Ep 14.1 – General Disunity with Joseph Geisner Pt.1

Author: Bryce Blankenagel
Published: Wed 16 Jan 2019
Episode Link: https://glassboxpodcast.libsyn.com/ep-141-general-disunity-with-joseph-geisner-pt1

Over 7,000 General Conference talks given by hundreds of General Authorities, mistakes must have been made, right? Our guest this week, Joe Geisner, walks us through 120 years of Mormon General Conference addresses that were censored in some way. From the earliest talks by John W. Taylor to more recent addresses by Boyd K. Packer, the history of disunity within the highest ranks of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the resulting censorship, is a surprisingly dense and fascinating subject. Joe was nice enough to give us over 5 hours of his time, making this episode part 1 of 3.

Links mentioned in the show:

To the One https://archive.org/details/ToTheOne/page/n1

To Young Men Only https://archive.org/details/ToYoungMenOnly

Harold Lee talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/harold-b-lee_ye-deceived/

Benson BYU talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_safety-face-danger/

Rector talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hartman-jr-rector_roots-branches/

Henry Eyring talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_family/

Quinn telling about his conflicts with Packer http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-being-a-mormon-historian/

Review of Packer's talk in FARMS https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1426&index=11

Packer provokes academics in Sunstone https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/066.pdf

Lost sermons https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/CR%20100%20912/?componentid=427210