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Unnamed Women of the Doctrine and Covenants: Mercy Fielding Thompson, Mary Fielding Smith, Jerusha Smith

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Religion & Spirituality

52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Church history is full of indomitable women. We are going to explore the story of the unlikely link between three such women today and how they refused to be defeated no matter what challenges they faced. Mercy Fielding Thompson, Mary Fielding Smith, and Jerusha Smith impacted early church history and their connected family left a legacy for generations of saints to come.

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0:00.0

If I were to write a Broadway show about three women that we are going to discuss today,

0:05.0

it would be one word and the title would be indomitable.

0:10.0

Now, the reason for this title is that it was impossible for these three women to be subdued

0:15.1

or defeated until their death. That's what it means to be indomitable, just FYI.

0:19.9

The indomitable spirit of these three

0:21.7

women in church history is so important, not only to the history of the church, but to all of us,

0:27.4

and the impressive connection these three women have to each other, which may surprise you,

0:32.6

will have you loving their stories even more. Welcome to the fourth episode of Unnamed Women of the Doctrine

0:38.6

and Covenants. This is a special bonus series from the Sunday on Monday podcast. Now, if you're

0:42.9

wondering, what is Sunday on Monday? Well, it's a Desert Bookshelf Plus original podcast brought to you

0:48.1

by LDS Living, where we take the Come Follow Me lesson for the week and we really dig into the scriptures

0:52.7

together. If you want to know more about us, click on the link in the description, or go to lDSliving.com

0:58.8

slash Sunday on Monday for a free seven-day trial of Desert Bookshelf Plus, which is like

1:04.1

Audible until you get the Desert Book Library plus this awesome podcast.

1:08.1

Now, my favorite thing about the Sunday on Monday podcast is each week I get to

1:11.7

invite two friends to join me and discuss the scriptures and real-life application. For this bonus

1:16.4

series, I am thrilled to introduce you to my co-host, Dr. Jenny Reader. Hello, Jenny.

1:22.3

Oh, hey, Tammy. I'm so excited to be here with you today. So excited. Okay, so for those of you who don't know this, Jenny Reader, she has her Ph.D. in history and women's studies. And she is, she works for the church history department. This is a lady. Like, she's indomitable. There's a good word to describe you, too, Jenny. You don't give up. Oh, no, I don't. I don't. I stayed up so late

1:46.6

last night preparing for this, and I am so excited to be here. Well, Jenny gave me a list of the

1:52.0

women in church history that we have to study. Normally, we only do six episodes of unnamed women,

1:56.9

but the list was so long that we're like, we can't cut it short. We can't just do six. I think we're doing nine. But I love the list because this is my favorite quote from Jenny Reader. We wouldn't have church history if we didn't have the women. It is so true. They moved so many of these things forward. And I don't think they get all the credit they deserve. So that's why we're

2:18.2

here. Yay! Okay. So the women that we're going to talk about today, I'm going to say their names,

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