Joseph Smith, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, Alma Dayer LeBaron, and Joel Franklin LeBaron Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: THE LEBARON STORY by Esther LeBaron Spencer and Verlan LeBaron"The LeBaron Story" is truly a "Vanity Book" – not only because my uncle Verlan LeBaron paid a publishing company in 1981 (back when self-publishing was not the norm) to publish the book – but also because…
Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: Luna Lindsey’s “Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control”
"Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control" By Luna Lindsey Review by Stephany Spencer -LeBaron:"Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control"By Luna Lindsey On FaceBook in October of 2016 I discovered the excellent Writer Luna Lindsey. Then I learned she had written and published a book I, an ex-Mormon fundamentalist, needed to read:…
Memoir Piece by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: Should Polygamy Be Legal?
MY EXPOSE ON POLYGAMY "Was It really a Divine Revelation from God to Joseph Smith that people had to live this so-called "principle" in order to attain the highest degree of glory in heaven?"* The above question was on the Discussion Board of a mainstream LDS Mormon blog site I happened to run into on…
Review By Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: The Sound of Gravel, a Memoir by Ruth Wariner
NOTE: The following is a Review of The Sound of Gravel, a Memoir by my cousin Ruth Wariner. ("Wariner" is Ruth's mother's maiden name. My mother's brother self-proclaimed Prophet Joel LeBaron was Ruth's father.) By Stephany Spencer-LeBaron:I've read once, listened thrice to Ruth Wariner's book, The Sound of Gravel, giving it higher ratings with each…
Poetry & Songs by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: Life’s Dash
LIFE'S DASH My Cousin the Famous Eddie LeBaron “There'll be two dates on your tombstoneAnd all your friends will read ‘em;But all that's going to matterIs that little dash between ‘em.”Kevin Welch LIFE'S DASHby Stephany Spencer-LeBaron 1- Between the dates of birth and death,There's always a little dash – To me it depicts life's runtime So…
STEPHANY SPENCER-LEBARON: 