Ep 132 — Freemasonry, Book of Abraham, and Polygamy – Saints: The Standard of Truth-iness pt. 8

Runnin solo today! While Shannon continues to recover we’re going to take the opportunity to do a segment that sent Shan to hospital in the first place! That’s right, we’re back in Saints: The Standard of Truth, the new, authorized history of Joseph Smith and his early religious movement. That’s it. That’s all we’re doing this episode! We talk missionaries in Europe, political machinations, President Martin Van Buren, polygamy, the endowment ceremony, Freemasonry, The Book of Abraham, so many other gems! This period of April 1839-April 1842 is one of the most complicated and adaptive periods of Joseph’s ministry and we hold on with the edge of our finger tips as the book rips us through it, hoping we aren’t stopping to smell the shitpiles the book conspicuously ignores along the journey.

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Show Notes: 

Warsaw Signal Archive (ThomASS Sharp) http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/il/sign1842.htm

Nauvoo City Council Minute Book

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-city-council-minute-book-1841-1845/19

Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/plural-wives-overview/mary-elizabeth-rollins/

Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/translation-and-historicity-of-the-book-of-abraham?lang=eng

Discussions over Joseph “turning the key” to the Relief Society

https://exponentii.org/blog/daughters-in-my-kingdom-something-better-the-female-relief-society-of-nauvoo-chapter-2/

https://wheatandtares.org/2021/08/02/do-women-have-priesthood-keys/

https://exponentii.org/blog/daughters-in-my-kingdom-something-better-the-female-relief-society-of-nauvoo-chapter-2/

https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/part-2/2-2#inline-note86

https://bycommonconsent.com/2015/03/17/establishment-of-the-relief-society/

RS Minute Book by Eliza R. Snow

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/10#full-transcript

Mormon News Roundup Ep 76

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BtfLgWkJB4

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