Have you ever wanted to visit Historic Kirtland? Come along with Rick Bennett as he visited some of the amazing sites in June 2024. Check it out!

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In our latest GT Live, we'll announce the contest winner for Cheryl Bruno's book, "Secret Covenants." I'll also show you some pictures from my recent trip to Ireland. They had some cool churches there along with the Taylor Swift concert! We'll also discuss my reactions to Cheryl's book, "Secret Covenants." I'll share my reactions from the Clair Barrus & Mary Ann Clements interviews & chapters on polygamy, and preview Cheryl and John Dinger's biography on William Marks, an early Church leader. Plus more! Check out our conversation...

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Does a skeptic see temple in Book of Mormon?After having listened to Dave Butler discuss temple theology in the Book of Mormon, would a skeptic be convinced? We'll talk about that in our next conversation. Let us know what you think. I will also ask if it matters to Dave if the Book of Mormon is historical. Check out our conversation by signing up to our free newsletter at gospeltangents.com/newsletter and I'll send you the conclusion to our conversation.

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What's the story of Joseph Kingsbury being a pretend husband? We will also discuss The Happiness Letter is a letter Joseph Smith from to Nancy Rigdon, to get her as a plural wife. It was printed by John C Bennett but continues to be cited by LDS Leaders. Check out our conversation with Clair Barrus who wrote a chapter in Secret Covenants...

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John C Bennett made allegations of non-ceremonial spiritual wifery. Did that happen? Was there a revelation for Joseph Smith to marry Fanny Alger? Does the 1835 Declaration on Marriage reference polygamy? We'll talk about the early scandals in Nauvoo. Check out our conversation with Clair Barrus about his chapter in Secret Covenants...

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D&C 132 intro states that portions of the polygamy revelations were know to Joseph Smith as early as 1831. What possible evidence is there for that? I was surprised when Clair Barrus found evidence as early as 1829! Check out our conversation with Clair Barrus about his chapter in Secret Covenants...

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Mary Clift was the 3rd sister to become a wife of Theodore Turley. Mary Ann Clements explains the unusual marraige. Check out our conversation with Mary Ann about her chapter in Secret Covenants...

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Why did 3 Clift sisters marry Theodore Turley? Mary Ann Clements tells us more! Eliza never lived with Theodore. Was it a sham marriage, or just to fulfill spiritual polygamy? Check out our conversation with Mary Ann about her chapter in Secret Covenants...

 

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Was Sarah Clift in an affair or a surrogate motherhood arrangement in England in the 1830s? Mary Ann Clements is an amazing historian. She's written a chapter in "Secret Covenants," edited by Cheryl Bruno. We'll dive into the story of Theodore Turley and the 3 sisters he married. We'll find out more. Check out our conversation...

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Cheryl Bruno is the editor of "Secret Covenants: New Insights into Early Mormon Polygamy." She has come up with some surprises to the polygamy narrative we've all been taught. Check out our conversation....

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Intro to Secret Covenants

GT  00:31  Welcome to Gospel Tangents, I'm excited to have a very busy author. You've got two new books out. We're going to talk about the green one. So go ahead and tell us who you are. And you're the author of what?

Cheryl  00:44  I'm Cheryl Bruno and the newest book I have out is called "Secret Covenants.” Right there.

GT  00:50  Alright.

Cheryl  00:51  It's about early Mormon polygamy.

GT  00:54  Alright. Tell us more about it. It's an anthology, where you've got a bunch of different authors that write about it. We would just like to do a little bit of an overview here. Give us an overview of the book.

Cheryl  01:05  Great, I'm the editor of this book. I'll tell you the story of how it came about. Gary Bergera from Signature Books contacted me about two years ago. Since then he's retired. But he contacted me and said, we’d love for you to pull together a book on polygamy and just gather together a few essays that have already been written. We'll put them together into a book. I thought to myself, I know a bunch of authors on early Mormon polygamy. I bet that I can get them all to write something new and interesting for this book. So, I did. I called Don Bradley, Todd Compton…

GT  01:48  Who just won the best documentary award at MHA, (Mormon History Association) by the way.

Cheryl  01:52  There you go. Todd Compton just won at MHA. We're here at MHA. He just won the Best Documentary Book for his," In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents.” He's one of our well-known authors on polygamy. And we have Susan Staker, William V. Smith, just so many. Then we have actually two new authors in this book as well who Rick will be interviewing and let everybody know about Mary Ann Clements and Mark Tensmeyer. I think this is their first published article, but I think I haven't mentioned Christopher C. Smith. I know I've probably missed somebody.

GT  02:37  Yeah, we can look in the table of contents, I guess. We don't want to leave anybody out.

Cheryl  02:40  We don't, so we have Clair Barrus, Christopher C. Smith, Don Bradley, Susan Staker. John Dinger, Todd Compton, Devery Anderson, I don't know if we mentioned Devery.

GT  02:56  No, we didn't mention Devery.

Cheryl  02:57  He's also done a lot.

GT  02:58  An award-winning author.

Cheryl  03:00  We have several award-winning authors here and William Victor Smith, and then our new ones: Mark Tensmeyer, and Mary Ann Clements. It's just an amazing lineup. They've all written some original things here.

GT  03:15  Well, you forgot one.

Cheryl  03:16  Myself. {both laughing}

Cheryl  03:20  But, I have an essay in the book as well. Of course, I have written on polygamy. We've come up with some new insights,

GT  03:30  Very, very new insights. So, I love it. This is just going to be a quick overview. One of the nice things about an anthology is you don't have to start at the beginning and go to the end. You can skip around.

Cheryl  03:41  Exactly.

GT  03:41  I've done that. And so, I wanted to read Mark and Clair. They cover the same time period from two different points of view. Tell us about that.

Cheryl  03:51  Okay, so, first of all, I’ll just say that right now, we have a big controversy going on in the polygamy studies world about whether Joseph Smith actually practiced polygamy or not. There's pushback on that. This book was not written, since it started about two years ago. We didn't write the book to respond to that.