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On this episode, Joshua Carr joins us to talk about the recent interview he gave to Prager U regarding the darndest of LDS strengths!

Rylan, from Ether's Elephant, joins Cardon Ellis of Ward Radio in order to talk the good and the bad and the not-so-ugly stats on LDS attendance from Pew Research!

Jerry Grover walks in with a theory meant to end the shouting match.Joseph and Oliver said they used the **interpreters** the whole time. Emma, David Whitmer, and others talk about the **brown seer stone** after the 116 pages. Historians pick a side. Jerry’s riff: **maybe both were in the hat.**In this episode with Chris Blythe and Brad Whitbeck:- Interpreters first, curtain first — then the hat- Why the switch may have come from the lost 116 pages (skins over the face)- One interpreter stone + Joseph’s own stone- “Gift and power of God” covers both tools- What **Gazalem** might actually name- The brown stone is banded iron formation — not dinosaur gizzard- How a Wyoming-looking rock ended up 25 feet down in New York- Provenance: Oliver → Phineas Young fight → Brigham → the Church- Is *this* the stone, or one from the donated box?- Don Bradley and Jerry hunting the white seer stone in a developed hot spring- Why seminary “lied to me” is usually human error, not a conspiracyIf this kind of speculation shakes you, the episode says it out loud: **your faith was never supposed to live in the geology of one rock.**#SeerStone #BookOfMormon #JosephSmith #WardRadioGot it. Fewer chapters from here on.Chapter markers0:00 – Intro 1:14 – The contradiction: interpreters vs. seer stone 4:40 – Why he switched to the hat 8:10 – What the primary sources actually say 11:00 – Both stones in the hat 16:00 – What the brown stone even is 21:10 – Is this the right stone? 32:10 – If this shakes you 34:20 – Chris and the white-stone hunt 38:00 – Context vs. “the Church lied” 43:30 – OutroBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

Ryan Wood read the Joseph Smith Papers as they came out. Buried in the Revelation Books — the same books printers used for the Doctrine and Covenants — is a song given by the gift of tongues in the **Adamic / “pure” language**, then translated into English.With **Dr. Christopher Blythe** (Joseph Smith Papers), Brad Whitbeck, Adam Whitbeck, and Kwaku:- The 1833 “Song by the Gift of Tongues”- Why it never made the published D&C (it’s basically a psalm)- David W. Patten sang it. Sidney Rigdon interpreted it.- Enoch, the city of God, hands struck with Enoch of old- A working read of **Adam-ondi-Ahman**: *the place where many meet God*- **Ahman** as a name for God, **Son Ahman** as Christ (D&C 78)- Why this language looks relationship-heavy- W.W. Phelps, the Egyptian alphabet, and the same era as the papyri- Cipher / code-name theory vs. “bad translation”- 19th-century insults from the Papers- Walk by faith: even Joseph was still revisingThis is restoration history at ground level — raw documents, not the cleaned-up handbook version.#JosephSmithPapers #AdamondiAhman #LatterDaySaints #WardRadio### Chapter Markers0:00 – Intro: printers, Revelation Books, Adamic gems 1:20 – Guests: Blythe, Brad, Adam, Kwaku 3:20 – Why Documents 7, 9, and 12 hit different 3:50 – “Song by the Gift of Tongues and Translated” 5:10 – Why it never made the published D&C 6:10 – What’s in the song: hosanna, Enoch, the city of God 7:45 – Sponsor: Brother Joseph screening 8:05 – Does this explain Adam-ondi-Ahman? 8:40 – David W. Patten sang it; Sidney Rigdon interpreted it 10:20 – Sung… or a poem? 11:10 – They revised it — so they took it seriously 12:00 – Swear words vs. 19th-century insults 13:15 – Sample of the “pure language” 13:50 – What “Amen / Ahman” means 14:30 – Adam = many? A title, not just a name 15:20 – Adam-ondi-Ahman: where many meet God 16:10 – Son Ahman, sons Ahman, angels 17:20 – Adamic as a relationship language 18:00 – Phelps, Egyptian, and the same project 19:20 – Samuel Brown and the “chain of belonging” 20:10 – Ahman as an early “keyword” 21:20 – Egypt, “om,” Amenhotep 22:00 – Grammar and Egyptian alphabet 24:00 – Facsimile 2 / hypocephalus 25:00 – Deseret alphabet 26:00 – Translation… or a cipher to protect temple things? 27:20 – Code names in the Revelation Books 28:20 – Walk by faith. They didn’t have every answer either.Become a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

Tonight Lisa Keller, community organizer from Idaho, joins Cardon Ellis and Brittany Ellis in the Ward Radio Wig-Wam to update us on the latest from Idaho!

Patrick Bet-David and Tony Robbins sat down to talk about America’s future — and walked straight into Mormon missions.Robbins: a **belief is a poor substitute for an experience.** PBD: send the kids out so they stop taking America for granted.This reaction episode is about why that only works when it’s undergirded by faith.- Not a weekend orphanage trip. Two years. Local currency. Local food. Local buses.- Language in six weeks — the clip even nods at how the FBI noticed- Why a secular “national service” still won’t do what Jews and Mormons do- Meaning in every relationship: premortal, mortal, eternal- Forgiveness as the thing that actually repairs a country- Stop acting like the underdog. The people building things keep saying the same line: *those Mormons figured it out.*Be loud. Be proud. They already want what you have.Original PBD / Robbins clip linked in the description.#TonyRobbins #PatrickBetDavid #LDSMission #WardRadioChapter Markers0:00 – PBD and Robbins: Mormons figured this out 2:20 – Missions, languages, and Nick Shirley 4:50 – “Belief is a poor substitute for experience” 8:35 – Why America can’t copy Jews and Mormons 11:30 – Meaning in every relationship 14:20 – Made to give, not just get 17:15 – Stop playing the underdog 20:30 – Sponsors + Brother Joseph Again screeningBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

1869. The Salt Lake Temple is barely out of the ground. And the Saints are printing **First Nephi in a brand-new alphabet**.The **Deseret Alphabet** was Brigham Young’s phonetic rewrite of English — no silent letters, no exceptions. *Tough* is just **TUF**. Immigrants were supposed to learn English faster. Schoolchildren got primers. Apostles like Parley P. Pratt were on the committee.It flopped.English speakers didn’t want a new alphabet. Printing was expensive. Only **four** books were ever produced. Flooded basements wrecked a lot of the rest.The irony Reid Moon drops in this episode: **more people use the Deseret font today than ever used it in the 1800s.**Reid brings an original 1868–69 Deseret Reader into the studio — three witnesses page, pronunciation key, the real artifact — and walks through:- What the alphabet was *for* (schools, not Adamic code)- Why it wasn’t a Kirtland cipher- Why a complete Deseret Book of Mormon is still one of the most affordable 19th-century LDS collectibles- Two original readers heading to the Ward Radio merch storeA failed language. A real piece of Utah history. And a font you can still download.#DeseretAlphabet #BrighamYoung #LatterDaySaints #WardRadioChapter Markers0:00 – Intro 0:11 – 1869: they already knew what the Temple would look like 1:25 – What is this book? 1:45 – English… with no exceptions 2:20 – First Nephi in the Deseret Alphabet 2:55 – The Three Witnesses page 3:20 – Why was it created? Immigrants vs. secret code 4:00 – Only four books were ever printed 4:30 – More people use the font NOW than in the 1800s 5:00 – October 1868: Brigham announces the school readers 5:40 – Committee of three, University of Deseret, 1853 6:00 – Parley P. Pratt’s letter to Orson 6:25 – This is not the Adamic language 6:50 – University of Deseret → Salt Lake 7:00 – “The First Ward” sidebar 8:50 – Flooded basements and rare complete copies 9:20 – Pratt: it was to help people learn 10:00 – Two original readers for the merch store 10:50 – How to ship a 150-year-old book 12:10 – A chunk of Brigham Young and Parley P. Pratt’s experimentBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

**Exclusive.** We walked the actual studio where *Brother Joseph Again* was built — black walls, plaster busts, death masks, and a replica of the Smith-Larson daguerreotype locket the Church now owns.Joseph Smith is the only latter-day Church president with **no confirmed photograph**. For 182 years the face has been paintings, a death mask, and arguments. These filmmakers say they can finally answer what he looked like.Patrick Bishop (history), Joseph Rickey (forensics), and director Daelynn walk us through:- Why the Church itself kept asking “what did Joseph really look like?”- Rogers vs. Maudsley vs. the death mask — the contraries- John Taylor’s bust… and the later letter that said it was *nothing* like Joseph- Why a family locket stayed hidden for 40 years (jewelry, not a parlor portrait)- Why it isn’t Hyrum (no mole, no sideburns, wrong lip length)- Skull → death mask → 3D reconstruction → overlay on the daguerreotype- The Scannel image they studied for 10 years and still won’t fully kill- Scenes they cut: family likenesses, Hallmark stamps, a 2:30 a.m. “I cannot be an imbecile” momentCardon stays skeptical. Chris Blythe stays open. The filmmakers put the whole case on the table.Not a review of the movie. A tour of the evidence.Tickets and links in the description.#BrotherJosephAgain #JosephSmith #WardRadio**Chapter Markers**0:00 – Studio tour 2:00 – Why Cardon is skeptical 4:00 – Meet the filmmakers 5:00 – The replica locket 6:00 – Joseph’s face has been abused 7:40 – Paintings vs. the death mask 9:00 – John Taylor’s bust 10:20 – “No secrets in Mormonism” 12:20 – Preponderance of evidence 14:00 – When history met forensics 15:20 – The other claimed photo 16:40 – “I cannot be an imbecile” 18:00 – Provenance of the Larson locket 21:30 – What they cut from the film 25:10 – Why it isn’t Hyrum 27:20 – Skull, mask, 3D face 28:10 – How did nobody know for 182 years? 29:20 – Jewelry vs. parlor portrait 32:30 – Cartoons and caricatures 36:10 – The expert bench 38:50 – The 90-second case 40:30 – OutroBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

Adam Whitbeck left. Then he came back. Then, in one month, he got his patriarchal blessing, drove 15 young men to camp, was ordained an elder, and went to the Payson Temple.This episode is for the person who already knows the Church is true on paper — and still can’t feel it.We talk about:- Why an *intellectual* testimony can keep you from leaving… and still not make you act- The blessing that named young men — and the phone call two hours later- Washing and anointing: “the scales lifted from my eyes”- Three kinds of testimony: intellectual, experiential, spiritual- John 7:17 — do His will, *then* you’ll know- Chris Blythe’s convert story: cigarette, Book of Mormon, “can I go on a mission?”- What the endowment actually felt like after the internet told him it would be weirdIf you’re going through the motions and waiting for a witness first — this is the episode that says **take the next step anyway.**#ComeBack #LatterDaySaints #WardRadioChapter Markers2:00 – Adam’s back — and he just got endowed 2:30 – Comfort without meaning 3:20 – Intellectual testimony without a spiritual one 4:10 – Going through the motions 4:30 – Patriarchal blessing 5:15 – Two hours later: drive 15 young men to camp 6:40 – “Maybe there’s something to this” 7:00 – Ordained an elder 7:15 – Payson Temple 8:00 – “Thank you for waiting for me” 8:50 – Scales lifted at the washing and anointing 10:00 – Sponsor: Brother Joseph 10:15 – Brad: I remembered you feeling the Spirit 11:15 – Sense vs. want 11:40 – To anyone considering coming back: keep going 12:20 – John 7:17 — do, then know 13:00 – Three testimonies: intellectual, experiential, spiritual 14:10 – Intellectual testimony as a shield 15:00 – Form of godliness, denying the power 16:00 – Experience reinforces the principle 16:40 – Sometimes you act with no whoosh 18:40 – Chris: convert, fall, porch, cigarette, fire 21:20 – Three ways God builds a convert 22:20 – “Where’s the weird part?” 23:10 – Bible already prepared him for the temple 24:00 – Symbols when words aren’t enough 25:20 – What’s still hard to believe? 26:20 – Journal the wrestle 27:20 – Welcome back Become a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

This is a **touchy** conversation. Treat it that way.Latter-day Saints believe we have a Mother in Heaven. That part is real. What is *not* revealed is whether she is the Holy Ghost, whether there is one Mother or many, or how the Godhead is structured beyond what the scriptures already say.We are speculating. We say that out loud.In this episode:- Kwaku’s case: divine wisdom / Sophia / feminine Spirit- The problem: the Holy Ghost is spoken of as “he” in scripture- President Oaks: “Heavenly Mother or Mothers” — we don’t know- Chris Blythe’s two practical rules from current Church culture: 1. Don’t teach that Heavenly Mother *is* the Holy Ghost 2. Don’t publicly pray to Heavenly Mother- A 1843 Franklin D. Richards note that the Holy Ghost is “in a state of probation” — contested, not canon- Elohim as plural, justice and mercy, masculine and feminine- The Monad, graduated intelligences, and why infinite-regress god-chains get ugly- Why stuffing Heavenly Mother into the Godhead to “give her a seat” may be the wrong instinct**Guardrails first.** Unity in the essentials. Liberty in the non-essentials. Reverence the whole way down.This is not a declaration of doctrine. If you clip it like it is, you missed the episode.#HeavenlyMother #HolyGhost #LatterDaySaints #WardRadioChapter Markers0:00 – Cold open: dove, not falcon 1:30 – Green-room question: is the Holy Ghost Heavenly Mother? 2:30 – Kwaku: “If I had to pick…” 4:00 – Sophia, wisdom, and the jump to the Holy Ghost 4:50 – Oaks: Mother or Mothers — we don’t know 5:20 – Scriptures call the Spirit “he” 6:20 – Fast-and-testimony energy 7:40 – Sophia in Proverbs 8 and Gnosticism 8:50 – Sponsor: Brother Joseph screening 9:00 – Chris’s Sophia dream 10:20 – “I won’t make Mother inferior to the Son” 10:40 – 1843 note: Holy Ghost in probation 12:00 – JSP revisions and “gospel fluff” concerns 13:00 – Is the Godhead even a hierarchy? 14:10 – One Heavenly Mother, or many? 15:10 – Elder Renlund / Gospel Topics: stick to what we know 16:10 – Two rules: don’t teach she’s the Holy Ghost; don’t pray to her publicly 17:30 – Elohim is plural — is Mother in “the image of God”? 19:00 – Don’t force her into the Godhead for representation points 19:40 – Ancient religions and feminine wisdom 20:30 – The Monad and “single to the glory of God” 22:00 – Graduated intelligences 24:20 – Spirit person ≠ lesser person 25:10 – Why an endless chain of Gods is terrifying 26:40 – What if a trusted messenger rebelled later?Become a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures