Category: Brigham Young
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Who Will Be the Next President?
The history of LDS leadership is quite varied. With no clear instructions as to a successor after Joseph Smith’s death, many laid claim to the title due to either importance of their particular office or special ordination.
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Did Brigham Young Teach False Doctrine?
Some of Brigham Young’s teachings were so un-biblical that they brought deep division in the church. By disavowing such teachings, modern church leaders would actually be considered heretical by his pronouncements.
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Brigham Young’s Estate
By Sandra Tanner Evidence showing how Brigham Young “borrowed” from the Church and died owing over $1 million dollars. Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born on June 1, 1801 in Vermont. He came from a family of eleven children and went on to become a farmer…
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One of My Family’s Best Kept Secrets (Mountain Meadows Massacre)
As a child I grew up thinking that it was the greatest blessing to be a great-great-granddaughter of Mormon Prophet Brigham Young. However, my LDS family was careful to only mention the most favorable aspects of Young’s life and early Mormonism.
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Brigham Young Sermon: Blood Atonement (1)
Brigham Young teaches that for those who willfully break their covenants with God, spilling their blood is not only deserved but in fact is necessary beyond Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice to atone for their sin. As printed in Journal of Discourses, vol. 3, pp. 243-49 (typescript, original spelling preserved) [page 243] INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BISHOPS—MEN JUDGED…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Blood Atonement (2)
Brigham Young teaches that there are some “sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world” and therefore they would be “willing to have their blood split . . . to save them” since “the blood of the Son of God” is deemed insufficient. As printed in Journal of Discourses, vol.…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Blood Atonement (3)
Brigham Young teaches that if Latter-day Saints would understand how certain grave sins could jeopardize their promised exaltation they would whole-heartedly say, “shed my blood that I may be saved and exalted with the Gods.”
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Brigham Young Speech on Slavery, Blacks, the Priesthood, and Blood Atonement
Governor Brigham Young argues against Orson Pratt’s support for Black suffrage based on the curse of Cain, which he said prohibits Blacks from the LDS priesthood (and, by extension, from voting or governance). Also, if White “seed” were to “mingle with the seed of Cain” it would bring whole generations under that curse, for which…
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Brigham Young’s Wives and His Divorce from Ann Eliza Webb
By Sandra Tanner [List of Brigham Young’s wives included at the end of this article.] In 1868 Brigham Young, at age sixty-seven, married Ann Eliza Webb, an attractive twenty-four-year-old divorcee with two children. Young had already married dozens of other women. LDS scholar Jeffery Johnson, writing on Brigham Young and his wives, explained: Sixteen women…
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September 11th Massacre
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner September 11, 2001, will forever be an important date to Americans. On that day over 3,000 people on the east coast were killed by foreign terrorists. However, there is another reason this date will never be forgotten. On September 11, 1857, in southern Utah, approximately 120 unarmed non-Mormon men, women…