512: Discussing the New LDS.org Polygamy Essays Part 2 - With Lindsay Hansen Park, J. Nelson-Seawright, and Joe Geisner

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 December 2014

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Recently, 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 online.

In this second installment, we bring together an all-star cast of Mormon Stories favorites to discuss the Early Utah Polygamy 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.
Joe Geisner, a long-time Mormon historian who has been assisting Lindsay in her research for the Year of Polygamy project.
J. Nelson-Seawright, a political science professor at Northwestern University, frequent blogger and commenter on Mormonism and a favorite guest of Mormon Stories.

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0:57.2	to another episode of Mormon Stories Podcast.
1:00.5	I'm your host John DeLin.
1:02.4	It is November 25th, 2014, and I am joined by an amazing,
1:10.1	cool, interesting panel to discuss part two of our series
1:16.8	on the new Polygamy essays at lds.org.
1:21.7	For those of you who follow Mormon Stories episode 503,
1:26.8	we discussed essay number one, which was the essay,
1:30.6	the LDS Church released about the polygamy in the Curtlyn
1:35.0	and Navu period. We were joined by Lindsay Hansen Park,
1:39.6	the amazing hostess or host of feminist Mormon housewives
1:44.8	podcast in the year of polygamy. She is back with us today.
1:48.4	Lindsay, we're so pleased to have you here.
1:52.1	Thanks for having me. I like the word hostess.
1:54.2	And then it makes me think of twinkies.
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