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| Joseph Smith's 40 Wives and Life in a Plural Marriage |
| June 10, 2015 |
Summary: A full hour on the legacy of polygamy in the Mormon Church, from last November. First, why the church is admitting that founder Joseph Smith had up to 40 wives. And we meet a Utah family of 27. |
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| Joseph Smith and The Theology of Polygamy |
June 10, 2015 |
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The Mormon revelation about plural marriage begins with an angel, as so many spiritual epiphanies do. As the telling goes, between 1834 and 1842, a heavenly being visited founder Joseph Smith three times to demand that he practice polygamy. Reluctantly, he agreed, and by the end of his life he would have as many as 40 wives. The church banned the practice in 1890, but in October of 2014, his many partners were officially acknowledged by the church for the first time. This story originally aired last November, right after the announcement.
Pictured: Emma Hale Smith, the first of Joseph's many wives, in 1844. For her, according to the LDS website, plural marriage "was an excruciating ordeal."
Jana Reiss, Mormon author and contributor to Religion News Service
Terryl Givens, scholar of the Mormon Church and professor of religion at the University of Richmond
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| The Darger Family: Love Times Three |
June 10, 2015 |
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Picture this: it's Sunday morning and your congregation of twenty-something people gathers for church. Except that the service is in your house, and all those people are your family. That's a typical weekend for the Dargers, a Utah family of 27 who say they're going back to the original teachings of Joseph Smith. From November 2012.
Pictured above: Maddie, Logan, Sabrina, Tavish and Kyley Darger in 2006.
Joe, Alina, Vicki, and Valerie Darger, authors of Love Times Three: Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage
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