Saints Podcast

The first Latter-day Saint women to serve as full-time missionaries arrived in England in 1898. Matt McBride, a director in the Church History Department, and Lisa Olsen Tait, a historian and general editor of volume 3, discuss this and other important moments in the final years of the nineteenth century.

Amber Taylor, Kate Holbrook, and Lisa Olsen Tait are historians in the Church History Department who join us in today's episode to discuss the state of Mutual Improvement Associations at the end of the nineteenth century. Our three guests explain the ways that Latter-day Saint women were improving themselves and the church.

Cherry Silver is co-editor of the Emmeline B. Wells diaries and Tiffany Bowles is the Associate Curator of Education in the Church History Museum. In today's episode Cherry and Tiffany join us to shed more light on the Political Manifesto and the history of women's suffrage in Utah.

Latter-day Saints in Great Britain seek to withstand persecution led by a disaffected former member. In Utah, church leaders try to better understand practices relating to the sealing of families and how to appeal to its younger members. Lisa Olsen Tait, a historian and general editor of Saints volume 3, shares her thoughts and insights into this chapter.

While the Tabernacle Choir enjoys success the Chicago World Fair, there are big challenges facing the Church. Michael Hicks, an emeritus professor of Music at Brigham Young University, Jed Woodworth, managing historian of the Saints project join us to discuss this opening chapter of Saints volume 3.

Welcome back to the third season of the Saints podcast. In this episode we introduce our hosts, James Perry and Shalyn Back and talk about Saints volume 3 with Church Historian and Recorder, Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. about what readers can look forward to in this volume.

In our final episode of Season 2 of the Saints podcast, hosts Ben Godfrey and Shalyn Back are joined by Scott Hales and Jed Woodworth. Scott and Jed share how being involved with this volume has changed them and what they have learned along the way.

Jennifer Lund is the director of the Historic Sites Division of the Church History Department. In this week's episode we discuss the culmination of Saints, Volume 2. Jenny explores the dedication of the Salt Lake temple.

Emily Utt is a conservation specialist with the Historic Sites Division of the Church History Department. In today's episode Emily helps us understand all that was involved in finishing the Salt Lake temple.

Jake Olmstead is a curator with the Historic Sites Division of the Church History Department. In this week's episode Jake explores how plural families lived after the Manifesto.