Hey guys, so, Latter-day Saints believe that the Bible and the Book of Mormon are inspired scripture largely written by ancient prophets. But we also believe that prophets today receive revelations from God as well. Some of the prophet Joseph Smith’s revelations are...
Hey guys, so as you already know, Joseph Smith practiced polygamy, or plural marriage — he was married or sealed to more than one woman. Now, some of the women he was sealed to were already legally married to other men. It appears that Joseph’s sealings to these women...
Hey everyone, so if you’ve watched some of the other videos we’ve done on polygamy, you know that this is a topic that I struggle with, as do many modern Latter-day Saints. It’s messy history, and it’s hard to separate fact from fiction sometimes. And if I’m going to...
Hey guys, so Joseph Smith was killed in June of 1844. Today we’re going to talk about a letter purportedly written by his wife, Emma, to the editor of the New York Sun in 1845. The letter has some pretty intense things to say, but the most shocking is this: “I must...
Hey guys, so I was recently watching a show called Under the Banner of Heaven, and in one of the episodes, one of the characters (a psychopathic murderer) mentioned a pamphlet called The Peacemaker, which he described as “an essential LDS tract, printed by Joseph...
