1688: The Happiness Letter (Joseph Smith's Proposition to Nancy Rigdon) w/ LDS Discussions - 28
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 176 minutes
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Summary
In part 5 of our 6-part series on polygamy within the LDS Discussions project, we discuss "The Happiness Letter," which was the letter Joseph Smith wrote to Nancy Rigdon to try to convince her to become one of his plural wives.
Special Guest: Nemo the Mormon
LDS Discussion Essay on the Happiness Letter
- Part 1: An Introduction to Mormon Polygamy - 24
- Part 2: D&C 132 – Joseph Smith’s Polygamy “Revelation” - 25
- Part 3: Joseph Smith’s Plural Marriage Proposals Pt 1 – 26
- Part 4: Joseph Smith’s Plural Marriage Proposals Pt 2 – 27
- Part 6: Polygamy Apologetics, Spiritual Wifery, etc – 29
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Morningsource podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:04.1 | Delin at September 14th, 2022. And we are here back for our weekly series titled LDS |
| 0:12.4 | discussions where we are dealing with various Mormon truth claims. We're going to deal |
| 0:17.1 | with at least 40 to 50 Mormon truth claims. We're kind of smack dab in the middle. We |
| 0:21.8 | are in the polygamy section, which is going to have probably at least five, if not more |
| 0:27.1 | individual episodes. Today, the topic is Joseph Smith's happiness letter, as it relates |
| 0:34.6 | to the practice of polygamy, just to make sure, as I mentioned in all of these LDS discussions |
| 0:40.6 | episodes, there is a website at ldsdiscussions.com where our dear friend, Mike, who is a convert |
| 0:47.7 | to Mormonism who married into the church and then went through a faith crisis afterwards |
| 0:52.4 | after learning a bunch of things that he was never taught as an adult investigator. Mike has |
| 0:56.9 | spent countless hours putting together this amazing website at ldsdiscussions.com, |
| 1:03.1 | examining Mormon truth claims and I highly recommend it. Today, the essay that corresponds |
| 1:08.7 | with this episode is ldsdiscussions.com slash happiness. And just for those who love this |
| 1:16.2 | series specifically, we want to remind you all that you can access it through the Mormon |
| 1:22.2 | Stories podcast feed on the Mormon Stories podcast YouTube channel, but you can also access |
| 1:27.7 | it individually. These episodes separately, either through the Apple podcast app, wherever |
| 1:34.3 | you get your podcasts and audio form or on Spotify, there's an LDS Discussions podcast |
| 1:40.6 | standalone where you can access it both in audio and video format. And there's a YouTube |
| 1:46.2 | playlist where you can just watch all of the LDS Discussions episodes in sequence. And |
| 1:51.1 | I have to say that I've just been getting incredibly positive feedback about this series. |
| 1:56.4 | And now without any further ado, I'll bring on Mike and Nemo. Hey, Mike, thanks for joining |
| 2:02.3 | us. Hey, everybody. Good to be back. And Nemo, we're so glad. This is an issue Nemo, |
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