Spring of 1842 was a world-shaping event, the introduction of the endowment ceremony by Joseph Smith to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We've talked about it and a few of the more recent changes to the endowment a few times, but this is the overview. What it was when it was introduced, how it changed under Brigham Young, and many of the changes that have happened since his death, all under one (long) segment. Then we talk about Heretic, a movie about two missionaries in a cat-and-mouse game with a well-educated anti-Mormon playing by his own rules. Then we wrap with happy news from ABC and Jimmy Kimmel responding to the government shutdown and SNAP running dry.
Show Notes:
https://archive.org/details/historysaints00benngoog/page/n287/mode/2up
https://bhroberts.org/records/qmx2mh-44hPsk/william_clayton_describes_the_nauvoo_endowment
http://www.ldsendowment.org/timeline.html
http://www.ldsendowment.org/emeline.html
https://archive.org/details/dialoguebetweena00vand/page/12/mode/2up?q=vengeance
http://www.ldsendowment.org/1879.html
http://www.ldsendowment.org/1931.html
http://www.ldsendowment.org/lecture.html
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/times-and-seasons-1-june-1842/8
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V34N0102_87.pdf
http://www.ldsendowment.org/masonry.html
https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment/research
https://mrm.org/masonry-and-the-mormon-temple-endowment-ceremony
https://cesletter.org/debunking-fairmormon/temples-and-freemasonry.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44368772
https://tokensandsigns.org/2023-temple-changes/
https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25154/what-is-the-origin-of-a-phylactery-as-a-soul-jar
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/temple-endowment?lang=eng
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_House
https://books.google.com/books/about/Temple_Mormonism.html?id=r3TKtgAACAAJ
MOGP: Heretic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28015403/
Happy News:
https://www.thewrap.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-food-bank-donation-center-government-shutdown/
Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk
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