MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 9 – TEMPLE PRIESTHOODS

Mormon Civil War

Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano Dialogues

In this meaty episode we explore all kinds of aspects of what taking the LDS temple endowment’s promises seriously can unlock for autonomous, ordained men and women empowered to free themselves from authoritarian control by General Authorities and instead replace them as the democratic, equal ‘Quorum of the Anointed’ Joseph Smith originally established. We reflect on what Community of Christ has pioneered in making Common Consent actually work as a leadership and decision-making philosophy. What President Russell M. Nelson said when challenged by journalists to have more inclusive leadership of the Church, and what they did to heroic Elder Ronald E. Poelman of the Seventy when he dared to teach this model of mature autonomy separating the institutional Church from the true Gospel in General Conference in actual 1984. You couldn’t make it up.