Cuppa Joe

846 | Cuppa Joe | Historic Sites Foundation Winter Book Series | Second Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality | Matthew Harris

Project Zion Podcast — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Systemic Racism isn’t a popular or comfortable topic, and it’s not just limited to the secular world. Unfortunately, history shows that the Church universal has not been immune to its grasp, and neither have the Restoration traditions. Join Cuppa Joe host Wendy Eaton as she sits down with Matthew Harris to talk about insights from...

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843 | Cuppa Joe | Historic Sites Winter Book Series | Come Up Hither to Zion

Project Zion Podcast — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000

From tavern keeper to prominent figure in Restoration history, William Marks is the focus of this episode of Cuppa Joe. Host Wendy Eaton sits down with Cheryl Bruno and John Dinger, co-authors of Come Up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering, to hear a little more about what they learned while researching...

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828 | Cuppa Joe | Historic Sites Lecture Series | Kyle Walker

Project Zion Podcast — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Wendy Eaton joins the Project Zion team for the first time as a host with an episode of Cuppa Joe highlighting the first in the 2025 Winter Series, “An Evening with the Historians.” That’s right, the Community of Christ Historic Sites Foundation has put together another great line up of authors who share their latest...

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818 | Cuppa Joe | Women of the Restoration | A Prophetic People

Project Zion Podcast — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000

As Community of Christ moves closer to the historic moment of considering the call of the first woman President/Prophet of the church, Stassi Cramm, there is no better time to reflect with Karin Peter and historian extraordinaire, Wendy Eaton, to take a look across the years at all the women who have had a prophetic...

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799 | Cuppa Joe | Women of the Restoration | Eleanor Kearney

Project Zion Podcast — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

The call to prayer made by one woman in Lamoni, IA in the late 1800s sparks the interest of thousands of women around the world and raises the ire of a lot of men. Eleanor Kearney hasn’t been spoken of much in the church, but she’s another of the unsung women heroes of the church. ...

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780 | Cuppa Joe | Women of the Restoration | Estella Wight

Project Zion Podcast — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The Wight family has a long history of serving the church, and Estella Wight was no exception. A prolific author who got her start by submitting a story to Marietta Walker at a young age, and then going on to work for Herald Publishing for many years, Estella filled the minds and hearts of the...

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737 | Cuppa Joe | Women of the Reorganization | Lizzie Blair

Project Zion Podcast — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000

No one in their right mind would sign up to go it alone on the frontier … raising a family, tending a farm, and everything else that goes with it. Well, no one except the women who were part of the early Reorganization. Women whose husbands served as missionaries and were gone for long periods...

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731 | Cuppa Joe | Section 116, First Presidency Response to WCR G-2

Project Zion Podcast — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000

We don’t have to look too closely to find things in our past that may have been progressive at the time, but are considered embarrassing by many in today’s context. In those cases, we must ask, “Face it or erase it?” In this episode of Cuppa Joe, host Robin Linkhart talks with Lach Mackay about...

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695 | Cuppa Joe | Historic Sites Foundation Fall Lecture Series | The Life of William Marks: Faithful Leader to Two Josephs | John Dinger and Cheryl Bruno

Project Zion Podcast — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

How is it that someone with so much influence on the church has gotten so little attention? Join host Karin Peter for an insightful discussion on the life and legacy of William Marks, a prominent figure in Mormon history. Historians John Dinger and Cheryl Bruno share their in-depth research and upcoming book release, shedding light...

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692 | Cuppa Joe | Historic Sites and a Vision for the Future | Lach Mackay

Project Zion Podcast — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Physical places have always played an important role in preserving history. Much more important for a church called to Christ’s mission is how we integrate it into our lives, learn from it, and carry it forward by becoming the storytellers that keep it alive. In this episode of Cuppa Joe, Apostle Lach Mackay (also Director...

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