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…
Part 42-D: Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind
Part 42-D:Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind Circa 1964: My mother Esther LeBaron Spencer Leaving a cult is a lot likedriving at night with your headlights on:You may only see a few feet in front of you,but you can make the whole journey that way.Stephany Spencer-LeBaron(Takeoff from E. L. Doctorow): "Writing a novel…
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:…
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…
“Pt 34-E: The Mexico-LeBarons: Button, Button: Who’s Got the Button?”
My great-great-grandfather Benjamin Franklin Johnson/BFJ, Mormon Pioneer, Patriarch, and Prophet Joseph Smith's Power of Attorney "And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the sceptre of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words; while his…
Pt 34-C: The Mexico-LeBarons: Their Messianic Missions
Pt 34-C: The Mexico-LeBarons: Their Messianic Missions (1) Joseph Smith, Benjamin F Johnson, Alma Dayer LeBaron, and Joel Franklin LeBaron “Fundamentalist ideologies can be thought of as mental parasites. A parasite does not usually kill the host it inhabits, as it is critically dependent on it for survival. Instead, it feeds off it and changes…
STEPHANY SPENCER-LEBARON: 