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Next on the block is the "Emotion" component of Steven Hassan's BITE model of cult mind control. This launches us into the next installment of Saints: The Standard of Truth, covering the visionary era of the early Mormon movement and the move from New York to Ohio. Sidney Rigdon and Parley P. Pratt are introduced, as are the Partridge family, including 7 and 11 year-old Emily and Eliza. The book casually introduces the subject of polygamy, presumably to smooth over the subject in the coming chapters when the practice becomes more controversial and widespread. We end the segment discussing Ezra Booth and his expose letters after he was excommunicated from the church for speaking out against Joseph Smith. The episode ends with some good news from Minnesota about transgender health care!

Show Notes:

6 Highly Effective Tactics Cult leaders Use to Build a Raving Audience: https://bettermarketing.pub/6-highly-effective-tactics-cult-leaders-use-to-build-a-raving-audience-ff3111c4bbf3

Steven Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan

Freedom of Mind Resource Center: https://freedomofmind.com/

BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/

Books:

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults, by Steven Hassan

Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs, by Steven Hassan

Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, by Steven Hassan

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steven Hassan

Saints links:

Ezra Booth letters

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ezra_Booth_letters

Jacob 2 "exception clause" links

https://oneclimbs.com/2017/01/05/a-proposed-reinterpretation-of-jacob-230/

https://bookofmormonism.com/2022/01/31/jacob-230-raising-up-seed-and-the-polygamy-question/

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/archive/publications/contradiction_between_jacob_and_dc_132

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/book-of-mormon-seminary-teacher-manual-2017/jacob/lesson-44-jacob-2-12-35?lang=eng

Happy news:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/transgender-health-care-now-protected-minnesota/story?id=97739240

Other Appearances:

Check out Joseph Smith vs Joseph's Myth, where Aron and Bryce discuss the Joseph Smith story:

https://youtu.be/oD2Xhg6F-Js

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

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This is kind of an unusual episode. Shannon's still in recovery so Bryce is making a solo run for better or worse (definitely the latter). We run through the stories of some early African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their stories are remarkable, their struggles real, their histories vague but inspiring. We try to place their stories within the larger context of slavery in Utah and what life might have been like at the time. Thank you to Century of Black Mormons project at the University of Utah for creating a wonderful resource with biographies of these historical figures. After that, we go through the 2000 movie, Remember the Titans (mighty, mighty, ti-tans!) and discuss how this football movie isn't really a football movie at all, but a movie about racism. Then we wrap with happy news about the recent SEC filing which charged the Mormon church with hiding assets and unfair investment practices.

Show Notes:

Century of Black Mormons

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/welcome

Black Saints and the Priesthood

https://mormonr.org/qnas/BT5Sk/black_saints_and_the_priesthood_brigham_young_early_utah_era/research

Besty Brown Fluellen

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/fluellen-betsy-brown#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-848%2C-36%2C2224%2C837

John Priesly

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/priesly-john#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2836%2C-127%2C7382%2C2799

Edward "Ned" Leggroan

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/leggroan-edward-ned#?#_ftn16&c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-253%2C-19%2C1084%2C411

Nancy Smith

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/smith-nancy#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1998%2C-132%2C6955%2C2662

Isaac Lewis Manning

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/manning-isaac-lewis#?#_ftn21&c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1381%2C-96%2C5053%2C1934

Utah 1852 slave code

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/primary-documents-african-american-history/utah-slave-code-1852/

History of slave codes

https://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/histContextsE.htm#:~:text=There%20were%20numerous%20restrictions%20to,or%20possess%20%E2%80%9Cinflammatory%E2%80%9D%20literature.

More slave codes

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

The Sounds of Slavery by T. David Franklin; Featured public domain slave songs and hollers

https://archive.org/details/TDavidFranklinTheSoundsofSlavery/02__Levee_Holler.mp3

MOGP:

Remember the Titans

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210945/

Happy news:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35

Other Appearances:

Check out Joseph Smith vs Joseph's Myth, where Aron and Bryce discuss the Joseph Smith story:

https://youtu.be/oD2Xhg6F-Js

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

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CULTS! Well, one specifically. We start this episode with a brief rundown of Steven Hassan's BITE model of cult mind control. We hone in on the element of "Information" control within the larger BITE model to discuss how important controlling information is to the longevity of any cult. That leads us into our longer segment where we finally begin our review of Saints: The Standard of Truth, the new authoritative history book of early Mormonism published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Part 1 discusses the early history of the Joseph Smith family, the supernatural visitations, the acquisition of the Gold Plates, and the authorship process of the Book of Mormon. Does this book cross the threshold of being New Mormon History, or is it simply a more sophisticated treatment of the same Old Mormon History? Yes, this segment is long, but mining mountains for minute morsels is a tedious task. We wrap with some happy news about repurposing defunct oil wells for green energy.

Show Notes:

Steven Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan

Robert Jay Lifton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jay_Lifton

Freedom of Mind Resource Center: https://freedomofmind.com/

BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/

Books:

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults, by Steven Hassan

Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs, by Steven Hassan

Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, by Steven Hassan

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steven Hassan

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China by Robert Jay Lifton

Saints links:

https://archive.org/details/originriseprogre00tuck/page/n39/mode/2up?q=beer

http://www.fullerconsideration.com/sources.php?cat=GP-T26

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2002/the-1826-trial-of-joseph-smith

http://www.mormonthink.com/witnessesweb.htm#harris

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/37b7b91c-4148-45d6-8f32-df4acf06fe99/0/7

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225502?seq=12

https://archive.org/details/mormonismunvaile00howe/page/270/mode/2up?q=anthon

https://archive.org/details/LucysBook/page/n439/mode/2up

http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/harrisinterviewtiffanysmonthly.htm

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1376&context=jbms

Happy news: Researchers successfully turn abandoned oil well into giant geothermal battery https://skymagzines.com/researchers-successfully-turn-abandoned-oil-well-into-giant-geothermal-battery/

Other Appearances:

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

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Who even is Lavina Fielding Anderson?! In this classic deep dive we examine the life of Lavina Fielding Anderson and her contributions to the Mormon academic field. Her story serves as a case study of how far individuals can pressure the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the inside before the institution's immune system responds. She's a powerhouse of a scholar, a pioneer in feminist Mormon studies, and an advocate for those who've survived ecclesiastical abuse. The Mormon Alliance was the organization Lavina formed with Janice Allred to collect and publish survivor's stories and advocate on their behalf. Both suffered gruelling and abusive disciplinary processes for their advocacy attempting to reform Mormon practices and policies. History repeats itself and the timeline of Protect LDS Children and Sam Young was telegraphed by the experiences of Anderson, Allred, and the Mormon Alliance. We finish the episode with a review of Erin Brockovich and a happy environmental news item from Liverpool.

Correction: At about an hour and a half in, Shannon referenced Victor Frankl when she meant Elie Wiesel.

Show Notes:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45228305?seq=10#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/issues/130.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20120215064851/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/092-65-79.pdf

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/lavina-fielding-anderson-mercy-without-end-toward-a-more-inclusive-church/

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-lds-intellectual-community-and-church-leadership-a-contemporary-chronology/#pdf-wrap

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/spring-1993/

https://web.archive.org/web/20080123061329/http://mormonalliance.org/casereports/casereports.htm

https://mormon-alliance.org/SiteMap.htm

https://mormon-alliance.org/definitions.htm

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_Church_discipline/Scholars/Does_the_Church_excommunicate_historians

MOGP: Erin Brockovich: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt

Hinkley Groundwater Contamination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contamination

Erin Brockovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich

Happy news:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/once-biologically-dead-the-river-mersey-in-england-is-best-environmental-story-in-europe/?fbclid=IwAR2UT3EKTfa-CMY9PZjQXcI8gJ8auRQ5VG4su6sq4DhSZ5CnD7iQqLsNahc

Other Appearances:

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

Email: [email protected]

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It's finally time for our long-awaited deep dive into New Mormon History. Put simply, NMH was a movement within the history department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to confront controversial history and turn away from the apologetic and polemical Old Mormon History. The leading figure, Leonard Arrington, was the right person for the job. But, he didn't have the business chops to fight forces much larger than him in the form of Mark E. Petersen, Ezra Taft Benson, and Boyd K. Packer. The main segment is long as we chronicle the rise, fall, and resurrection of the New Mormon History movement and how the Joseph Smith Papers Project, as well as Saints: The Standard of Truth, are both the results of this movement pushing the church for academic legitimacy. In retrospect, Arrington is vindicated as an intellectual fighting for intellectual integrity while Packer spins in his grave. Then we discuss Finding Forrester as another example of the never-ending fight for academic honesty. We wrap with happy news of an invention set to tackle microplastics in our oceans.

New Mormon History:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mormon_history#CITEREFQuinn1992

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45228326?seq=19#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=mormonhistory

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/fall-1983/

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/4836228f-48c3-447f-bcb9-9c2a35496898/0/56

https://www.librarything.com/work/7542838

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1724&context=byusq

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

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V09N01_36.pdf

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2055&context=byusq

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_history/Boyd_K._Packer%27s_talk:_%22The_Mantle_is_Far,_Far_Greater_Than_the_Intellect%22#cite_ref-3

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V16N03_11.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/034-32-37.pdf

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/joseph-smith-and-the-beginnings-of-mormonism_richard-l-bushman/413785/#edition=3500292&idiq=1723338

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_R._Dyer

http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no115.htm

Extra thanks to Brian Buchanan for helping piece together the main segment. Find him here: https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/

https://sunstone.org/sunstone-history-podcast/

MOGP: Finding Forrester https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk

Where it is streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/finding-forrester

Happy news: Princeton engineers developed new way to remove microplastics from water: https://scitechdaily.com/99-efficiency-princeton-engineers-have-developed-a-new-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-water/

Other Appearances:

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

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Education is a battleground for the hearts and minds of the future. The Church Education System of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1980, but the history of education in Mormonism is far more complex. We do a deep dive into how the CES started and the sordid pasts of the various educational institutions attached to the Church at some point. There's also a tangential deep dive into seminary and the legal sphere of "released time" classes carving out exemptions where religion can be taught in public schools. Then we discuss the modern battlefield of public education by reviewing the 2012 documentary, The Revisionaries, focused on public school text books and the fight at the Texas Board of Education. We round out with a quick overview of the best news of our lifetime, recommendations by the Jan 6th Committee to criminally indict the former POTUS for the violent insurrection at the federal capitol building in January 2021.

CES history links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Educational_System#cite_ref-E2014_3-2

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2184&context=etd&httpsredir=1&referer=

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-education/about/ces-administration?lang=eng

https://www.mormonwiki.com/Church_Educational_System

https://mormonfaq.com/mormon-culture/about-education

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-founding-of-the-l-d-s-institutes-of-religion/

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T._Kingsbury#cite_note-10

https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/8306/aaup-1915-declaration-of-principles

https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/University%20of%20Utah%20-%20December%201915.pdf

https://archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/1915-a-year-that-changed-governance-tenure-and-academic-freedom-at-the-university-of-utah/

http://ldspioneerarchitecture.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/EoM/id/5597

https://releasedtime.org

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/884/released-time#:~:text=Released%20time%20programs%20allow%20for,hours%20to%20receive%20religious%20instruction.

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/435/everson-v-board-of-education

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/27/1131880548/football-coach-prayers-reinstated#:~:text=Bremerton%20High%20School.-,His%20practice%20of%20praying%20on%20the%20field%20sparked%20a%20court,religious%20expression%20in%20public%20schools.&text=The%20coach's%20insistence%20on%20praying,victory%20on%20religious%20freedom%20grounds.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1992/10/to-be-learned-is-good-if?lang=eng

CES Purges:

https://www.deseret.com/1995/3/30/19167147/feminist-club-at-byu-loses-its-voice-for-now

https://universe.byu.edu/1996/03/14/voice-leader-chats/

https://universe.byu.edu/2001/06/01/feminist-voice-active-at-byu/

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/02/us/as-mormon-church-grows-so-does-dissent-from-feminists-and-scholars.html

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/11/28/byu-i-instructors-fired-failing/

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/ecclesiastical-leader-questions-new-ces-hires

MOGP: Revisionaries (2012): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091398/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

FInd where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-revisionaries

Happy news: Jan 6th committee filed report https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144489935/january-6-committee-full-report-release

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=23515535-jan-6-select-committee-final-r

Other Appearances:

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

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Guess what! This is the end of our deep dive into The Millennial Messiah, by Bruce R McConkie! It's party time! We go over the last 4 chapters and then discuss our conclusion. Then, we will watch the 2010 movie Legion, with a mormon lens because it works WAY too well with that. Then we'll finish off the episode with some good news about a BYU protest!

MOGP: Legion (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038686/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

FInd where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/legion

Happy News:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/stanford-marching-band-mocks-byu-gay-wedding-skit-football-game/

Other Appearances:

LIVE SHOW! Mon, Dec 26, 2022 — We will talk about media. All things media — books, movies, music, etc.

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

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What even is the Law of Consecration?! Well it's a covenant that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make during the temple endowment ceremony, but what actually is it? We go through a deep dive of the Law of Consecration, discuss a bit of its history, and pontificate about it's impact and possible future use in Mormon culture today. After that we review Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper, a wonderful dystopian fantasy novel with some hard-hitting social commentary we interpret through a Mormon lens. We round out the episode by congratulating LeVar Burton receiving long-deserved recognition. Patrons: we debrief/deconstruct the recent debate between Bryce and a certain litigious individual.

Show Notes:

All Things are the Lord's: The Law of Consecration in the Doctrine and Covenants by Steven Harper

https://rsc.byu.edu/doctrine-covenants-revelations-context/all-things-are-lords-law-consecration-doctrine-covenants

List of codenames in D&C

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

Thou Art the Man Newel K. Whitney in Ohio by Mark Staker

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/thou-art-the-man-newel-k-whitney-in-ohio/#footnote-206

MOGP:

Happy News:

https://www.wbal.com/article/594418/116/levar-burton-to-be-honored-with-lifetime-achievement-honors-at-childrens-family-emmy-awards?fbclid=IwAR00LFAqEZrTrJtJ18l9JTR8Yo37ync8wQ20ASEZ5Gt5DXJKurnmicGIszk

Other Appearances:

LIVE SHOW! Mon, Dec 26, 2022 — We will talk about media. All things media — books, movies, music, etc.

Come see us on Aron Ra's YouTube channel! He's doing a series titled Reading Joseph's Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf

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Our long-awaited deep-dive deconstruction of Adam-God Doctrine, or theory, depending on who you ask. What is it? Who taught it? Why is it controversial? How is it treated by the corporate Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today? 'As we are, god once was, as god is we may someday become' is a tried-and-true Mormon doctrine and the Adam-Eve-Gods Doctrine fits perfectly within this logical loop. As the title of the doctrine alludes to, Heavenly Father took the form of Adam with one of his wives, Heavenly Mother Eve, to create and populate the earth, after which he went to Adam-ondi-Ahman, in Missouri, where he ascended back to godhood to continue his charge from Elohim to create worlds without end. Then we dive into the nearly-final segment of Bruce R. McConkie's Millennial Messiah. McCranky loves the idea of fire burning the sinners and his charged language justifies the physical suffering and burning of anybody who isn't Mormon or living its dictates. Further, when Jesus returns to reign in the millennium he will rule with an iron rod; the future dystopian Mormon theocracy is a dangerous and unforgiving land. How all these teachings pervade Mormon culture to this day can be seen by Mormons periodically carrying out the will of gods by causing the suffering and death of sinners and those who oppose the kingdom of God. Mormonism creates dangerous men, yet the church never suffers the repurcussions. We round out the episode with some happy news about cannabis legislation heading to President Biden's desk.

Show Notes:

FairLatterDaySaints Adam-God theory

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_doctrine/Repudiated_concepts/Adam-God_theory

Brigham Young's Teachings on Adam by Matthew B. Brown (2009)

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2009_Brigham_Youngs_Teachings_On_Adam.pdf

JS On the Plurality of Gods

http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/smithpluralityofgodssermon.htm

JS King Follett Discourse

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/King_Follett_Discourse

The Evening and the Morning Star May 1834 article about Adam

https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/5884

The Position of Adam in Latter-day Scripture and Theology by Rodney Turner (1952)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150328213004/http://mormonbookshelf.com/wiki/The_Position_of_Adam_in_Latter-day_Scripture_and_Theology/Introduction

Council of Fifty Minutes

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/389#full-1189529701479850981

Nauvoo Expositor

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nauvoo_Expositor

The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake by John W. Gunnison (1852)

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbc0001/2019/2019gen35226/2019gen35226.pdf

Women of Mormondom by Edward Tullidge (1877)

http://ia800907.us.archive.org/31/items/womenofmormondom00tullrich/womenofmormondom00tullrich.pdf

Brigham Young first public speech on Adam-God Doctrine April 1852 General Conference

https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/8

Celestial Marriage by Orson Pratt Oct 1852 General Conference

https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/9

Our Own Liahona by Spencer W. Kimball (1978 denunciation of Adam-God Doctrine)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/11/our-own-liahona?lang=eng

Quotes on Adam-God Doctrine from various church leaders

http://www.mormonthink.com/QUOTES/adamgod.htm

Adam-God resource repository

https://www.adamgod.com/

The Adam-God Doctrine by David John Buerger (Spring 1982)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225052?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents

Happy News:

https://themarijuanaherald.com/2022/11/u-s-senate-passes-marijuana-and-cannabidiol-research-expansion-act-sends-it-to-president-biden/

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History comes to life! Today we interview Mark Elwood, the creator of the graphic novel series The Glass Looker. These novels seek to illustrate Joseph Smith's magic and treasure digging in beautiful and colorful relief. The book just dropped so grab yourself a copy! After that we continue talking fictionalized history with the movie Ford v Ferrari and we wrap the show with some happy news about republicans losing a book ban fight.

Show Notes:

The Glass Looker https://theglasslooker.com/

MOGP: Ford v Ferrari: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Happy News: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/republican-book-banning-attempt-defeated-community-stands-lgbtq-people/

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