Joe and I pick right back up where we left off with J. Golden Kimball. Joe walks us through nearly 80 years of Mormon history discussing disunity among General Authorities and censorship of General Conference addresses. As we broach more modern General Authorities we discuss how the modern conservative bend of the Mormon church was moved and shaped by prominent figures in the Quorum of Apostles. Ezra Taft Benson and the John Birch Society are the focus for a substantial part. Then Joe documents the lengths the Church will go to cover up controversial opinions from the pulpit, even going so far as to retape a portion of General Conference with a superimposed “cough track” at the cost of $10-15,000. Joe was nice enough to give us over 5 hours of his time, making this episode part 2 of 3.
Links mentioned in the show:
To the One
https://archive.org/details/ToTheOne/page/n1
To Young Men Only
https://archive.org/details/ToYoungMenOnly
Harold Lee talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/harold-b-lee_ye-deceived/
Benson BYU talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_safety-face-danger/
Rector talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hartman-jr-rector_roots-branches/
Henry Eyring talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_family/
Quinn telling about his conflicts with Packer
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-being-a-mormon-historian/
Review of Packer's talk in FARMS
https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1426&index=11
Packer provokes academics in Sunstone
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/066.pdf
Lost Sermons
https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/CR%20100%20912/?componentid=427210
Further Reading:
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/essential-james-e-talmage/
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N01_23.pdf
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/046-38-39.pdf
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/045-44-57.pdf
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/015-43-46.pdf
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