Its been tough week for some in Mormon Fundamentalism, with the passing of David Nielsen. I sat here this evening wondering what to do about the podcast this week. I thought about just posting an episode as normal, but that didn’t feel right. I thought about not posting anything, that too feltwrong. So, as I prayed to know what to do, I was given an idea. That is to re-release David’s last episode of the podcast he had done with me on Brotherhood. I was still not sure if that was correct so I re

Yesterday the Mormon Fundamentalist community suffered a loss with the passing of my friend David Nielsen. David was one of the first to reach out to me when he first heard the podcast and encouraged me to keep going telling me that what I was doing was of value. From there we became friends, all my interactions with David are ones that i will cherish. From the first time I met him I knew he was a really good man. David loved missionary work, as I had the opportunity to work with him from time t

On this episode I have on Kevin Kraut back on the podcast to breakdown a revelation received by Orson Hyde. Now Kevin certainly needs no introduction. We start our conversation off by first giving a little bit of historical background on whatwas happening among the early saints that led to this revelation. From the we move in to reading and talking about the revelation. Some of the points we cover are the parable of wheat and the tares, humility and personal growth, leadershipand spiritual gifts

On this episode we are diving right back into the Restored Version of the scriptures and continuing our series on the Uncanonized Revelations. Today Taylor Smith joins me as wehave a discussion centered around several of the shorter revelations from Joseph Smith and Wilford Woodruff. As we read and discuss these revelations several principles begin to come to the forefront of our conversation ranging from being called to repentance, unity within our quorums, extending forgiveness, avoiding pride

On this episode we are continuing our series on the Uncanonized Revelations from the Restored Version of the scriptures. Today Joshua Erickson and I take a look at JosephSmith Revelation 4. Now for those unfamiliar with this revelation, there are some instructions given by Joseph Smith that it is acceptable for Mormon men to marry Native American women. As you can imagine the theological and societal implications are massive as we consider this. Josh puts forth a hypostasis about race and lineag

On this week’s episode we are picking back up the Uncanonized Revelations Series. To help give a breakdown of this revelation I have brought on two guests who are brothers,that I am sure you are really going to like, Joseph & Lorenzo Beagley. We start this conversation by getting to them a little bit better where they talk about their family history in early Mormonism, we then cover how their family was introduced into fundamentalism and follow that history up to today. During this part of the c