Join Lindsay as she discusses the murders of Gentile (non-Mormon) men on the frontier who interfered with Mormon women. This post contains graphic descriptions of violence.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The Butler Murder of April 1869:
  A Look at Extralegal Punishment
  in Utah by Craig Foster
• James Monroe Murdered by Edward Hogan
• Blood in the Water: Beck Street and Blood Atonement by Michael McClane
• The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, Volume 28 about Archibal N. Hill
• Popular History of Utah by Orson Ferguson Whitney
• Defender: The Life of Daniel H. Wells by Quentin Thomas Wells
• Murder of Thomas Coleman

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Join Lindsay as she discusses Mormon accounts of the Walker War with scholar Ryan Wimmer and how they affected the landscape of Mormon settlement.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Ryan Wimmer’s article, The Walker War Reconsidered
• Utah Division of State History
• Other work by Wimmer
• Sally Kanosh’s wiki article
• Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk

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Join Lindsay as she interviews authors and historians Craig L. Foster and Marianne T. Watson about their new book, American Polygamy: A History of Fundamentalist Mormon Faith.

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Join Lindsay as she interviews two Mormon fundamentalists from Christ’s Church, about the history of the temple as it relates to Mormon Fundamentalism.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Ben’s blog
  www.ChristsChurchTheBranch.org
  Ben’s Law Firm
• Ben’s prior podcast episode on Year of Polygamy
• Samy Galvez’s The Queer Christ

 

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Join Lindsay as she interviews two Mormon fundamentalists from Christ’s Church, about the history of the temple as it relates to Mormon Fundamentalism.

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Join Lindsay as she interviews temple historian Devery Anderson, Stanford scholar Cynthia Bailey Lee, and fundamentalist scholar Cristina Rosetti as they discuss the history of Mormon temple changes.

• Links mentioned in this podcast:
• Cynthia’s blogpost on BCC: Thank You, Sisters: an Honor Roll of those who made the temple changes possible
• Devery’s Books: Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History
• Sunstone article: The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine by Thomas G. Alexander
• Restoration and the Sacred Mushroom Did Joseph Smith use Psychedelic Substances to Facilitate Visionary Experiences? Presented at the Sunstone Symposium, August 2007 by Robert T. Beckstead  (TEXT)
• Restoration and the Sacred Mushroom (AUDIO)
• Revelation Through Hallucination A discourse on the Joseph Smith-entheogen theory Sunstone Symposium SLC 2017 By: Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi

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Join Lindsay as she interviews temple historian Devery Anderson, Stanford scholar Cynthia Bailey Lee, and fundamentalist scholar Cristina Rosetti as they discuss the history of Mormon temple changes.

• Links mentioned in this podcast:
• Cynthia’s blogpost on BCC: Thank You, Sisters: an Honor Roll of those who made the temple changes possible

• Devery’s Books: Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History

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Join Lindsay as she interviews conservative talk show host Bryan Hyde about how to model hard conversations. Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Bryan Hyde’s Radio Show and Network
• Bryan Hyde’s interview with Julie Rowe

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Join Lindsay as she and scholar Cristina Rosetti discuss the second part of when Mormon Fundamentalism goes wrong, including the stories of Arvin Shreeve, the Lafferty brothers, and Knights of the Crystal Blade. Part one can be found here.   Links and reading mentioned in this podcast:

• Newsweek article on Arvin Shreeve
• Deseret News reports on Arvin Shreeve’s death
• Victims of Shreeve tell their stories
• Children of Shreeve
• More info on the Zionist society
• Newsweek on Knights of the Crystal Blade
• SL Trib’s reporting on the Crystal Blade case
• People.com reporting on Dan Lafferty update
• Deseret News looks back on the Lafferty case
• Blood Brothers: reporting on the Lafferty brothers by City Weekly
• Sunstone panel on Under the Banner of Heaven

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Join Lindsay and Cristina as they discuss the case of Brian David Mitchell. This is part one of a two-part episode.   Links mentioned and referenced in this podcast:

• THE MAKING OF IMMANUEL: BRIAN DAVID MITCHELL AND THE MORMON FRINGE By John-Charles Duffy
• City Weekly Article on Brian David Mitchell
• The Utah Bee articles on child brides

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