Prophets, Polygamists & Pretenders: Inside Mormonism’s Schisms and Sects

Radio Free Mormon

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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When Joseph Smith died in 1844, the Restoration shattered like a glass dropped from heaven. What followed was a century-spanning explosion of rival prophets, breakaway churches, polygamist kingdoms, angelic messages, and more than one self-crowned king. In this episode of Mormonism Live, Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon take you on a deep dive into… Read More »Prophets, Polygamists & Pretenders: Inside Mormonism’s Schisms and Sects

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0:00.0	Joseph Smith wasn't the only prophet crowned by his followers.
0:05.7	After his death, a man named Jane String claimed he had a letter from Joseph appointing him as a successor,
0:12.2	then crowned himself king on a remote island in Lake Michigan.
0:16.2	There was a church in Missouri that still believes Jesus will return to their patch of real estate,
0:21.3	where they've been quietly waiting to build the true temple for over 150 years.
0:26.5	Or what about that modern-day prophet who received revelations from an angel named John the Baptist?
0:32.4	Not the 1830s, but in the 1930s, and his followers still published those messages today.
0:39.8	Tonight, we're pulling back the curtain on the restoration's most bizarre and fascinating
0:45.2	offspring. Polygamous dynasties, secret priesthood lines, new scriptures, new prophets, and a whole
0:53.2	lot of people who believe they, not the LDS Church in Utah,
0:57.6	were the rightful heirs to Joseph's legacy.
1:00.6	This is Mormonism Live, and this is prophets, polygamist, and pretenders inside Mormonism's schisms and sect.
1:10.5	Oh, oh, Pretenders inside Mormonism, schisms, and sects. Oh!
1:11.6	Oh! Mr. Radio Free Mormon, how are you doing this fine night?
1:38.3	I'm great. Thank you, Mr. Eel. How are you?
1:40.6	I'm doing so good. Life is treating me well. How was your week?
1:46.2	Oh, fantastic. Absolutely.
1:52.7	I'm getting a lot of exercise. The game is a foot. A foot, I tell you. We're having a ton of fun with this, folks. Let me just note. Let me put this up on the screen. I'm going to take that down.
1:59.5	And first, in fact, let's do this first.
2:02.9	So this was a nice little image that Kobe Reddish created for us, right?
2:10.5	This is something to do with what we're going to do this Friday, right?
2:15.1	I'm the one in the middle, right?
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