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Episode 61: Refugee Treatment under the Mosaic Law (Krystal Pierce)

Y Religion - August 01, 2022 16:54 - 42 minutes
The Law of Moses gives divine direction for how God’s covenant people should care for displaced refugees, foreigners, and strangers, who are referred to in the Bible as ‘gēr.’ In this episode, Dr. Krystal Pierce of BYU’s Ancient Scripture Department shares her published research on the teachings...

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Episode 8: Jason Wright

Latter-day Profiles - July 27, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Jason Wright is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author. Jason is a columnist for Fox News, TheBlaze, Deseret News, and the Northern Virginia Daily. Articles by Jason have appeared in over 50 other newspapers and magazines across the United States, inclu...

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Episode 7: Clint Pulver

Latter-day Profiles - July 27, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Clint Pulver is an Emmy Award-winning motivational keynote speaker, author, musician, and workforce expert. He is the author of "I Love It Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want To Leave." A Professional Drummer for over 20 years, he's played with top head...

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Episode 60: Considering the Cross (John Hilton III)

Y Religion - July 15, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes
How do Latter-day Saints perceive images of Christ’s suffering on the cross? How does artwork influence their understanding of the Savior’s Atonement? What does it mean that Christ shed His blood for us? In this powerful episode, Dr. John Hilton III shares findings from his continued research re...

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Episode 6: David Reichner

Latter-day Profiles - July 08, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
David Reichner works as a business partner and Director of Team Fredette Utah, an elite brand in New York & Utah. He was previously the Head Coach for the San Diego Surf (ABA). He has worked with the L.A. Clippers as a Director of the Jr. Clipper Foundation; running camps, Leagues, priv...

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Episode 5: Dave McCann

Latter-day Profiles - July 05, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Dave McCann is a studio host and play-by-play announcer for BYU sports on BYUtv. He is a former news anchor for KSL-TV in Salt Lake City and KLAS-TV in Las Vegas.

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Episode 59: The Value of Historic Sites (Scott Esplin)

Y Religion - July 01, 2022 16:43 - 37 minutes
For many Latter-day Saints, there is a strong desire to visit sacred sites of the Restoration, such as the Sacred Grove or Carthage Jail. These historic places can help us better understand the past as we strive to live the gospel in the present.  In this episode, Dr. Scott Esplin discusses the ...

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Episode 4: Reid Moon

Latter-day Profiles - June 26, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Reid Moon is the owner of Moon’s Rare Books in Provo, Utah. Moon graduated from BYU in 1985.   After 30 years of running Moon’s Rare Books in Dallas, Texas, he decided to return to Provo.  His beautiful bookshop is located in The Shops at Riverwoods in Provo.  It’s really a museum disgu...

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Episode 3: The Truman Brothers

Latter-day Profiles - June 19, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
For the Truman Brothers, music and the gospel are in their DNA, Sons of Dan Truman of Diamond Rio and Nashville Tribute Band fame and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, they spent their formative years in green rooms, backstages, and tour buses as well as sacrament meetings and Young Men a...

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Episode 2: Kerry Muhlestein

Latter-day Profiles - June 19, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Kerry Muhlestein is an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He received his B.S. from BYU in psychology with a Hebrew minor, spending time in the intensive Hebrew program at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. He then proceeded to receive ...

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Episode 58: The Gethsemane Grotto (Matthew Grey)

Y Religion - June 15, 2022 16:05 - 56 minutes
The events recorded in the gospels took place in the Garden of Gethsemane are sacred to our faith. Although we can envision the olive trees of the garden, where did they press its oil, from which the translated word “Gethsemane” derives? Thanks to archeological research, including some by BYU an...

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Episode 1: Grant and Si Foster

Latter-day Profiles - June 06, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Grant and Si Foster share their unique experience of serving as missionaries in Spain during the Covid Pandemic. Si hosts the food blog A Bountiful Kitchen. Grant is a partner in the law firm Dorsey and Whitney. https://abountifulkitchen.com/ http://latterdayprofiles.org/

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Episode 57: Hugh Nibley’s Contribution to Book of Mormon Studies (Joseph Spencer)

Y Religion - June 01, 2022 15:16 - 33 minutes
It’s likely that many of you have heard of the name Hugh Nibley. Over a nearly fifty-year career as a BYU professor, he became one of the most prolific scholars and authors in the history of the Church. In this episode, Dr. Joseph Spencer shares his research publication on Nibley’s influence as ...

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Episode 56: Community of Christ and the First Vision (Keith Wilson)

Y Religion - May 15, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes
The Community of Christ, formerly known as the “Reorganized” Church or “RLDS,” is a global restoration faith which traces its origins to the life and ministry of Joseph Smith.  In this episode, Dr. Keith Wilson of BYU Religious Education provides a fascinating historical and doctrinal journey of...

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Ep. 12 - A Different "Gay" Perspective with Skyler Sorensen

Red Pill Blue Blood - May 08, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Skyler (Sky) is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and a recent BYU graduate. He also happens to be gay. If you listened to social media you would think he is supposed to be angry at the university and the Church. That is not the case though. Who you are attracted to is ...

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Episode 55: The Best of BYU Studies (Steven Harper)

Y Religion - May 01, 2022 16:00 - 50 minutes
For over sixty years, BYU Studies Quarterly has published scholarship informed by the restored gospel of Jesus Christ on a broad range of topics that are of interest to Latter-day Saints.  In this episode, Dr. Steven Harper, the current editor of BYU Studies, discusses some of the most significa...

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Ep. 11 - Progressives vs Doctrine with ATKT Podcast and Tommy Stevenson

Red Pill Blue Blood - April 27, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
I sit down with Tommy, my BYU Conservatives co-admin, and chat over zoom with Carson and Catherine, the co-hosts of the Around the Kitchen Table Podcast (ATKT Podcast). We discuss Heavenly Mother, the rationale for the Curch's neutral stance on politics, and much more. Ultimately being faithful ...

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Ep. 10 - BYU Conservatives with Tommy Stevenson

Red Pill Blue Blood - April 16, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 31 ratings
I sit down with my fellow BYU Conservatives Instagram page admin, Tommy Stevenson, for a great and fun conversation. We discuss many aspects of BYU and go on many tangents along the way. We also answer the questions posed to us by our Instagram followers.

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Ep. 10 COMPILATION - BYU Conservatives Discuss BYU

Red Pill Blue Blood - April 16, 2022 22:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
This compilation goes over a condensed highlight reel of Luke and Tommy discussing BYU. Taken from Episode 10.

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Episode 54: Confronting Prejudice with Samuel the Lamanite (Jan Martin)

Y Religion - April 15, 2022 16:13 - 46 minutes
Because we live in a day where prejudice and discrimination of all kinds remain fundamental problems across the globe, members of the Church have been counselled “to abandon all personal prejudices.” In this episode, Jan Martin of BYU Ancient Scripture shares her research publication about Samue...

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Episode 53: A Strength to the Poor (Dana M. Pike)

Y Religion - April 02, 2022 03:46 - 54 minutes
Although it is common to cite Isaiah’s remarkable prophecies about the Savior, Isaiah’s repeated teachings related to the poor usually don’t receive as much attention.  In this episode, emeritus BYU Ancient Scripture professor Dana M. Pike shares his latest publication that magnifies Isaiah’s te...

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Episode 8: Christian Mawlam

Latter-day Profiles - March 18, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Christian Mawlam shares his miraculous story of overcoming cancer. Mawlam started his own video production company in England before coming to the United States to teach at BYU-Idaho where he teaches video production.

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Episode 7: Kate Holbrook

Latter-day Profiles - March 18, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Kate Holbrook, PhD is a leading voice in the study of Latter-day Saint women and Latter-day Saint foodways. As managing historian of women’s history at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints history department, she writes, studies, and interprets history full-time. Her major re...

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Episode 52: Living the Abrahamic Covenant (Kerry Muhlestein)

Y Religion - March 15, 2022 23:45 - 49 minutes
Latter-day Saints are a covenant-centric faith, led by the oft-repeated messages of President Russell M. Nelson to continue “on the covenant path.” But what is this covenant path, and how is it a Restoration of “the covenants of the Father of heaven unto Abraham” (1 Nephi 22:9)?  In this episode...

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Episode 6: Kathy Aiken

Latter-day Profiles - March 11, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Kathy Aiken is a former broadcast journalist. She began reporting with the Utah Jazz in 1987 and five years later joined the staff of KSL-TV as the first female sports anchor in Utah. She worked as a producer, reporter, and anchor for KSL Sports. While at KSL, Aiken also anchored the Mo...

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Episode 5: Kirby Heyborne

Latter-day Profiles - March 06, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Kirby Heyborne is an actor, singer, musician, songwriter, comedian, and narrator. He is known for his work in films centered around the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Heyborne has also worked extensively as an audiobook narrator. Kirby is the host of the BYU...

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Episode 51: The Church in Washington D.C. (Ken Alford)

Y Religion - March 01, 2022 20:02 - 54 minutes
This April, the newly remodeled Washington D.C. Temple will hold its public open house for hundreds and thousands of visitors, marking the latest in a long line of historical events related to the Latter-day Saints’ presence in the nation’s capital.  In this episode, Dr. Ken Alford reviews his c...

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Episode 4: Kate Lee

Latter-day Profiles - February 27, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
After a chance meeting with an inspired fellow artist, Kate modified her initial artistic direction to focus on works of inspirational watercolor. With a minimalistic style that conveys powerful family and gospel messages, Kate Lee speaks to us through her art when words are insufficien...

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Episode 3: Brigitte Madrian

Latter-day Profiles - February 20, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Brigitte C. Madrian is the Dean and Marriott Distinguished Professor in the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics.

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Episode 50: Dating Jesus Christ’s Birth and Death (Jeff Chadwick)

Y Religion - February 15, 2022 20:56 - 50 minutes
April 6th is commonly taught by Latter-day Saints to be Jesus’s birth date.  Some Church leaders, however, have explored other options, saying the date “is not a settled issue.” In this episode, Professor Jeff Chadwick discusses his publications that academically explore the dates of Jesus Chris...

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