1823: The Reed Smoot Hearings w/ John Larsen

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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From 1904-1907 Congress held a series of hearings on whether Reed Smoot, an LDS apostle who was elected to the Senate, should be seated. The hearing provide a deep look at Mormon practice, history and theology in the congressional record. These hearings and the controversies surrounding them remain a pivotal moment in Mormon History.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast Mormon expression
0:04.3	edition with John Larson, I am your host, John DeLin.
0:08.2	And today we are super excited to be covering a topic that I personally requested five
0:14.9	years ago.
0:15.9	No, two years ago, how many years ago I don't know how many years ago it was today we're
0:19.2	going to be talking about the read smooth hearings.
0:22.3	And I anticipate that it will be as interesting as the what was it, the pioneer, what was
0:28.9	the one you did?
0:29.9	John Larson, that everybody just freaking went to the top of the billion Martin handcart
0:34.1	company.
0:35.1	Do you think I'm overbilling it if I say it might be that good?
0:38.8	Maybe that one kind of cuts to the heart of this one.
0:43.0	This one's a little different.
0:44.2	We'll get there.
0:45.2	Maybe I should under promise and maybe we can ever deliver.
0:49.2	But really quickly for those who don't know, John Larson is an amazing Mormon podcast host
0:55.9	who for many years ran the Mormon expression podcast.
0:59.5	And once hackers got it and took it down, we were able to work with John to get that archive
1:05.0	back up.
1:06.0	And so there's 300 plus amazing episodes of content from John Larson in the Mormon
1:11.3	expression archive that you can find anywhere you get your podcasts audio based.
1:17.6	And we cut a deal with John Larson that he would come on Mormon Stories podcast once
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