Episode 7: Prophet Over People
Earl Wesley Fornell, The Unhappy Medium: Spiritualism and the Life of Margaret Fox (University of Texas Press, 2014).
Francis D Nichol, “The Growth of the Millerite Legend,” Church History, doi:10.2307/3161671.
Robert Damon Schneck, Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist: and Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History (Tarcher, 2015).
“Is It a Cult, or a New Religious Movement?” Penn Today, 29 Aug. 2019, penntoday.upenn.edu/news/it-cult-or-new-religious-movement.
“Millerites Await End of the World,” American Optical Celebrates 150th Anniversary, www.massmoments.org/moment-details/millerites-await-end-of-the-world.html#:~:text=Many%20%22Millerites%22%20sold%20all%20their,in%20an%20all%2Dconsuming%20fire.&text=On%20October%2022nd%2C%20the,speed%20their%20ascension%20into%20heaven.
“Public Universal Friend,” Throughline by NPR, NPR, 5 Mar. 2020, www.npr.org/transcripts/812092399.
“The Prophet Matthias,” Murder by Gaslight, www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/07/prophet-matthias.html.
“The Prophet Matthias and Elijah the Tishbite,” New York Almanack, 17 Mar. 2020, www.newyorkalmanack.com/2019/12/westchester-the-prophet-matthias-and-elijah-the-tishbite.
“What Makes a Cult?” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 27 May 2009, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/27/cults-definition-religion.
“William Miller,” Christian History | Learn the History of Christianity & the Church, Christian History, 8 Aug. 2008, www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/denominationalfounders/william-miller.html.