Once again, through no action or righteousness on their part, another great story landed in the lap of Lindsay and Bryan. That’s right, it’s mailbag time again! A friend of a listener was going through some papers of her mother’s and found an affidavit from a woman claiming to be a plural wife of Joseph …
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The Art of Feminism: Forgotten Wives Remembered
If feminist art cuts through female stereotypes, opens new spaces for women, and illuminates the need for gender equality, Leslie Olpin Peterson is a feminist artist. The LDS watercolorist who painted portraits of Joseph Smith’s 34 “Forgotten Wives,” had all her “Wives” on exhibit at the University of Utah’s Olpin Center during 2015’s Salt Lake …
Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde
& these are my tomatoes planted 24 varieties this year been collecting seeds, trading for almost a decade here I feel like a patriarch fingers splayed, laying hands blessing the rows like a wife, these plants respond well to attention, a gentle sweep of the …
Emily Dow Partridge
Keep walking. Keep walking, don’t think about it. Don’t think about this morning, being deep in the washing when Mrs. Durfee stopped by, telling me to meet him tonight at the Kimballs’. Couldn’t change my dress, people would wonder, so here I am stinking of sweat and lye walking as fast as I can, walking …
Sylvia Porter Sessions Lyon
Men must retire to the woods to receive visions of God. Women give birth & see His face, feel Him push through. The details of all nine births live in me, cross-stitched to my lungs & I can recall each one as if they had happened this dawn. But my dear Josephine, my fourth birth, …
Are Mormon Missionaries Allowed to Kiss?
Today, the answer is “No!” But that was not always the case. The current missionary handbook reads: “Do not flirt or associate inappropriately with anyone. Limit physical contact with someone of the opposite gender to a handshake.” But in 1887, missionaries had a lot more freedom. Edward Davis, who was a missionary in England at …
How Two Silent Films Made Every Member a Missionary
“Every member a missionary.” You’ve probably heard this phrase more times than you can count. But what you probably don’t know is that it has its roots in the silent films Trapped by the Mormons and Married to a Mormon. Winifred Graham was one of the most ardent anti-Mormons in Britain. She had written two …
Progressive Polygamy
By Brady Williams When Brady Williams is not spending time with his especially large family hiking, playing croquet, or watching movies, he’s out and about trying to make a difference in this world—from relieving modern-day slavery in Guinea Bissau to teaching construction trades in Haiti. Or, right-click here to download the audio file: …
Cultural, Demographic, and Judicial Trends Leading Toward the Popular Acceptance and Eventual Legalization of Polygamy: A Libertarian Polemic
By George R. Compton George R. Compton Ph.D. (economics, UCLA, 1976) writes on various controversial subjects ranging from U.S. Middle Eastern policy to immigration and education reforms. A frequent presenter at the Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium, he has served in a variety of Church callings and carries a current temple recommend. Legalized polygamy is …
Legalizing Polygamy: Cultural Bias, Moral Obligation, and Social Tolerance
By Robyn Williams Robyn Williams graduated spring 2017 with a B.S. in English creative writing and plans to continue writing and advocating for positive social change. Robyn enjoys traveling, hiking, and playing with her large, wonderful family, including her husband, four sisterwives, and their 25 children, of which she is the biological mother to five. …