Wheat and Tares examines the divergent paths of Latter Day Saint movement branches after Joseph Smith's death, focusing on how the Reorganized LDS Church (now Community of Christ) and Bickertonites rejected Nauvoo-era temple theology. While Brigham Young led followers west to build physical temples in Utah, multiple restoration branches formally rejected secret endowments, Nauvoo-style ordinances, and polygamy, taking a completely different theological direction on temple worship.