Ideals should never be more important than human beings. If we want actions to improve, we need to elevate hope, not increase despair. This session addresses the causes as well as the harm of misplaced priorities and challenges religion to understand and embrace its own doctrine. It discusses lesser and even hijacked identities stemming from …
Speaker: Emily Tucker
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You’re so Venn Pre-Show Jerilyn Hassell Pool, Emily Tucker
How Counterfeiting, Anti-Masonic Sentiment, and the Second Great Awakening Affected Joseph Smith’s Religion
Evidence suggests that the Joseph Smith family was involved in counterfeiting long before the Book of Mormon emerged. Therefore, what was Joseph Smith’s relationship to the Christian society around him? Since the Christian Second Awakening and the Anti-Masonic movement were both in full swing, what might be Joseph’s reasons for creating the Christian/Masonic syncretism that …