062 Temple Garments and Temple Changes in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Church History Matters

Scripture Central

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

1904 marked the beginning of what would become a grueling 4-year-long senate hearing of US sentator and apostle Reed Smoot. It is intriguing—and important—to learn how this crucible of intensive government examination into every aspect of the Church led to a posture of much greater openness about the temple to outsiders. In fact those hearings, followed by a backfired blackmail attempt by a man who threatened to release illicit pictures he had taken of the interior of the Salt Lake Temple, led Church leaders—really for the first time—to go on the offensive and proactively tell our own story about LDS temple beliefs and practices. In this episode of Church History Matters we’ll talk about the Smoot hearings and the blackmail attempt; as well as dig into the origin of temple garments, their symbolism, and changes made to their design over the years. We’ll also discuss major innovations in how the temple endowment was presented (which included some help from Walt Disney studios), a cool floating temple boat idea that never happened, as well as how President Gordon B. Hinckley’s temple innovations and prolific temple-building ministry became an inflection point which set the Church on a trajectory to build thousands of temples in the years to come. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Scott from Church History Matters.
0:02.4	As we wrap up this series, we want to hear from you.
0:05.7	Next week we will be pleased to have as our special guest,
0:08.8	Dr Richard Bennett,
0:10.1	to help us respond to your questions about the development of LDS temple practices.
0:14.8	Dr Bennett has literally written the book on this topic and so he's more than ready to respond.
0:20.4	So please send your thoughtful questions in anytime before May 9th, 2024 to
0:25.3	podcasts at scripturecentral.org. As always let us know your name, where you're from
0:30.7	and try to keep each question as concise as possible when you email them in.
0:35.0	That helps out a lot.
0:36.0	Okay, now on to the episode.
0:38.0	1904. 1994 marked the beginning of what would become a grueling four-year-long
0:48.7	Senate hearing of US Senator and Apostle Reed Smoot.
0:53.2	It is intriguing and important to learn how this crucible of intensive government
0:58.0	examination into every aspect of the church led church leaders to a posture of much greater openness about the temple to outsiders.
1:06.2	In fact those hearings followed by a backfired blackmail attempt by a man who threatened to
1:11.5	release illicit pictures he had taken of the interior of the Salt Lake Temple, led church leaders, really for the first time, to go on the offensive and proactively tell our own story about LDS temple beliefs and practices.
1:25.3	In today's episode of Church History Matters, we'll talk about the Smoot Hearings and the Black Melitip,
1:30.7	as well as dig into the origin of temple garments, their symbolism, and changes made
1:35.1	to their design over the years.
1:37.3	We'll also discuss major innovations in how the temple endowment was presented, which
1:41.5	included some help from Walt Disney Studios, a cool floating
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