Latest Mormonhistory Podcast Episodes
Ep 165 – Stone Rolling Through Fluid Morality
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 26, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss how fluid Joseph Smith’s morality and theology really was. We begin with his evolving perspective on slavery from pro-slavery to abolitionist when it was politically advantageous. Then we discuss how Mormonism was strictly monogamous to closeted polygamous when possib...
Ep 164 – Blade, Nor Bullet, Nor Poison Can Harm Them
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 19, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we start with discussing whether or not Emma Smith poisoned Joseph Smith. If she didn’t, who did? If it wasn’t poison, what could it have been? Is there enough evidence to conclude that Emma attempted to kill her first husband? After that we discuss the Christmas party of 1843 a...
Episode 163 – Live and Die by the Law
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 12, 2019 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss the Law family. From Jo’s personal councilor in the Church presidency, aide-de-camp in the Nauvoo Legion, registrar of the University of Nauvoo, and general Mormon eliteness to one of the most powerful and outspoken critics of Joseph Smith and Mormonism; William Law h...
Ep 162 – Walker v. Hoge; Political Chess
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 05, 2019 03:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss the controversial election of 1843. Jo had promised his vote, and by implication the Mormon voting bloc, to the Whig candidate and well-respected lawyer, Cyrus Walker. However, the Democrats held control of the state militia that represented a constant threat to the s...
Ep 161 – The Mormon Seraglio
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 28, 2019 01:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we jump back into Nauvoo Mormonism. We begin with discussing the realm of politics in the 1840s. Jo’s political chess didn’t begin in Nauvoo, but Nauvoo was where he ramped up his game and moved to the ranks of political chess master. Jo had an incredible ability to curry the fa...
Ep 160 – Mormon-Native Relations 1840-1857 w/Christopher C. Smith Pt.2
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 21, 2019 15:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we get into part 2 of our discussion with Mormon historian Chris Smith. Part 1 was the primer with a heavy focus on early Mormon emissaries. Part 2 dives into how these Mormon-Native relationships were explored and leveraged to hasten the Mormon theodemocracy with dictatorial pr...
Ep 159 – Mormon-Native Relations 1830-1840 w/Christopher C. Smith Pt.1
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 13, 2019 16:21 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we sit down with Mormon historian Chris Smith to discuss part 1 of a 2-part series on Native and Mormon relations during Joseph Smith’s ministry. We begin with discussing the Book of Mormon being written explicitly to the Natives and describe Joseph’s mindset in allying with the...
Ep 158 – The Very Walls Had Ears
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 07, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we dive into the ubiquity of Nauvoo polygamy. Much has been made about Joseph Smith having multiple wives, but he wasn’t the only Nauvoo elite with more than one. Just how prevalent was the practice? How many participated? How many knew about the doctrine? How many plural marria...
Ep 157 - Calling in Sick
Naked Mormonism Podcast - May 30, 2019 18:03 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsJust that, I'm finally doing it for the first time in 4.5 years of podcasting. But, there are a few announcements that need to find a home in your earhole so please permit a short 5.75 mins of listening to give those announcements the home they deserve. I'm sorry everybody! We'll be back nex...
Ep 156 – Hingepin Rigdon’s Pivotal Trial
Naked Mormonism Podcast - May 24, 2019 06:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Hingepin Sidney Rigdon is in the hot seat. August of 1843 brought about events that led to him being disfellowshipped. After a month of waiting on pins and needles, Rigdon was called in for a hearing before the High Council to determine if he would remain in fellowship, or be of...
Ep 155 – Alexander Neibaur and Kabbalah
Naked Mormonism Podcast - May 17, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we pick up with a European convert who made his way to Nauvoo in 1841. Alexander Neibaur was a “learned” man who was given to linguistic studies, dentistry, and esoteric Hebrew mysticism. Joseph Smith found a friend and fellow occultist in Neibaur and Mormon doctrine and theolog...
Ep 154 – Jane and Emma
Naked Mormonism Podcast - May 10, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, as we enter the last half of 1843, an era of good-feelings falls upon Nauvoo. The streets shined as if paved by gold and the Mormons had beat the justice system again while polygamy was in full swing! We focus in on some of the pressures behind closed doors the public wasn’t pri...
Ep 153 - D. Michael Quinn pt.1
Naked Mormonism Podcast - May 03, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we sit down with author/historian D. Michael Quinn to hear his biographical sketch. We begin with how he came to fall in love with information and history then hear how he came into contact with "anti-Mormon propaganda," only to find out it was true. Then he takes us on a jour...
Ep 153.5 - D. Michael Quinn pt.2
Naked Mormonism Podcast - May 03, 2019 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Dr. Quinn picks up right where we left off in part 1. Mike tells us about his disagreements with the general direction of BYU Mormon History academia. New Mormon History is born as the Church Historian's Archives are opened and a new influx of independent researchers get their...
Ep 152 – Hiding in Plain Sight; Accult
Naked Mormonism Podcast - April 26, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we take a brief foray into the magic world view of early Mormon leaders. From astrology to divination to scrying to palmistry, many early leaders of the church were influenced by the magic that underpins Protestant Christian mysticism. Instead of talking about Joseph Smith and h...
Ep 151 – Going With the Opposed Votes
Naked Mormonism Podcast - April 19, 2019 03:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we air a presentation I gave to a local Post-Mormon meetup group in St. George, Utah. By common consent they wanted to hear ALL the material I prepared. The talk begins with a little about my story, then progresses to points that I find interesting in Mormon history after studyi...
Ep 150 – Helen Mar Kimball
Naked Mormonism Podcast - April 12, 2019 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we seek to humanize a controversial and fascinating figure of Nauvoo Mormonism. Helen Mar Kimball has been leveraged as an attack against Joseph Smith for decades. The person at the center of those attacks is a wonderful and dynamic woman who was torn with following the prophet ...
Ep 149 – D&C 132 Pt. 2 the ConText
Naked Mormonism Podcast - April 05, 2019 04:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we dive into the historical context of the polygamy revelation (D&C 132). We discuss the plight of Emma with Jo’s reckless libido. We cover the historical foundation for William and Jane Law possibly brokering a sex-swap deal with Emma and Joseph Smith, as well as their later de...
Ep 148 – D&C 132 Pt. 1 the Text
Naked Mormonism Podcast - March 29, 2019 05:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we dive into deep Mormon theology! While this podcast is all about Mormon history, sometimes we need to discuss doctrine, when it was given, and the historical context during which said doctrine was created. Doctrine & Covenants 132 is widely known as the ‘Polygamy Revelation’ a...
Ep 147 – First They Came
Naked Mormonism Podcast - March 22, 2019 03:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Governor Ford’s hands are tied. Sheriffs Reynolds and Wilson, who’d arrested Joseph Smith, appeal to the Governor to call out the state militia to rein in Jo. The Mormons sign petitions calling on the Governor to never issue a warrant for arrest on any Mormons ever again. The Mo...
Ep 146 – I’ll See My Enemies in Hell
Naked Mormonism Podcast - March 15, 2019 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Joseph Smith was safe in his kingdom on the Mississippi. A legal mess had been mixed by everything that happened during the week of June 23-30, 1843 and now it was time to sort it out. Documentation is entered into the Nauvoo Municipal Court record justifying Jo’s arrest in the ...
Ep 145 – The Corruption of Their Leaders
Naked Mormonism Podcast - March 08, 2019 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we pick up where we left off last week. Joseph Smith was in the custody of Missouri Sheriff, Joseph Reynolds, but the sheriffs were in the custody of one of Jo’s boys. We read through multiple first-person early accounts of how their journey to Nauvoo went. Jo had everything in ...
Ep 144 – If You Stir I’ll Shoot; God Damn You!
Naked Mormonism Podcast - March 01, 2019 04:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, at the behest of Joseph Smith, Joseph H. Jackson embarks on a mercenary trip to Missouri in hopes of breaking Porter Rockwell out of jail and finishing off Ex-Governor Lilburn Boggs. His true intent? Collude with Jackson County Sheriff Reynolds to arrest Joseph Smith. He isn’t s...
Ep 143 – Kinderhoax Plates
Naked Mormonism Podcast - February 22, 2019 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Joseph Smith is a fraud. We discuss two occurrences in Nauvoo which prove that Jo didn’t have access to any knowledge that people of his day did. First is the Greek Psalter incident where a guy proved that Jo had no idea what language was on the parchment. After that is the enti...
Ep 142 – Pistol Packin’ Porter in Prison
Naked Mormonism Podcast - February 15, 2019 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Orrin Pistol Packin’ Porter Rockwell lets down his guard and heads for Nauvoo. As he was about to board the steamer, a bounty hunter caught up with him. We follow Port and his troubles in Missouri criminal justice system of 1843. In Port’s absence, a new wolf in sheep’s clothing...
Ep 141 – Plight of the Unwed Mother
Naked Mormonism Podcast - February 08, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, I bother all of you with a Facebook fight. Yes, really. Don’t worry, it’s just to springboard into the controversial issue of abortion in Nauvoo Mormonism. We read through a court document from March 1843 of a woman who suffered abuse at the hands of a Thomsonian herbal physicia...
Ep 140 – William Miller’s Bible Math
Naked Mormonism Podcast - February 01, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Joseph Smith and William Miller tangle through public media. Miller’s prophecy of the beginning of the Second Coming of Jesus is hotly disputed by the one true prophet. Jo goes out preaching to his congregants, sees a comet in the sky, and gives his own prophecy of when Jesus wi...
Ep 139 – A City of Glass Houses
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 30, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Jo was safe for a little while. It was time for the 1843 elections which returned predictable results. Jo elevates the Nauvoo House to the importance of the Nauvoo Temple, but then derides people for aggrandizing themselves. A market center is planned and Jo is given final decis...
Ep 138 – Full Faith and Credit with Andrew Torrez
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 18, 2019 00:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Andrew Torrez of Opening Arguments joins us to discuss the legal sphere of Joseph Smith’s troubles in 1843. He helps fact check my take on the January 1843 trial which heard in Smith’s favor on the writ of habeas corpus, but Jo was far from out of the woods. Andrew helps us unde...
Ep 137 – Emma’ Stairway to Hell
Naked Mormonism Podcast - January 11, 2019 07:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we discuss the historicity of an altercation between Eliza Snow and Emma Hale Smith. Legend has it that Emma saw Eliza who was “heavy with child” kiss Jo and pushed Eliza down the stairs in a fit of jealous rage. It’s common oral tradition passed down for generations, but did it...
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