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When exactly are we supposed to be obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law? Nathan Oman’s article on Civil Disobedience in Latter-day Saint Thought took us down a winding road exploring this question. Ride along!

Link to our Face in Hat discord server!

https://discord.gg/MnSMvKHvwh

Dialogue Podcast Network

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/

Civil Disobedience in Latter-day Saint Thought, by Nathan B. Oman

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/civil-disobedience-in-latter-day-saint-thought/

The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens

https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/

General conference

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2023/04?lang=eng

Peacemakers Needed, by President Russell M. Nelson

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2023/04/47nelson?lang=eng

The Restoration of Conscientious Objection, by Ron Madsen

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/british-latter-day-saint-conscientious-objectors-in-world-war-i

QI Series M, Episode 2 - Military Matters (transcript)

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/qi/episodes/13/2/

Google Books Ngram Viewer: conscientious objection and civil disobedience

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conscientious+objection%2Cconscientious+objector%2C+civil+disobedience&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

Doctrine and Covenants 98

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98?lang=eng

The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men, by Carol Lynn Pearson

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Eternal-Polygamy-Haunting-Hearts/dp/0997458208

Wiki on “The Freeze” in Ghana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Ghana#%22The_Freeze%22

You Can't Close My Heart: Ghanaian Saints and the Freeze

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2015-12-0001-you-cant-close-my-heart-ghanaian-saints-and-the-freeze?lang=eng

Helmuth Hübener

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_H%C3%BCbener

Hübener, a play by Thomas F. Rogers

https://www.amazon.com/Huebener-Other-Plays-Thomas-Rogers/dp/0963261800

(This includes a review of the play Hübener!  Check it out!) Review: The Plays of Thomas F. Rogers, by B. Kent Harrison

https://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleHarrisonThomasRogers.html

The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories, by William Morris.  Look for the story “Reach”, a science fiction story about an oppressive future where a bishop is released from a calling his conscious mind doesn't realize he held.

https://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Abyss-Strange-Mormon-Stories/dp/1948218682