What kind of claim does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have to the proposition that they are a faithful continuation of the church Joseph established? What kind of character was Brigham Young anyway? What did he really want with a church and a people?
Dr David Mason is the author of Brigham Young: Sovereign in America and he joins me to discuss the man who made the Mormons.
Listening to your great podcast I was reminded of something that Harold Bloom had said about the modern Mormon Church and Joseph Smith’s original church. “If there is any similarity between Smith’s church and Hinckley’s church I cannot see it.”