503: Discussing the New Polygamy Essays Part 1 -- With Lindsay Hansen Park, John Hamer and J. Nelson-Seawright
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2014
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
This week The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released its long-awaited series of essays on polygamy in Kirtland/Nauvoo, Utah and post-manifesto polygamy, igniting a firestorm of discussion on online.
In this episode, we bring together an all-star cast of Mormon Stories favorites to discuss the Kirtland/Nauvoo essay:
- Lindsay Hansen Park, who in the middle of an amazing and incredibly exhaustive project for Feminist Mormon Housewives in the Year of Polygamy podcast series.
- John Hamer, a well-known expert on Kirtland- and Nauvoo-period Mormonism, and a member of the Community of Christ
- J. Nelson-Seawright, a political science professor at Northwestern, frequent blogger and commenter on Mormonism and a favorite guest of Mormon Stories.
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| 0:55.4 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin. |
| 1:01.5 | It is October 23rd and I am gathered with an all-star panel of awesome friends and |
| 1:11.2 | cool people within Mormonism. We are here to discuss yesterday's release of several essays |
| 1:19.6 | by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yesterday, the date was October 22nd, 2014, |
| 1:25.5 | and they released upon the world three super important essays that were long awaited about |
| 1:33.5 | Plurow Marriage. In my count, that makes four total essays on Plurow Marriage. |
| 1:43.1 | And they sort of go as follows. There's an umbrella essay called Plurow Marriage in the Church |
| 1:48.3 | of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is kind of like an overview. And then there are three |
| 1:54.4 | kind of sub essays. One is on Plurow Marriage in Kirtland in Navu, one is on Plurow Marriage in |
| 2:00.1 | Families in Early Utah, which I think has been around for a bit. And then it'd be nice if these |
| 2:07.0 | essays had dates, actually. But the final one that they released also yesterday was called |
| 2:13.1 | the Manifesto and the End of Plurow Marriage, which talks about post-manifesto polygamy. |
| 2:19.3 | And so we're here to talk about it today with three awesome people. We have ladies first, |
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