Face in Hat

Face in Hat

Aaron Brewster & Eric Jepson

Episodes 73
Avg. Duration 56m
Activity Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (18)
Since Nov 2018
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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LDS Miscellany through a Berkeley Lens

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7.10 Year end loose ends (martyrdom, polygamy, and the drawn sword)

Dec 30, 2025 1h 1m

End of the year show!  We cover topics from the tail end of the Doctrine and Covenants that have been kicking around in our heads.  We’ll be back next year continuing with more of American Zion! Link…

7.9 History is Fascinating

Dec 20, 2025 1h 6m

Back to American Zion!  Today we look at the chapter “One Family Under God”, 1945-70.  Themes of civil rights, womanhood, and intellectualism are brought together as we look deeper at the post-WWII…

7.8 Interregnum hot takes

Oct 18, 2025 51m

With the rest of the church we mourn the passing of President Nelson.  In this show we look back on his life and we talk about the future, including chatting about President Oak’s October 2025…

7.7 Modernity vs. retrenchment

Oct 02, 2025 59m

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…

7.6 Progress and compromise

May 18, 2025 1h 9m

1890-1920 was a period of great progress among the LDS Saints but came with key compromises that began the assimilation of LDS culture and into the broader American people.   Join us as we look at…

7.5 Straight to jail

Mar 22, 2025 1h 3m

Run and hide!  Today we jump into the 1870s and 80s to see what made our beloved ancestors be so eager to ditch the law and go underground.  (Spoilers, it’s more polygamy!).  Part of our ongoing…

7.4 The Big 3 in 1850

Feb 21, 2025 1h 9m

Polygamy, Racism and Indian affairs.  These stories dominated Chapter 3 of American Zion by Benjamin E. Park, “Of empires and wars, 1846-69”.  Come for the historical controversy but stay for the…

7.3 Zion (not the Matrix one), Part 2

Dec 23, 2024 31m

“O My Father”, and the Council of Fifty! Let’s wrap up chapter 2 of “American Zion” in a quick show for the end of the year! Link to our Face in Hat discord…

7.2 Zion (not the Matrix one), Part 1

Dec 07, 2024 1h 8m

Part one of our journey through Chapter 2 of Dr. Benjamin Park’s book, “American Zion”, “The Voice of the People,1831-46.”  This history is a rollercoaster of emotion! Also, we have just so many show…

7.1 A Visionary Nation

Oct 30, 2024 1h 2m

Welcome to season 7!  We are starting by reviewing the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Dr. Benjamin Park’s book, “American Zion”.  The first single volume history of the Church in over a decade, and taking…

6.9 Movie Night

Aug 24, 2024 1h 7m

Settle in for Movie Night!  Aaron and Eric each picked movies that they argued had LDS or interesting religious themes.  Do you agree or have other picks?  Let us know on discord! Link to our Face in…

6.8 Jarom and living in the middle

May 13, 2024 1h 2m

Today we chat about prophecy, the book of Jarom, and what it means for us to be living in the middle.  We draw especially on Sharon J. Harris’s brief theological introduction to Enos, Jarom, Omni. …

6.7 Women and Priesthood, Part 3

Apr 11, 2024 54m

The recent Worldwide Relief Society Devotional was awesome!  One quote caused a bit of a kerfuffle, which sets the stage for part 3 of our series on women and priesthood. But the devotional really…

6.6 Women and Priesthood, Part 2

Mar 23, 2024 57m

Credit, authority, the danger of hierarchies, and how Jewish whiskey relates to fiction, equity, and legislation.  Join us in our second of a multipart series on women and the priesthood. Link to our…

6.5 Women and Priesthood, Part I

Feb 29, 2024 1h 25m

Our first of a multi-part series on women and the Priesthood of the Church.  Themes for this part include defining terms, Priesthood vs. religious office, and Priesthood in the past.  Join us! Link…

6.4 Taking the Stand

Jan 17, 2024 1h 14m

Women LDS Relief Society leaders are no longer allowed on the stand in the Bay Area, as covered in Peggy Fletcher Stack’s SL Tribune’s article.  On this show, we talk about activism in general, our…

6.3 Revelate!

Dec 23, 2023 1h 2m

Did you know that we as members of the Church believe in the Book of Revelation?  Let’s have some fun and open some seals! Link to our Face in Hat discord server! https://discord.gg/MnSMvKHvwh New…

6.2 Idol Meat

Sep 12, 2023 1h 3m

In 1st Corinthians, Paul teaches about protecting the weak ones by avoiding the appearance of evil.  Is this applicable to online discourse?  Should we avoid the musty corners of church history or…

6.1 Barbie as an Endowment Film

Aug 24, 2023 45m

Spoilers for the Barbie movie!!  The Barbie movie takes people into the presence of God and delivers them to the real world.  Join us as we discuss the LDS endowment, existentialism, and heavenly…

5.9 Golden plates, translation, and Tibetan Buddhism

Jun 26, 2023 1h 14m

We welcome Tanner McAlister today as we discuss two articles on the translation of the Book of Mormon.  We kick things off using our season’s reference, “Yet to be revealed”, from BYU studies.  Grant…

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