UnDisciplined: The forgotten wives of Joseph Smith
Many of Joseph Smith's wives have been lost to history due to early secrecy and reluctance to discuss these marriages. Historian, Todd Compton, is trying to change that.
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Many of Joseph Smith's wives have been lost to history due to early secrecy and reluctance to discuss these marriages. Historian, Todd Compton, is trying to change that.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image) Is it “communistic” to wish that children like these might be educated, have clean water to drink and enough food to eat, and be able to rise out of poverty? That would seem to me a rather odd definition of the word. At least by the time I was in graduate school, evangelical Protestant anti-Mormonism was clearly the single most obvious overt challenger to the claims of the Restoration and to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — as distinct, of course, from the usual tugs of worldly temptation and sheer burn-out. It was the day ...