Episodes
![Live Studio Audience Part 2 (Politics and Polygamy)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Live Studio Audience Part 2 (Politics and Polygamy)
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
In this episode, we really wanted everyone in attendance to feel comfortable, so we discussed politics and polygamy. We learned the history of political parties in Utah, and we talked about the insanity of Idaho’s Anti-Mormon Constitution that disenfranchised Mormons regardless of whether or not they practiced polygamy. We also learned that Richard is not capacitated to pronounce the word “anarchist”.
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![Live Studio Audience Part 1 (Phebe Draper Mail Bag)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Live Studio Audience Part 1 (Phebe Draper Mail Bag)
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Like every sitcom in the 1980s, this episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience. We cannot even begin to thank all the amazing people who attended the event. People came from all over the country and we cannot properly articulate how much fun we had. Many listeners to the show brought friends and significant others who do not listen and have never listened. These people brought to the show against their will are the true heroes among us just behind the military, teachers, emergency responders, Officer R, and the men and women working at Jersey Mike’s.
In this episode, we answered litner questions from the Phebe Draper Mail Bag. We start with a question from Dan (who did not want to be there) about the Small Plates of Nephi. We then answered questions about the name Gerrit would give to his rock band, the meaning of the symbols on the pulpits in the Kirtland Temple, the Three Nephites, and the teachings from the stolen 116 pages. We end the episode with a question about the Church’s unpaid ministry.
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![Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Part 5 (we finally get to it)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Part 5 (we finally get to it)
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
We finally get back to the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. Sure, we first spend a little time talking about the Book of Abraham and the characters copied from the gold plates, but then we jump right into the Whitmer family being baptized. After much “teasing” by Martin, Oliver, and David Joseph Smith goes to the Lord and receives D&C 17 as a revelation. The Angel Moroni shows the gold plates to Oliver, David, and Martin, and the voice of the Lord commands them to testify of the Book of Mormon.
Kirtland Temple architecture plans used to hold part of the papyrus together:
Image of Book of Mormon characters copied by John Whitmer:
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![Bonus 3 - Dedication of the Kirtland Temple](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Bonus 3 - Dedication of the Kirtland Temple
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
In this bonus episode, we replay sections of a previous episode from season 3 where we discuss the origin of the Hosanna Shout and the dedication of the Kirtland Temple.
![The Church Acquires the Kirtland Temple and Nauvoo Properties](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
The Church Acquires the Kirtland Temple and Nauvoo Properties
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
In this episode, we discuss the historic purchase of the Kirtland Temple and other Nauvoo properties. Gerrit provides additional insight into the properties that the Church has acquired.
Map of Nauvoo: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/bc-jsp/content/jsp/images/content/library/pdf/D10_Nauvoo-Plat.pdf
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![Bonus - Update on Live Event](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Bonus - Update on Live Event
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
In this bonus episode, we discuss additional details of our live event on Saturday, March 16th at 6:00 PM in Orem.
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![Questioning Scriptures and Frustration with Politics](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Questioning Scriptures and Frustration with Politics
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
In this episode, we begin the podcast by talking about the pseudepigraphal nature of some of the books of the New Testament and the problem with the process academics use for identifying pseudepigraphal records. We also talk about the importance of modern-day revelation in understanding the scriptures. A litner talks about their frustration with politics making their way into their Sunday experience and Gerrit shares a quote from Brigham Young that squashes the idea of political arguments in the Church calling it “political gentile warfare” and saying there is no place for it in the Kingdom of God.
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![Oliver Cowdery Attempts to Translate](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Oliver Cowdery Attempts to Translate
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
In this episode, we take a slight departure from the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon to answer a litner’s question about Oliver’s attempt to translate the Book of Mormon. Gerrit provides additional context for Doctrine and Covenants Sections 7, 8, and 9. In addition, we find out that California exports 56 million pounds of cilantro per year.
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![Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Part 4](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Part 4
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Richard feels so confident coming off his first ever successful football pick (Kansas City over San Francisco) that he predicts the Collingwood Magpies to repeat winning back-to-back McClelland Trophies under the veteran leadership of Jack Crisp. Gerrit discusses the context and history of Doctrine and Covenants sections 10 and 17. Gerrit also talks about the items seen by the Three Witnesses, the Urim and Thummim, and the pattern the Lord has in making changes to revelations.
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![Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Part 3](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12005522/Standard_of_Truth_Updated_Logo_copy_nwxnat_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Part 3
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
In this episode, we continue our discussion about the witnesses of the Gold Plates, but we start with Richard’s picks for the Super Bowl which he claims to be his stone-cold lock of the century. We also read several wonderful emails from listeners. For those that care to listen to more spiritual matters the Rex’s Elders Quorum President start time is 27:17. We talk about a vision of the Savior had by Oliver Cowdery and his coming to Harmony to begin the work of translation.
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