Latest Mormonhistory Podcast Episodes
Ep 195 – King Follett Discourse pt. 3 A Legend that Never Dies
Naked Mormonism Podcast - February 21, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, now that we know the man behind the discourse, let’s finally discuss the King Follett Discourse. This is widely known as one of Joseph Smith’s greatest theological sermons culminating 14 years of an evolving and expanding doctrine. From the days of early Mormonism, based on the ...
Ep 194 – King Follet pt. 2 The Myth
Naked Mormonism Podcast - February 14, 2020 06:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we take on the remainder of King Follett from his internment in the Columbia, Missouri jail to his death in Nauvoo. He’s acquitted of his robbery charges, arriving in Quincy, Illinois in October 1839 in a completely overcrowded and destitute state. He works with the Mormon refug...
Ep 193 – King Follett pt. 1 The Man
Naked Mormonism Podcast - February 07, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we begin our series about King Follett and the discourse named after him. Who is he? What discourse did he write? Why does every Mormon know the name but not the guy? Very little documentation of his life survives to this day, however, fragmentary evidence has been pieced togeth...
Ep 192 – Called and Numbered with the Chosen
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 31, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, propaganda flies all directions about the Mormons. A New York Tribune article from January 1844 made waves across the nation with some vicious claims about the Mormon empire in Nauvoo. The article was picked up and reprinted in many news outlets, especially in the cities neighbo...
Ep 191 – Book of the Law of the Lord (BoLoL)
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 24, 2020 06:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, money issues in Nauvoo become the springboard for a discussion of the Book of the Law of the Lord. What is contained in the enigmatic pages of this unique artifact? What was the purpose of creating it? What happened with the controversy surrounding it? Find out the answers to th...
Ep 190 – Joseph Fought Polygamy
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 17, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss Joseph Smith’s public and private denials of polygamy. It was a controversial practice in Victorian-era America and he had concluded by the final year of his life that it would lead to the next mass-exodus of Mormons, or possibly the ruin of the sect altogether. Some ...
Ep 189 – The Next Mormon Settlement
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 10, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we get back into our historical timeline. It’s a busy time in Nauvoo, constant accusations of polygamy rage inside and outside the kingdom on the Mississippi. The Council of Fifty are scrambling to name a good Vice President for Jo’s POTUS campaign. Money problems affect every p...
Ep 188 – The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis pt. 3
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 03, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we conclude reading through our recently-published paper in the Journal of Psychedelics Studies on psychedelics in early Mormonism. Parts 1 and 2 established the foundation for what will be discussed in this part 3. We examine entheogens in the early church, the Kirtland-era, an...
Ep 187 – The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis pt.2
Naked Mormonism Podcast - December 27, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we continue reading through our recently published article in the Journal of Psychedelics Studies titled “The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis”. In this segment of the paper, we discuss many candidate entheogens Joseph Smith may have employed in the early c...
Ep 186 – The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis pt.1
Naked Mormonism Podcast - December 20, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we begin reading through the academic paper recently published in a special edition of the Journal of Psychedelics Studies authored by Robert Beckstead, Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi, and Michael Winkelman. This segment of the paper covers the background of the Smith family, ma...
Ep 185 – “A FRIENDLY HINT TO MISSOURI”
Naked Mormonism Podcast - December 13, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Joseph Smith’s presidential campaign is ramping up! Jo nominates James Arlington Bennet for his Vice-Presidential candidate, White-out Willard Richards drafts a letter to Bennet, notice is printed in the Nauvoo Neighbor, and a retraction is published the following week. A specia...
Ep 184 – The Power of a Mormon POTUS
Naked Mormonism Podcast - December 06, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss the continued growing tensions between the Mormon and non-Mormon settlements in Illinois in early 1844. The Nauvoo City Council renews its effort to get an ordinance passed through the state legislature from Dec. 1843 which claimed Nauvoo to be a sovereign territory a...
Ep 183 – The Lost 116 Pages w/Don Bradley
Naked Mormonism Podcast - November 29, 2019 18:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we sit down with Don Bradley, author of a recently-released book covering what we know about the lost 116 pages of the Book of Mormon. Don has been researching this topic for the last 15 years and writing about it for the last 2; now his research is compiled into his book “The L...
Ep 182 – Patterns of Eliza R. Snow
Naked Mormonism Podcast - November 22, 2019 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we spend a bit of time familiarizing ourselves with one of the most powerful people in Mormon history. Few people left behind so much material to work with as Eliza R. Snow and her poems, written throughout her life, reveal a level of character development seldom seen through an...
Ep 181 – Green Mountain Masons
Naked Mormonism Podcast - November 15, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, times are tough in Nauvoo. From fights against the anti-Mormons in Carthage to financial strain pressuring everybody in the Kingdom on the Mississippi, Mormon leadership is looking for possible solutions to increasing debt crushing Jo and the whole community. They decided the Na...
Ep 180 – Mormons v. Carthaginians
Naked Mormonism Podcast - November 08, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, a fight breaks out between the Carthaginians and the Mormons of Nauvoo. Olive Amanda Smith Fullmer filed an affidavit charging her partner, Milton Cook, with bastardy (abandonment) and the Mormon Sheriff, Horace Eldridge, is granted a warrant for Cook’s arrest. When Eldridge arr...
Ep 179 – William Brutus Marks; Rat Patrol
Naked Mormonism Podcast - November 01, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss William Marks, his importance to our timeline, and a special council called to determine how loyal he was to the prophet. Just like last week, some had entertained thoughts that there was a Brutus in the highest rings of Mormon leadership waiting to backstab the proph...
Ep 178 – William Judas Law; Rat Patrol
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 25, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss the Nauvoo Police Force and the perpetuation of the Danite system of law. Joseph Smith was afraid there may be a Judas or Brutus in the ranks of Mormon leadership and pointed the finger at William Law. Law becomes the focus of an assassination attempt, which he became...
Ep 177 – Jo 3.0 Boy Prophet, Seer, & Revelator
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 18, 2019 15:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we dive into a strange occurrence in early 1844. By the last year of his ministry, Joseph Smith had designated half a dozen people to be his rightful successors in his absence or in the case of his death. But, in early 1844, it was finally time for Joseph Smith III (Jo 3.0) to r...
Ep 176 – Smith-entheogen Theory at JWHA 2019
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 11, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we air a presentation given for the John Whitmer Historical Association conference on psychedelics in early Mormonism. If my inbox is any indicator, many of you have been waiting on the newest research related to the Smith-entheogen theory; the wait is over. This presentation fo...
Ep 175 - Legal Polygamy w/ Philippa Meek Pt. 2
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 04, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we resume our conversation with Philippa Meek, a research fellow at Exeter University specializing in Mormon polygamy studies. What would it take to decriminalize or legalize polygamy? Is this the best option? Philippa makes the case that plural marriage will be the next social ...
Ep 174 - Legal Polygamy w/ Philippa Meek Pt. 1
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 27, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we take a break from our historical timeline to bring you a special guest. Philippa Meek is a research fellow at Exeter University specializing in polygamous religious sects. Part one of our discussion walks us through the controversial and intense history of early Mormon polyga...
Ep 173 – Emma’s My Hero
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 20, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we check in with Emma and her slipping grasp on power. She kicks out of the Nauvoo Mansion the Partridge sisters, the Lawrence sisters, and Jane Manning James to hopefully cut down on the rumors circulating the city. Orsimus F. Bostwick files a public complaint against Hyrum Sid...
Ep 172 – HORRIBLE MORMON MURDER
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 13, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we tap into over a dozen news articles to get a finger on the pulse of 1844 America when it came to the Mormons. People across the nation loved to read headlines about the Mormons and papers with those headlines sold like hotcakes. Newspapers ramped up the headlines to sell more...
Ep 171 – Horse Thief Daniel Avery
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 06, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we begin with discussing the arrest and extradition to Missouri of Mormon horse-thief Daniel Avery. He suffers for 2 weeks in a Missouri jail and is let off on a writ of habeas corpus to return to Nauvoo and swear out an affidavit detailing what happened. The Anti-Mormon politic...
Ep 170 – Council of Fifty Pt. 3 Conflagration
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 30, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsJoseph Smith is granted 100,000 soldiers as part of his private militia, gets elected President of the United States, and his Council of Fifty manages war on 2 fronts with the Confederate South and Texas-Mexico border while General Smith wages a conquest covering over a million square miles. He ...
Ep 169 – Council of Fifty Pt. 2 Conception, Conjugation, Conglomeration
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 23, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we dive into part 2 of our discussion of the Council of Fifty. What was it used for? Why was it convened? What transpired in the closed-door meetings? What documents do we have and how did they come to us? This episode is divided into 3 parts to help break down what we know abou...
Ep 168 – Council of Fifty Pt. 1 William Clayton
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 16, 2019 03:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we begin our deep-dive series into the Council of Fifty. Joseph Smith’s theocracy required organizational structure; the Council of Fifty is how he planned on implementing it. William Clayton was called as scribe for the Council and we discuss his life and role in early Mormonis...
Ep 167 – The Next Mormons with Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 09, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we take a break from our historical timeline to bring you a very exciting interview with Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll. Jana Riess is the author of the book “The Next Mormons” and Benjamin Knoll is the data scientist who helped create the survey an interpret the data which under...
Ep 166 – Joseph Smith’s POTUS Platform & Latter-day Lesbian
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 31, 2019 13:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we read Jo’s POTUS campaign pamphlet. On Jan. 29, 1844, JS was nominated for President of the United States. What immediately followed was his calling for various church leaders to canvass high population areas to electioneer and commissioning William W. Phelps to write out his ...
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