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‘They Were of One Heart and One Mind’: Councils in Zion, Zion in Councils

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written with Mark E. Mendenhall as a chapter in the book Joseph & Hyrum: Leading as One The Prophet Joseph Smith held up Zion to the Latter-day Saints as a perfected and celestial organization marked by the unity of its members. We each covenant to build up Zion, that individual and communal condition where everyone is of “one heart and one mind” (Moses 7:18), but often we are unsure how to...