Saints: Volume 3
Each week the Saints podcast features interviews with historians, General Authorities, writers, researchers, and others involved with the new history of the Church, Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. Listen in for great conversations and fresh insights on the history of the Restoration.
Dec 20, 2025
Season 3: Boldly, Nobly, and Independent
Welcome back to the 3rd season of the Saints podcast. In this episode we introduce our hosts, James Perry and Shalyn Back and talk about Saints volume 3 with Church Historian and Recorder, Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. about what readers can hear.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E1: A Brighter and a Better Day
While the Tabernacle Choir enjoys success the Chicago World Fair, there are big challenges facing the Church. Michael Hicks, an emeritus professor of Music at Brigham Young University, Jed Woodworth, managing historian of the Saints project joins us
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E2: As We Prove Ourselves Ready
Latter-day Saints in Great Britain seek to withstand persecution led by a disaffected former member. In Utah, church leaders try to better understand practices relating to the sealing of families and how to appeal to its younger members.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E3: The Path of Right
Cherry Silver is co-editor of the Emmeline B. Wells diaries and Tiffany Bowles is the Associate Curator of Education in the Church History Musuem. In today's episode Cherry and Tiffany join us to shed more light on the Political Manifesto
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E4: A Great Amount of Good
Amber Taylor, Kate Holbrook, and Lisa Olsen Tait are historians in the Church History Department who join us in today's episode to discuss the state of Mutual Improvement Associations at the end of the nineteenth century.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E5: An Essential Preparation
The first Latter-day Saint women to serve as full-time missionaries arrived in England in 1898. Matt McBride, a director in the Church History Department, and Lisa Olsen Tait, a historian and general editor of volume 3, discuss this
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E6: Our Wish and Our Mission
Matt Grow is the managing director of the Church History Department. In today's episode, Matt brings his perspective to George Q. Cannon's return to Hawaii and the growing concern about Latter-day Saint youth in Cardston, Canada.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E7: On Trial
In this episode we explore the political crises surrounding the Church and the legacy of plural marriage. Joining us this week is Ken Cannon, a lawyer and independent historian. Ken shares his perspective on the way the Church deals with challenges
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E8: The Rock of Revelation
The erection of the Joseph Smith Memorial in Vermont, United States, was an exciting moment for the Church. Joining us in this episode is Keith Erekson, Director of Outreach in the Church History Department, who explains the symbolism
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E9: Struggle and Fight
Jed Woodworth is the managing historian of the Saints project. In today's episode Jed shares insights into the issues surrounding post-manifesto marriage and the public's opinion of the Church in the early twentieth century.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E10: Give Me Strength
Kate Holbrook, a managing historian in the Church History Department, and Steve Harper, a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, join us to discuss the life of Alma Richards, his accomplishments at the 1912 Olympics
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E11: Too Heavy
In this week's chapter we read about the outbreak of the First World War and the ongoing Mexican Revolution. Joining us today is Elder Hugo Montoya, a General Authority Seventy and a counsellor in the South America Northwest Area Presidency.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E12: This Terrible War
How did Latter-day Saints respond to the First World War? Edgar Wolferts, grandson of Paul Schwarz, joins us to discuss this question and to share his family's experiences of the war in their native Germany.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E13: Heirs of Salvation
George Tate, an emeritus professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, and Jonathan Stapely, a historian and scientist, join the podcast this week to discuss section 138 of the Doctrine and Covenants
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E14: Fountains of Light and Hope
In this episode we discuss church leaders adjusting to life after the war. Melanie Riwai-Couch, the Pacific Area Church History Manager for the Church History Department, and Jed Woodworth, the managing historian of the Saints project.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E15: No Greater Reward
Joining us this week is Emily Utt, a curator in the Church History Department, and James Goldberg, a writer and historian. In this episode we explore the exodus of Latter-day Saints from the Ottomon Empire to Aleppo and the trials they faced
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E16: Written in Heaven
Scholars Frederick Williams and Jeremy Talmage join the podcast this week to talk about the genesis of the Church in South America and the efforts of Church leaders to start the work.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E17: Spared for Each Other
Church education undergoes some major changes in the 1920s. Kenneth Godfrey and Casey Paul Griffiths, scholars and authors on the subject of religious education, share their insights into the challenges facing Church Education
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E18: Any Place on Earth
Scott Hales, the lead writer and a General Editor of Saints, Volume 3, joins us to discuss the Church's efforts to expand its operations in South America. We also talk about German Latter-day Saint Otto Schulzke and the changing leadership role
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E19: The Gospel of the Master
German Latter-day Saint Helga Meiszus is one of the characters we follow through much of the book. In this episode Lark Evans-Galli, a folklorist and biographer of Helga joins us with Jed Woodworth, the managing historian of the Saints project
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E20: Hard Times
The Great Depression in the 1930s had a global impact with significant impacts for the Church and its members. Jill Mulvay Derr and Joseph Darowski join us to discuss the financial crisis and the ways that the Church leaders responded
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E21: A Keener Understanding
In this episode we discuss William and Clara Daniels who found a way to serve in the Church while Black Latter-day Saints experienced prejudice and were restricted from holding the Priesthood. Matt McBride and Ben Spackman join us
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E22: Eternal Reward
Tarienne Mitchell, a professional archivist, and Scott Hales, the lead writer and a General Editor of Saints Volume three, join us in this episode to discuss marginalized Latter-day Saints and the ways in which they lived the gospel.
Dec 20, 2025
V3 - E23: All That Is Necessary
Harold B. Lee saw himself as an "inexperienced farm boy from a small town in Idaho." In this episode Brian Cannon, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, and Jeff Anderson, an archivist in the Church History Department