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On this episode, Brian Hales joins us to discuss the history and significance of the crowning ordinance of the temple.
Brian C. Hales is the author or co-author of several books dealing with Joseph Smith and plural marriage, and runs the website JosephSmithsPolygamy.org. He is also the author of several articles dealing with the origin of the Book of Mormon.
Jacob Crapo was born and now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He served his mission in Upstate New York and was an ordinance worker in the Las Vegas Temple. One of Jacob’s dreams is to help build a temple. He is an electrician by trade but his real passion is helping others access the powers of heaven.
This interview has so many good tidbits of the history of our sealing doctrine’s development, such as Joseph never performing vertical sealings of children to parents in his lifetime, or Saints being concerned that their vertical chain might dead-end at an unfaithful ancestor and thus leave them disconnected and spiritually stranded, or 1894 being the year Wilford Woodruff announced sealings would only be done to blood relations. Well done, Brian!
What is the best publication to go to for this history, to cite in a simpler summary for lay audiences?
Thank you for this podcast! Brian Hales has wonderful insight and grateful for his perspective