Joining us this week is Emily Utt, a curator in the Church History Department, and James Goldberg, a writer and historian. In this episode we explore the exodus of Latter-day Saints from the Ottoman Empire to Aleppo and the trials they faced while fleeing danger. We then zip across to Cardston, Canada, to analyze the construction and dedication of the first temple outside of the United States of America.

V3 - E15: No Greater Reward

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In this season finale, Jed Woodworth, managing historian of the Saints project, Scott Hales, the literary editor of the volume, and Lisa Olsen Tait, a general editor for this volume, join us to take a look back over volume 3 and to reflect on its production. We discuss the challenges of researching and writing this volume during COVID 19.

V3 - E40: Season Finale

Today we are joined by Ray Kuehne, a historian of German Church History, and Christian Fingerle, the Europe Area Church History Manager, to discuss the significance of the Swiss temple and the improving situation that the Church found itself in Europe ten years after the Second World War.

V3 - E39: A New Era

As Latter-day Saints prepare for a temple in Europe there are practical considerations that Church leaders have to deal with. In today's episode we have Virginia Pearce Cowley, an author and former member of the Young Women General Presidency, and Christian Euvrard, a sociologist and historian of European Church History, joining us to discuss the state of the Church in Europe and Gordon B. Hinckley's efforts to start operations in the Swiss Temple.

V3 - E38: More Power, More Light

In the early 1950s, German Latter-day Saint Henry Burkhardt has to navigate numerous pressures as he interacts with the German Democratic Republic as a Church leader. Joining us today is Matt Heiss, a manager in the Church History Department, and Tobias Burkhardt, the son of Henry Burkhardt. We discuss Henry's efforts to keep the Church going and the complicated topic of how he related to the government.

V3 - E15: No Greater Reward

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