Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 3

The Remnant Church: An RLDS Schismatic Group Finds a Prophet of Joseph’s Seed

2005: William Russell, “The Remnant Church: An RLDS Schismatic Group Finds a Prophet of Joseph’s Seed,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 38 No. 3 (2005): 26-54.

When the 1984 conference approved Section 156 , which also indicated that the soon-to-be-built temple in Independence would be dedicated to the pursuit of peace, it became clear that the largest “schism”—separation from the unity of the Church—in the history of the RLDS Church was in the making.