S5E9 Missionary Madness and Brigham Young’s Leadership

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we dig into the ever-growing missionary litenership and announce a March Madness-style contest to see which mission can get the most missionaries listening to the podcast. Gerrit unpacks why sustaining President Nelson is essential to the restored gospel and comparisons to early Latter-day Saints following Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, explaining why revelation through a living prophet is the foundation of our faith—not just scripture or past teachings. Richard and Gerrit also discuss Brigham Young’s leadership style and whether apostles were afraid to speak their minds in the 19th century. 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.
0:37.1	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:40.9	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I am joined by my friend, Dr. Richard Leduke.
0:46.8	Hello, Garrett.
0:47.9	Thanks for having me back.
0:49.4	We haven't done kind of an email, a Phoebe Draper, Palmer Brown mailbag episode in some time.
0:57.3	And we have 400 million emails that we'll be getting to today.
1:02.1	We've had many, many, many, many people email us.
1:05.3	We read all of them.
1:07.2	We respond to none of them.
1:09.5	I responded in Chinese to one of them.
1:12.6	Yeah, we had a sister email in, a sister missionary.
1:15.8	And Richard responded to her in Chinese.
1:18.7	I did.
1:19.4	Because he's been studying it.
1:21.0	I don't know what his duolingo score is, but it's got to be off the charts.
1:24.5	It's got to be just straight off the charts.
1:26.9	Yes.
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