November 5, 2025
Doctrine & Covenants 129-132 Part 2 • Sis. Brittany Chapman Nash • November 10-16 • Come Follow Me
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How did the Saints wrestle with the revelation on plural marriage in Doctrine and Covenants 132 and how can reading their own accounts inform our faith, and personal testimony? SHOW NOTES/TRANSCRIPTS English: https://tinyurl.com/podcastDC246EN French: https://tinyurl.com/podcastDC246FR German: https://tinyurl.com/podcastDC246DE Portuguese: https://tinyurl.com/podcastDC246PT Spanish: https://tinyurl.com/podcastDC246ES YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/6Zb8xWjyIFg ALL EPISODES/SHOW NOTES followHIM website: https://www.followHIM.co 2021 Episode Doctrine & Covenants 129-132 Part 2 https://youtu.be/BKG8_p8uYqM FREE PDF DOWNLOADS OF followHIM QUOTE BOOKS New Testament: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastNTBook Old Testament: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastOTBook Book of Mormon: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastBMBook WEEKLY NEWSLETTER https://tinyurl.com/followHIMnewsletter SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/followHIMpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcast TIMECODE: 00:00 Part 2 - Sister Brittany Chapman Nash 00:07 Don’t need to have a testimony of plural marriage 02:01 Context to a revelation for Emma Smith 05:21 Emma rejected the revelation 08:44 Joseph F. Smith’s statement on this section 11:44 Preaching publicly about this revelation 14:09 Section 132 would have been different if delivered to body of the Saints 17:26 Provenance of Section 132 20:19 Joseph Smith restoring patterns from previous dispensations 22:30 Not a statement about what God thinks about marriage 27:25 Some motivations for marriage 30:34 Pattern of women (and men) agreeing to plural marriage 35:08 Having increase and Abrahamic sacrifice 38:35 Finding peace through reading first-person accounts 42:10 No social or religious repercussions for those who did not practice 46:00 Nephi killing Laban 49:40 Let’s Talk About: Polygamy by Brittany Chapman Nash 52:27 The Saints' reception of plural marriage 55:33 Martha Craig Cox writing about the principle 58:20 Consent is an eternal principle 1:00:00 Reflections on living plural marriage 1:03:21 The results of wrestling with difficult topics 1:04:33 Moving forward with faith in Jesus Christ 1:07:19 End of Part 2 - Sister Brittany Chapman Nash Thanks to the followHIM team: Steve & Shannon Sorensen: Cofounder, Executive Producer, Sponsor David & Verla Sorensen: Sponsors Dr. Hank Smith: Co-host John Bytheway: Co-host David Perry: Producer Kyle Nelson: Marketing, Sponsor Lisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show Note Thanks to the followHIM team: Steve & Shannon Sorensen: Cofounder, Executive Producer, Sponsor David & Verla Sorensen: Sponsors Dr. Hank Smith: Co-host John Bytheway: Co-host David Perry: Producer Kyle Nelson: Marketing, Sponsor Lisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show Notes Will Stoughton: Video Editor Krystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, Website Ariel Cuadra: Spanish Transcripts Amelia Kabwika: Portuguese Transcripts Heather Barlow: Communications Director Sydney Smith: Social Media, Graphic Design "Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonald https://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com