Radio Free Mormon

Years ago Jonathan Streeter wrote a blog post titled “Fix your faith crisis with this one weird trick!” that was deeply influential on Bill. So tonight we bring Streeter into the studio to discuss Wood Tools vs Steel Tools and tom recognize when wood tools are being used. RESOURCES: Fix your faith crisis with this one weird trick! 276: Fix your faith crisis with this one weird trick! – WOOD vs STEEL Tools https://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/

In honor of the Easter Season, RFM examines evidence that Jesus actually did exist! This is one you won’t want to miss!

This General Conference had lots of interesting twists and turns that have now had time to ruminate in the minds of RFM and Bill Reel. And this weeks episode involves a dive into the Mormon phenomena known as the April 2023 General Conference of the LDS Church. RESOURCES OF TALKS DISCUSSED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYdM8WyYM – Elder Ahmad S. Corbitthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWYXk_7uLbU – Elder Vern R. Stanfillhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jTa8FG7A8 – Elder Allen D. Hayniehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9freQw16qY – Elder Carl B. Cookhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLplozLahP4 – Elder Gerrit W. Gonghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQwObipvTJc – Elder D. Todd Christoffersonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSmP5tnSevI – Elder Neil L. Andersenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQghSMOOYz4 – President Russell M. Nelson

This session contains what is sure to be the most controversial talk in this entire General Conference. The talk was given by Elder Ahmed Corbitt, and has produced the new Mormon Bumper Sticker Slogan, “CHOOSE THE CHURCH OVER YOUR CHILDREN!” I am so not making this up! Listen at your peril!

The Sunday Morning Session may well be the Church’s response to the SEC fiasco! Listen and find out why!

General Conference has never been this much fun!!!

General Conference has never been this much fun!!!

Joseph Smith’s First Vision ushered in the restoration of the Gospel. It had Heavenly Father and His Son coming through the Heavens to visit the young boy in the spring of 1820. This vision leads to the founding of Mormonism. But what is not as well known is that in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, everyone and their brother was having visions and many of them appear to be very similar to Joseph Smith’s. So in this week’s episode Bill and RFM do a comparative analysis on those other Visions to see what can be gleaned and its no small thing what they find. RESOURCES:https://web.archive.org/web/20180710083455/https://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/theophany-mine/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_districthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening https://archive.org/details/lifecon00smit/page/n13/mode/2uphttp://www.mormonstudiespodcast.org/joseph-smith-elias-smith-and-wilford-poulson/https://archive.org/details/TheReligiousExperienceOfNorrisStearnshttp://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/changech6.htmhttps://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/elders-journal-july-1838/16https://www.watchman.org/articles/mormonism/piecing-together-the-first-vision/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Visionhttps://rsc.byu.edu/exploring-first-vision/significance-joseph-smiths-first-vision-mormon-thoughthttps://www.josephsmithpapers.org/site/accounts-of-the-first-visionhttps://mit.irr.org/joseph-smiths-changing-first-vision-accountshttps://www.mormonstories.org/truth-claims/joseph-smith/first-vision/https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-prognostication-of-asa-wild/http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/SChamberlain.htmlhttps://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-visionary-world-of-joseph-smith/http://www.mormonhandbook.com/home/first-vision-plagiarized.htmlhttps://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83032054/1831-02-01/ed-1/seq-5/ https://archive.org/details/SketchOfExperiencesOfSolomonChamberlin/mode/2up?view=theater&q=apo http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/SChamberlain.html https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll15/id/40132https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/first-vision/ https://youtu.be/WB3iwEX8WhY?t=1306https://rsc.byu.edu/exploring-first-vision/earliest-documented-accounts-joseph-smiths-first-visionhttps://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2041501

RFM tries his hand at a one-man Mystery Science Theater 3000 take on the new Temple Endowment video now playing at an LDS Temple near you! Kibitzing on the backrow of an endowment session has never been this much fun!

Tonight RFM and Bill take a look at how both Top Church Leadership and local leaders extend pressure for dissenting voices to be silent. The episode will include individual stories along with the general instruction by top leaders to diminish dissenting voices and at times to altogether silence them. RESOURCES: Oaks “Its Wrong to Criticize Leaders” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxyiHLg59ks Oaks “Questions Are Honored, Opposition is Not” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPeIgjZ0EQg&t=746s Ballard – “Women don’t talk too much” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQ4h6tGbnE Bruce R McConkie – Echo what I Say or be Silent – https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/mcconkie-to-eugene-england/