Ep 101 – For the Relief of Nauvoo Society plus Kate Kelly
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo is finally established. We walk through the set and setting of Nauvoo in early 1842 being built on nothing more than credit. Men are the providers, while women are tasked with home chores, raising children, and maybe doing a small money-making hobby on the side to keep the house afloat. We discuss women’s roles in 19th-century America and how early feminism caused small movements to rise long before the official beginning of the Women’s Era. We read through the meeting minutes of the foundation of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo when Emma Hale Smith was elected President. We speculate on Joseph’s intentions when it was first organized and opine on how stagnant and solidified Mormon doctrine today is in comparison to Nauvoo Mormonism of 1842. What does it take to change Mormon doctrine today? We invite on Kate Kelly to discuss her history with the Ordain Women movement.
Links:
Relief Society minute book
http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/1#ft-historical-intro
History of Relief Society
http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Relief_Society
Joseph Smith Journal May 1842
http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1841-december-1842/25#source-note
Ordain Women into priesthood
https://ordainwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/34WomenandPriesthoodQuotes.pdf
Masonic Adoption rite
http://www.masonicdictionary.com/adoptive.html
Mormon Law of Adoption
https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/law-adoption-one-phase-development-mormon-concept-salvation-1830-1900
Emmeline B. Wells A Voice for Mormon Women by Carol Cornwall Madsen
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R_F9XDNepwuxB_KJUeuTmy895QDNqPtx
Women in Masonry
http://www.masonicinfo.com/women.htm
History of Women’s Freemasonry
http://womenfreemasonusa.com/history.html
Order of the Eastern Star Robert Morris 1850
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:411520/
Kate Kelly
http://www.katekellyesq.com/
The Fern Foundation Short Creek Service Project
http://thefernfoundation.org/donate
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| 0:00.0 | Here is a story of the grand old time, a tale of virtues, tender yet sublime, inscribed on |
| 0:12.7 | sacred page to give us faith in woman's constancy in life and death. |
| 0:18.7 | Here in God's book, The Bright Narration See, and Five Brave Hearts, |
| 0:23.1 | make up history. Adah, Great Jephthah's daughter, soul of truth, Ruth, flower of Moab, |
| 0:30.4 | humble, pious Ruth. Esther, the crowned, and worthiest of a crown, Martha, his friend, |
| 0:37.3 | whom saints and angels own. |
| 0:39.8 | Electa, strong the martyrs cross to bear. |
| 0:43.2 | These are the heroines of the eastern star. |
| 0:46.8 | Fairest among ten thousand deathless names, |
| 0:49.9 | how altogether lovely do they glow? |
| 0:52.3 | Times annals yield no brighter, no bluer themes. |
| 0:55.4 | No purer hearts the ranks of heaven know. |
| 0:58.8 | Here then, O sisters, sister virtues trace, |
| 1:03.0 | and light from these your lamps of truth and grace. |
| 1:12.9 | I am Ryan McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Ryan McKnight. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm Kara Santa Maria. |
| 1:16.1 | I am Christopher Smith. |
| 1:17.2 | Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. |
| 1:19.9 | This is Naked Mormonism. The Serial Mormon History podcast. Navu, Illinois, early 1842 was beginning to look like a real city. |
| 1:38.4 | Hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of man hours for little or no pay, |
| 1:43.3 | a constant influx of immigrant European Mormons |
| 1:46.1 | making their way into the burgeoning city. All of these coalesced to exhibit what humans can |
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