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Refuting claims that Hyrum Smith was a polygamist
By: Whitney Horning Refuting claims that Hyrum Smith was a polygamistDownload
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Remnants of Polygamy
My story of pain from polygamy doctrine by Colleen Kelson Rogers As a child, I had a happy home where I felt loved and free. I was the family peacemaker, middle child of seven. Adult life has not been so easy though. I don’t want to go back to what my adult life used to…
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The Mural in the Red Brick Store
Recently, I have been contacted by several people who have visited the newly purchased church history sites in Nauvoo, IL. These people have been concerned about some potentially false information that was being shared as fact during the tour of the Red Brick Store. I decided to try to contact those who may have been…
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The Real Reasons More and More Mormon Types are Denying Joseph Smith Practiced Polygamy
Matt Bowman’s article on the growing movement of people who assert that Joseph Smith fought, rather than originated, polygamy hit on an important and underestimated sea change occurring in Utah and the broader “Mormon type” communities and conversations, but missed the actual reasons for the growth of the movement, and its implications. The reason the…
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Episode #124 – Supplemental Information
In today’s episode (6/23/24 – #124) I mentioned the poor Scottish family who sent their two oldest children to “Zion” where the teenage daughter was promptly married off as a polygamist wife to an older man. What I failed to remember (again!) is that this story is about my own family! I first learned about…
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From Dream Vacation to Reality Check: Seeking Divine Guidance Amidst Chaos
Tomorrow’s episode feels very important to me. I had other plans for what to release this week, and other episodes that I had been working hard on, but this episode emerged and would not leave me alone until I finished it. I ended up working on it day and night (barely taking time to sleep)…
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Breaking the Chains of Historical Stagnation: Challenging the Outdated Consensus
I’ve been speaking to various historians about the problem with “historical consensus” and accepting it as settled truth. That is what we keep bumping up against in this debate. The historical consensus is that Joseph was a polygamist, so nobody needs to actually do the work to be able to defend or even discuss that…
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Can you believe this passes for history?
Far be it for me to speak ill of the dead (that seems to be the job of historians, at least when it comes to Joseph Smith) but I have to again say how often I am truly astonished at what appears to me to be incredibly shoddy work of highly respected historians. D. Michael…
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Corrections & Clarifications on Episode 104
-By Lindsey Boyce Lewis In Episode 104: Clayton’s Dirty Deeds, we need to correct a few things. At around thirty minutes in, Michelle discusses how Emma’s Deed from July 12, 1843 compares to deeds from after Joseph’s death where Emma sells property to others. She has been working SO hard on these deeds and it…
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Dirty Deeds
These deeds episodes are MONSTERS! Honestly, they are kicking my backside, and my brain wants to just melt at this point… Day after day I have been led to new things, and made new connections, and found rabbit hole after rabbit hole to go down. It is incredible and exhausting. The other day while driving…