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Mormonism LIVE: 110: Francis Gladden Bishop – Succession Crisis, Orgies, & Sacred Relics

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Religion & Spirituality

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πŸ—“οΈ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Bill & RFM take a look at the Life of Francis Gladden Bishop, another Latter-day Saint who claimed to be the rightful heir to Joseph Smith after the martyrdom as part of the Mormon Succession Crisis. RESOURCES:https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/license-for-gladden-bishop-14-april-1840-extract/1 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145852385/francis-gladden-bishop https://atom3.lib.byu.edu/mormonbib/11107/. https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/francis-gladden-bishop-1809 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladden_Bishop, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/francis-gladden-bishop https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/bc-jsp/content/jsp/images/1168/1168_ms155_3_05_001_med.jpg https://archive.org/details/addresstosonsdau01bish https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-c-1-2-november-1838-31-july-1842/215, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/bc-jsp/content/jsp/images/1168/1168_ms155_3_05_001_med.jpg https://smile.amazon.com/Ensign-Shepherd-Remembrance-Classic-Reprint/dp/1333273819/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VOHXKME6OJK6&keywords=%22francis+gladden+bishop%22&qid=1672953250&sprefix=francis+gladden+bishop+%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1 https://smile.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AFrancis+Gladden+Bishop&s=relevancerank&text=Francis+Gladden+Bishop&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-francis-gladden-bishop-26-september-1843/1 https://mormonpolygamydocuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/JS0428.pdf

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we proudly bring to you...

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MormonISER!

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LIVE!

0:17.0

Shut up and sit down!

0:30.0

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening. How are you doing, Mr. Real?

0:50.0

I am doing so good. I was telling you off the air. I lost my voice a little bit this morning. We'll see how it goes.

0:58.0

But so far, it cracked a few times that there it was. Anyway, my voice holds up.

1:04.0

It's like an episode from the Brady Bunch.

1:07.0

Is it? Yes. When it's time to change, you've got to rearrange. We'll call you Peter tonight.

1:12.0

Okay. Maybe I'm just experiencing some development here on this side, you know?

1:18.0

I think you are. I think you are. And the title of tonight's show is Bill Breel hits puberty.

1:23.0

I'm just waiting for the other one to drop.

1:27.0

I'm going to guess you mean shoe.

1:30.0

All right, so we can jump into it. If you have any thoughts before we start to show anything else going on, folks, if you're...

1:37.0

I seldom have thoughts, but it doesn't stop me from talking.

1:40.0

So anyway, this is so exciting tonight. Can I just say how excited I am about tonight's show? Please, by all means.

1:46.0

Okay, I think I just did. But just when I think that there's nothing left to learn about Mormonism,

1:52.0

you find this incredibly colorful character, which somehow I managed to go to church for 40 years

1:59.0

and study like crazy, not necessarily a lazy learner.

2:03.0

And yet I've never heard of this fellow before, but he's an important character in early Mormonism, isn't he?

2:09.0

He is. And I didn't know anything about him either. The only reason that I came across this story was I have a friend

2:17.0

that lives out in Leverkin, Utah, who used to also be with fair Mormon.

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