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The Lord’s people & secular governments by Mike Parker (Mike Parker is a long-time FAIR member who has graciously allowed us to use materials he originally The post Come, Follow Me with FAIR – Doctrine and Covenants 98–99, 102, 106, 108, 134 – Mike Parker appeared first on FAIR .

This podcast series features past FAIR Conference presentations. This presentation is from our 2021 conference. If you would like to watch all the presentations from that conference, you can still purchase the video streaming. Derek Sainsbury, “We mean to elect him”: Electioneer Experiences during Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign Derek’s book, Storming the Nation: The Unknown [&#823...

This podcast series features past FAIR Conference presentations. This presentation is from our 2021 conference held in August. If you would like to watch all the presentations from the conference, you can still purchase the video streaming. Rebekah Clark, “The Gospel of Equal Rights”: Latter-day Saint Suffragists, 1870-1920 Rebekah Clark is co-author of the book Thinking Women: A Timeline […...

This podcast series features past FairMormon Conference presentations. This presentation is from our 2018 conference. If you would like to watch the presentations from our 2019 conference, you can still purchase the video streaming. Spencer McBride, Joseph Smith in Van Buren’s White House: Lessons in Electoral Politics and Religious Freedom Transcript available here. Spencer W. […] The post...

This podcast series features past FairMormon Conference presentations. Please join us for the 2019 FairMormon Conference coming up August 7-9! You can attend in person (tickets are no longer being sold online, but will be available at the door) or purchase the video streaming. Jeff Lindsay, “Arise from the Dust”: Digging into a Vital Book […] The post FairMormon Conference Podcast #35 – Jeff...

On the Record – (audio only) Fair Mormon conference Aug 6-7, 2015 This is a wonderful conference, full of bright people asking and answering great questions. The list of speakers and their topics is impressive, and it’s encouraging to see how FairMormon has grown in recent years.  Among the rich assortment of topics in these […] The post Best of FairMormon Conference 2015: Michael Otte...

This is FairMormon’s Front Page News Review podcast, where we provide context and analysis of the past week’s media coverage of Mormons and the LDS church. The show is hosted by Nick Galieti and manager of the FairMormon Front Page news service, Cassandra Hedelius. We hope this will be an edifying and entertaining experience. What we present […] The post Front Page News Review podcast...

In this episode of RiseUp, Nick Galieti interviews a Young Women from Southern Californa named Mikalya. Mikayla’s parents were members so she was born into the church and baptized when she was 8. But it wasn’t until she turned 13 that she really dove into the gospel. Before that, she was relatively inactive for a […] The post RiseUp Podcast – The H Word appeared first on FA...

April 2015 General Conference featured presenters from the presiding quorums and general officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this podcast, volunteers from FairMormon discuss the issues and quotes from selected talks through an apologetic perspective. Panelists in this episode are Steve Densley, and Cassandra Hedelius (via telephone); moderated by Nick […] The post...

Like all human begins we have our own personal preferences about everything in life.  There are things, people, ideas and places that we may like and prefer that others dislike that have nothing to do with being prejudiced.  When it comes to real prejudice we need to define what we are talking about. In this podcast […] The post 4th Watch 19: Why are Mormons prejudiced? appeared first on FAI...

Cassandra S. Hedelius studied political science and mathematics at the University of Oklahoma and law at the University of Colorado. She is a bureaucrat by day, and by night a member of FairMormon, the Board of Editors at Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, and a blogger at Meridian Expand. She lives in Maryland with […] The post Articles of Faith – The Parable of Chesterton&#8...

Martin Tanner who is the host of “Religion Today” on KSL FM 102.7 and AM 1160 interviews Hannah Smith who is senior counsel for the “Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.”  In this episode Hannah Smith discusses the “Hobby Lobby” case that was recently decided by the Supreme Court of the United States and the implications of that decision on religious […] The...

FAIR Board Chairman John Lynch and FAIR Member Stephen Smoot appeared on K-Talk radio, in Salt Lake City, Utah to discuss the mission of FAIR, its history and to take questions from callers. Some of the issues addressed were: What are the core beliefs one must maintain in order to be considered an “orthodox” Mormon? What is […] The post Mormon FAIR-Cast 96: FAIR on the Radio Pt 1 appeared fi...

This episode of the BBC World Service program, World Have Your Say, features members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The five-member panel answers questions from listeners from all over the world, including: Whether Mormons want to be recognized as a mainstream religion? What part of the Mormon faith is influenced by […] The post Mormon FAIR-Cast 90: Mormons on the BBC ap...

“The cure for an intellectual apostasy is enlarging both one’s spiritual and intellectual knowledge.” One important thing to know is the way in which God works through prophets. “[T]he Lord doesn’t typically drop revelation into the minds of prophets. More often than not, the Lord grants revelation according to petitions for help or understanding.” Some […] The post FAIR Issues 24: The cure...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, here’s part two of my interview with John Durham Peters, the A. Craig Baird Professor in communication studies at the University of Iowa. Peters joined me through Skype from his home in Iowa for this two-part episode on Mormonism and Communication (see part 1 here). A bibliography of Peters’s works directly […] The post FAIR Podcast, Episode 6: John Durha...