Davis County Ex-Mormon meetup Sunday Jan 11, 2026, 10:30 AM

Sunday Jan 11, 2026 meetup is 10:30 AM at Smiths Marketplace, 1370 W 200 N, Kaysville, UT 84037. Entering Smith's turn right, take the up staircase on the right side of Starbucks, turn right on the 2nd floor at the top of the stairs, take 10 strides passing the lockers to the conference room entrance on the right.
Invitation: What Does a Church Owe the Truth?
History: All links from Invitations
The men who committed the massacre were not monsters. They were not merely “settlers” as President Hinckley labeled them. They were faithful LDS Church members. They obeyed. And in doing so, they surrendered moral agency to religious authority.
Church Historian Joseph Fielding Smith knew this context in 1949 and omitted it.[1] Modern Church historians followed suit. Church insiders understand the mortally dangerous implications when Joseph Fielding Smith’s history reported the rumor of Missourians, murders of Joseph Smith were among the emigrants. The Oath of Vengeance had been removed from the Temple Endowment only 22 years earlier (1927). Juanita Brooks, was explicit and unsparing in her criticism of LDS historians and leaders who knew the truth about Mountain Meadows and chose silence.[2]

[1] Smith, Joseph Fielding. Essentials in Church History. Chapter 26, “The Utah War,” pp. 468–471 (1949 ed.).
[2] “The story was dangerous. It could do no good, they believed, and much harm. Therefore it must not be told.” Juanita Brooks, 1950 (Stanford University Press) The Mountain Meadows Massacre, Introduction, p. xv