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Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Martin Tanner Reviews the Recent International Association of Near-Death Studies Conference in UtahAs a vice president of IANDS, International Association of Near-Death Studies, Latter Day Radio co-host Martin Tanner discusses the recent conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, over Labor Day weekend in September 2022. Among other things, Martin and his co-host GM Jarrard examine the relevance and impact of accounts of people who have "passed on and returned" for people of faith, particularly Latter Day Saints. They recount how in dark and troubling times these stories, often with messages for friends and family members–can offer great hope and pique interest in life after death. Martin and Greg also address th...
2022-09-2248 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Jonathan Neville Reveals Location of Book of Mormon LandsIn this Latter Day Radio podcast, first broadcast on KLO Radio in Salt Lake City, attorney, author and researcher Jonathan Neville makes the case that the events described in the Book of Mormon took place in North America, primarily the northeastern U.S. states of Ohio, New York and Michigan and the surrounding areas. Neville bases his theory on Oliver Cowdery's "Letter 7" that was published in 1842 to counter claims from enemies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that Joseph Smith "borrowed" content from other sources, such as Solomon Spaulding. His studies led him to conclude that...
2022-09-0139 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.A Fresh Look at Near-Death Experiences with Martin TannerThe growing phenomenon of near-death experiences has attracted more and more attention in recent years. In August 2022, the annual convention of the International Association of Near-death Studies is taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Latter Day Radio host Martin Tanner has been assisting in its organization. As he explains in this podcast, Martin has been investigating reports of people in all walks of life–including small children–who claim that an illness or accident led to an episode known as an NDE, or near-death event.
One of the more well known experts in the subject. pedi...
2022-08-1349 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Their Long Journey Back to MongoliaA Long Journey Back to Mongolia: A "No More Strangers" Podcast
It’s no secret that students who attend Brigham Young University very often leave with more than just a college degree. For many, they leave with a spouse, too. Such was the case for our current guests in this Latter Day Radio podcast episode.
Oh, those single wards on campus!
The expressed purpose of “single wards” is to take a varied assortment of members of the Church from places with strange-sounding names and pair them up. Think of it as a sock drawer...
2022-06-0644 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.From an Orphanage in Ukraine to a Cottage in Daybreak, South Jordan, Utah< >
2022-03-2945 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Lessons from Churchill and The BlitzAbout This Episode
In a previous podcast, “Wokeism and Teaching Kids,” we promised to follow up on our discussion of that subject. We discussed the looming problem, likely growing and wondered out loud where it’s headed. The question we try to answer in this podcast is: What are we going to do about it? And who is going to step out and hold themselves up to ridicule?
Latter-day Saints recognize that free agency is essential to salvation. And, to be truly free, we must be able to choose between clearly defined opposites. But, when the pow...
2022-03-0154 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Teaching Kids in the Era of Wokeism and Critical Race TheoryWe are not the first generation that has wondered if the end times have arrived, that the world has been so corrupted that the only God’s intervention can make things right. Think of the 14th-century and the Black Plague, or the Thirty Years War a couple of hundred years later when the center of Europe was embroiled in war. Or a century and a half later when Napoleon marched back and forth across Europe and sounded the death knell to the Holy Roman Empire, followed by French revolution and more blood letting. That’s what Charles Dickens wrote abou...
2022-01-2733 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Baptist Pastor Preaches from the Book of MormonIn September 2018, Latter Day Radio was on the air broadcasting via KLO 1430AM in Salt lake City from the Firm Foundation Expo at the South Valley Exposition Centerin Sandy, Utah. One of the interviews broadcast conducted that day was with Dr. Lynn Ridenhour, a Baptist minister ifrom Independence, Missouri, who, believe it or not, preaches and teaches out of the Book of Mormon.
He explains how he was introduced to the book and why he has taken such a nonconformist approach. What is particularly appealing is how he supports the notion that people of faith are coming...
2022-01-1027 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom."The Invitation:" A Book with Timely Message for a Tumultuous AgeWhile millions of Americans were mourning about the chaos in the streets and political insults thrown back and forth in 2020, author of The Invitation to the Shining City, GM Jarrard, had turned to “binge-watching” the new TV series, The Chosen.
“While I was engrossed in the series by Dallas Jenkins, I felt real kinship with the people at the time of Christ who were under Roman rule. It occurred to me that we take our freedoms for granted, and that despite the promise of America being the ‘Shining City on the Hill,’ our way of life, even our freedo...
2022-01-0434 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom."A JACK MORMON'S TRAVEL GUIDE" Audio Book: Chapters 1-3 By Latter Day Radio PodcastsIn 2005, the author GM Jarrard published this small memoir in tribute to his father and now is releasing it in segments as an audio book. This podcast includes the first three chapters. A "Jack Mormon," in case you didn't know, was originally a term used derisively by enemies of the Latter-day Saints to mean friends of "The Mormons" who gave them aid and comfort. In fact, one of the original martyrs of the Church was, in fact, a "Jack Mormon" who was beaten and clubbed to death near Nauvoo, Illinois, after pulling out a shotgun to defend Mormons in...
2021-12-1633 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Is It China's Time for the Fullness of the Gospel?Retired broadcast executive, entrepreneur and returned mission president in Ireland, Don Gull, shares his insights about the time he spent in China with his wife, Dana, first teaching advanced business courses in economics at Nankai University near Beijing. Later, Don served with his wife in Hong Kong as the executive secretary to the Asia Area presidency. In all, he and Sister Gull spent four years in that fascinating country, the place that Winston Churchill called “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
In this podcast, Brother Gull tells about an experience he had as a miss...
2021-03-1235 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Glimpses into Our Pioneer Past–Tour of This Is The Place ParkIn this episode, Latter Day Radio host GM Jarrard welcomes Brian Westover, the trades exhibit manager at the "This Is The Place Heritage Park," for a virtual tour of this historical gem east of Salt Lake City. Situated at the mouth of Emigration Canyon, the park is built around the original monument dedicated here in 1947 at the 100th anniversary of the Mormon pioneers arriving in the valley. Legend has it that Brigham Young arose from a sick bed in the back of an open-air carriage and said, as he viewed the valley below, "this is the right place, move...
2020-08-2339 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Understanding the Origins of the Book of AbrahamAncient language and religious history expert Bruce Porter and host GM Jarrard look at the sad trend of members leaving the faith over critics’ charges about the origin of the Book of Abraham. They examine what the Book of Mormon predicts about events in the last days and relate them to Elder Holland’s 2009 conference address, “Safety for the Soul.” Bruce explains what the word “translation” means as described by the Prophet Joseph Smith, especially as it relates to modern scripture like the Book of Mormon, the Book of Moses and the Book of Abraham. And they remind listeners about the im...
2020-08-2349 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.The Perils of Living in a Promised Land: Comments by Bruce PorterIn this podcast, Bruce Porter and GM Jarrard sift through ancient scripture and examine the promises God has made with His children about living in lands of promise, from Israel to the United States. Bruce points out that both the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon are records of fallen peoples…peoples who were given great blessings and promises IF ONLY they would be obedient to God’s laws. He explains that covenants are attached like deeds to these special places, much like a mortgage–if you don’t pay your mortgage you can’t remain on that property...
2020-08-2331 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.New stuff all the time from Family Search! Listen and learn.In November of 2018, we broadcast this segment on “the latest on Family Search” on KLO AM1430 and featured Gregg Richardson, the “Experience Manager” for Family Search at the high-tech HQ in Lehi. We admit that in the world of technology, 2018 was a long time ago. Nevertheless, Brother Richardson’s enthusiasm and knowledge are infectious, and we are sharing this with you now as another Latter Day Radio “Faith-affirming Podcast.”
When you stop and reflect for a moment on that technology and the growth in interest in genealogy and searching for our ancestors, it really is a fulfillment of prophecy. C...
2020-06-0740 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom."Why Isn't God Answering My Prayers? – A Book Review With Answers by Gerald LundIn this podcast, Latter Day Radio host Martin Tanner discusses a recent book with his guest, prolific LDS author Gerald Lund, who wrote the Work and the Glory series and many other fiction and nonfiction books for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Conducted live on the air on KLO AM1430 in 2018, this interview focuses on a question that Lund was asked in a fireside years earlier: “Why doesn’t God answer my prayers?” His book examines the question and then provides answers from many different perspectives and sheds light on the many ways that God do...
2020-06-0449 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Linguist shows link between Uto-Aztecan languages of the Southwest and Semitic languages from the Middle EastIn the second verse of the Book of Mormon, Nephi claims that he was engraving on gold plates “a record of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.”
Ever since this verse appeared in the first verses of the Book of Mormon, critics of the Church, and particularly of Joseph Smith and the book he translated, have been laughing themselves silly.
For those with a knowledge of linguistics and who have studied the lifetime work of linguistic scholar Brian Stubbs of Blanding, Utah, aren’t laughing so lou...
2020-05-0539 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Seniors Singing "We Hope They Call Us A Mission" All Over The ChurchIn the past few years, Primary children haven’t been the only ones singing that old favorite, “I Hope They Call Me on a Mission.” Now senior citizens all over the Church have been belting out that tune as they get their affairs in order, undergo pretty rigorous medical exams and find somebody to watch the house, the garden and the dog while they’re gone. Soon, they discover the toughest part of all is saying goodbye to grandchildren.
Nobody knows that better than Darrell and Ann Hobson, the guests featured here in this next podcast on Latter D...
2020-05-0239 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom."This Is the Right Place..." Even If It's A Barren Rock!In this Latter Day Radio podcast, Martin Tanner and GM Jarrard look back at the sweep of Church history from 1844 to 1847 and examine the events that led up to the great western flight of the Saints of the Latter-days to the Great Basin. As we study Church history, the challenge is to walk in the worn-out boots of our pioneer ancestors…to somehow put their challenges, their pain and their triumphs into perspective. It is all too easy to be guilty of the bias of “presentism,” which Webster defines as “an attitude toward the past dominated by present-day attitudes and expe...
2020-05-0238 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Martin Tanner and GM Jarrard examine the Prophet Joseph Smith's prophecy that the Gospel will "roll forth and fill the Earth."In this LATTER DAY RADIO Podcast, hosts Martin Tanner and GM Jarrard answer the question “what exactly was the message of the Restoration that should roll forth and fill the Earth?”
In regards to the Prophet Joseph Smith’s prophecy about the rolling forth of the Gospel that “the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear,” Martin and Greg agree how improbable this statement was given when only relatively few people had heard of Joseph. Today, with 16 million me...
2020-04-2739 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.How Family Histories Can Build Bridges Between GenerationsIf recent events have you worrying about the future, let’s not forget the challenges of the past. And, let’s remember the hard-scrabble lives of our ancestors who passed through them. Consider the trials, persecution, wars and illness that our forefathers experienced since the Church was organized. In a podcast we have posted here on this website, we recounted the trials that Wilford Woodruff passed through until his death in 1898; even the day before his death, he wrote in his daily journal. How precious are his words to his posterity and to us at this present time. In this...
2020-04-1939 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Is It Freedom FROM Religion OR Freedom OF Religion? With Martin TannerWhat, exactly, is religious freedom? Depends on whom you ask.
So, I Googled it, and guess what the first site was that popped up at the top? Not surprisingly, based on the secular-materialist political bent at Google, it was oilá… “the Foundation for Freedom FROM Religion.”
How about that?!
That topic, Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom FROM Religion is the subject of this podcast from Latter Day Radio featuring the host, Martin Tanner, and myself, GM Jarrard co-host and producer. Given how easily government just took over and shut everything down over a so-call...
2020-04-1938 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Author Michelle Schmidt Shares Her Story About Being "Carried" After Her Daughter's DeathIn October 2018, Latter Day Radio had as its guest Michelle Schmidt, mother of several children and the wife of the Piano Guy’s pianist, Jon Schmidt. Her husband’s career was skyrocketing, life was good–they had missionaries out serving and then tragedy struck.
On October 19, 2016, Michelle Schmidt's plane landed in Oregon, where she was meeting her daughter, Annie, for a camping trip. But Annie didn't show up at the airport to pick up her mother as planned.
Thus began a season of searching and coming up short, of miracles and frustrations, of love poured out an...
2020-04-1838 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.A Look Inside the Family Search Tool Box with a Genealogy Library ExpertIn a day when so many people seem so disconnected–rootless, even–searching for your family’s identity is more important than ever. Church leaders from the very beginning until now have taught that family history not only has power to do something for the dead, but it also has power to bless the living. President Boyd K. Packer said, “Family history . . . has a refining, spiritualizing, tempering influence on those who are engaged in it” (“Your Family History: Getting Started,” Ensign, Aug. 2003, 17).
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roo...
2020-04-1837 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Senior Missionaries Share Stories of Church History in Germany and Central EuropeFor two years, Elder Phil and Sister Doreen Lear had one of the best senior missionary assignments in the Church: From November 2016 to 2018, they were assigned to collect, preserve and then set up local Church history centers in the Europe West area and lived north of Frankfurt, Germany in a small village, Bad Homburg, near the Frankfurt Temple. They worked in 38 countries, collecting stories, photos, documents and artifacts from all over. They were also assigned to help local stakes and missions to set up records preservation centers in those countries. Latter Day Radio host and producer, GM Jarrard (far...
2020-04-181h 17
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints universalists?Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a universalist denomination? For years, members and leaders alike have warned each other about death-bed repentance…that “easy” grace is not really that easy. We’ve all read in the Book of Mormon about “holding to the rod” and enduring to the end. Lehi lamented that his sons Laman and Lemuel would not partake of the fruit at the tree of salvation and were lost.
So, why are we even asking the question, are Mormons universalists? (Sorry about the “M” word!)
Well, don’t scold us too fast.
I...
2020-04-1826 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Examining the Book of Abraham with Egyptologist Dr. John Gee, BYU professorWhere did we get the Pearl of Great Price? You could view it as a “recipe” book, a collection of some of your favorite spiritual meals combined into one volume. The Church website explains that “…the first collection of materials carrying the title Pearl of Great Price was made in 1851 by Elder Franklin D. Richards, then a member of the Council of the Twelve and president of the British Mission. Its purpose was to make more readily accessible some important articles that had had limited circulation in the time of Joseph Smith. As Church membership increased throughout Europe and America...
2020-04-1739 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.God's blessings and warnings for those living in a Promised LandAs members of the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, when we speak of a Promised Land, we can mean many things, many places…many LANDS of Promise. In this podcast, Book of Mormon researcher and author Rod Meldrum explores the meaning of this phrase through the lens of the scriptures.
Years ago, Elder Jeffrey Holland touched upon the same subject in an address. He noted that a promised land is the “most sacred of places, then, will always be those locations which God has designated for holy and eternal purposes, locations where he is the ‘doer of the...
2020-04-1626 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Examining Evidence for the Book of Mormon: The Mission to the LamanitesIn the past few years, there have been two major theories proposed about where the actual events in the Book of Mormon took place. Filmmaker Kieth Merrill gave one important bit of advice to any Book of Mormon “geography hobbyist” about suggesting their theory is the official position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When Merrill was reviewing productions about a new major film on the appearance of Jesus Christ in the New World, President James E. Faust took him aside and directed him not to portray or use any recognizable location to imply that the Chur...
2020-04-1436 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Ancient Judah and modern day Israel: Some comparisons by Israeli tour guide Daniel RonaWho are God’s covenant people? By reading the Old and New Testament, one could come to the quick conclusion that it’s the Jews, members of the tribe of Judah and upon closer inspection, all of Jacob’s sons… all 12 twelve tribes of Israel.
Then, after reading Genesis in the Old Testament, you’d have to admit that it was all of Abraham’s posterity–even more “covenant people” in the Middle East and around the world.
But, then you’ve got modern scripture–the rest of the standard works as defined by the Church of Jesus Christ...
2020-04-1238 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Waiting for World's End: The Diaries of Wilford WoodruffIf you’re looking for an example in journal writing–someone to model your record-keeping life after–then this podcast on Wilford Woodruff is right up your alley.
If it weren’t for this fourth president of the Church, much of the 19th-century history of the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would be missing. As he confesses in his journal, he was not only compelled, but inspired to write down all of the pertinent information of his life from the day he joined the Church in 1833 until his death as its president in San Francisco in 1898. He state...
2020-04-0733 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Latter Day Radio: Faith, Freedom and the Rule of LawWhen Latter Day Radio was on the air in 2018 on KLO AM1430, we used the phrase “broadcasting from the intersection of faith and freedom.”
It wasn’t just a slogan–it was our attempt to label our point of view that even though religion and politics generally don’t mix well together–sort of like fuel oil and fertilizer that tend to blow up–our intention was clear: namely, that faith and and freedom are inextricably linked. You can’t have one without the other. As Benjamin Franklin explained to one woman when he exited Independence Hall in Philadelphia...
2020-04-0336 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A COVENANT LANDWhere is the promised land? The Jews, the Muslims and most Christians believe that a small strip of land bordering the southeast shore of the Mediterranean Sea is where Jehovah sent Abraham and his seed to the land of their inheritance. And, they’re not wrong.
But members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the Book of Mormon in one hand and the Doctrine and Covenants on the other have learned that the Middle East isn’t the ONLY Promised Land.
Modern scripture and modern prophets have declared that the Americas are...
2020-04-0339 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.LATTER DAY RADIO: The Anatomy of the New Testament with Martin TannerIf we take a hard look at the titles of the two main parts of the bible, we will realize that the OLD and the NEW testaments testify of the same thing: They testify that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, that there was a Creation, a Fall and an Atonement, and that Jesus is the Christ.
That’s why today, the Book of Mormon bears the subtitle: ANOTHER TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST.
Each testament serves a similar, but different purpose. How does the mission of the New Testament differ from its predecessor an...
2020-04-0339 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.LATTER DAY RADIO: The Old Testament, More Timely Than Ever!Every four years, members of the Church dust off their copies of the Old Testament, move their marker ribbon-bookmarks from somewhere in the back of their “quads” to the front and prepare to listen, ready and study books from Genesis to Malachi.
Why?
What makes the Old Testament germane to the 21st-century? What could we possibly have in common with Noah’s contemporaries?
Oh THAT!
You mean Imminent destruction of the wicked? Maybe not a global flood, just a worldwide contagion, sexual slavery, wicked people in high places, drones raining down death...
2020-04-0337 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.LATTER DAY RADIO–Senior missionaries Phil & Doreen Lear share historical gems from EuropeHolding on to history and studying it allows people to learn from those who have gone ahead. As George Santayana said, if we don’t study history, we are likely to repeat it. That, of course, was a key reason we have the Book of Mormon…that we may be wiser than the peoples of the book were. We not only have to learn from our forebears’ folly, but also from their faith and faithfulness so we can appreciate what they gave us. The Saints have always been concerned with keeping records. President Spencer W. Kimball wrote, “From time immemori...
2020-04-0124 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Latter Day Radio Podcast: Evidence of Life After Death in the Mouths of Two Witnesses No. 2The enigmatic Job, the long-suffering figure in the Old Testament, posed this eternal question, one that every person, sooner or later, asks: “If a man die, shall he live again?”
Most people would like to think so; the scriptures give us evidence of that. Then, every once in awhile, we meet someone who confirms it because of an illness or accident. They experience what is officially dubbed a “Near-Death Experience” or “NDE.” Later Day Radio host Martin Tanner summed it up with this clever anecdote: “Everybody would like an NDE; they’re just not dying to have one!”
In...
2020-03-3134 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.The 1978 Revelation on the Priesthood and the Harvest of Souls in AfricaMaybe it is better to be lucky than good. At least that was the case for my broadcasting partner Martin Tanner and me in June 2018. We broadcast our first episode of Latter Day Radio on Friday, June 1st, and then as we planned out our program fare for the rest of the month, we realized that we had a red-letter day on Friday the 8th. It dawned on us that that was to be the 40th anniversary of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ announcement that men of African descent would no longer be...
2020-03-3039 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.History and background preceding the 1978 Revelation on the Priesthood with Martin TannerAs we look at the events that led up to the momentous revelation that allowed black men in the Church to receive the Priesthood, let’s go back to the mid 1970’s. The Church was undergoing growing pressure to do something about its policy–note that I use the word “policy,” not doctrine–regarding race and full fellowship in the Church. Ever since the mid 19th-century, men of African descent were not ordained to the Priesthood. That also meant that the blessings of the temple were not only withheld from them, but also from their spouses. And, this was despite the...
2020-03-3038 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.LATTER DAY RADIO: THE FINAL WITNESS FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGN–KINESIN, THE LITTLE U.P.S. MAN INSIDE YOUR CELLSOur initial podcasts offering “evidence” or “witnesses” focus on the arguments for “intelligent design,” namely, that when you find a watch in the forest, somewhere there must be a watchmaker. Watches do not assemble themselves, and as two of our guests, Dr. John West and Dr. Ann Gauger, explain, even life at its simplest is infinitely more complex than a watch.
Our guests from the Discovery Institute in Seattle construct an increasingly compelling case that things as complex as an animal–vertebrate, invertebrate, complex or simple–cannot simply arise from itself alone through the process of natural selection. Compl...
2020-03-2834 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Latter Day Radio: Evidence & Witnesses–intelligent Design Discussion part 2I have often thought of the saying, “He who has eyes to see, let him see,” when it comes to spiritual insight. Things that seem obvious to me are not to others, and I wonder why. Think of Nephi’s brothers, Laman and Lemuel, who, after having been reprimanded by an angel, complained that God “maketh no such thing known unto us.”
Then, there are contemporary atheists like Richard Dawkins, or anti-religious skeptics like political commentator Bill Mahr or comedian Ricky Gervais, even the Book of Mormon’s own Korihor, all who make a living by hurling snarky comme...
2020-03-2838 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Latter Day Radio Podcasts investigate the arguments of Intelligent Design in contradiction with Darwinian EvolutionIn late 2018, Latter Day Radio host Martin Tanner and GM Jarrard broadcast several segments on intelligent design and Darwinian evolution on KLO AM1430. Now these discussions have been re-edited and are now available online. In the podcast episodes under the banner of “EVIDENCES & WITNESSES,” they present some powerful arguments for a “designer, creator or supreme intelligence”— whatever name you choose to use—that has a hand in our creation and an interest in our day-to-day lives. The producers surmise that once a person admits that there is evidence for a creator, for life after death or purpose in life, the next que...
2020-03-2723 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.The 1978 Revelation on the Priesthood: A Paradigm Shift for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsJune 8th, 2018 was the 40th anniversary of the historic announcement by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that its long-standing and controversial stand that men of African descent could not hold its priesthood was changed forever–in an instant. On that anniversary, a three-hour discussion on the statement that Church leaders had received a revelation that "all worthy male members of the Church regardless of race or color" could now be ordained was broadcast on Latter Day Radio, an LDS radio talk show on KLO AM1430. This podcast is an edited version of th...
2020-03-2637 minLatter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.LATTER DAY RADIO BOOK REVIEW: The Apocalypse, Zion and Isaiah–3 titles by author Dr. Randall ChaseIn 2018, author, publisher and college professor Dr. Randall Chase was a guest on the LDS talk show, Latter Day Radio, hosted by GM Jarrard. A prolific author, Dr. Chase is well known among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for his popular “Making Precious Things Plain: A Book of Mormon Study Guide." In this podcast, Dr. Chase discusses three books in three episodes (that we have combined into one 40-minute podcast). They are “Apocalypse: The Great Day of the Lord for the Righteous,” “Establishing Zion: Preparing the Earth for the Return of Jesus Christ,” and “Making Isaia...
2020-03-2641 minLatter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.LATTER DAY RADIO BOOK REVIEW: "We'll Sing and We'll Shout: The Life and Times of WW Phelps" by Bruce Van OrdenIn this comprehensive biography, author and historian Bruce Van Orden tells the story early Latter-day Saint leader, printer, scribe, ghostwriter, and monumental hymn writer, WW Phelps. Phelps printed the Book of Commandments and other early standard works. In fact, it was his print shop that was destroyed by the Missouri mob that eventually led to the expulsion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from that state. He was one of the "council of presidents" that guided the Church in Kirtland and helped publish the newspaper in Nauvoo. As political clerk, he assisted Joseph Smith in his...
2020-03-2621 min
Latter Day Radio, now podcasting from The Intersection of Faith & Freedom.Latter Day Radio: Near-Death Experiences, Witnesses for a Hereafter #1Paul writes in I Corinthians, “As in Adam all men die, so in Christ shall all men made alive.” (I Corinthians 15:22) That, of course, is the great promise that all Christians–and others–long for: that death is not oblivion, that we shall live again, and more importantly, be reunited with those we love.
As we have discussed in our segments on intelligent design, there are many people, particularly secular humanists who scoff at such an idea and smirk, finger waving and reminding us how naive we are, that wishful thinking cannot make it so, that we better j...
2020-03-2637 min