To give you a little more information than the blurb:In this episode we look at the accounts two early witnesses to Mormonism wrote about charismatic practices in Early Mormon worship. The sources are not without their own challenges, but they correspond pretty closely in some respects, and what they reveal is VERY different from Mormon worship today.
I talk about the investigator who quit because sacrament was too irreverent for her. I talk about early church meetings being more charismatic or Pentecostal, and I read accounts of Ezra Booth and John Whitmer that describe those meetings. I tease out common themes and argue that these are valuable sources even though apologists might be inclined to dismiss them. I also get into the time when a prominent scholar of religious studies criticized my Sunstone paper.