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Mormon Stories Podcast

428: A Visual History of the Community of Christ (RLDS) Pt. 3: Regathering the Old Saints, the Reorganization 1860-1910

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2013

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In Part 3, John Hamer talks about how Latter Day Saints living in the Midwest who continued to oppose polygamy were able to regroup and come together as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. These members included Joseph Smith Jr.’s immediate family. Joseph and Emma’s eldest surviving son, Joseph Smith III, led the RLDS Church as prophet for 54 years. Described by his biographer as a "pragmatic prophet," Joseph III was able to successfully weld diverse old Saints who had been Strangites, Cutlerites, Wightites, Whitermites, Rigdonites, Thompsonites, Brighamites, Morrisites, and more, into a Restoration tradition church that took the Kirtland era as its model. The fact that Joseph III grew up in the ruins of Nauvoo and had learned to live with his neighbors influenced the Reorganization’s strong peace tradition.

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Hello again and welcome to Mormon Stories Podcast on my multi-part interview with John

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Hamer about the history of the community of Christ.

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Please join us on YouTube at youtube.com such Mormon Stories for the wonderful visuals

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that John Hamer provides to chronicle this history.

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But you can also listen in the audio format.

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We've covered John's story.

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We've covered how he left the eldest church and came back to it.

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We've covered, not came back to it, but decided to actually join the community of Christ.

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We've talked about the history of the church while Joseph was in it and sort of the succession

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crisis and the various schisms that emerged immediately following Joseph's martyrdom.

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And now in part three of this series, we're going to begin talking about the emergence

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of what was originally called the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Letty Saints as

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I understand it.

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John may correct me.

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And that eventually became renamed to the community of Christ.

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So let's pick up where we left off, John.

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All right.

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