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How did a stolen shirt turn a mission to the Native Americans into two decades of war?

What would Utah history have looked like if the Saints and the Utes had treated sharing and consecration as a conversation instead of a one-way religious task?

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In the September 7, 2026 episode of The Interpreter Insights Podcast, our host Terry Hutchinson speaks with guest Jonathan Stapley in a follow-up to his book from Oxford University Press titled Holiness to the Lord: Latter Day Saint Temple Worship. They discuss the book's reception and his two forthcoming projects, a large book on the Salt Lake Temple called Dedication and another to be published by Eerdmans called Inside the Temple. Both to be released in March and both dealing with the temple for new audiences.

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In this episode of Conversations with Interpreter, we interview ‘Alisi K. Langi, an assistant professor in faculty of Ancient Scripture at Brigham University-Hawaii, looking at her paper “Throwing Greater Views Upon Jesus Christ and His Gospel Through Named & Unnamed Women in the Small Plates of Nephi.” Doctor Langi’s paper looks at how women are presented in the small plates (1 Nephi through Omni) and especially what it can teach us about Jesus Christ. In this interview, Langi points out that because so few women are mentioned in the small plates, it can be easy to think that they are unimportant to the narrative or among the Nephites, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, as Dr. Langi shows nothing could be further from the truth. The paper under discussion here was written for a conference held at Brigham Young University in Provo.

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Abstract: According to current scientific understanding, our universe began in an inconceivable explosion of both space and time. And yet the laws that govern it took immediate effect, eventually governing the formation of galaxies and stars, the orbits of the planets, and even the colonization of sterile rock by lichens. If all this isn’t cause for wonder, it’s difficult to imagine what would be. Happily, the restored gospel promises us an unlimited future of learning, exploration, and, well, admiration.

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How did Brigham Young’s determination to never again be driven out of his home collide with Native peoples who were being pushed off the rivers and valleys of Utah?

Why did a church that sent missionaries to Native Americans so early still end up building forts and fighting battles?

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