Episodes

  • S4 Episode 1: A 13-Year-Old Primary President in Uruguay

    S4 Episode 1: A 13-Year-Old Primary President in Uruguay
    Nov 5 2024

    Delia Rochon, who is featured in volume, tells us about joining the church as a teenager in Uruguay and the difference her Church service has made in her own life and the lives of countless others.
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    22 mins
  • S4 Episode 0: A Conversation with the Church Historian, Elder Kyle S. McKay

    S4 Episode 0: A Conversation with the Church Historian, Elder Kyle S. McKay
    Oct 29 2024

    Welcome back to the fourth season of the Saints podcast. In this episode, learn more about how and why Saints came to be as James Perry and Lisa Christensen speak with Scott Hales, writer and literary editor on the Saints team, and Elder Kyle S. McKay, a General Authority Seventy who serves as Church Historian and Recorder.
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    21 mins
  • V3-E 41 Podcast Survey Promo

    V3-E 41 Podcast Survey Promo
    Feb 3 2023
    Please take a survey to share with us what you think of the podcasts from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. podcastsurvey.churchofjesuschrist.org
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    1 min
  • V3 - E40: Season Finale

    V3 - E40: Season Finale
    Dec 21 2022
    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.
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    31 mins
  • V3 - E39: A New Era

    V3 - E39: A New Era
    Dec 14 2022
    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.
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    34 mins
  • V3 - E38: More Power, More Light

    V3 - E38: More Power, More Light
    Dec 7 2022
    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.
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    32 mins
  • V3 - E37: With Real Intent

    V3 - E37: With Real Intent
    Nov 30 2022
    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.
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    26 mins
  • V3 - E36: Carefully and Prayerfully

    V3 - E36: Carefully and Prayerfully
    Nov 23 2022
    This week we are joined by Alan Parrish, an emeritus professor of religious education at Brigham Young University, and Melissa Inouye, an historian in the Church History Department. First we discuss Clemencia Pivaral's journey to the Mesa Arizona Temple from her native home in Guatemala and the significance of such a journey. We then talk about John A. Widtsoe, a prominent recurring character in the book and his role in facilitating a temple for Europe.
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    24 mins