Face in Hat

David O’McKay helped strengthen interfaith relationships during his tenure as President of the Church, yet Mormonism and the Catholic Church had a rocky relationship in the late 50s.  Thanks to several key events and the loving patience and ministry of Catholic Bishop Duane Hunt, the rift was healed and David O’McKay’s own attitude was changed.  Can this be a model for healing divides in modern communities?  Maybe!  Let’s talk about it!

The Great Brain book series:

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

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

Bible dictionary on Prayer.  If you’ve never read this it’s worth your time :)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bd/prayer

The Purifying Power of Gethsemane, by Bruce R. McConkie. Again, one of the most powerful talks on the Atonement ever written.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1985/04/the-purifying-power-of-gethsemane

Mormon Doctrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Doctrine_(book)

‘Tis the season for a show about politics!  Join us as we look at political polarization in the 50s and 60s and trace its effects all the way forward to 2020.

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

The Law of Consecration

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

The United Order

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Order#cite_note-Clark04-1942-26

Diogenes was searching for an honest man (and may have been earth’s first green lantern):

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

https://twitter.com/jdp_writes/status/1321901575535812609

Fearreantum

https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/17-1-top/

This Scary Statistic Predicts Growing US Political Violence — Whatever Happens On Election Day, by Peter Aldhous

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/political-violence-inequality-us-election

Whoops, the quote attributed to Jimmy Carter about if you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor then you don’t want a country based on Christian values, was actually said by comedian  John Fugelsang!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jimmy-carter-helping-poor/

Arthur Watkins’s memoir is called “Enough rope: The inside story of the censure of Senator Joe McCarthy by his colleagues, the controversial hearings that signaled the end of a turbulent and a fearsome era in American public life”

Folding Ideas: In Search Of A Flat Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

QAnon Is a New American Religion, by Caroline Mimbs Nyce

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/05/qanon-q-pro-trump-conspiracy/611722/

Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome, by McKay Coppins

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832

And just for fun, a J. Golden Kimball quote on politics:

https://twitter.com/thmazing/status/1320982721225584640

Ever heard of the baseball baptisms?  Missionary Work during David O’Mckay’s presidency has some swings!  Come for the crazy stories and stay for the embarrassing ones.

We continue reading “David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism,” this time chapter 10, “Missionary Work”.

Whence the Early Baptismal Challenges, by Angela C.

https://bycommonconsent.com/2019/08/06/whence-the-early-baptismal-challenges/

During President McKay’s tenure, the church tripled its membership.  The reorganization of the church to handle this unprecedented growth was known as ‘correlation’.  How did this process affect the church, its quorums and auxiliaries? What were some of the side effects?  We again use David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism as a reference for today, focusing on chapter 7, “Correlation and Church Administration”.

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

Useful wikipedia article:

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

Article on women healing: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=mormonhistory 

“There Is Always a Struggle”: An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki, by Greg Prince. Dialog 45, no. 1 (Spring 2012).

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V45N01_CO.pdf

“What have the Joseph Smith Papers taught me?”, by Steve Evans

 https://bycommonconsent.com/2020/08/24/what-have-the-joseph-smith-papers-taught-me/

Welcome to season 3!  We introduce our themes for the year, and after that take a deep dive on baptism.

This year we’ll be focusing on change in the church, and how our expectations of true doctrine clash with the realities of a people-led church.

Notes:

“I’m coming to the conclusion that 1933 was the hinge upon which modern Mormonism pivoted: It was the year BH Roberts died and J Reuben Clark joined the First Presidency, thus marking the sunset of one potential Mormon trajectory and the dawn of another.” -Benjamin Park

https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1299770339971526656

Wikipedia for B. H. Roberts and J. Reuben Clark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Roberts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Reuben_Clark

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

Comic on B.H. Roberts, from The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part One, by Scott Givens (click ‘look inside’ and search for doubts)

https://amzn.to/31XkLU8

4th article of faith

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.4#4

Gospel topics: Baptism

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/baptism

D&C 76

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76

Eric’s lecture on the first vision:

https://youtu.be/aFSicnZ3B3k

Gospel topic on the vision, or D&C 76.  See especially the vido linked therein:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/the-vision-dc-76

D&C 19:15-19

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.15-19#15

Sin Does Not Exist: And Believing That It Does Is Ruining Us, by S. Richard Bellrock

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/sin-does-not-exist/

A Monopoly on Exaltation, by user Ziff

https://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2020/08/24/a-monopoly-on-exaltation/

The Mediator, by Boyd K. Packer.  ← Powerful atonement talk

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1977/04/the-mediator

Twitter thread on the Mediator, see several links here:

https://twitter.com/thmazing/status/1301747609854332928

The second season of Face in Hat concluded with the previous episode regarding Christopher Columbus and Black Lives Matter.  We'll be starting our third season this fall with more episodes, continuing as part of the Dialogue podcasting network.

In the meantime, enjoy Eric’s lecture, "Triangulating God: Eighty-seven Angles on the First Vision."  In it, Eric approaches the question of "how to explain an experience no one shares?  Joseph Smith struggled throughout his life to explain the First Vision and now Latter-day Saint artists take up this impossible mantle.”  Part of an ongoing series on the First Vision through the Oakland California Stake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSicnZ3B3k

“Bioshock Infinite can make you feel uncomfortable.” - Kevin VanOrd.  So will 2020.  We talk about civic religion in the video game Bioshock Infinite and how it relates to the apotheosis of Christopher Columbus and racism in the church. We end with a discussion of the current nationwide protests and affirm that #BlackLivesMatter.

We thank @BenjaminEPark for two twitter threads that inspired this episode and we cite him extensively.  See https://twitter.com/benjaminepark/status/1164696231634976768 and https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1267489043840827392.

Bioshock infinite trailer: https://youtu.be/EsJ55BzIvkE

Bioshock infinite review by Kevin VanOrd review from GameSpot: https://youtu.be/jSA9AsdBh00

The Apotheosis of Washington vs. Bioshock Infinite’s Garden of New Eden

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

https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/Garden_of_New_Eden (see the Entryway to Eden)

Benjamin Park’s thread

https://twitter.com/benjaminepark/status/1164696231634976768

Land of Promise in The Book of Mormon, by Tyler Livingston (note, on the show I said Orson Hyde added the footnote to 1 Ne 13:12, but it was Orson Pratt)

https://www.fairmormon.org/blog/2010/09/16/land-of-promise-in-the-book-of-mormon

Christopher Coloumbus

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

Visit of eminent spirits to Wilford Woodruff (include Ezra Taft Benson quote)

https://josephsmithfoundation.org/wiki/eminent-spirits-appear-to-wilford-woodruff

References for Book of Mormon commentary by George Reynolds

https://gospeldoctrine.com/book-mormon/1-nephi/1-nephi-13

George Reynolds: Loyal Friend of the Book of Mormon, by Bruce A. Van Orden

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1986/08/george-reynolds-loyal-friend-of-the-book-of-mormon

Columbian Exchange

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

Americapox: The Missing Plague, by CGP Grey

https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/americapox

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond Ph.D.

https://amzn.to/36YaHLB

Protests thread by Benjamin Park

https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1267489043840827392

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and Wm. Robert Wright

https://amzn.to/36S59Ch

Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War Paperback, by Nathaniel Philbrick

https://amzn.to/3dnDsE0

The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 1, by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming

https://amzn.to/2Mmetow

The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories, by Don Bradley

https://amzn.to/36QFBpa

Racism in the Church:

https://twitter.com/TaranTrinnaman/status/1267837998751776771 

Melodie’s request:

https://twitter.com/Kid_melodie/status/1267209095028891654

We love the Fall. Adam, Eve, fruit, the whole thing.  Today we talk about the LDS perspective on the Fall, including what LDS scriptures bring to understanding this monumental event. Nifty poetry too!

A Harmony of the Creation Accounts, from the Pearl of Great Price Student Manual

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/the-pearl-of-great-price-student-manual-2018/a-harmony-of-the-creation-accounts?lang=eng

The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture, by Terryl Givens

https://amzn.com/dp/B07WNK63SY

Aaron’s concordance between Genesis 3 and Moses 4

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PsZXaUJ_hAbsGzhS0vC5s-UP4A94pf0V8oGci4ZSXQM/edit?usp=sharing

Adam and Eve (LDS movement, wiki)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve_(Latter_Day_Saint_movement)

Gospel topic: Fall of Adam and Eve

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/fall-of-adam-and-eve

The Fulness of the Gospel: The Fall of Adam and Eve, Ensign June 2006

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/06/the-fulness-of-the-gospel-the-fall-of-adam-and-eve

Gospel Classics: Adam’s Role in Bringing Us Mortality, by President Joseph Fielding Smith

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/01/adams-role-in-bringing-us-mortality

Perelandra, once again cited!

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

The Redemption of Eve, by Jolene Edmunds Rockwood

http://www.mormonmonastery.org/PDF/TheRedemptionofEve.pdf

Moses 5:11

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.11#11

“UTopia” by Laura Nielson Baxter, collected in “Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets”

https://amzn.to/2xJs6dY 

What Was Left of the Stars, by Claire Åkebrand

http://amzn.to/2wL1x5r

Eric’s comments on Claire Åkebrand’s poem, “‘First Actors”, from the above collection

https://motleyvision.org/2017/09/05/claire-akebrands-what-was-left-of-the-stars/#more-12058

Witchy Eye, by D. J. Butler

https://amzn.to/3cGwLMy

We take a break from our LDS miscellany to discuss the current pandemic using the recent conference as a backdrop. Please note the upcoming world-wide fast on Good Friday.

“We will conquer the coronavirus, apostle Holland says”

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/04/05/latest-sundays-lds/

April 2020 World Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSqT1bPmYb8

Mosiah 4:16-19

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.16-19#16

Crowd-fight COVID-19: an initiative from the scientific community to put all available resources at the service of the fight against COVID-19:

https://crowdfightcovid19.org/

President Nelson Invites World to Participate in Fast on Good Friday

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/president-nelson-invites-world-to-participate-in-fast-on-good-friday

Spoilers ahead!  We welcome David, a fellow Berkeley Wardian, as guest to the show today to talk about the final episode of the Good Place and its parallels with LDS views on redemption and exaltation

The Good Place

https://www.nbc.com/the-good-place

Sacred time vs. profine time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return_(Eliade)

The Seven Deadly Heresies, by Bruce R. McConkie

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie/seven-deadly-heresies/

Fair mormon question

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Question:_Do_Mormons_believe_that_there_is_there_progression_between_the_three_degrees_of_glory%3F

Eternal Misfit, by Roger Terry

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V43_N03_188.pdf

Gospel Principles, Exaltation (includes President Joseph Fielding Smith quote)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-47-exaltation

Apotheosis

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

Michael Schur: “As long as you’re trying, you’re on the right path.”

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-good-places-moral-message-changed-as-much-as-the-ch-1837096810

Stormlight archive

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

No exit

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

Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought, by X.J. Kennedy

https://www.poemtree.com/poems/NothingInHeavenFunctions.htm