Faithful Historian Deceives Mormons - Keith Erekson | Ep. 1990 | LDS Discussions Ep. 61
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 217 minutes
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Summary
Keith Erekson serves as the director of the historical research and outreach for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On January 12, 2025 he gave a fireside in which he answered tough questions. Today we are responding to that fireside and discussing such topics as polygamy, Joseph Smith marrying women who were already married, and the church hiding aspects of its history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast, LDS Discussions Edition. |
| 0:06.0 | I am one of your host for today, John DeLinn. It's February 6th, 2025. |
| 0:11.0 | And today we are going to be discussing, or the title is, History Director tries to defend Mormonism. |
| 0:20.0 | And we're going to be talking about Dr. Keith Erickson. |
| 0:24.5 | For those of you don't know, the LDS Discussion Series is, I don't know, 55, 60 episodes in. |
| 0:31.1 | Julia, do you remember how many episodes we're in now? |
| 0:33.8 | This is episode 60. |
| 0:35.4 | Okay. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.8 | So a couple years ago, a guy named Mike, that's his code name, put together a website |
| 0:44.6 | called the LDS Discussions where he did a really in-depth thorough analysis of Mormon |
| 0:49.6 | Church Truth Claims, borrowing heavily from the works of people like the Sandra Tanner. Hey, Sandra. |
| 0:56.0 | Hi. Thanks for joining us. And so we did several deep dives into Mormon Church |
| 1:02.3 | truth claims, doing our best to be as thoughtful and as fair and as objective as possible. |
| 1:08.2 | Of course, we sometimes failed in our objectivity. But we've |
| 1:13.6 | done this extensive review of Mormon Church Truth claims all the way from Joseph Smith's |
| 1:18.3 | treasure digging to the priesthood rest, the alleged priesthood restoration, to changes in the |
| 1:24.1 | doctrine and covenants, to Book of Mormon translation, all the way through to modern day issues. |
| 1:29.5 | And, you know, this series, we highly recommend it. It's probably the most valuable thing I've done on Mormon stories in a long time, at least according to many of our viewers and listeners. |
| 1:40.5 | You can check it out on Spotify, an audio and video format. You can check it out on Apple Podcast as audio only, and you can check it out on YouTube under its own playlist under the Mormon Stories podcast channel called LDS Discussions. We highly recommend that you watch it from start to finish. It is 60 episodes now. But we, even though Mike had to |
| 2:03.8 | retire, and he's on to bigger and better things, and we miss him dearly, we like to continue |
| 2:10.8 | the LDS discussion series for a couple of reasons, even though it's without Mike. One is we have amazing |
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