Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The concept of a Council of Friends or Priesthood Council was central to the Mormon fundamentalist theology developed by Lorin C. Woolley and others in the Short Creek Community. The Short Creek Community was home to this council starting in the late 1920s. Since the authority of the Council of Friends pertained to the Priesthood and not to the ...
Leroy Sunderland Johnson (June 12, 1888 – November 25, 1986), known as Uncle Roy, [4] [5] was a leader of the Mormon fundamentalist group in Short Creek, which later evolved into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), from the mid-1950s until his death.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) traces its claim to spiritual authority to when Brigham Young, then-president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), once visited the Short Creek Community and said, "This will someday be the head and not the tail of the church.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Leroy S. Johnson Meetinghouse was the meetinghouse of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) located in Colorado City, Arizona, serving the Short Creek Community which includes Hilldale, Utah. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In the 1980s, Bistline began speaking out about the changes which church leaders were making. He and his family continued to live in a home owned by the United Effort Plan (UEP) — the land trust founded by FLDS members. Bistline was among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by Short Creek residents who claimed they were evicted for trivial ...
The following year, the Utah government attempted the same. The two events are collectively known as The Short Creek raids. Utah continued its enforcement by separating children from Families, starting with the family of Vera Black. [8] The FLDS church's private trust, which evolved into a charitable trust, was the United Effort Plan. A major ...
Though the marriage was not condoned by the FLDS Church, she continued to stay in the community and raise a family of ten children. [3] [4] In 2002, Warren Jeffs became the leader of the FLDS Church and began to implement changes to life in the Short Creek Community, including excommunicating many church members. In 2012, Jessop, her husband ...