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*Surprising Sales at Seventies Bookstore (Part 6 of 6)

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In our final conversation with polygamy expert Anne Wilde, Anne will discuss the surprising popularity of Ogden Kraut’s book “Jesus Was Married.”  Christ’s Church apostle David Patrick will also add his final thoughts on why this is such an important and influential book over the past 50 years.

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Anne:  At BYU, the religion professors were being asked, was Jesus married? And I’m not going to mention names of the professors but there were two of them that said, “Well, you know, we’re not supposed to talk about this. We’ve been advised.” So anyway, to lay a little groundwork, the next day or two, after we took them down to the Seventies Bookstore, Brother Whitehead calls out and he says, I sold all 10 of those copies. Can you bring me 20 more? So we did, and we couldn’t figure out why. And I don’t know if Brother Whitehead knew until later. What was happening is that these religious professors found out about Ogden’s book down there and Ogden was friends with them. And so they knew the book was coming out. So what they did was they tell the students “As religion professors at BYU, we’re not supposed to say one way or the other. But there’s a book down and Seventies Bookstore if you want to go down and get that, that has the whole story. And so he sold 20 and then 50 more. And then we just kept taking them down there because of BYU students were coming down and buying. So I just thought it was kind of ironic because about the same time you know. And we have sold thousands of copies of that. It’s been an eighth printing. Its Ogden’s best-seller.

- *Surprising Sales at Seventies Bookstore (Part 6 of 6) - Mormon History Podcast
Apostle David Patrick of Christ’s Church and polygamy expert Anne Wilde reflect on the past 50 years of the book “Jesus Was Married.”

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  • Guest: Anne Wilde, David Patrick
  • Denomination: Christ's Church
  • Theology: Polygamy, Theology
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  • Historical Mentions Joseph Smith, Mormon History
  • Tags: Anne Wilde, Church History, David Patrick, GT Podcast, iTunes, Jesus was married, Joseph Smith, Mormon schisms, polygamy

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  • Date: December 6, 2019
  • Guest: Anne Wilde, David Patrick
  • Denomination: Christ's Church
  • Theology: Polygamy, Theology
  • Jesus Christ
  • Historical Mentions Joseph Smith, Mormon History
  • Tags: Anne Wilde, Church History, David Patrick, GT Podcast, iTunes, Jesus was married, Joseph Smith, Mormon schisms, polygamy
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