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The Joseph Smith Podcast is our chronological deep-dive into the life of Mormonism's founder, drawing on the best available scholarship and primary sources. From the Smith family's treasure-digging years through the First Vision accounts, the Book of Mormon, Kirtland, Nauvoo, polygamy, and his violent death in 1844 — this series tells the whole story, episode by episode.

LDS Discussions is our flagship truth-claims series, co-hosted with Mike of ldsdiscussions.com. Episode by episode, it works systematically through the historical and doctrinal issues facing the LDS Church — the First Vision, Book of Mormon translation, Book of Abraham, polygamy, the temple, and much more — always anchored in primary sources and church-published materials. If you want the full case laid out carefully, start with episode one.

Historian Matt Harris's book Second Class Saints drew on unprecedented access to church leaders' papers to document how the LDS Church created, defended, and finally abandoned its priesthood and temple ban on Black members. This series walks through that history in depth — the ban's origins, the internal debates, the 1978 revelation, and the church's ongoing reckoning with its racial past.

Sandra Tanner — great-great-granddaughter of Brigham Young and co-founder of Utah Lighthouse Ministry — has spent six decades documenting Mormon history and truth claims. These episodes capture her remarkable story and encyclopedic knowledge: how she and her husband Jerald became the church's most famous critics, what they uncovered, and how she views the modern LDS Church.

John Larsen, longtime host of Mormon Expression, brings some of the sharpest and funniest commentary in the post-Mormon world. In this series he and John Dehlin take on big-picture questions — why Mormonism works, why it breaks, what replaces it, and how to think clearly about belief itself. Equal parts philosophy, sociology, and stand-up comedy.

A faith crisis can feel like the end of the world. These episodes are the proof that it isn't. Thrive Stories features guests who came through the loss of their Mormon faith and built lives full of meaning, connection, and joy on the other side — along with practical wisdom about how they did it. If you're in the dark middle of a transition, this series is for you.

What happens when LDS truth claims meet modern science? These episodes bring geneticists, archaeologists, biblical scholars, and other scientists to the table on questions like DNA and Book of Mormon ancestry, evolution and the Fall, the global flood, and the age of the earth — and examine how church teachings have shifted as the evidence has mounted.