“This Church will stand, because it is upon a firm basis. …
The Lord has shown it to us by the revealing principle of the Holy Spirit of
light.”

Lorenzo Snow, April 1900

That quotes embodies much of what is going on in the third
volume of SAINTS, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ ongoing
history being produced by the Church Historical Department. In it, we find Latter-day
Saint Christians confronting new information, ideas, and grappling with changes
required of the Saints as they entered the twentieth century and globalized
throughout the early twentieth century. We learn about the end of sanctioned
plural marriages and how African American converts lived with racism in their
local congregations.

We’ll also learn about how
Saints around the world embraced the challenges brought on by Revolution,
Depression and world wars, and came out as stronger Saints with vibrant
testimonies of the restored gospel. In today’s episode, we speak with two of
the writers and editors of the Saints project, Lisa Olsen Tait and Scott Hales,
about how and why the Saints project as created, resources available to deepen
Latter-day Saints’ understandings of the past through approved resources, and
much, much more.

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