095 “Peace on Earth”—How Can We Help? An Interview with Patrick Mason

Church History Matters

Scripture Central

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Throughout this series on Peace and Violence in Latter-day Saint History, we’ve looked at how Church members have been the victims of violence, how they’ve engaged in defensive violence, and how they’ve even been the aggressors and perpetrators of inexcusable violence. In this episode of Church History Matters we sit down with our friend Patrick Mason, a Latter-day Saint historian, scholar on peace studies, and author of several books on violence and peace in Latter-day Saint history. We take a step back and think deeply about how each of us can more intentionally participate in bringing peace on earth and good will to all. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Scott from Church History Matters. Before we jump into today's episode,
0:04.8	we're excited to announce that for the entirety of 2025, Church History Matters is doing a deep
0:10.9	dive into the Doctrine and Covenants. That's right. Each week, Casey and I will be digging
0:15.5	into those sections of the Doctrine and Covenants that align with the Church's Come Follow Me
0:19.6	curriculum. We're doing this
0:21.2	for a couple reasons. I mean, for one, we're big fans of the revelations of the doctrine and
0:25.6	covenants. They play a major foundational role in our church's history after all. And second,
0:31.8	well, the whole church is now shifting their focus to studying this book. So we feel like we want to
0:36.7	jump on this moment when
0:38.0	our interests are so perfectly aligned. And of course, Casey and I being who we are, we
0:43.6	can't just walk through the revelations themselves and call it a day. We're going to also
0:47.7	explore the important historical context for every section and what impact that revelation
0:52.5	had on the church's trajectory. And of course,
0:55.1	it wouldn't be church history matters if we didn't probe into the controversies connected to
0:59.8	most of these revelations, right? So of course, we'll do a lot of that too. Now, our first episode
1:05.4	for 2025 actually dropped today, Christmas Eve, 2024. And we'll typically drop them early like this in case any teachers out there want to draw from any of the material we cover for their lessons or whatnot.
1:17.6	You can continue to listen to the audio version here on this podcast channel, or if you'd prefer, we're now also offering a video version that you can watch on Scripture Central's YouTube channel.
1:27.9	So however you want to join us, we look forward to studying the Doctrine and Covenants
1:31.2	with you.
1:32.2	All right, now on to the episode.
1:39.5	Throughout this series on peace and violence in Latter-day Saint History, we've looked
1:43.0	at how church members have been
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