Jerald & Sandra Tanner - Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism | MSP Book Club | Ep. 1693

Join us for our first Mormon Stories Book Club episode covering LIGHTHOUSE - Jerald and Sandra Tanner's biography written by Ronald Huggins.

Co-host: Rebecca Bibliotheca
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Special Guests:
Sandra Tanner (Utah Lighthouse Ministries Website: http://www.utlm.org)
Ronald Huggins

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:09:00 Ron’s role with Utah Lighthouse Ministries & how he came to write the book
00:14:30 Sandra’s feelings on having a Bibliography written
00:19:45 What difficulties/roadblocks did Ron face in writing the book
00:26:20 Research crowd in the 60’s etc
00:34:00 How attending her Grandmother’s “secret” meeting led her to Jerald
00:37:00 What was the purpose of the Mormon research underground
00:43:00 Ron’s thoughts on the motivation
00:45:40 Do you feel vindicated by the Church now?
00:46:45 First Vision Account
00: 51:00 Joseph F. Smith tells Sandra off for looking for “problems” instead of “answers”
00:57:00 Watergate & the connection to Mormonism
01:03:00 Jerald & Sandra uses Freedom of Information Act to request FBI’s file on them
01:05:45 The Book of Commandments
01:16:15 How did Sandra juggle family responsibilities and research?
01:20:00 What it was like for Jerald & Sandra’s children
01:25:00 Story of Grant S. Heward’s excommunication over Book of Abraham historicity
01:37:40 Civil Rights era panic over black people coming to overrun Salt Lake City
01:44:23 Joseph Fielding Smith referred to black people as “darkies” in letter to NYT
01:55:50 Sandra tells about how the Church always put out articles after the Tanner’s researched
01:58:40 Story of Dr. Clandestine
02:18:16 Sandra dishes on which leaders know Church History
02:29:20 Does Sandra feel the trouble with the Church was worth it and would they have changed anything?
02:34:00 John Dehlin points out the previous projections of Mormonism growing and Sandra on making the Church reconcile the past
02:36:00 Final words & wrap-up

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