S4 E46 Heartbreaking Pains and Comfort in Christ: Understanding the Missouri Era and You (D&C 98-101)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Join us for an incredible Church History experience by spending four days with us in Kirtland as we do an intensive workshop on site and in an amazing period mansion. Lectures and discussions will happen everywhere we go. Check out the itinerary and cost at outofthedust.org. We would love to have you with us!
In this episode Kerry and Sherilyn Farnes dive into the history of what was happening in Missouri. They help you understand how what was happening in Kirtland corresponds with what was happening in Missouri, and the things that led to the persecution in Missouri. They then explain how this helps us understand the revelations, and what it has to do with us and our lives. They look at the lives of people like Edward, Lydia, and Emily Partridge, or John Murdock, to help us understand how we can sacrifice, be consecrated, deal with difficulties, and draw nearer to Christ. They go into the tarring and feathering of Edward Partridge and Charles Allen, and also the destruction of the printing press.
We are grateful for our executive producers, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcasting for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | This is the podcast where we talk about things in the scriptures that have made them real to us so we can draw more power out of them because we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and I'm so happy to have with us, Sherilyn Farns. Thanks for being with us, Sherilyn. Oh, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be with you. Well, we're grateful you would be with us. Sherilyn, this is her first time on the podcast, so let me tell everyone a little bit about Sherilyn. She used to be on the Joseph Smith Papers Project, if I understand correctly. |
| 0:40.0 | You tell me when I get this wrong, Sherilyn, but used to be on the Joseph Smith Papers Project, |
| 0:44.1 | and then went and got her Ph.D. in historical studies, I think, especially in women and their |
| 0:51.0 | place in early history of this country and the church. |
| 0:56.3 | Am I getting that right? |
| 0:57.5 | At Texas Christian University, right? |
| 0:59.3 | I did go to TCU. |
| 1:01.2 | Focus was actually on borderland, so border crossing. |
| 1:04.3 | Oh. |
| 1:05.0 | So Western Missouri, Jackson County, and then across the border into what becomes Kansas. |
| 1:09.8 | So geographic religious border crossing. But women are in there, so they're a part of Kansas. So geographic, the whole religious border crossing. |
| 1:12.6 | But women are in there, so they're a part of it. |
| 1:14.0 | So thanks for me. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay. |
| 1:15.2 | Well, I must have misheard that somewhere. |
| 1:18.0 | But anyway, and I will say that I encountered your work when I am a huge fan of Edward |
| 1:26.2 | and Lydia Partridge, really huge fan, and I just can't get enough. |
| 1:32.3 | And so as I was trying to find out, and I had some questions, okay, when did they do this? |
| 1:35.3 | And one of the most valuable resources I found was a dissertation, and it happens to be your dissertation, and on the Partridge family. |
| 1:44.7 | So we'll let you talk about that. |
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