7.7 Modernity vs. retrenchment

We’re back from summer and let's keep this season going! Today we focus on Chapter 6, The Perils of Reform: 1920-1945, from Benjamin Park’s book: American Zion. Many threads connect the topics, but the contest between the modernity of the early part of the 20th century and resistance to change mark the struggle for the LDS church at this time. Join us! Link to our Face in Hat discord server! YouTube channel! Thanks Eric! Dialogue Podcast Network American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E. Park Amy B. Lyman D&C 29:34,”Wherefore, verily I say unto you that all things unto me are spiritual, and not at any time have I given unto you a law which was temporal” J. Reuben Clark Our David O’McKay season was actually season 3! Here’s an example episode, with topics on politics and such. 3.4 David O. McKay and the confrontation with communism John Birch Society No wiki on Nephi Johnson, but lots of articles out there on him :) Juanita Brooks The Mountain Meadows Massacre (book) 3.13 Close to home: the Church Building Program 3.11 Poetry, Spies, and the Church Education System B. H. Roberts Studies of the Book of Mormon, by B. H. Roberts “Now, if you mean it-I am not going to give any command, but I will ask it as a personal, individual favor to me, to let coca-cola alone. There are plenty of other things you can get at the soda fountains without drinking that which is injurious. The Lord does not want you to use any drug that creates an appetite for itself.” -Heber J Grant, April 1921 Heber J Grant: stories of baseball and penmanship are here Welfare and Self Reliance Fawn M. Brodie 3.7 Tolerance: this might be the episode where we talked about David O’Mckay and Fawn Brodie “$32 million deficit in 1962” Saints, Volume 3, Boldly, Nobly, and Independent, 1893–1955 The Mormon Typology: Mapping a Changing Faith Another Data Source Confirms Typology Findings Thubrina, by Theric Jepson

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7.7 Modernity vs. retrenchment is an episode from Face in Hat by Aaron Brewster and Eric Jepson.

This episode is 59:38 long.

This episode was published on Oct 2, 2025.

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