Join Lindsay as she discusses the theories of mob psychology, mimetic violence, sacrifice, and how polygamous doctrine interacts with those theories.  

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  Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Milgram experiment
• Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
• The Scapegoat by Rene Girard
• Convergence Theory Intro
• FAIR Mormon Mountain Meadows Massacre Summary
• Gustav Le Bon’s The Crowd

Join Lindsay as she discusses the history of the “Polygamy Revelation,” or D&C 132, the 1843 Revelation, or the Celestial Marriage Revelation. Featuring an interview with Lancaster scholar, Sheldon Kent.

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  Links and texts mentioned an read in this episode:

• FAIR Mormon explaining the Reed Smoot hearing with Joseph F. Smith testimony
• The Persistence of Polygamy: Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy
• Brian Hales/Laura Hales on Emma’s Reaction to the Revelation
• Mormon Enigma by Linda Newell and Valeen Avery
• Joseph Smith Papers Project’s explanation of the creation of D&C 132
• BYU Studies explanation of the creation of D&C 132
• Perry Porter’s section on Articles of Marriage
• FAIR Mormon on the contradictions in the D&C
• FAIR Mormon on the chapter in Jacob about polygamy
• Article on Jacob Cochran
• Latter-Day Revelation: Selections From the Doctrine & Covenants
• Joseph Smith Papers Project on Emma Smith learning of the 1843 Revelation

Join Lindsay as she tells the story of three women who married a prominent Utah business man, Brigham Young Hampton. Their lives and relationships were forged during the Mormon Reformation. Links or text mentioned or read in this episode:

• David Candland’s The Fireside Visitor
• Connell ODonovan’s work on Dr. Robinson 
• Wikipedia’s Mormon Reformation
• Jedediah Grant’s sermon on Hypocrisy 
• History of Fort Union in Midvale
• Helen Emily Bone
• Helen Huntley Hampton Clayton (Helen Emily Bone)
• Playing with Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier)
• Olsen, Steven L. “Celebrating Cultural Identity: Pioneer Day in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism.” BYU Studies 36:1 (1996-97):159-177.
• David Candland
• Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power

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Join Lindsay as she interviews Brielle Decker, one of two women who have escaped being married to FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs.

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Links and topics mentioned in this podcast:

• Kristyn Decker and Sound Choices Coalition
• Holding Out Help
• See who Brielle Decker is now
• Brielle’s newest project, Voices for Dignity

Join Lindsay as she talks about the history of the Second Anointing, the “Fullness of the Priesthood,” and the ties to Plural Marriage.

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Links mentioned and articles read in this podcast:

• The Fullness of the Priesthood: The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice by David John Buerger, Dialogue Vol 16 No 1
• Ogden Kraut’s: Calling and Election
• Wilford Woodruff’s Journals
• Richard Ware’s Ordinance of Second Anointings
• MRM’s Second Anointing
• Brigham Young’s sermon on the Beneficial Effects of Polygamy
• LDS.org’s explanation of the Fullness of Times
• History of Joseph Smith: Three Orders of the Priesthood
• The Development of LDS Temple Worship, Devery Anderson, ps. xli-xlv
• Bruce R. McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine

Since the Year of Polygamy podcast has been in existence, many of you have reached out asking how you can help remedy the lingering challenges Mormon polygamy creates in some communities. We appreciate your support and your willingness to help!  

Because of your generous support, we were able to complete our first (amazingly successful) service project for individuals affected by these issues.

On October 24, 2015 over 75 volunteers arrived in the Twin Cities of Colorado City, AZ and Hildale, UT to restore homes that have been affected since Warren Jeffs took over leadership of the FLDS church.

Due to your generous support, we were able to repair three homes in the city. One home received all new windows and 1,700 square feet of engineered hardwood flooring. Another home received 700 square feet of new tile. The third home belongs to the Safety Net of Utah and is a half-way house for those displaced or transitioning from the chaos in the community. The Safety Net home received a new roof, new interior paint, cleaned walls and carpet, fixed bikes, new shelving, and more. Our volunteers traveled to the towns on their own dime and worked tirelessly all weekend to make this an event a success. Please view the slideshow below for more information:

   

Want to be involved? The first step is education! Please listen to the episodes here in order to understand the issues facing this community. The need is overwhelming and the efforts will be ongoing. We will be returning in March or April and will be looking for additional volunteers in the coming months. For now, you can help by donating below. Donations are tax-deductible and a foundation has been set up for the podcast to collect your support. (Information for your taxes are below.) Please consider a donation that will go directly to new tile, paint, cleaner, and other supplies on our project list. 100% of your donations will go towards these efforts. Fern Foundation TAX EIN: 47-5173535

If you are not in a place to donate or be onsite but would still like to help, we are collecting shelving including books shelves and cabinets. You can email Lindsay about what you can give at YearofPolygamy@gmail.com. You can also help by spreading the word.Thanks for giving and for helping these communities find hope and healing.A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR DONORS AND SPONSORS incluing:

• Rusty Benge at Roofers Supply. Diamond Rental of Bountiful.
• Jones Paint & Glass
• The Wittwer family and Coral Hills Best Western and Abbey Inn of St. George
• Washington Home Depot.
• Bruce Campbell at Discount Flooring
• Naylor Solar
•  Sherwin Williams in Las Vegas
• Best Western Plus

Year of Polygamy Episodes in Order

PRELUDE: Emma Smith Part one Emma Smith Part two Year of Polygamy:

Year of Polygamy Episodes in Order

• Episode 01: Fanny Alger
• Episode 02: Lucinda Morgan Harris
• Episode 03: Louisa Beaman
• Episode 04: Zina Huntington Jacobs Young Smith
• Episode 05: Presendia Huntington Buell
• Episode 06: Agnes Coolbrith
• Episode 07: Sylvia Sessions
• Episode 08: Patty Sessions
• Episode 09: Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner
• Episode 10: Polygamy in Nauvoo
• Episode 11: Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde
• Episode 12: Elizabeth Davis Durfee
• Episode 13: Sarah Kingsley Cleveland
• Episode 14: Delcena Johnson Sherman
• Episode 15: Eliza R. Snow
• Episode 16: Sarah Ann Whitney
• Episode 17: Martha McBride Knight
• Episode 18: Ruth Vose Sayers
• Episode 19: Flora Ann Woodworth
• Episode 20: Emily Partridge
• Episode 21: Joseph Smith’s Progeny
• Episode 22: Eliza Partridge
• Episode 23: Almera Johnson
• Episode 24: Lucy Walker
• Episode 25: The Lawrence Sisters
• Episode 26: Helen Mar Kimball
• Episode 27: Hannah Ells
• Episode 28: Elvira Cowles Holmes
• Episode 29: Rhoda Richards
• Episode 30: Olive Grey Frost
• Episode 31: Desdemona Wadsworth Fullmer
• Episode 32: Melissa Lott
• Episode 33: Nancy Winchester
• Episode 34: Fanny Young
• Episode 35: Polygamy and Lamanite Marriages
• Episode 36: Plural Marriage and the Martydom
• Episode 37: Polygamy and Winter Quarters
• Episode 38: Polygamy and Winter Quarters
• Episode 39: Early Utah Period Polygamy
• Episode 40: Heber C. Kimball
• Episode 41: Polygamy and the Family, Public andPrivate
• Episode 42: Scandal, Soldiers, Sex and Wives
• Episode 43: Violent 1850’s Utah
• Episode 44: The Utah War
• Episode 45: Houses of Polygamy
• Episode 46: A Brief History of the Relief Society
• Episode 47: History of Southern Utah, Part 1
• Episode 48: History ofSouthern Utah, Part 2 (Orderville and other towns)
• Episode 49: Emma Lee French
• Episode 50: Marriage to Brigham Young
• Episode 51: Amelia Folsom, “Brigham’s Favorite Wife”
• Episode 52: Obscure Polygamous Women,Polygamous Wives Writing Club
• Episode 53: Federal Legislation
• Episode 54: Lucinda Dalton, Mormon Feminist Pioneer</>
• Episode 55: Emmeline Free
• Episode 56: Polygamy in Mexican Colonies
• Episode 57: Polygamy and Suffrage
• Episode 58: Anne Gordge, Polygamous Calamity Jane
• Episode 59: New Church Essays (Gospel Topics) on Plural Marriage
• Episode 60: The 1890 Manifesto
• Episode 61: Polygamy and Abuse
• Episode 62: Post-Manifesto Marriages
• Episode 63: Phoebe Woodruff, a Prophet’s wife
• Episode 64: Hannah Tapfield King, English Poetess
• Episode 65: Joseph’s Polygamy Revelations
• Episode 66: Mary Ann Jackson, Forgotten Wife
• Episode 67: John W. Woolley
• Episode 68: The 1886 Revelation
• Episode 69: From Polygamy to Peace, the Changing Church
• Episode 70: Going Underground
• Episode 71: Mormon Women In Prison
• Episode 72: Generational Shifts
• Episode 73: The Birth of Fundamentalism
• Episode 74: Secrets and Wives with Sanjiv Bhattacharya
• Episode 75: The Short Creek Raid
• Episode 76: The LeBarons
• Episode 77: The AUB
• Episode 78: Married to John W. Woolley
• Episode 79: The Kingston Group
• Episode 80: Married to a Prophet: An interview withIrene Spencer
• Episode 81: Lawless Women and Heber Kimball
• Episode 82: Other Fundamentalist Groups
• Episode 83: Daughter of a Prophet Leaving the AUB
• Episode 84: FLDS, Part One
• Episode 84: FLDS, Part Two
• Episode 85: Warren Jeffs and His Crimes
• Episode 86: Growing Up FLDS, Interview with Trevor Jeffs
• Episode 87: Murder of Parley P. Pratt
• Episode 88: Ben Bistline, FLDS Historian
• Episode 89: Talking to an Apostle from Centennial Park
• Episode 90: Joseph F. Smith and the Changing Church
• Episode 91: Polygamy as Art
• Episode 92: Rachel Ivins and Heber J. Grant
• Episode 93: The Pacific Island and Mormon Polygamy
• Episode 94: Joseph Fought Polygamy?
• Episode 94: Polygamy Controversies: John C. Bennett
• Episode 94: Polygamy Controversies: Women Who Said No
• Episode 95: Dueling Josephs: How Two Smith Cousins Shaped Polygamy
• Episode 96: Polygamy as Feminist? Anthropologist Janet Bennion
• Episode 97: Messy Mormon Polygamy, Part One
• Episode 97: Messy Mormon Polygamy, Part Two
• Episode 98: How Polygamy Affects the Modern LDS Church
• Episode 99: D. Michael Quinn and a Polygamy Church
• Episode 100: The Final Episode

  BONUS EPISODES:  

• Lindsay’s Mormon Stories Interview
• Episode 101: Interview with a Kingston
• Episode 102: Growing Up FLDS
• Episode 103: How the Podcast Has Affected My Own Marriage
• Episode 104: Polygamy in Islam
• Episode 105: Holding Out Help
• Episode 106: Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, Part One
• Episode 106: Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, Part Two

The Year of Polygamy series might have concluded, but Lindsay is far from done telling women’s stories. Check out her latest project!

What is Woman? The Story of Woman Podcast, a program dubbed, “Hard Core History with more women” weaves histories of women, through the lens of women, with the latest research and experts in the field. Broad and expansive, this series begins at the dawn of life and crawls to the modern age through exciting and largely untold tales of the women who built our world. The project has generated a lot of buzz! Sponsored by BlueHost, co-produced by Jake Spurlock of Wired Magazine, Grace Pool of the Sunstone Education Foundation, and Adam Groves and teaming with a host of researchers, including anthropologists, historians, biologists and more, you won’t want to miss an episode.

Join Lindsay as she interviews two historians, John Hamer and Don Bradley about the Smith cousins, Joseph F. Smith and Joseph Smith III and how their public feud shaped 20th century polygamy.

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The Persistence of Polygamy, Volume II
• Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet book
• LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley’s speech on Joseph Smith III
• Dialogue: Joseph  Smith  III’s  1844  Blessing and The Mormons of Utah
• Dialogue: Methods  and  Motives: Joseph  Smith  III’ s Opposition to Polygamy, 1860-9 0
• Joseph F. Smith Affidavits from Mormon Polygamy Documents

THIS EPISODE WILL BE COMING SOON!   This is part four in a four-part series of “Polygamy Controversies” that will air throughout the rest of the series.