Among many of those Nava's Saints who did not choose to follow Brigham Young and the 12

Apostles into the mountains of Utah, there was an emerging hope that someone

from the Smith family would step forward and begin a reorganization of the church Joseph Smith

Jr. had established. In 1851 a soft reorganization

began and built up to that culminating moment of 1860 when the eldest son of Joseph and Emma Smith, Joseph Smith a third, stepped forward at the age of 28 and was ordained president of what they referred to then as the reorganized church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or

R. L. L. D.S. Church. Over time, their method of succession in their presidency

developed upon a different set of criteria than that of their Utah-based cousins,

as did many of their practices, policies, programs, and governing principles.

In 2001, the name of the R.L.S. Church was changed to Community of Christ, and today this is the second largest branch of the Restoration Movement.

In this episode of Church History Matters, Casey and I sit down with Andrew Bolton,

a friend and member of Community of Christ who served in their Council of 12 Apostles from 2007 to 2016.

Together we take a deep dive into the details of how succession works in this movement

while also considering some key similarities and

I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths and today we dive into our 12th episode in this series

dealing with succession in the presidency. Now let's get into it.

Hello Scott. Hello Casey. How are you doing? I'm doing so great. How are you doing?

So great. so great. How are you doing? So great, so great. I'm delighted. I think I had this episode in mind from the very first time we recorded our podcast and said we were going to have guests. The person that we have today

is someone I've wanted to have on the entire time because he's delightful and he's

one of my dear friends. This is a big day. We're very excited. This is a big day coming to you all the way from across the pond the other side of the very

ocean Andrew Bolton is with us Andrew say hi hi everybody and hello Scott and Casey. Hello hello. So glad to have you with

us Andrew. Andrew's in the UK tell us where you're out in the UK Andrew.

So we're living in Leicester which is two hours north of London.

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