Talk:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)

Lucy Mack Smith
I'm curious to see documentation of Lucy accepting Strang's letter. There was initial interest of it from many, but I don't seem to recall Lucy as a supporter. Can someone document or remove this? -Visorstuff 15:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Two days no response, I'm removing, until evidence is provided. Not that I don't believe it, just not familiar with it. -Visorstuff 21:18, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

WisconsinWiki Project
I added Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) to the Category:Religion in Wisconsin.I also added a sentence to the Burlington, Wisconsin article about the church since it is in Burlington.Thank you-RFD 15:30, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Strang & Plural Marriage
I believe James Strang himself practiced plural marriage. Any think that should be added?

Strangite vs. Brighamite
I'm surprised that there isn't a page titled The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Brighamite), as the proper name for the page The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Why should we allow the Brighamite LDS faction to have the name that they both want? Perhaps the page The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should be a disambiguation page. The web site http://www.strangite.org/Name.htm indicates that they want to have that name too, and claim to have been using it continuously since April, 1838.

Please let me know if I should take this discussion elsewhere. Saugart 10:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Fitzpatrick's book--is it "mainstream?"
Though rather dated nowadays, the late Doyle C. Fitzpatrick's The King Strang Story is still considered a valid "mainstream" source on Strang, especially with regard to its correction of misinformation published in Milo Quaife's and Omar Reigal's "mainstream" biographies from earlier in the 20th century. Mr. Fitzpatrick was not a Strangite or a Latter Day Saint of any stripe (I corresponded with him for some time, and had an "open invitation" to visit him anytime on Beaver Island, though sadly I was unable to do so prior to his death), and while his book suffers from what I would consider to be its "overdone" defense of Strang against various literary critics, I still believe it is a valid historical source. Fitzpatrick made use of original documents, some of which overthrew previously-accepted "facts" about Strang published in Quaif's "authoritative" bio. from the 1930's.

In regard to the issue raised about this quote (note 10), Fitzpatrick's book presents correct information; Strang never claimed to be king over the island itself, but rather over his church (though the distinction between the two seems to have been blurred in Mr. Strang's mind, sometimes!). This fact is supported by other historians and biographers of Strang, as well. Hence, I would assert that Fitzpatrick's book is, indeed, a "mainstream" publication, though I realize that others may differ with me on that. The Strangites themselves, who tend to be very negative toward biographies and histories of Strang and his movement written by non-Strangites, praised Fitzpatrick in their official book James J. Strang: Teachings of a Mormon Prophet, saying that even if they did not agree with all that he said, they recognized his "conspicuous efforts to be fair" in telling Strang's story.

Sorry; didn't mean to get so involved in this, but I wanted to put in my "two cents" worth on this subject, as I considered Mr. Fitzpatrick somewhat of a friend, and wanted to defend his biography. As I said, others may disagree on this, and that's fine with me; I'd be interested in hearing any supporting or contrary opinions on this subject! - Ecjmartin (talk) 05:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Websites
Although I know that a couple of the separate websites I listed at the end of the article are subsections of the first site on that list, I chose to list them separately because they referenced things that a reader might most wish to see: i.e., the Voree Plates, and the two editions of Strang's Book of the Law of the Lord. This was done strictly for readers' convenience, to save them an "extra step" in locating these unique texts for themselves - Ecjmartin (talk) 01:08, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Strang is an English name and follows normal English pronunciation rules. I remove the "pronunciation?"-template. —Mendelo (talk) 11:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The pronunciation still might be helpful, as "Strang" is often mispronounced (intentionally or unintentionally) as if it were spelled Strange, especially when used in one of it's compound forms (Strangite). -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 16:00, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Feel welcome to at once add the pronunciation, in stead of pasting a pronunciation?-template. The mispronunciation might indeed be intentional or just a bad habit. Mendelo (talk) 18:16, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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