Spring of 1842 was a world-shaping event, the introduction of the endowment ceremony by Joseph Smith to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We've talked about it and a few of the more recent changes to the endowment a few times, but this is the overview. What it was when it was introduced, how it changed under Brigham Young, and many of the changes that have happened since his death, all under one (long) segment. Then we talk about Heretic, a movie about two missionaries in a cat-and-mouse game with a well-educated anti-Mormon playing by his own rules. Then we wrap with happy news from ABC and Jimmy Kimmel responding to the government shutdown and SNAP running dry.

Show Notes:

https://addfaith.org/blog/faith/belief/keystonelds/top-10-abandoned-temple-practices-in-latter-day-saint-history/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExVTljWWlzYnQ3cVF2bk1mcHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4ldMRGSktTbiKihaWAr75MQpqYcXLwOH1L_n2_hMARqtaV3AFEhm_CQGyvAQ_aem_A-UXdJKWRl0r9HF-XTHanQ

https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21298130384&gbraid=0AAAAApfYZiGCSKCnJskKXVHwOtYoi8FLG&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxAt2apFmzOJxyHKemm-PaDlf5wAy2Yd4mkrE7X-agfFTR0s7wmxAJoaAstJEALw_wcB#footnote-20

https://archive.org/details/historysaints00benngoog/page/n287/mode/2up

https://bhroberts.org/records/qmx2mh-44hPsk/william_clayton_describes_the_nauvoo_endowment

http://www.ldsendowment.org/timeline.html

http://www.ldsendowment.org/emeline.html

https://archive.org/details/dialoguebetweena00vand/page/12/mode/2up?q=vengeance

http://www.ldsendowment.org/1879.html

http://www.ldsendowment.org/1931.html

http://www.ldsendowment.org/lecture.html

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/times-and-seasons-1-june-1842/8

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/article/20/4/33/236178/The-Development-of-the-Mormon-Temple-Endowment

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V34N0102_87.pdf

https://rsc.byu.edu/sites/default/files/pub_content/pdf/Freemasonry_and_the_Latter-day_Saint_Temple_Endowment_Ceremony.pdf

http://www.ldsendowment.org/masonry.html

https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment/research

https://mrm.org/masonry-and-the-mormon-temple-endowment-ceremony

https://cesletter.org/debunking-fairmormon/temples-and-freemasonry.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44368772

https://tokensandsigns.org/2023-temple-changes/

https://bhroberts.org/records/yXnsPd-ZcTVNd/heber_c_kimball_records_in_his_journal_new_arrangements_for_the_endowment_ceremony_such_as_elohim_peter_james_and_john_conducting_adam_and_eve_through_the_telestial_and_terrestrial_kingdoms

https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25154/what-is-the-origin-of-a-phylactery-as-a-soul-jar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshchei#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKazakhTV20182._Entertaining_etymology._5:10-_1-0

https://bhroberts.org/records/qqPgcb-CrpCyb/in_an_epistle_to_the_relief_society_joseph_smith_cites_masonry_as_an_organization_whose_members_know_how_to_keep_secrets

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/389#full-transcript

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/temple-endowment?lang=eng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_House

https://books.google.com/books/about/Temple_Mormonism.html?id=r3TKtgAACAAJ

MOGP: Heretic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28015403/

Happy News:

https://www.thewrap.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-food-bank-donation-center-government-shutdown/

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk

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