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Twelve essays that Irene Bates has delivered over the course of fifty years as a Latter-day Saint convert in the last half of the twentieth century tells at least part of her story: a journey of spiritual awakening, delighted awe and commitment, gradual disillusionment and pain, and finally a gallant acceptance that concentrated on the gold that remained gleaming through it all.

Joseph Smith's father, Joseph Smith Sr., first occupied the hereditary office of Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thereafter, it became a focal point for struggle between those appointed and those born to leadership positions. This new edition of Lost Legacy updates the award-winning history of the office. Irene Bates and E. Gary Smith chronicle the ongoing tensions around the existence of a Presiding Patriarch as a source of conflict between the Smith family and the rest of the leadership. Their narrative continues through the dawning realization that...