What even is the Law of Consecration?! Well it’s a covenant that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make during the temple endowment ceremony, but what actually is it? We go through a deep dive of the Law of Consecration, discuss a bit of its history, and pontificate about it’s impact and possible future use in Mormon culture today. After that we review Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper, a wonderful dystopian fantasy novel with some hard-hitting social commentary we interpret through a Mormon lens. We round out the episode by congratulating LeVar Burton receiving long-deserved recognition. Patrons: we debrief/deconstruct the recent debate between Bryce and a certain litigious individual.
Show Notes:
All Things are the Lord’s: The Law of Consecration in the Doctrine and Covenants by Steven Harper
List of codenames in D&C
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_code_names_in_the_Doctrine_and_Covenants
Thou Art the Man Newel K. Whitney in Ohio by Mark Staker
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/thou-art-the-man-newel-k-whitney-in-ohio/#footnote-206
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Our long-awaited deep-dive deconstruction of Adam-God Doctrine, or theory, depending on who you ask. What is it? Who taught it? Why is it controversial? How is it treated by the corporate Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today? ‘As we are, god once was, as god is we may someday become’ is a tried-and-true Mormon doctrine and the Adam-Eve-Gods Doctrine fits perfectly within this logical loop. As the title of the doctrine alludes to, Heavenly Father took the form of Adam with one of his wives, Heavenly Mother Eve, to create and populate the earth, after which he went to Adam-ondi-Ahman, in Missouri, where he ascended back to godhood to continue his charge from Elohim to create worlds without end. Then we dive into the nearly-final segment of Bruce R. McConkie’s Millennial Messiah. McCranky loves the idea of fire burning the sinners and his charged language justifies the physical suffering and burning of anybody who isn’t Mormon or living its dictates. Further, when Jesus returns to reign in the millennium he will rule with an iron rod; the future dystopian Mormon theocracy is a dangerous and unforgiving land. How all these teachings pervade Mormon culture to this day can be seen by Mormons periodically carrying out the will of gods by causing the suffering and death of sinners and those who oppose the kingdom of God. Mormonism creates dangerous men, yet the church never suffers the repurcussions. We round out the episode with some happy news about cannabis legislation heading to President Biden’s desk.
Show Notes:
FairLatterDaySaints Adam-God theory
Brigham Young’s Teachings on Adam by Matthew B. Brown (2009)
JS On the Plurality of Gods
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/smithpluralityofgodssermon.htm
JS King Follett Discourse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/King_Follett_Discourse
The Evening and the Morning Star May 1834 article about Adam
https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/5884
The Position of Adam in Latter-day Scripture and Theology by Rodney Turner (1952)
Council of Fifty Minutes
Nauvoo Expositor
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nauvoo_Expositor
The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake by John W. Gunnison (1852)
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbc0001/2019/2019gen35226/2019gen35226.pdf
Women of Mormondom by Edward Tullidge (1877)
http://ia800907.us.archive.org/31/items/womenofmormondom00tullrich/womenofmormondom00tullrich.pdf
Brigham Young first public speech on Adam-God Doctrine April 1852 General Conference
https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/8
Celestial Marriage by Orson Pratt Oct 1852 General Conference
https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/9
Our Own Liahona by Spencer W. Kimball (1978 denunciation of Adam-God Doctrine)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/11/our-own-liahona?lang=eng
Quotes on Adam-God Doctrine from various church leaders
http://www.mormonthink.com/QUOTES/adamgod.htm
Adam-God resource repository
The Adam-God Doctrine by David John Buerger (Spring 1982)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225052?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
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History comes to life! Today we interview Mark Elwood, the creator of the graphic novel series The Glass Looker. These novels seek to illustrate Joseph Smith’s magic and treasure digging in beautiful and colorful relief. The book just dropped so grab yourself a copy! After that we continue talking fictionalized history with the movie Ford v Ferrari and we wrap the show with some happy news about republicans losing a book ban fight.
Show Notes:
The Glass Looker https://theglasslooker.com/
MOGP: Ford v Ferrari: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Happy News: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/republican-book-banning-attempt-defeated-community-stands-lgbtq-people/
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It’s time for the next installment of The Millennial Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie! Before that, we talk about Zion. What was it, what did/does it mean to various faith traditions, and what’s the Mormon slant of Zion? McCranky spends this entire episode discussing how incredibly awesome the future Mormon theocracy, Zion, the New Jerusalem, built upon the American continent, is going to be! We wrap up with some happy news from Salt Lake City attempting to mitigate homelessness in Zion.
Show Notes:
Repository of LDS Zion resources
https://www.margiesmessages.com/zionnew.html
Bruce R. McConkie Come: Let Israel Build Zion
Spencer W. Kimball Becoming the Pure in Heart
Harold B. Lee Strengthen the Stakes of Zion
David A. Bednar Put On Thy Strength, O Zion
David J. Larsen Enoch and the City of Zion; Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?
Mormonwiki: City of Enoch
https://www.mormonwiki.com/City_of_Enoch
EoM: Zion
https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Zion
Mormonwiki: Zion
https://www.mormonwiki.com/Zion
MOGP:
Steel Meets Steel — 10 Years of Glory, by Hammerfall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiVsLtR7sKs
Ethnic Cleansing: https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/ethnic-cleansing
Armageddon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon
Tel Megiddo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo
Valley of Jezreel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley
Gog and Magog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog
Henry V, Act IV, scene i, William Shakespeare: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/henryv.4.1.html
Hymn Before Action 1890, Rudyard Kipling: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_action.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_Before_Action
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