at least point out that
0:54.4	this week my son and his companion on their mission in Arizona decided that they would
1:03.0	mock the opening to the standard of truth podcast by saying that, well, I think, I feel like they were more mocking what you say.
1:13.3	Is that?
1:14.0	Yeah.
1:14.6	Yeah.
1:14.8	I say six things on this podcast, and they chose to, I don't know, punch down.
1:23.8	Is that the expression, hip to the kids?
1:26.6	Yeah, they're punching down by by making fun of my
1:30.5	meager contribution. I was pretty funny. I laughed pretty hard out. It was very, it was very,
1:34.9	very thoughtful in there. It was, they essentially, they were doing their impression of
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