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- Millenial Star - Who is the Liar?
- Time and Seasons May 1, 1845 'Mormonism Unveiled
- Time and Seasons November 15, 1844 - An Old Man of Israel
- Address of the Prophet: His Testimony Against the Dissenters at Nauvoo.
- Time and Seasons March 15, 1844
- Time and Seasons February 1, 1844 Notice
- Letter to editor from 'H. R.' - Times and Seasons, 15 March 1843
- On Marriage - 1842 Times and Seasons vol 3, no 23
- Time and Seasons Sept 1842 Notice
- Conference Minutes from April 6, 1842
- The Prophet's Answers to Sundry Questions
- August 2020 LDS Church Historian communication on 1949 First Presidency Statement
- Jane Manning James Patriarchal Blessing indicates she has 'a mark' and 'lineage of Cainaan the Son of Ham
- Joseph F. Smith reverses position on Elijah Able's Priesthood ordination
- Paul Reeve: New justifications for the Black Priesthood/Temple ban
- Primary resources on the Priesthood/Temple Ban
- The Pearl of Great Price provided justification for the priesthood ban
- Jonathon Streeter's racism apology Mormon Newsroom hoax
- The Proclamation on the Family: Scripture or Revelation?
- Resources on the Family Proclamation
- Most LDS service inwardly focused
- Resources related to the helps and harms of the LDS Church
- LDS Church wrong on moral issues of the day
- Mennonite apology for treatment of LGBTQ people
- “‘God made them that way’—It is blasphemy”: LDS Statements on the causes and cure for homosexuality
- Resources related to non gender-binary
- Key principles to building bridges of understanding
- What NOT to say to your LDS believing family members
- Response to Jim Bennett's response about the angel with a drawn sword
- Cheryl L. Bruno: Contemporary Sources for Joseph Smith Polygamy
- Excerpt: Sexuality in Joseph Smith's Plural Marriages
- Contemporary evidence that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants 101:4
- 1837. Messenger and Advocate, vol. 3, no. 8
- Millenial Star denial, August 1842
- 1844 Millenial Star polygamy denial
- Three Nights' Public Discussion: John Taylor
- Affidavits against Bennett's letters: focus on Martha Brotherton
- Assessing the accuracy of Martha Brotherton's affidavit
- Martha Brotherton Affidavit
- Critique of Richard and Pamela Price analysis of Martha Brotherton
- Martha Brotherton and the Five Ironies
- Brigham Young sealed Martha Brotherton to himself with proxy
- Definitions of terms related to LDS Leaders' Polygamy Denials
- Links to Hales's footnoted denials
- How did Joseph Smith's wives refer to their unions?
- Joseph Smith's Polygamy Denials
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on Joseph Smith's polygamy: “Obviously he lied.”
- A Critique of Joseph Smith's Polygamy: 'Thou Shalt not Lie' and Denials of Polygamy
- Response to Brian Hales about Bays and the 1835 statement on marriage
- What to call the polygamy denials?
- Evidence suggesting Emma approved of some marriages
- Sealing for eternity only
- Evidence of sex within Joseph Smith's polygamy
- Helen Mar Kimball Whitney 1881 Autobiography
- Did Helen Mar Kimball misunderstand the promises Joseph Smith made to her?
- Helen Mar Kimball Whitney 1882 Woman's Exponent
- Joseph Smith's polygamy and current LDS principles of marriage and honesty
- The case for Joseph Smith as sexual predator analysis
- Arguing that Joseph Smith did practice polygamy
- Joseph Smith instructed others to destroy communication
- Joseph Smith's Marriage/Sealing Dates
- Those who knew about plural marriage but not sealed
- Last Testimony of Sister Emma
- Lucy Walker 1888 autobiography in Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints
- Notes on Nancy Marinda Johnson Hyde marriage to Joseph Smith
- The October 5, 1843 Journal Entry
- Saints Volume 1: The Partridge Sisters' second sealing to Joseph Smith
- The primary focus of the sealing ceremony in its first 2 years was to enable polygamy
- Scriptural instructions for practicing polygamy
- Polygamy for raising up seed?
- Resources on 1800s marriage practices
- Logic behind the sealing ceremony
- The extent to which Joseph Smith's polygamy was taught in LDS Institute Manuals
- Why did Joseph not sire children with his plural wives?
- William Holmes Walker not sealed by JS to Olive Hovey Farr
- Men whose wives were married by Joseph Smith after being sent on a mission
- Zina Huntington Jacobs Smith Young interview in the Saints' Herald
- Musings on Same Sex Marriage
- The LDS Church ban on oral sex
- Example of masturbation shame
- Why is sex linked to morality?
- Mixed messages on working outside the home
- Sexual violence more prominent in patriarchal cultures
- Why modesty rhetoric may be harmful
- Subordination of women to men in the LDS Church