Category: Featured Videos
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Unraveling the Threads of Mormon History / Unveiling Mormon Myths (Mormon Stories)
Sandra shares about the many key people that she and her late husband, Jerald, experienced through decades of researching Mormon issues. Great insights for those who want more perspective of the history of Mormon history! (2-part interview)
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Top Mormon Historian Admits CES Letter Has Validity — Richard Bushman v. Sandra Tanner (Mormon Stories)
Sandra participates in a round-table review of LDS historian Richard Bushman’s talk, addressing claims in the CES Letter about Joseph Smith’s translation of the Book of Mormon and how the church has portrayed that through the years.
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Interview with Sandra Tanner and Ron Huggins
Ron Huggins and Sandra Tanner discuss Ron’s new biography, Lighthouse: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism.
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On Mormon Misconceptions: Sin and Divine Love
By seeing that she was a sinner (not just a good person who did bad things occasionally) Sandra Tanner came to see the depth of her need for salvation in Christ, and how amazing it was that God first loved her in that state.
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Sandra Tanner’s Advice to Exiting Mormons
Sandra reminds us that if LDS truth claims were not actually true, then neither were our former presumptions about Christianity. After stepping back from Joseph Smith, we can meet Jesus anew and read the Bible with different eyes.
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The LDS Church’s (Unjust) Lawsuit Against the Tanners
Dr. Ronald Huggins describes the copyright / internet lawsuit of the LDS church against the Tanners, which he wrote about in his biography: “Lighthouse: Jerald and Sandra Tanner — Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism.”
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Sandra and Jerald Tanner Biography: Lighthouse (Parts 1-2)
Sandra Tanner and Doris Hanson discuss the new biography, Lighthouse, highlighting some points in the Tanner’s saga of researching Mormonism for 60+ years.
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First Date Prank
Sandra tells about flirting and playing a prank on Jerald Tanner during their first dinner together at her grandmother’s house (on April Fool’s Day).
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Mormonism’s History of Hiding Documents
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is more open about its history these days, but the past was very different. Sandra Tanner tells of difficulties in trying to access historical documents when she (and late husband, Jerald) began researching Mormon history in the 1960s, and how some amount of guardedness still persists in…
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Jerald and Sandra Tanner – Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism (Mormon Stories)
Sandra Tanner and Dr. Ronald Huggins are interviewed about Dr. Huggins’ new biography: “Lighthouse: Jerald and Sandra Tanner – Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism.”