Ep 101 – For the Relief of Nauvoo Society plus Kate Kelly

Episode • May 4, 2018 • 1h 42m

On this episode, the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo is finally established. We walk through the set and setting of Nauvoo in early 1842 being built on nothing more than credit. Men are the providers, while women are tasked with home chores, raising children, and maybe doing a small money-making hobby on the side to keep the house afloat. We discuss women’s roles in 19th-century America and how early feminism caused small movements to rise long before the official beginning of the Women’s Era. We read through the meeting minutes of the foundation of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo when Emma Hale Smith was elected President. We speculate on Joseph’s intentions when it was first organized and opine on how stagnant and solidified Mormon doctrine today is in comparison to Nauvoo Mormonism of 1842. What does it take to change Mormon doctrine today? We invite on Kate Kelly to discuss her history with the Ordain Women movement.

Links:

Relief Society minute book http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/1#ft-historical-intro

History of Relief Society http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Relief_Society

Joseph Smith Journal May 1842 http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1841-december-1842/25#source-note

Ordain Women into priesthood https://ordainwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/34WomenandPriesthoodQuotes.pdf

Masonic Adoption rite http://www.masonicdictionary.com/adoptive.html

Mormon Law of Adoption https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/law-adoption-one-phase-development-mormon-concept-salvation-1830-1900

Emmeline B. Wells A Voice for Mormon Women by Carol Cornwall Madsen https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R_F9XDNepwuxB_KJUeuTmy895QDNqPtx

Women in Masonry http://www.masonicinfo.com/women.htm

History of Women’s Freemasonry http://womenfreemasonusa.com/history.html

Order of the Eastern Star Robert Morris 1850 https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:411520/

Kate Kelly http://www.katekellyesq.com/