Whitmer Cast

In this episode, we bring you an interview with Taylor Petrey, author of the recent book, Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos - published by University of North Carolina Press.  As he discusses, Petrey’s book explores some new and exciting ways to rethink and reimagine kinship bonds within the theological frame of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

More about the book:

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469682709/queering-kinship-in-the-mormon-cosmos/

In this episode, Jason R. Smith interviews Steven C. Taysom, author of the recent book, Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith, published by University of Utah Press. We discuss the book and the extraordinary life of the sixth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In this episode, host Jason R. Smith interviews Shinji Takagi, Meagan Rainock, and Conan Grames - authors of the recent book, Unique But Not Different: Latter-day Saints in Japan - published by Greg Kofford Books.  We discuss the survey they conducted of Latter Day Saints in Japan and learn more about their findings.  You might be surprised by what they have to say.

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In this episode, we bring you a followup to our last episode with an authors meet critics panel session from the 2024 JWHA annual meeting in St. George, Utah. In this session, Cheryl Bruno and John Dinger, authors of Come Up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering, are joined by Chris Blythe, Kyle Beshears, and Rachel Killebrew to discuss the book.

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In this episode, we bring you an interview with Cheryl Bruno and John Dinger about their recent book, Come Up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering, published by Greg Kofford Books.

If you’d like to join JWHA or visit our entire backlog of episodes and journals, go to www.JWHA.info.

In this episode, we bring you an interview with Dr. Kyle Walker about his new book, Sister to the Prophet: The Life of Katharine Smith Salisbury, published by the BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book.  In this new book, he tells the story of Joseph Smith’s younger sister.

In this episode, host Jason R. Smith interviews Dr. Matthew L. Harris about his new book, Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality, published by Oxford University Press.

In this groundbreaking work, Harris tells the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' 126 year priesthood and temple ban against those of African ancestry which ended in June 1978.

Harris is a professor of history at Colorado State University-Pueblo. His particular focus is in religion and the law, church and state, American Religions, civil rights, legal history, and Mormon Studies. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Class-Saints-Mormons-Struggle-Equality/dp/019769571X/

Special crossover episode with Latter Day Digest in which host Gene Judson interviews Paul DeBarthe and Michael S. Riggs, co-authors of the recent book, Hawn’s Mills Hamlet: A Phase III Archaeological Investigation.

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In this episode, host Jason R. Smith interviews Adam Stokes, an elder and apostle in the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message, Assured Way of the Lord. We discuss the history of his church and Adam tells us about his church·s unique take on scripture and theology.

Host Jason R. Smith interviews Dr. David Howlett about the history and importance of the Kirtland Temple. David also shares some of his research on religious pilgrimage.

David is a visiting assistant professor of religion at Smith College and is currently the President of the Mormon History Association. He is the author of Kirtland Temple: the Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space.

https://davidjhowlett.net