Gospel Tangents Podcast

Emma Smith Polygamy Puzzle Michelle Stone didn’t expect one episode about Emma Smith to change her mind, but her deep dive into the Emma Smith polygamy sources did exactly that. In Part 1, Michelle explained how the Book of Mormon convinced her that polygamy was not God’s higher law. Her 132 Problems channel began there, with the scriptures. But scripture questions lead to history questions: what was happening when a revelation was given, and how reliable is the William Clayton affidavit? (Mich

Book of Mormon Polygamy? When Michelle Stone finally studied the Book of Mormon polygamy passages for herself, she was shocked by what she found. Michelle grew up believing plural marriage was God’s higher law, and now she calls the Book of Mormon “by far, far and away, the most anti-polygamy book of scriptures in the entire canon.” She is back on Gospel Tangents, three years after she first joined me to talk about her mother’s cousin, Mark Hofmann, and this time we start with her own story. h

Is Eve our Heavenly Mother? Tom Bennett of Centennial Park explains fundamentalist views on Heavenly Mothers, women and priesthood, and the second anointing. Check out our conversation… https://youtu.be/Pj8S6jzmCWo Don’t miss our other episodes about Centennial Park! https://gospeltangents.com/denominations/centennial-park/ Copyright © 2025 Gospel Tangents All Rights Reserved Except for book reviews, no content may be reproduced without written permission. Heavenly Mothers Mormon fundamen

Is there a hidden temple theology in the Book of Mormon temple theology waiting beneath the 1830 text? That question, sparked by my friend Boyd in an online forum, turned into a three-part answer, and this is the final installment. While preparing, an AI tool handed me a word I had to look up: palimpsest, a manuscript scraped clean and written over, where the earlier text still shows through faintly. It turned out to be the perfect frame for the debate. https://youtu.be/b2hHdOXPDRA Temple Theo

This Greg Prince interview is a throwback to 2017, and for the first time the entire conversation is available in one piece. On September 27, 2017, historian Greg Prince was in Salt Lake City to deliver the Sterling McMurrin Lecture at the Salt Lake City Public Library, and before his talk he sat down with me for a long and candid conversation. We originally released it in seven parts. Don’t miss our other conversations with Greg: https://gospeltangents.com/people/greg-prince Copyright © 2026

Raising Kids in Polygamy Raising kids in polygamy comes with a hard truth: many children raised in plural families walk away as adults. Some join the LDS Church, some leave religion altogether. So what do plural families hope for their own kids? In the final part of my interview with Joshua, Charlotte and Melissa Erickson of Lehi, Utah, we talk about their hopes for their children, a new fundamentalist fellowship Joshua leads, and why so many fundamentalists still won’t talk to outsiders. http