So, though the title of this post is different than my previous, https://sheilamurrey.net/2026/04/13/a-cure-to-loneliness-a-new-purpose/, but it follows along the same snails path in that it seeks to explain where I’m at in this particular point in time, as per my church affiliation and spiritual philosophy (which includes my recent (2025) return to accepting the living Christ Jesus into my heart).
Robyn Openshaw, (thank you for asking) I’m technically still a member of the Reorganized church, which I talk about in the blog. (I’d sent Robyn my previous blog post, referred to and linked in the preceding paragraph, but she couldn’t open the link.) I don’t practice it though since it changed to Community of Christ. My uncle is a pastor of a branch that meets in a person’s home of the Remnant Church. Yes, it’s another faction, and took its doctrine from the original, with a prophet president of direct lineage to Smith.
I don’t follow the trends of LDS nor do I know about Michelle Stone. (I’ve since looked her up and apparently she’s been recently shut down by the LDS for speaking a bit too openly on her podcast.)
The blog article (same preceding link) details how one of the Remnant bishops teach apologetics. I’m comparing his teachings with what I learned from Wes Huff last year.
My spiritual philosophy
I follow and teach the snails path, which came to me since visiting Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland (twice) in 2019. No more dogma for me. Simply based on a knowing that expands gradually of Omniscience God, and observing the fractals of nature and musing about life’s mysteries. Acknowledging that the unseen exists. That every time we deprogram ourselves from one box, we find we’re in another. But the snails path of a never ending spiral prompts us onward. Curiously, I am walking the path with Christ Jesus again though, after getting burned by most of the “love and light” crowd (who are more judgmental and negative than the Christians I have known my whole life; Christians who never left my side while I ventured into New Age stuff). God is still good, all the time. ❤️🙏🤗
What Robyn asked me
When I’d written that reply to Robyn, I had thought I was answering a private Messenger message. Since it was shared to her Facebook page, I’ll won’t share it (I was going to), but I haven’t asked her permission so I will paraphrase,
“I can’t click the link you sent. Did you start a remnant LDS church or belong to one? I know the name of the Reorganized church changed. I want nothing to do with the origin church. Have you seen the trend among the LDS to deny that the leader practiced polygamy? I think some people need to belong to a church.”
Now, I didn’t rebut Robyn’s statement about Joseph Smith, Jr. and any ties of his to polygamy, but the origin church did not practice polygamy. Polygamy started after Brigham Young took a group of LDS members west. This is recorded in the Reorganized now, Community of Christ church history. Even Perplexity.ai had this to say,
“The Community of Christ, formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has historically denied that Joseph Smith, Jr. practiced polygamy, and it has taught that plural marriage was introduced later by Brigham Young and others. The historical record tied to that tradition therefore does mention the issue, but mainly as a point of disagreement and denial rather than as an affirmation of Smith’s polygamy.
Over time, some Community of Christ materials and related scholarship have acknowledged that the wider historical evidence supports Joseph Smith’s involvement in plural marriage, even though the church’s older official stance was rejection of that claim.”
Now, that last paragraph came from a site called, The Joseph Smith Papers: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/intro/introduction-to-journals-volume-2 And in those papers I found this reference, which I presume is what Robyn is referring to, “Several later documents suggest that several women who were already married to other men were, like Marinda Hyde
, married or sealed to Joseph Smith. Available evidence indicates that some of these apparent polygynous/polyandrous marriages took place during the years covered by this journal. At least three of the women reportedly involved in these marriages—Patty Bartlett Sessions
, Ruth Vose Sayers, and Sylvia Porter Lyon
—are mentioned in the journal, though in contexts very much removed from plural marriage.
Even fewer sources are extant for these complex relationships than are available for Smith’s marriages to unmarried women, and Smith’s revelations are silent on them. Having surveyed the available sources, historian Richard L. Bushman concludes that these polyandrous marriages—and perhaps other plural marriages of Joseph Smith—were primarily a means of binding other families to his for the spiritual benefit and mutual salvation of all involved.”
Now, if my mother had known it was true that Joseph Smith, Jr. had been married to more than one wife, I believe mom would have left the church. This opens another rabbit hole for me to pursue, but one that I tend to doubt I will find an answer for until I reach the Grand Beyond. Thus my next post will answer another question that has come to me on the cult that Jack Parsons, the rocket maker, belonged to in the years leading up to his death. It will focus on his connection with L.Ron Hubbard too and the beginnings of NASA. So, hang on to your seats!
Now, do you see why I’m never sad or lonely? Who has time! I’ve got more rabbit holes to peruse than (to quote my mom) “Carter’s got liver pills”! Ha!
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- Open to lifelong learning (observe, gently question, and loosen up pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’)
- Become more aware of our thoughts and emotions to encourage more ease
- Loosen up and move our bodies (we’re stuck in our heads also due to our “Programming” and physically unhealthy)
- And become strong and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, and body.
- And to question EVERYTHING!
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Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
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