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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host

John Delin and I am here on September 17, 2014 in my fifth segment of an

interview with one of the in my view one of the most important scholars in the

20th, 21st century Mormonism. His name is Brent Medcalf. We've talked about his

early years in the church, his, you know, collaborations with Steve

Prishnson and Mark Hoffman, the famous bomber that ended up killing two

people and harming himself before he ended up in jail. We've talked about his

subsequent sort of aftermath of the Mark Hoffman bombings. We've talked about

a book that he put together called New Approaches to the Book of Mormon and

his subsequent disciplinary council that came about as a result of that book.

And then we did a deep dive into into the Book of Mormon and and Brent sort of

views on some of the challenges that that modern Mormons face when when

taking a traditional approach to the Book of Mormon meaning viewing it as a

is a literal translation of an ancient record or as a history. And so and so

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