We've whipped up another epic episode discussing the context left out of LDS church curriculum around early Mormon polygamy. Sandra Tanner joins Mormon Stories as a special guest to address comments made on the followHIM podcast by church historian Kate Holbrook. Join John, Sandra, and Gerardo live Monday at 4:30pm MT.
Show Notes:
- "Doctrine and Covenants 129-132 with Dr. Kate Holbrook," on followHIM
- followHIM podcast with Hank Smith and John Bytheway
- Full text of "The Happiness Letter," Joseph Smith's Alleged 1842 Letter to Nancy Rigdon
- "A Study in Religious Manipulation," Jonathan Streeter on "The Happiness Letter"
- "Nancy Rigdon and the Happiness Letter," on Mormon Discussion podcast
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
- "Kingdom Come," by David Van Biema, Time, June 24, 2001
- A Woman's View, Helen Mar Kimball Whitney's Journals
- "Joseph Smith and Other Men's Wives," by Dan Vogel
- Full court transcript of the "Temple Lot Case"
- "'Warts and all' in Smith biography," Deseret News, October 1, 2005
- Joseph Smith's Polygamy by Brian Hales
- Let's Talk About Polygamy by Brittany Nash
- "Polygamy and the Church's Past," Brittany Chapman Nash on All-In podcast
- "Rebuking Iniquity," 1856 Brigham Young address threatening to divorce his wives if they didn't stop "whining,"Journal of Discourses Vol. 4
- In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death by Samuel Brown
- In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
- "For Eternity Alone," a poem by Helen Mar Kimball in which "for time" may mean she agreed to be sealed to Joseph, only to find out later that she was expected to have sex with him
- "The Joseph Smith-Sylvia Sessions Plural Sealing: Polyandry or Polygyny?" by Brian Hales, Mormon Historical Studies, April 2013
- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland at Sisters Devotional in Lima, Peru, in January 2020
- Utah Lighthouse Ministry
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