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Why Joseph Smith Said to Shake an Angel’s Hand

October 26, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

How do you know if a messenger is from God or the devil? Doctrine and Covenants 129 explains certain "keys" for discerning different spirits, and some Christians claim that the angel Moroni was really a demon. Barrett Burgin's short horror…
Did Joseph Smith Reveal Where the Book of Mormon Happened?

October 18, 2026 · 59 min

Did Joseph Smith ever reveal where the Book of Mormon took place? The very first missionaries told reporters that Lehi landed in Chile, and that the Nephites' final battle ran all the way from Panama to New York. So where did that picture…
Were the Nephites the Maya? A BYU Mesoamericanist Answers

October 11, 2026 · 39 min

Was Quetzalcoatl really Jesus Christ? Is the famous "Lehi Stone" actually a carving of Lehi's tree of life? And if the Book of Mormon is true, why hasn't DNA found the Nephites? A Mesoamerican historian who believes the Book of Mormon…
General Conference October 2026 Recap and Analysis

October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

We're diving into the top highlights and reveals of the October 2026 General Conference, including a surprising address from President Christofferson on the spiritual dangers of gambling. ===Informed Saints Credits=== Produced by: The…
How a Dead Sea Scrolls Translator Reads Isaiah

September 27, 2026 · 55 min

Jesus told us to search Isaiah diligently—so why does it so often feel like a closed book? What if the passages that confuse us most are actually some of the most carefully crafted poetry in all of scripture? Jasmin Rappleye, Neal…

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Where Is the Hill Cumorah? (The Truth About Book of Mormon Geography)

September 20, 2026 · 49 min

Everyone knows where the Hill Cumorah is… right? Joseph Smith received the gold plates from a hill in upstate New York. But is that the same hill where Mormon hid the Nephite records and the Nephites made their last stand in Mormon 6? It's…
Most LDS Faith Crises Start in the Wrong Place. Here's Where to Begin.

September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

Most people having a faith crisis are fighting on the branches — polygamy, DNA, the Book of Abraham, race and the priesthood — when the actual problem is buried somewhere underneath. What happens if you go all the way down to the roots and…
What Church Looked Like Before the 3-Hour Block

September 9, 2026 · 59 min

The first sacrament meeting of the Restoration was held on a Tuesday. Latter-day Saints once drank homemade currant wine from a shared cup, sang hymns one line at a time because half the congregation couldn't read, and listened to music…
What 'Utterly Destroy' Really Means in the Book of Joshua

August 23, 2026 · 36 min

When Israel entered Canaan, the Bible says they were commanded to leave "nothing alive that breathes." Did God really command that — and did it actually happen? The Hebrew word behind the command, herem, tells a far more complicated story…
Mi'kmaq vs. the Gold Plates: Does the Comparison Hold Up?

August 16, 2026 · 20 min

A widely shared chart in an edition of an annotated Book of Mormon claims the characters Joseph Smith copied from the gold plates match an old Native American hieroglyphic script. But when one researcher traced every glyph back to its…
Song of Solomon: Can Uninspired Writing Be Scripture?

August 9, 2026 · 26 min

There's a book in your scriptures that Joseph Smith flagged as "not inspired," that Elder Bruce R. McConkie once called "biblical trash," and that the Come Follow Me manual skipped over entirely. It's also quoted three times in the…
The Hebrew Grammar Joseph Smith Tried to Delete from the Book of Mormon

August 2, 2026 · 43 min

The Book of Mormon will not stop telling you where the record is. Who's holding it. Who handed it off. What they did with it and why. A retired trial attorney read that and recognized something from thirty years in courtrooms: a chain of…