The Southern Utah Ex/PostMormon Association will host Devery Scott Anderson to lecture on his research and book presenting the evolution of the endowment ceremony. Devery will highlight various parts of his book sharing anecdotes from it and why he wrote the book.



Devery Scott Anderson has brought together a comprehensive collection of official documents on temple ceremonies. The documents include rulings by the First Presidency on changes to the ceremonies, letters to temple and stake presidents and bishops reminding them of temple policies, minutes of Quorum of the Twelve meetings, excerpts from sermons and Church publications, and commentary by apostles and temple presidents in diaries, letters, oral histories, and temple scrapbooks.





Devery Anderson will lecture May 1st, 2 PM at the New Lexington Hotel 850 S. Bluff St. St. George Utah. This should be a block buster lecture and Spring has come to Utah's Dixie, come and enjoy meeting fellow Ex/Postmo's.



Refreshments will be provided. For further information contact soutpostmormons@hotmail.com

Looking forward to hearing about the floating Temple proposed in the 1960's.

From the book:
In the earliest temples, anyone attending to perform an ordinance was expected to make a monetary donation of fifty cents to support temple work (182)

Would really appreciate some info on ex post Mormon gatherings in Saint George, it's lonely down here where a new church is being built every week. Thanks!

This from a blog about the book.

People who have followed with interest the criticism that Mormons have received about performing temple baptisms for Holocaust victims will be interested to learn that it has been church policy for well over a century that members only be baptized for their own family members. Apparently, some things never change:

We must be more strict in enforcing the rule which is here mentioned in regard to heirship in our Temples, and people must not be permitted to follow their whims in being baptized for any and every body whom they may choose to officiate for; and persons should be questioned upon this subject of being baptized for those not of their own kin…. [1887 letter from President Wilford Woodruff to Mariner Wood Merrill, pp. 67-68]

Interestingly, the book demonstrates that Woodruff himself had violated this practice in 1877 when he felt compelled to be baptized for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as John Wesley, Christopher Columbus, and every president up to that point in American history. (p. 41)

Looks like a fun weekend for the apostates in Utah's Dixie.