Naked Mormonism Podcast

On this episode, we seek to humanize a controversial and fascinating figure of Nauvoo Mormonism. Helen Mar Kimball has been leveraged as an attack against Joseph Smith for decades. The person at the center of those attacks is a wonderful and dynamic woman who was torn with following the prophet and her parents, or living the life of a teenager with her friends. Let’s inject the human element into the historical enigma, Helen Mar Kimball. Links: Helen Mar Kimball Smith Whitney autobiographical sketches https://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/HWhitney.html https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=usupress_pubs 1881 letter https://faenrandir.github.io/a_careful_examination/helen-mar-kimball-whitney-1881-autobiography/ https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/womans-view-helen-mar-whitneys-reminiscences-early-church-history/11-appendix-one Life of Heber C. Kimball by Horace Whitney https://archive.org/details/LifeOfHeberC.Kimball/page/n10 JSP Helen Mar Kimball http://josephsmithspolygam