1616: Mormons Respond to Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey on Netflix - Warren Jeffs vs. Joseph Smith
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 216 minutes
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Summary
To what extent are Joseph Smith & Warren Jeffs similar vs. different?
The new Netflix documentary called "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey" deals with the history of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its current prophet Warren Jeffs.
In today's episode, John and Jenn are joined by:
- Sam and Melissa from the super popular "Growing Up in Polygamy" YouTube channel. Sam was raised in the FLDS church under Rulon and Warren Jeffs, and Melissa was raised in the mainstream LDS/Mormon church.
- Joanna, also raised in the FLDS church.
The focus for today's episode will be the similarities and differences between Mormon church founder Joseph Smith and FLDS church prophet Warren Jeffs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host |
| 0:05.3 | John DeLin. I am joined by the amazing Jen Camp. Hey Jen, thanks for joining us. Hi everyone. |
| 0:11.2 | Are you excited for today? Ah, yeah. Very excited. Yeah. We have a really, really special |
| 0:16.8 | episode plan and it's actually possibly a series of episodes and let's just jump right |
| 0:22.0 | into it. Many of you will know that Netflix has been airing a series called Keep Sweet, |
| 0:29.4 | Pray and Obey, which is about Warren Jeffs and the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ |
| 0:35.6 | of Latter-day Saints, which is kind of an offshoot of the mainstream Salt Lake City based |
| 0:41.5 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And they're known for a lot of things, but mostly |
| 0:46.7 | they're known for the modern day practice of polygamy, which at least in a legal temporal |
| 0:53.2 | way, the Utah based LDS Church doesn't officially practice. And we've covered polygamy here on |
| 0:59.8 | Mormon Stories podcast recently several episodes with Sandra Tanner and in the show notes |
| 1:04.4 | we'll have other past episodes where we've been covering polygamy on Mormon Stories. |
| 1:09.3 | But this Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey is an amazing four-part documentary. It's basically four |
| 1:15.2 | parts, four hours and it's heart-wrenching. And I personally am experiencing Mormon documentary |
| 1:23.7 | fatigue. There's been the under the banner of heaven on Hulu, which I have not seen yet, |
| 1:29.8 | frankly, because I haven't had time and because it's such a depressing, saddening, sickening |
| 1:34.4 | topic for me. I just haven't had the time or the stomach to watch it. But so many people |
| 1:39.1 | are watching that. What I've been focusing on prior to Keep Sweet is the Teal Swan Deep |
| 1:44.5 | End documentary that's on Hulu. And that's about this new age guru, Teal Swan, who grew |
| 1:50.7 | up in Utah and who is heavily influenced by Mormonism. And now she's got a following |
| 1:56.5 | of millions of followers and what we believe are similarly dangerous practices and teachings. |
| 2:02.6 | And now we're also watching Keep Sweet. And it's, you know, Margie said, hey, John, when |
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