A prolific interpreter of Mormonism, Dan Vogel is an engaging guest and a decades’ long friend. In this interview we discuss his most recent publication, an annotated edition of Eber Dudley Howe’s 1834 Mormonism Unvailed: Or, a Faithful Account of That…
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Martin Harris’s visit with Charles Anthon is iconic,[1] almost on par with Mormon foundational events such as the First Vision or the angel’s visitation on the eve of the 1823 autumnal equinox. Anthon played an unwitting actor along with Harris…
Joseph Smith’s divine encounter known as the First Vision occurred within a cultural matrix where others also reported having seen deity in redemptive visions. For instance, Billy Hibbard, a native of Norwich, CT, who became a Methodist preacher, recalled: I…
