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It's our annual Sunstone week and we recorded in the same space again! From The Dragon Lair 2.0, we give you Bryce's session from Sunstone titled "Bachelor Delight: Entheogens, Soporifics, Abortifacients, and STI Treatment in Nauvoo Polygamy". Content warning: some of these topics are kinda rough, but we feel the information should be out there in Mormon academia nonetheless. Following that, we talk about the 2004 movie Vera Drake. We close it out with some amazing news coming from 4 states, two of which are red states, who chose to give more access to contraception rather than allowing the Trump administration to take it away. Enjoy!

MOGP: Vera Drake: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383694/

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/vera-drake

A Deadly Trade: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/06/health.healthandwellbeing

Happy News: Red and Blue States Protect Access to Contraception Amid Trump Admin Rollbacks: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/states-pass-laws-to-protect-access-to-contraception

Other Appearances: Chris Shelton had us back on! Speaking of Cults: The Violent and Horrible Origin Story of Mormonism: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/the-women-who-wouldnt-let-climate-data-disappear

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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Today we're talking about white supremacy and how attractive the movement is to members of high control religions. We also discuss what we can do to combat the white supremacist movement. Then we discuss the 2024 movie The Order, a true story about the violent white supremacist movement started by Robert Mathews in the mid 1980's. Following that, we cover some excellent news about NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani funding the NYC public school system with $67.5M for special education classes after the federal government cut funding. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

Domestic Threat: White Supremacy Extremism: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/domestic-threat

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots in U.S. Christianity: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity

Children's Defense Fund Condemnation of White Supremacy: https://www.childrensdefense.org/blog/condemnation-of-white-supremacy/

White Supremacy Culture Characteristics: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characteristics.html

Building Resilient Organizations: https://forgeorganizing.org/article/building-resilient-organizations/

A Christian Nation? Understanding the Threat of Christian Nationalism to American Democracy and Culture: https://prri.org/research/a-christian-nation-understanding-the-threat-of-christian-nationalism-to-american-democracy-and-culture/

Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States: Insights from PRRI's 2025 American Values Atlas: https://prri.org/research/mapping-christian-nationalism-across-the-50-states-insights-from-prris-2025-american-values-atlas/

Thornwell's Inaugural Address of the COnfederate Presbyterian Church: https://allkirk.net/2019/04/01/thornwells-inaugural-address-of-the-confederate-presbyterian-church/

White nationalism remains major concern for voters of color: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/white-nationalism-remains-major-concern-for-voters-of-color-and-appears-to-be-connected-ideologically-to-the-growing-christian-nationalism-movement/

Great Replacement Theory: Here's what Jews need to know about white supremacy: https://www.ajc.org/news/great-replacement-theory-heres-what-jews-need-to-know-about-white-supremacy

Holy Hate: The Far Right's Radicalization of Religion: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/holy-hate-far-rights-radicalization-religion/

New Hate and Old: The Changing Face of American White Supremacy: https://www.adl.org/new-hate-and-old-the-changing-face-of-american-white-supremacy-executive-summary

Syd Lieberman: The Day the Nazis Came: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/syd-liebermans-storytelling-po-166599/episodes/the-day-the-nazis-came-7270789

MOGP: The Order (2024): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26625693/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-order-2024

WIRED The Real Story of The Order: https://www.wired.com/story/real-story-the-order-fbi-movie-bob-mathews/

The Order: Inside America's Racist Underground, by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt

Happy News: Mamdani, NYC public schools invest $67.5M in special education amid federal budget cuts: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/new-york-city-special-education-expansion

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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What were the Position Papers and what were they for? We go over a brief overview of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints (RLDS) organizing a committee to deal with some major flaws in policy and doctrine. The committee circulated some ideas to RLDS leadership in the form of Position Papers. They were leaked before the ideas could be fully fleshed out, but that set off a chain of events that led to the RLDS abandoning its conservative past for a progressive Christian future, eventually becoming the Community of Christ. Today is our first Imposition Paper, seeking to reform the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the face of its telegraphed retrenchment phase. Then we tackle the final chapter of Pure in Heart by Dallin Oaks to hear him pad his word count, prophiteer, and summarize everything he's said in the book before the conclusion. Soon we'll see how 90s Oaks compares to 2026 Prophet Oaks! We wrap with happy news about data showing, conclusively, that vaccines, indeed, work, just like we've all known all along before idiots made it a wedge.

Show Notes:

Evan Sharley's post about the Presidential and Position Papers

https://gileriodekel.com/2022/07/the-position-and-presidential-papers/

Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks

Is it Possible to Control Your Thoughts? What Experts Say: https://www.treatmyocd.com/what-is-ocd/info/ocd-stats-and-science/is-it-possible-to-control-your-thoughts-what-experts-say

Involuntary Entry Into Consciousness from the Activation into Sets: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01017/full

Cognitive Control of Obsessional Thoughts: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796709000308#sec4

Happy News:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621z28z138o

Kang, Lydia; Pedersen, Nate. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (pp. 390-394).

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Happy PRIDE Month! That's the whole bit today, PRIDE media! We brought a few pieces to discuss in order to celebrate all forms of experience and love. Along the way we have a few artists to showcase as well as lists for further exploration into this beautiful world of diverse media.

Show Notes:

LGBTQ+ Reads: https://lgbtqreads.com/

History:

11 LGBTQ+ Women Who Shaped the Course of History: https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-women-who-shaped-history-womens-history-month

Recognizing LGBTQIA+ Women of Color Over the Years: https://emtrain.com/blog/diversity/lgbt-women-of-color/

12 Important Queer Women in History to Know: https://queersapphic.com/queer-culture/queer-women-history-lesbian/

LGBTQ+ Women Who Made History: https://womenshistory.si.edu/blog/lgbtq-women-who-made-history

Four LGBTQIA+ Women Who Made history: https://seattlepride.org/news/four-lgbtqia-women-who-made-history

Marsha P Johnson: Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, by Tourmaline

Marsha P Johnson: The Life and Legacy of a Transgender Trailblazer, by Lyra Snow

Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBT Rights Uprising that Changed America, by Martin B. Duberman

One Day in June: A Story Inspired by the Life and Activism of Marsha P Johnson, by Tourmaline

https://wams.nyhistory.org/life-story/marsha-p-johnson/

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson

Sally Ride: Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space, by Lynn Sherr

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sally-ride

Josephine Baker: Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase

https://nmaahc.si.edu/josephine-baker

90 Years Later, the Radical Power of Josephine Baker's Banana Skirt: https://www.vogue.com/article/josephine-baker-90th-anniversary-banana-skirt

Poetry:

Audre Lorde: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, by Audra Lourde

Fiction:

Historical Fiction by Era: https://lgbtqreads.com/general-fiction/realistic-historical-by-era/

Historical Romance by Era: https://lgbtqreads.com/romance/historical-romance-by-era/

Christopher Rice Recommends 9 LGBTQ Historical Fiction Titles: https://booktrib.com/2023/06/08/christopher-rice-recommends-9-lgbtq-historical-fiction-titles/

The Best Queer Historical Fiction of the Century (So Far): https://bookriot.com/best-queer-historical-fiction-of-the-century-so-far/

Love and Struggle Through the Ages: A Reading List of Queer Historical Fiction: https://lithub.com/love-and-struggle-throughout-the-ages-a-reading-list-of-queer-historical-fiction/

KJ Charles: https://www.kjcharleswriter.com/

Her Redbubble shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/kjcharles/shop

Cat Sebastian: https://catsebastian.com/

Photography:

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie: https://nas.ucdavis.edu/people/hulleah-tsinhnahjinnie-seminolemuscogeedine

When Is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words?: https://www.hulleah.com/9to5/1000words.htm

https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/hulleah-tsinhnahjinnie

https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/search?edan_q=hulleah&edan_fq%5B0%5D=name%3A%22Tsinhnahjinnie%2C%20Hulleah%22

Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Website: https://evilhat.com/product/thirsty-sword-lesbians/

Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvFQCfvf-bM

5-hour playthrough with mechanic tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJxx9khRjs

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Exclusion of evidence and habeas corpus? Who needs us? It's a Dallin Oaks episode and we go over two law review articles (pub. 1966 & 70) he wrote focusing on the rights of criminals. How we handle evidence consistent with the constitution is a complicated issue and Hoaks has a hot take. Plus, he thinks habeas corpus has gotten a bit out of hand with how many death row convicts it was helping. Then we dive through 2 more chapters from Pure in Heart about Spirituality and Worship. The hot takes here are akin to moldy soup in the back of the fridge. We round out with happy civil engineering news from California!

Show Notes:

Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3650&context=uclrev

Search and Seizure laws and SCOTUS rulings

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/what-does-fourth-amendment-mean

https://www.justia.com/criminal/procedure/search-and-seizure-rules/

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt4-7-1/ALDE_00000805/

Legal History in the High Court–Habeas Corpus (1966)

https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5483&context=mlr

Bushel's Case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushel%27s_Case

Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks

Happy News: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/california-wildlife-crossing-biggest-annenberg

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Books and movies after religion! We've taken a listener-suggested-topic and run with it. Instead of pointing out individual pieces of media that are useful after religion, we talk about how various religions deal with information control. From banned-books lists to devil's music, various Abrahamic religions have varying levels of prohibition against non-religious material. We go through a bunch of them and discuss how information control in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints takes place. After that we review the movie The Wave (Die Welle), an independent German film about how easy it is for fascism to take root, set as a high-school project-week experiment. Then we end with happy news from the Salt Lake Tribune about them going non-paywalled to preserve journalistic integrity.

Show Notes:

Chris Shelton Speaking of Cults, Episode on "Scientology and the Arts": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVixzVMwks

MOGP: The Wave (Die Welle):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GHXeYlgdY

The Third Wave Experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

Ron Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jones_(teacher)

Happy News:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/15/why-salt-lake-tribune-dropped-its/

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Our next Hoaks episode! But, before that! We go through a few select scriptures to see what the passages have to say about the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But that's not all! What do the scriptures have to say about the MAGA movement and our modern politics? We conclude that a person cannot be a believing Christian while supporting the Mormon Church or MAGA. The Bible contradicts both movements so deeply that they're irreconcilable. Then we dive into Pure in Heart. Oaks has a lot to say about materialism and pride, never saying any of it into a mirror. Then we have some happy news where Native American communities have successfully halted a drilling project on native lands.

Show Notes:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2022&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2019&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2020&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2018&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206&version=NIV

Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks

Happy News:

https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/black-hills-drilling-project-canceled-after-backlash-tribes-132798661

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What do Disney, Ferrari, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have in common? They're rather litigious when people do things they don't like. We go through the history of copyright and trademark to provide background for some notable recent lawsuits involving these companies. That launches us into a discussion about the recent lawsuit filed by the Mormon Church against John Dehlin, Mormon Stories, and the Open Stories Foundation. After that we talk about The Firm, a Tom Cruise movie where the good guy wins against the Mafia, a corrupt law firm, and the FBI. We end with some good news about targeting depression for treatment.

Show Notes:

https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-law/copyright-act/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/24-10900/24-10900-2024-10-20.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI

https://copyright.gov/about/1790-copyright-act.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gWaAJR5L18

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-regulations/

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/trademarks/law/Trademark_Statutes.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1909

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1870

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Copyright_Act_of_1891

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-disneyland-memorial-o_b_5859

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_Dilution_Revision_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Anka

https://www.courthousenews.com/disney-goes-on-trial-over-moana-copyright-infringement-claims/

https://blog.ipleaders.in/popular-copyright-infringement-cases-highlighting-disney-protective-intellectual-property-rights/

https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-cases/disney-v-vidangel/

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-google-ai-copyright-infringement-cease-and-desist-letter-1236606429/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-sued-enforcing-rights-mickey-mouse-public-domain-1236378997/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

https://carbuzz.com/features/7-times-ferrari-filed-lawsuits-against-its-own-fans/

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a30750318/ferrari-purosangue-name-lawsuit/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFepk2ZoJtQ

https://gileriodekel.com/2026/04/the-lds-church-is-suing-mormon-stories/

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/getting-it-right-clarifying-trademark-branding-concerns

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1svqcdy/a_tale_of_two_responses_the_book_of_mormon/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1svnrzq/if_youre_worried_about_brand_confusion_and_people/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1sxh2yy/lds_lawsuit_against_dehlin_too_little_too_late/

https://humblymybrain.substack.com/p/the-lds-church-vs-mormon-stories?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1b8vxy&triedRedirect=true

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1suvu8w/re_mormon_stories_litigation_a_brief_primer_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1sp83g4/lds_church_lawsuit_against_mormon_stories_rejects/

Index librorum prohibitorum (in Latin): https://archive.org/details/case_wing_z1020_i39_1664/mode/2up

MOGP: The Firm : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106918/?ref_=tttrv_ov_bk

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-firm

Happy News: For the first time, scientists pinpoint the brain cells behind depression: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260423022010.htm

Accidental Medical Discoveries: How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World by Robert W Winters.

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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don't have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks!

Sunday Afternoon:

Christofferson Q12 - The end is coming, be outward bigots

Chi Hong (Sam) Wong Q70 - Remember, Remember BoM lesson

Aaron T. Hall Q70 - Names of Jesus from BoM

Susan H. Porter Primary GP - Baby-talk talk

Neil L Anderson Q12 - Eternal Marriage

Quentin L. Cook Q12 - First vision 1823, doesn't mention 1820

Taniela B. Wakolo Q70 - Bigotry is still bigoted even when it comes from an African-American General Authority

Gerrit Gong Q12 - Oaks red tie story

HOAKS ROUNDING IT OUT AND FUUUUCKKK THIS CONFERENCE!!!

A Night At the Garden documentary

https://anightatthegarden.com/

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on The Unpaid Army of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de543-d9tME

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don't have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks!

Sunday Morning:

Ucthdorf Acting Pres of Q12 - Happy Easter, I guess?

Emily Bell Freeman YW GP - Best of days, worst of days

Pedro X. Larreal Q70 - Happy easter

Edward B Rowe Q70 - I didn't get blown up by a landmine, that's what matters

Ronald Rasband Q12 - People with disabilities will be resurrected perfected

Dale Renlund Q12 - So many balls out there, keep your eye on the Jesus ball

Thierry K. Mutombo Q70 - Has had lots of kids but abandoned cultural tradition when one died

Alan R Walker Q70 - hunting for hidden treasures

Hoaks

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don't have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks!

Saturday Afternoon:

Gary Stevenson Q12 - Lost luggage

Edwardo Ortega Q70 - To new members

Wan-Liang Wu Q70 - More diversity through assimilation

David J. Wunderli FC YM GP - Youth carry too many rocks

Gerald Causse new Q12 - The Truman Flater Earther

Bryan J Holmes Q70 - Marathons and necessity of prophetic witness and blind obedience

Clement M. Matswagothata Q70 - Great story, maybe he'll get picked for Q15?

Ulisses Soares Q12 - Digital spaces and Mormon content creators

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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don't have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks!

Saturday Morning:

Oaks POTLDS

Patrick Kearon Q12 - Callings

Kristen M. Yee SC RS GP - assignments and ministering

David A. Bednar Q12 - endure, you whiny little shits

Michael John U. Teh Q70 - diversity through assimilation

Jorge T Becerra Q70 - poverty, tithing, immigrants

CryRing - praying is powerful

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Bryce attended the Journal of Mormon Polygamy Conference and snagged a few interviews from attendees, organizers, and presenters. It was a fantastic experience! The first issues are printed and ready for purchase at the link below and it's a great conference as well. Come next year! After that we discuss Sense & Sensibilities by Jane Austen to round out the third episode of Women's History Month. We end with some happy news from boxing trainers helping parkinson's patients.

Show Notes:

Journal of Mormon Polygamy website with currently-available issues

https://journalofmormonpolygamy.org/jmp

MOGP: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility : https://janeaustensociety.org.uk/jane-austen/the-novels/sense-and-sensibility/

Jane Austen House: https://janeaustens.house/jane-austen/novels/sense-and-sensibility/

Happy News:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0rjnn24y5o

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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It's Women's History Month! We first talk about a few women in history who dared to stand out because representation matters. These are women in science, medicine, and even espionage who did amazing things to further scientific advances, to help heal people, etc and they deserve to be recognized. For the media segment, we talk about the 1993 movie Orlando, starring the amazing Tilda Swinton. Following that, we close out with happy news about Dolly Parton and children's books.

Show Notes:

Books to read:

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers in World War II, by Liza Mundy

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history, by Sam Maggs

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: S. Emma E. Edmonds' Riveting Account of Her Service as a Nurse and Spy during the Civil War, by S. Emma Edmonds

Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of the Revolution, by Maturin Murray Ballou

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, by Shrabani Basu

Websites:

How to celebrate Women's History Month: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-celebrate-womens-history-month

Lost Women of Science: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/

Alice Ball: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-ball

Rosalind Franklin: https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/about/facts-figures/dr-rosalind-franklin/

Photo 51 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51

Jacqueline Felice de Almania: https://www.medievalwomen.org/jacqueline-felice-de-almania.html

Marie Equi: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/equi_marie_1872_1952_/

Sarah Emma Edmonds: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/sarah-emma-edmonds

Elvira Josefina Concepcion de la Fuente Chaudoir: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/the-good-time-girl-who-fooled-the-nazis-9mgbknm2wjz

Double Cross: the True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre

Noor Inayat Khan: https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/the-courage-of-noor-inayat-khan/

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/who-was-noor-khan/

32 Women who Fueled Innovations in the Automotive Industry: https://www.lelandwest.com/blog/listing.asp?2022/3/32-women-who-fueled-automotive-innovations

Celebrating the Women Who Have Driven Auto Innovation

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a35752436/women-driven-auto-innovation/

Mimi Vandermolen – The Mother of Automotive Ergonomics

https://womensinnovations.org/women-innovator/mimi-vandermolen-the-mother-of-automotive-ergonomics/

MOGP:

Orlando: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107756/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_Orlando

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/orlando

Essay on Orlando: https://www.scribd.com/document/237181150/Essay-on-Orlando

Happy News: Dolly Parton has donated more than 270 Million Books to Children: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/dolly-parton-imagination-library

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The time has come for a new apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Clark G. Gilbert; time for your podcast hosts to rise to the occasion with another Apostolic Profile episode. He escaped the religious persecution Mormons often suffer growing up in Scottsdale, AZ, to go to BYU. Then off to Harvard for business, to acquire more useful skills for his forthcoming career in the Church Education System (CES). Before CES, however, Gilbert was responsible for trimming all the fat at Deseret News, which amounted to firing 40% of the workforce and shifting it to an unabashedly apologetic mission statement defending the church. Once appointed to CES, Gilbert instituted a series of Orwellian surveillance systems at BYU to punish thought crime; Ernest Wilkinson would be proud and Jeffrey Holland finally has a man to fire some muskets. Now Gilbert joins as the youngest apostle, securing his future position as prophet circa 2050s-70s. This "disruptive innovator" has a lot of new ideas to keep the church as extremist-conservative as is legally permissible heading into the 22nd century. This call to the Apostleship by Dallin Oaks ensures Oaks' legacy remains long after he's become a shepherd of worms. Patrons get a bonus segment comparing Gilbert's interviews at Deseret News and SL Tribune immediately after his ordination, which tangentially serves as a case study for the deterioration of journalism at Deseret Media, due to Gilbert himself. After that, it's our next installment of Oaks' book, Pure in Heart, where he discusses the importance of mindset and intentionality when rendering service, especially for the church. We end with happy news about a potential future cure for Type 1 Diabetes.

Show Notes:

Clark Gilbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_G._Gilbert

Gilbert's likely tenure as future prophet https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1r8c74x/on_his_first_day_in_the_q15_clark_g_gilbert/

Official press release https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/clark-gilbert-called-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles

Gilbert Op-ed for ChurchNewsroom

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/how-education-family-and-testimony-are-fundamental-in-the-life-of-elder-clark-g-gilbert

The Parable of the Slope https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/10/16gilbert?lang=eng

Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

https://hbr.org/1995/01/disruptive-technologies-catching-the-wave

The Disruption Machine by Jill Lepore

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine

Gilbert's profile on BYU Law and Wheatley Institute with law-focused talks

https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/authors/clark-g-gilbert

Gilbert: Stewardship of Our First Freedom

https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/documents/the-stewardship-of-our-first-freedom#note-30

Gilbert: The Courage of Our Convictions

https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/documents/the-courage-of-our-convictions-how-religious-expression-goes-beyond-religious-liberty

Gilbert: Dare to be Different

https://www.deseret.com/2022/9/14/23319209/elder-clark-gilbert-religious-universities-should-dare-to-be-different/

American Disestablishment: The Conclusion by Miles Smith

https://davenantinstitute.org/american-disestablishment-the-conclusion/

Disestablishmentarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disestablishmentarianism

Governance and the Religion Question: Voluntaryism, Disestablishment, and America's Church-State Proposition by Carl H. Esbeck

https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1156&context=facpubs

Becket Foundation "Religious Liberty" SCOTUS victories

https://becketfund.org/cases/?fwp_case_court=us-supreme-court&fwp_case_status=past

Hosanna-Tabor

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/565/171/

Trinity Lutheran

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/582/15-577/

Our Lady of Guadalupe

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/591/19-267/

Carson v. Makin

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/596/20-1088/

How SCOTUS is Dismantling the Separation of Church and State

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-the-supreme-court-is-dismantling-the-separation-of-church-and-state/

American Council of Education

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-council-on-education/

Becoming BYU

https://aims.byu.edu/becoming-byu

LDS Education Boss Touts BYU's Commitment to Religious Freedom by Peggy Fletcher Stack

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/24/byu-will-never-back-away-its/

Spiritual Crackdown at BYU? By RadioWest

https://radiowest.kuer.org/podcast/radiowest/2025-01-16/a-spiritual-crackdown-at-brigham-young-university

BYU New Employment Policy

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/03/10/new-employment-policy/

BYU employment questionnaire

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/ecclesiastical-leader-questions-new-ces-hires

Fine Print: The Deseret News Spins its Circulation Numbers by Rachel Piper

https://www.cityweekly.net/news/fine-print-the-deseret-news-spins-its-circulation-numbers-2207487

Dallin Oaks and Clark Gilbert: Stand Fast with Love in Proclaiming Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IXLufuAAQ

Gilbert Deseret News interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORUY06HPmfM

Gilbert SL Trib interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPwhJhBJ-A

Ben Park video on Gilbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXXNeydptg

Gordon Monson: Clark Gilbert has been called as an LDS apostle. Now, we'll see if he's chosen.

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/02/13/maybe-clark-gilbert-will-be/

Gordon Monson: LDS Church education boss should put down the hammer at BYU and pick up an olive branch: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/06/byu-there-is-too-much-fear-too/

Dark days: New rules have BYU professors running scared https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/05/byu-blue-why-these-are-dark-days/

Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks

The Mansion, by Henry Van Dyke: https://americanliterature.com/author/henry-van-dyke/short-story/the-mansion

Happy News:

A bold new plan could finally cure Type 1 diabetes: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260302030648.htm

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

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It's February and that means it is Black History Month. And since we are in the middle of the 2026 Winter Olympics, we are going to talk about one of THE most famous African-American Olympic athletes of all time, Jesse Owens. We then discuss the movie 42, the story of Jackie Robinson's first year in the white baseball league in 1947. After that, we'll round out the episode with happy news about a peace march from Texas to DC. Happy Black History month!

Next Live Show: Monday February 23, 6:00 PM (MT) We will talk about the newest apostle. We look forward to seeing you!

Show Notes:

Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics, By Jeremy Schaap

American Legends: The Life of Jesse Owens, by Charles Rivers Editors

Jesse Owens: A Life in American History (Black History Lives), by F. Erik Brooks and Kevin M. Jones Sr.

Jesse Owens official website: https://jesseowens.com/

Biography on Olympics website; https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/jesse-owens

Black U.S. Olympians won in Nazi Germany only to be overlooked at home: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/13/489773389/black-u-s-olympians-won-in-nazi-germany-only-to-be-overlooked-at-home

Race and Sports_ Exposing the hypocrisy of the 1936 Olympics: https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/education/educator-resources/teaching-guides/exposing-the-hypocrisy-of-the-1936-berlin-olympics/

Obama Rights Historic Racial Wrong for Olympic Heroes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji-9PimDLRQ&t=142s

Documentary about the other 17 black athletes, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5068938/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_olympic%2520pride%2520

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/olympic-pride-american-prejudice

American Experience: Jesse Owens (2012 Documentary): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2122879/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_epp_sm_1

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/jesse-owens

1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute

MOGP:

42: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453562/?ref_=fn_t_1

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/42-the-jackie-robinson-story

Happy News:

https://gleam.news/stories/monks-complete-2-300-mile-walk-for-peace-to-washington

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Ready for more Dallin Oaks stuff? First we talk about a letter Joseph Smith wrote to W.W. Phelps. Then we discuss the law review article "Ethics, Mortality, and Professional Responsibility", by Dallin Oaks published October 1975 in the BYU Law Review. For the Sword of Laman, we take a look at the first two chapters of Oaks' book Pure In Heart. We finish it off with some happy news about a judge overturning Trump's block of an off-shore wind project that could power 600,000 homes. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

Letter to W. W. Phelps Jan 11, 1833

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-william-w-phelps-11-january-1833/2#historical-intro

Modern D&C 52

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-6-june-1831-dc-52/2

Ethics, Morality, and Professional Responsibility by Dallin Oaks

http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=lawreview

Wickersham Commission

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/wickersham-commission

Criminal Justice in U.S. History

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/criminal-justice-us-history

Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks

Woes of the Pharisees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woes_of_the_Pharisees

Cleansing the Inner Vessel by Ezra Taft Benson (April 1986 GenCon): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1986/04/cleansing-the-inner-vessel?lang=eng

Inspiring Music, Worthy Thoughts by Boyd K Packer (GenCon 1973): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1973/10/inspiring-music-worthy-thoughts?lang=eng

Worthy Music, Worthy Thoughts (1976 filmstrip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ5Z6AoEKuY

Richard G Scott in April GenCon 1992: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1992/04/healing-the-tragic-scars-of-abuse?lang=eng

Happy News: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/trump-halted-offshore-wind-project-to-proceed

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Well, it's time. Let's talk about President Dallin Harris Oaks, the Hoaks man, the Mormon Gollum. First, we cover the biography In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks by Richard Turley. Then we take a look at Hoaks' book The Carthage Conspiracy, as well as a presentation from 2021 where he actually uttered a prophecy! And after all that, we share some amazing science news. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have uncovered a surprising new way to influence brain activity by targeting a long-mysterious class of proteins linked to anxiety, schizophrenia, and movement disorders. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

Cyrus Dallin Sculptor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Edwin_Dallin

Cyrus Dallin: https://dallin.org/about-cyrus-dallin/

Stella Oaks Foundation: https://www.stellahoaks.org/

Law Review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_review

Supreme Court case 1957-1958: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1957

Chief Justice Earl Warren: https://www.oyez.org/justices/earl_warren

The Sit-In: 40 years later: https://chicagomaroon.com/22887/grey-city/the-sit-in-40-years-later/

Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure: https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/studying-exclusionary-rule-search-and-seizure

Why Dress and Grooming Standards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56pD3WMPQao

Talk of the Month: Standards of Dress and Grooming: https://bhroberts.org/records/0spyAV-0Dx8uN/dallin_h_oaks_explains_byu_grooming_standards_in_the_new_era

Internal Revenue Service Investigations of Unidentified Persons, Denver Law Review: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2923&context=dlr

United States vs Brigham Young University: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/485/534/1377372/

The Wall Between Church and State: https://archive.org/details/wallbetweenchurc0000oaks/page/n5/mode/2up

MoGP:

Carthage Conspiracy by Dallin Oaks and Marvin Hill

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p007620

Dallin Oaks Lecture Nov 12, 2021 @ University of Virginia Mormon Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0r2YIAsOQs

Happy News: A "dormant" brain protein turns out to be a powerful switch: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260118233607.htm

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://youtu.be/iJWirjCyWdk

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Welcome to 2026! We start out the year talking to an interesting person — Chris Mitsch — a Professor of Computer Science, whose focus has been on AI ethics. We discuss a variety of technologies known as AI, the limitations, costs, potential uses, who stands to benefit, and a litany of related issues. This leads to our MOGP segment, where we watched A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, of course! And we close the episode with a round-up of good energy news from 2025.

Show Notes:

Papers mentioned during the interview:

Does Liking Yellow Imply Driving a School Bus? By Gonen et. al.

https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.35/

The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A" by Berglund et. al.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288

Seeing like a State by James C. Scott

https://files.libcom.org/files/Seeing%20Like%20a%20State%20-%20James%20C.%20Scott.pdf

The Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite/paper

Empire of AI by Haren Hao

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/

MOGP:

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/

Happy News:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/clean-energy-renewables-charts-2025

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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As per tradition, we're talking all media to round out the year! Our theme is past, present, future; we're discussing what influenced both of us the most in each category. Thanks for hanging out with us this past year!

Shan:

Past: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Present:

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore.

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, by Sonia Purnell

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel, by Rachel Holmes

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of the Women at the CIA, by Liza Mundy

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore

Ten Days in a Mad-House: The Original 1887 Edition (Nellie Bly's Experience On Blackwell's Island) by Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly: Daredevil. Reporter. Feminist by Brooke Kroeger

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon, by Rachel Holmes

Future: Star Trek

Bryce:

Past: Grand Theft Auto

Present: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaquui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda

Future: Age of Disclosure

Show Notes:

History of Grand Theft Auto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKPUS7pu5Y

The Teachings of Don Juan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teachings_of_Don_Juan

The Aliens are Here (Again)! A Review of The Age of Disclosure by Michael Shermer

https://www.skeptic.com/article/the-aliens-are-here-again-a-review-of-the-age-of-disclosure/

Skeptic debunks of UFO/UAP videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHDlfIaBEqw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuhkVTJ6A_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om0d0u1ASJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64zlyzojpPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs&t=1093s

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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Yes, the CIA tortured inmates suspected of terrorism in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Two of the primary men involved with creating this program are Mormon, one was called to be a Bishop after taking $81mn from the government to torture people. We discuss the report, how it came to light, some of the key figures along the way, and the fight over the FOIA release of the report in the courts. After that we talk about The Report, wherein Adam Driver plays Dan Jones who led the investigation at the direction of Senator Dianne Feinstein. Then we have some happy news about libraries getting funding that was promised to them.

CW: torture, suicide

Show Notes:

Torture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture#Punishment

Torture in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_in_the_United_States#History_of_U.S._Accession

US Senate report on CIA torture "The Torture Report": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_report_on_CIA_torture

The Torture Memos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos

7 Key Points form the C.I.A. Torture Report by Jeremy Ashkenas, Hannah Fairfield, Josh Keller, and Paul Volpe: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-torture-report-key-points.html

Jay Bybee: The man behind waterboarding, by Randy James: https://time.com/archive/6914445/jay-bybee-the-man-behind-waterboarding/

Bruce Jessen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Jessen

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_and_Escape

Torture, Ethics, Accountability? By David R Katner: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2791&context=luclj

CIA Paid Torture Teachers More Than $80 Million by Robert Windrem: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/cia-paid-torture-teachers-more-80-million-n264756

Torture victims will bear psychological scars long after CIA report scandal fades: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/dec/13/learned-helplessness-enduring-effects-torture-haunt-victims

The Torture Debate by David Anderson: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2005/12/23/the-torture-debate/21435/

The CIA and the Church: https://mormonr.org/qnas/H2jKm/cia_and_the_church

The senate torture report is a condemnation of Mormon moral reasoning: https://bycommonconsent.com/2014/12/10/the-senate-torture-report-is-a-condemnation-of-mormon-moral-reasoning/

The Role of the LDS church in developing torture by Cherry O Top: https://churchofthefridge.com/role-lds-church-developing-torture/

Mormonism and Torture — Paradoxes and First Principles by Boyd Petersen: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/69-71_Petersen_torture-3.pdf

Christopher Hitchens tries waterboarding via Vanity Fair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPubUCJv58

Nixon Tapes "Cancer on the Presidency" - Dean and Nixon discussing blackmail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnUJa6uuL_Y

Nixon "I'm not a crook"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCEQP2-qOJk

Electronic Frontier Foundation on OPEN Governt Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/key-open-government-reform-legislation-becomes-law

ACLU Torture Report landing page

https://www.aclu.org/cases/senate-torture-report-foia

Executive Summary of the Torture Report

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-documents-crpt-113srpt288.pdf

NPR on Abu Zubaydah

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084161762/supreme-court-rules-against-disclosure-in-torture-case

NSI info sheet on FOIA

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/foia/guide.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation on history of FOIA

https://www.eff.org/issues/transparency/history-of-foia

Privacy Act of 1974

https://www.justice.gov/opcl/privacy-act-1974

https://www.justice.gov/opcl/overview-privacy-act-1974-2020-edition

1966 hearing on CIA and FBI invasions of privacy

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-89shrg61406p6/pdf/CHRG-89shrg61406p6.pdf

MOGP: The Report: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8236336/

The portrayal of CIA in 'The Report': Separating Truth from Fiction by Brian Greer https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/portrayal-cia-report-separating-truth-fiction

Happy News:

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/all-federal-library-grants-previously-canceled-by-federal-agency-restored/

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The new apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taken his seat at the table. Gerald Caussé spent his life in corporate business before his call to the Presiding Bishopric in 2012. In 2015 he ascended to Presiding Bishop and has been the money manager of the church since then. During his tenure, numerous scandals have hit the church related to finances, including a fine from the SEC for falsifying business records to conceal wealth. In the wake of these numerous scandals, Gerald takes his position on the board of the wealthiest religion on the planet. Let's discuss! After that we chat about Catch Me If You Can, a movie about a con man starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks that does a great job of concealing the truth. Then we have happy news about pain management medications and promising research in that field.

Show Notes:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/how-the-mormons-make-money?embedded-checkout=true

https://religionnews.com/2025/11/07/im-cautiously-optimistic-about-the-new-lds-apostle/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqt-k5lbrQhddAne7du47HHB6Gfpstoh_gnkML4Mjyb2cciCqUeR9lh0geUR_aem_j1UGWxzM9qQmQJTCjHRRfg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rald_Causs%C3%A9

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/14/21133740/mormon-church-finances-billions-presiding-bishopric-ensign-peak-tithing-donations-byu-real-estate/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_E._Stevenson

https://archive.ph/20130102082820/http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695267801,00.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXbPxIHkijg

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/gerald-j-causse?lang=eng

https://speeches.byu.edu/speakers/gerald-causse/

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/4636873Z:FP?embedded-checkout=true

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/08/16/lds-churchs-ensign-peak-reports/

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/feds-fine-mormon-church-5-million

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023-35

https://ldsflow.com/the-lds-church-a-year-of-global-service-and-impact-w-infographic/

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-mormon-church-owns-the-most-valuable-property-portfolio-in-america-ff590d405dd6

https://www.livescience.com/18094-perceptions-mormonism-americans-infographic.html

https://exploringmormonism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Corporate-structure-image-400.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/8nwznm/breakdown_of_the_humanitarian_aid_vs_church/

https://mormonfamily.net/2666/mormons-in-america

https://mormonwiki.com/Farms_Owned_By_The_Mormon_Church

https://mormonwiki.com/Farmland_Reserve

https://github.com/jsoma/data-studio-projects/issues/287

https://mormonbillions.com/

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/feature/templesquare/dining?lang=eng

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=54478720&itype=cmsid

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-statement-church-finances

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/church-donations-and-reserves?lang=eng

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-finances-and-a-growing-global-church

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-financial-independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mitt-romneys-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-campaign/

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/keith-b-mcmullin?lang=eng

https://www.polynesia.com/packages?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19311784&gbraid=0AAAAAD_ZKoaNHFjLk9c46VTzwjPJppfQq&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoZDJBhC0ARIsAERP-F_GnjI9U3f9gVGjpeQI6kspteXwPXuh-5JdDFi3aiUVpxghq9HZMZgaAnBREALw_wcB

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/8n8dd3/mormonleaks_has_uncovered_13_llcs_limited/

MOGP: Catch Me If You Can: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/?ref_=ttpl_ov_bk

Where it's streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/catch-me-if-you-can

Books:

The Greatest Hoax on Earth – Catching Truth, While We Can, by Alan C Logan

Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, by Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding

Frank Abagnale Jr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale

Happy News: A tiny enzyme may hold the key to safer pain relief: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251123085557.htm

He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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Spring of 1842 was a world-shaping event, the introduction of the endowment ceremony by Joseph Smith to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We've talked about it and a few of the more recent changes to the endowment a few times, but this is the overview. What it was when it was introduced, how it changed under Brigham Young, and many of the changes that have happened since his death, all under one (long) segment. Then we talk about Heretic, a movie about two missionaries in a cat-and-mouse game with a well-educated anti-Mormon playing by his own rules. Then we wrap with happy news from ABC and Jimmy Kimmel responding to the government shutdown and SNAP running dry.

Show Notes:

https://addfaith.org/blog/faith/belief/keystonelds/top-10-abandoned-temple-practices-in-latter-day-saint-history/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExVTljWWlzYnQ3cVF2bk1mcHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4ldMRGSktTbiKihaWAr75MQpqYcXLwOH1L_n2_hMARqtaV3AFEhm_CQGyvAQ_aem_A-UXdJKWRl0r9HF-XTHanQ

https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21298130384&gbraid=0AAAAApfYZiGCSKCnJskKXVHwOtYoi8FLG&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxAt2apFmzOJxyHKemm-PaDlf5wAy2Yd4mkrE7X-agfFTR0s7wmxAJoaAstJEALw_wcB#footnote-20

https://archive.org/details/historysaints00benngoog/page/n287/mode/2up

https://bhroberts.org/records/qmx2mh-44hPsk/william_clayton_describes_the_nauvoo_endowment

http://www.ldsendowment.org/timeline.html

http://www.ldsendowment.org/emeline.html

https://archive.org/details/dialoguebetweena00vand/page/12/mode/2up?q=vengeance

http://www.ldsendowment.org/1879.html

http://www.ldsendowment.org/1931.html

http://www.ldsendowment.org/lecture.html

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/times-and-seasons-1-june-1842/8

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/article/20/4/33/236178/The-Development-of-the-Mormon-Temple-Endowment

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V34N0102_87.pdf

https://rsc.byu.edu/sites/default/files/pub_content/pdf/Freemasonry_and_the_Latter-day_Saint_Temple_Endowment_Ceremony.pdf

http://www.ldsendowment.org/masonry.html

https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment/research

https://mrm.org/masonry-and-the-mormon-temple-endowment-ceremony

https://cesletter.org/debunking-fairmormon/temples-and-freemasonry.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44368772

https://tokensandsigns.org/2023-temple-changes/

https://bhroberts.org/records/yXnsPd-ZcTVNd/heber_c_kimball_records_in_his_journal_new_arrangements_for_the_endowment_ceremony_such_as_elohim_peter_james_and_john_conducting_adam_and_eve_through_the_telestial_and_terrestrial_kingdoms

https://mormonr.org/qnas/8yXbNf/changes_to_the_temple_endowment

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25154/what-is-the-origin-of-a-phylactery-as-a-soul-jar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshchei#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKazakhTV20182._Entertaining_etymology._5:10-_1-0

https://bhroberts.org/records/qqPgcb-CrpCyb/in_an_epistle_to_the_relief_society_joseph_smith_cites_masonry_as_an_organization_whose_members_know_how_to_keep_secrets

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/389#full-transcript

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/temple-endowment?lang=eng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_House

https://books.google.com/books/about/Temple_Mormonism.html?id=r3TKtgAACAAJ

MOGP: Heretic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28015403/

Happy News:

https://www.thewrap.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-food-bank-donation-center-government-shutdown/

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At long last Shannon gets to talk about the book she's been planning on since the last Halloween episode — The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. We first discuss the Aesthetic Movement of the 19th century and a tiny bit of the life of Oscar Wilde before we jump into the book itself. Then Bryce gifts you with an abbreviated history of metal music. Get a notepad ready to take notes because he gives you a LOT of information! Happy Halloween!

Show Notes:

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Wilde Official Website: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/

Oscar Wilde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Aestheticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism

Decadent Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_movement

The Aesthetic Movement by Fiona McCarthy: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/26/aestheticism-exhibition-victoria-albert-museum

Aesthetic Movement in England by Walter Hamilton: https://archive.org/details/aestheticmovemen00hamiuoft

Oscar WIlde's Cello Coat: https://oscarwilde.blog/2018/01/04/oscar-wildes-cello-coat/

The Picture of Dorian Gray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray#

Metal music:

VH1 Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR78XBi_nAE&t=13s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin

This is Spinal Tap amps go to 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMSV4OteqBE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_rock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimebag_Darrell

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/behind-the-murder-of-dimebag-darrell-233541/

Songs list:

Little Richard, Tutti Frutti - Here's Little Richard 1957

James Brown, Shout and Shimmy - Good, Good Twistin' With James Brown 1962

Chuck Berry, School Day - After School Session 1957

The Beatles, Love Me Do - Please Please Me 1963

Black Sabbath, Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B. - Black Sabbath 1970

Led Zeppelin, Good TImes Bad TImes - Led Zeppelin I 1969

Led Zeppelin, Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin I 1969

Tenacious D, Karate - Tenacious D 2001

Worm Shepherd, The Anguished Throne - Hunger 2024

Humble Pie, As Safe As Yesterday Is - As Safe As Yesterday Is 1969

Deep Purple, Smoke on the Water - Machine Head 1972

Back Sabbath, Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 1970

Black Sabbath, War Pigs - Paranoid 1970

Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild - self titled 1968

Alice Cooper, Poison - Trash 1989

KISS, Sure Know Something - Dynasty 1979

AC/DC, TNT - High Voltage 1976

Judas Priest, Realms of Death - Stained Class 1978

Motorhead, Ace of Spades - Ace of Spades 1980

13th Floor Elevators, You're Gonna Miss Me - 7th Heaven Music of the Spheres 1966

Chelsea Grin, Cursed - My Damnation 2011

The Damned, New Rose - Damned Damned Damned 1977

Judas Priest, Breaking the Law - British Steel 1980

Candlemass, Solitude - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 1986

Venom, Black Metal - In League With Satan 1981

Van Halen, You Really Got Me - Van Halen 1978

Black Sabbath, Neon Knights - Heaven and Hell 1980

Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 1973

Def Leppard, Photograph - Pyromania 1983

Quiet Riot, Cum on Feel the Noize - Metal Health 1983

Mercyful Fate, Evil - Melissa 1983

Frank Zappa, We're Turning Again - Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention 1985

Cannibal Corpse, Hammer Smashed Face - Tomb of the Mutilated 1992

Kreator, People of the Lie - Coma of Souls 1990

Napalm Death, Suffer the Children - Harmony Corruption 1990

Helloween, I Want Out - Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2 1988

TOOL, Sober - Undertow 1993

Linkin Park, One Step Closer - Hybrid Theory 2000

Pantera, Walk - Vulgar Display of Power 1992 Finntroll, Jaktens Tid - Jaktens Tid 2001

Slaughter to Prevail, Demolisher - Kostolom 2019

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. He has had MANY different fascinating people on so go take a look! Here is the whole playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGuS7GcsgA&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g

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It's that time of year! 195th Semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see what slipped through the cracks!

David Bednar Q12 – Moral Agency means doing what you were coerced to agree to do

B. Corey Cuvleier Q70 – The correct name

Matthew S. Holland Q70 – Jonah, Adam and Eve, and Biblical literalism

Carlos A Godoy Q70 – He's helping impoverished Africans who pay their tithing

Dale G Renlund Q12 – Surgeon-scholarship-recipient really like Rusty Nailz

John D Amos Q70 – Put more Tonys in it

Ozani Farias Q70 – Read your sticks

Dallin Oaks rounding it out – A prophet-elect ascends; no more new temples; make more big Mormon families

Saturday Evening for Patrons!

Patrick Kearon Q12 – Stop sinning already and embrace your hundredth start

J Anette Dennis FC RS GP – Depression and atheism

Steven C Barlow Q70 – His brother mowed some lawns

William K Jackson Q70 – Counting and Accounting; white supremacists making lists

Neil L. Anderson – idk, something about atonement

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It's that time of year! 195th Semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see what slipped through the cracks!

Jeffrey R. Holland – Book of Mormon is miraculous and stop being so mean to me about it

James E Evanson Q70 – Go on your mission, even if you have to settle for a service mission

Ulisses Soares Q12 – Temperance and quoting MLK Jr.

Peter M. Johnson Q70 – Priesthood ban blindsided him

D. Todd Christofferson – FSY and Family Proc; masturbation is evil

Andrea M. Spannaus SC YM GP – We're a doomsday cult; the end is coming

Henry B Cryring – Proving steel in pre-Columbian Americas

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It's that time of year! 195th Semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see what slipped through the cracks!

Ronald Rasband Q12 – Family: A Proclamation to the World is 'doctrine'

Chad Webb FC SS GP – Gospel not a 'list of demands'

Jeremy Jaggi Q70 – Chaplain's altar is Mormon symbol

Kevin Brown Q70 – Moral agency; we are agents

Gerrit Gong Q12 – Fortune cookies are American?

Michael Cziesla Q70 – Funeral potatos and green jello are weird

Quentin Cook Q12 – Tale of Two Cities; we live in turbulent times

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It's that time of year! 195th Semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see what slipped through the cracks!

Saturday Morning talks:

Gary A. Stevenson Q12 – Be peacemakers no matter what

Tracy Y. Browning SC PGP – Primary songs are the key to cult mind-control

Ronald Barcellos Q70 – Morals of David v. Eliab

Brik V. Eyre Q70 – Comfort then Convert

Kelly R. Johnson Q70 – Forensic accounting

Dieter Uchtdorf Q12 – Up a down escalator

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We invite back Chris Shelton MSc from his YouTube channel by the same name to talk all about cults. He’s here to share his model of human behavior, the REM (Reason/Rationalization, Emotion, Morality) and we get lost deep into the weeds discussing it and related cult topics. After that, we wrap up the Givens with the final installment of The Christ Who Heals. We go through the entire part 2 of the book and tell what book/author we’re reviewing next year. After that we talk about windows being turned into solar panels!

Links: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-e-1-1-july-1843-30-april-1844/55#full-transcript

https://uncorrelatedmormonism.com/19-similarities-between-joseph-smith-and-emanuel-swedenborg/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/feb/09/darwin.eye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba_W._Smith

Happy News: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/clear-coating-turns-windows-into-solar-panels

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released 3 new Gospel Topics Essays in July. We go through each of them, discuss the information that’s missing, chat about the propaganda woven into every line, and speculate as to the impetus behind the new essays. For ease of listening, the Book of Mormon Translation starts at 13:31, the Plural Marriage starts at 1:01:24, and Joseph Smith’s Character starts at 1:53:15. After that we chat Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a post-apocalyptic wasteland movie about two warring cult leaders. Then we wrap with happy news about metalheads fighting bullying in schools!

Show Notes:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/book-of-mormon-translation?lang=eng

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/plural-marriage?lang=eng

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/joseph-smiths-character?lang=eng

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Question:_Why_were_the_gold_plates_needed_at_all_if_they_weren%27t_used_directly_during_the_translation_process%3F

https://www.analyzingmormonism.com/changes-to-the-book-of-mormon/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/introduction-to-state-of-illinois-v-js-for-assault-and-battery/1

https://www.thechurchnews.com/2012/5/26/23225539/kirtland-safety-society/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/kirtland-safety-society-notes-4-january-9-march-1837/1

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/99#full-transcript

MOGP: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12037194/?ref_=hm_rvi_i_12

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/furiosa

Happy News: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99mdjp97m0o

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Are Mormons Christian? According to most Christians, no. According to them, Jesus Christ is literally in the name of the church! We dig into the bedrock on this issue to see what does or does not qualify as “Christian”. After that, we dive into the final of the Givens trilogy, The Christ Who Heals. It’s more or less a 130-page missionary discussion with a few dribbles of ancient theologian writings. After that we talk about a statue being built to Robert Smalls in South Carolina.

Show Notes:

Jesus in Islam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

Jewish views on Jesus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_Jesus

Buddhism and Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_Christianity

Bodhisattva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva

The real reason mormons aren’t in the Christian Club: https://wheatandtares.org/2022/10/28/the-real-reason-mormons-arent-in-the-christian-club/

Nicene Creed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed

Happy News:

Robert Smalls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls

Statue in SC https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-smalls-statue-south-carolina/

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You asked for it and you got it! We interviewed Belle Holsinger who we talked about last episode in our Sunstone recap. She gave us the absolutely riveting information from her presentation at Sunstone titled “Bearing witness: The castration and murder of Henry Jones and his mother, Hannah Jones Gailey Hatch.” Following our time with Belle, we watched The Godfather because what OTHER movie is as fitting? We then closed with some incredible new breakthroughs in cancer research. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

Belle’s Contact information: BelleSingerBook@gmail.com

MOGP: The Godfather

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-godfather-part-i

Happy News: Trojan horse bacteria sneak cancer-killing viruses into tumors: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250816113522.htm

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We went to Sunstone Symposium in SLC, like we try to do every year! It was fantastic and a great place to meet good folks, visit old friends, and learn new things along the way. We discuss some of our favorite sessions and experiences from this year’s Mormon conference.

Check out Sunstone and consider attending next year! https://sunstone.org/

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Your two favorite long winded podcasters are talking about word vomit and verbosity today, which is particularly fitting since today’s Sword of Laman segment covers the last part of the 2nd Givens book, The Crucible of Doubt. We then cleanse your palette with some good news out of Illinois. Enjoy!

Sword of Laman:

https://freshairarchive.org/segments/richard-dawkins-argument-atheism

Happy News: Illinois keeps 988 lifeline for LGBTQIA+ youth even after national extension hangs up: https://khqa.com/news/local/illinois-to-keep-988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-for-lgbtqia-youth-after-national-extension-hangs-up-federal-funding-cuts-trump-administration-governor-jb-pritzker-idhs-secretary-dulce-m-quintero-mental-health-behavioral-services-counseling-support-teens

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The Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just dropped a revelatory bomb on the Mormon history community and we’re gunna talk about it. John Taylor (prophet 1880-1887) wrote a revelation saying that the new and everlasting covenant is actually “everlasting” and cannot be revoked or abrogated. However, the prophet after Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, wrote the First Manifesto bringing the church into compliance with the law of the land. However, plural marriages continued to be performed. The Reed Smoot hearings turned the eyes of the nation to the kingdom of god in Deseret and every clandestine plural marriage put a lie to the Manifesto. Church leaders are excommunicated and it leads to the formation of the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints. The church has suppressed this revelation in its vaults for nearly a century while openly denying that it even existed. After that we chat about more secrets hiding in plain sight with the movie National Treasure. We wrap with happy news about diabetes therapy and a gaggle of listener mail.

Show Notes:

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/3aec2ea6-fdeb-4866-9529-47e27f9cd3b9/0/0?lang=eng

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record/71550f40-40e2-4f22-a513-d9efed66649a/0?view=browse

https://mormonr.org/qnas/vFgD6f/john_taylors_1886_revelation?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22720170685&gbraid=0AAAAAoS5E7acFZisa2VHLpSqmjwjxuxAo&gclid=Cj0KCQjw953DBhCyARIsANhIZoZY8hL6lOziHIlmcVnNbCHkiECSLz8brsdbJy0ni61rrba3Qcklb8oaAkVpEALw_wcB

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/lds-church-authority-and-new-plural-marriages-1890-1904/

https://mormonr.org/qnas/vFgD6f/john_taylors_1886_revelation/research#re-fbkJxk-qnXgKg

https://bhroberts.org/records/fbkJxk-bB2xDk/byu_religious_studies_center_publication_on_john_taylor_discusses_the_1886_revelation

https://bhroberts.org/files/bHthmd/scan-bB2xDk-bHthmd.pdf?r=bB2xDk&t=eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIn0..Ljnea7CqFcI514tv.MWAtt1USKQyIBx5hJeD1he-VlQl6HV5eDevc9XGHctIBqDnl3hQ6UY9uGlOYy3cJoJ6SG7H9UgXWNRtSHGg4AWQTt76BTFyruwynbZPv-ta9Sqwc1MiNTMA4D5bJ0wDKNLqn1I1ZW96aQh9fE3XonduR9AeovvqRkhlf80-xZsjjnHaGWGILhfe6hlbWunSLVvMxtMKbcmJywR4aR8z_2aD9_NRxC1-fb0e3If80Vy9otGsidu2NjHcmecljQwblGIFvHsSDUoBKqB8NH7VohmRAoJxTnqjoy8vYxcyw0j7Q8HcUBPyzQmLSU_lvRxvRly2pxjTCo6Ng-OlNVohEmFSQAWXo80Qi7R54xy1xIvW2_lP0pXMRw9VRIizzbfUcmspMcRwqC0aBtSI9_QhVFAiom1w.DIL9f7HVhjoKTWkeFO1Sqw

https://mormonpolygamydocuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1886-Revelation-article.pdf

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/John_Taylor%27s_statements_regarding_polygamy

https://rsc.byu.edu/champion-liberty-john-taylor/john-revelator-written-revelations-john-taylor#_note-40

https://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2025/06/john-taylor-and-the-1886-revelation/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/john-taylor

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/first-annual-message-first-term

https://josephsmithfoundation.org/john-taylors-last-days-vision-1877/

https://www.fromthedesk.org/john-taylor-revelations/#_ftn1

https://rsc.byu.edu/champion-liberty-john-taylor/john-revelator-written-revelations-john-taylor#_noteref-14

https://web.archive.org/web/20080309131303/http://gainesjunction.tamu.edu/issues/vol3num1/ishin/ishin.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYcVJKnfmg

https://rsc.byu.edu/prophets-apostles-last-dispensation/john-whittaker-taylor

https://historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com/john-w-taylor.html

https://tokensandsigns.org/betrayed-for-loyalty-john-w-taylor-and-polygamy/

https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/John-W.-Taylor-Trial.pdf

https://sunstone.org/john-w-woolley-as-a-highly-trusted-mormon-from-september-1886-to-december-1913/

https://mormonfundamentalism.com/history/lorin-c-woolley-and-his-council-of-seven-friends/

https://mormonpolygamydocuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/MF0273.pdf

https://mormonfundamentalism.com/1886-revelation-importance/

https://www.fromthedesk.org/joseph-white-musser-mormon-fundamentalist/

https://prophetsseersandrevelators.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/third-manifesto/

https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/704

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/first-annual-message-first-term

MOGP: National Treasure: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/?ref_=tt_rvi_i_7

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/national-treasure

Information about Charles Carroll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton#

Explore the Knights Templar: https://www.centreofexcellence.com/the-knights-templar/#

Happy News: A new diabetes treatment could free people from insulin injections: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/type-1-diabetes-cell-therapy-insulin

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism. Here’s the most recent episode on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsofor4IgR8&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g&index=65&t=3640s

And here is our discussion about Mormon succession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxjD7ucajI&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g&index=56

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Let’s talk leaders. What qualities does a great leader have? What’s the difference between a good and great leader? And we talk about three leaders in history. In our Sword of Laman segment, we cover the next few chapters of the Givens’ book. And to clear your palette, we share a news article about a charitable move Bill Gates is making. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

What is Ethical Leadership and Why is it Important?: https://professional.dce.harvard.edu/blog/what-is-ethical-leadership-and-why-is-it-important/#The-6-Main-Principles-of-Ethical-Leadership

What Great Leaders do that Good Leaders Don’t: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougsundheim/2023/04/13/what-great-leaders-do-that-good-leaders-dont/

Elizabeth I: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I#

Queen Elizabeth I: The controversies and accomplishments: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/queen-elizabeth-l-0011092

Elizabeth I, Religious Questions and the fate of Mary, Queen of Scots: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-I/Religious-questions-and-the-fate-of-Mary-Queen-of-Scots

Bloody Mary: The Marriage, Reign, and Death of a Queen of England: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/bloody-mary-marriage-reign-and-death-queen-england-004122

Catherine the Great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great#

Legacy of Catherine the Great: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great/Legacy

Imperial Crown of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_crown_of_Russia

The Story of Catherine the Great: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-catherine-great-180974863/

Hypocrite, reactionary, usurper, sex maniac: is Catherine the Great’s reputation justified?: https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/catherine-great-russian-empress-reputation-justified/

10 Reasons Lincoln was Secretly a Terrible President: https://listverse.com/2013/12/05/10-reasons-lincoln-was-secretly-a-terrible-president/

5 Ugly Facts about Abraham Lincoln that No One Likes to Talk About: https://www.moviemaker.com/abraham-lincoln/

The Great Writ, North and South: https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/the-great-writ-north-and-south/

Everything Wrong with the Lincoln Administration: https://www.libertarianism.org/everything-wrong-presidents/everything-wrong-lincoln-administration

Happy News:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4qg5gzgzxo

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Not only is it Pride month but it’s also been almost 10 years since the Mormon church issued their policy against the children of LGBTQIA+ parents. We take a look at the effects that policy had, the increasingly draconian measures the government is taking, and we read between the lines of Mormon church policies. We also look at the measures people are taking to improve the lives of LGBTQIA+. For Media of Great Price, we watched the lovely 2018 movie Rafiki about two lesbian women in Kenya. And we end with good news out of Paris about a new monument. Happy Pride Month!

Show notes:

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/why-utah-no-utopia-lgbt-equality-despite-progress

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-utah-compromise-is-a-dangerous-lgbt-trojan-horse-db790ad3b69e/

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/handbook-changes-same-sex-marriages-elder-christofferson

https://kutv.com/news/local/group-holds-mass-resignation-from-lds-church-in-slc-saturday

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/local/2017/09/30/mormon-general-conference-resumes-for-the-first-time-monson-will-not-be-attending-any-sessions/

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/tag/good-news/

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/president-nelson-handbook-change

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/03/26/mormon-leaders-update-rules-to-allow-adults-in-the-room-for-interviews-with-children-women/

https://www.thechurchnews.com/2018/4/3/23221628/new-apostles-reflect-growth-diversity-of-the-church-2/

https://mormonmentalhealthassoc.org/resources/position-statements/november-5th-policy-reversal/

https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0228.html

https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0521.html

https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0283.html

https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0316.html

https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0527.html

https://wheatandtares.org/2017/11/04/the-policy-remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_teachings_on_homosexuality_in_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/the-trevor-project-celebrates-utah-bill-protecting-lgbtq-youth-from-conversion-therapy/

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/2/17/23604347/conversion-therapy-ban-lgbt-utah-bill/

https://www.newsweek.com/utah-lgbtq-conversion-therapy-law-1483039

https://archive.org/details/Homosexuality1981/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/love-motivated-policy-changes-toward-lgbt-parents-children

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/06/455014520/mormon-church-declares-same-sex-couples-to-be-apostates

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709988377/in-major-shift-mormon-church-rolls-back-controversial-policies-toward-lgbt-membe

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3144035&itype=CMSID

https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/index.php?title=File:Re-_Gay_Couples_and_Baby_Blessings-2015-07-21.pdf

https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/documents/2/28/Re-_Gay_Couples_and_Baby_Blessings-2015-07-21.pdf

https://protectldschildren.org/

https://goodmenproject.com/politics-2/mass-protest-against-sexually-explicit-interviews-by-mormon-bishops-wcz/

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/03/26/mormon-leaders-update-rules-to-allow-adults-in-the-room-for-interviews-with-children-women/

https://www.thechurchnews.com/2018/4/3/23221628/new-apostles-reflect-growth-diversity-of-the-church-2/

https://www.littler.com/news-analysis/asap/two-utah-laws-related-religious-expression-workplace-take-effect#:~:text=H.B.%20396%20%E2%80%93%20Workplace%20Discrimination%20Amendments&text=H.B.%20396%20generally%20prohibits%20an,employee's%20sincerely%20held%20religious%20beliefs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_SB_296_(2015)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/obergefell-v-hodges/

https://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14-556_Major_Religious_Organizations.pdf

https://fedsoc.org/contributors/robin-wilson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26xMnkZCxoc

https://kutv.com/news/local/group-holds-mass-resignation-from-lds-church-in-slc-saturday

https://quitmormon.com/faq

https://equalityutah.org/advocacy/?search_year=2024#tracker

MOGP: Rafiki: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8286894/

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/rafiki-2018

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiki_(film)

Happy News:

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/paris-unveils-memorial-lgbtq-victims-nazi-regime-persecutions-rcna207691

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We’re talking about the bane of the Q15’s existence! Doubts of the members. We discuss the terrible way they are dealt with which leads into the second installment of the Givens’ trilogy — The Crucible of Doubt — Reflections on the Quest for Faith. Following that we have some good news out of El Paso where the Consulate General of Mexico gave out free measles vaccines to children and adults in El Paso, Texas.

Show Notes:

Jana Riess: Who is leaving the LDS church? Eight key survey findings: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/03/08/jana-riess-who-is-leaving-lds/

When Doubts and Questions Arise by Adam Kotter, Ensign March 2015: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2015/03/when-doubts-and-questions-arise?lang=eng

Christ is Risen: Faith in him will move mountains, by Russell M. Nelson, April 2021 General Conference talk: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/04/49nelson?lang=eng

Happy News:

https://www.ktsm.com/news/consulate-general-of-mexico-in-el-paso-to-offer-free-measles-vaccines/

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Fasting! In all its forms and purposes. We take a wander through world religions to see how fasting plays a part in almost all of them. Mormon fasting is far less peculiar than we thought. Then a few episodes of South Park that provide wonderful commentary on fasting, the economy, and witch hunts. We round out with happy news about land being returned to Indigenous people and burn through listener mail that’s been piling up.

Show notes:

Fasting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting

Fasting: https://www.britannica.com/topic/fasting

Religious Fasting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_fasting

Fasting in Islam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_in_Islam

Ramadan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan

Native Teachings are about a way of life: https://mushkiki.com/programs-services/fasting/

Fasting in Jainism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_in_Jainism

With Lent almost over, here’s why religions fast: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/world/religious-fasting-traditions-finding-jesus/index.html

Fasting in African Spirituality: https://asanee44.com/fasting-in-african-spirituality/

Sam Young: https://protecteverychild.com/

Hunger strikes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_strike

Nonviolent resistance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance

Civil disobedience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

Violet Bland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Bland

Emmeline Pankhurst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst

The Pankhurst Sisters: How suffragettes changed the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2wGWNco0k

Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act 1913: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_(Temporary_Discharge_for_Ill-Health)_Act_1913

Intermittent Fasting: Fad or valid weight-loss solution: https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/intermittent-fasting-fad-or-solution

The Effects of Fasting on Drug Metabolism

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17425255.2020.1706728#d1e326

MOGP:

South Park

Spontaneous Combustion S3E2

Margaritaville S13E3

Sons of Witches S21E6

Happy News:

https://apnews.com/article/potawatomi-illinois-treaty-reservation-805f5030d9abbac93ce3da3cec18a636

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We’re finishing The God Who Weeps by Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. This is the first book in a trilogy of Mormon theology and we want to leave room in the year to get through it all. What does today hold for us? We start with a long discussion on the pre-mortal existence, transitioning into existence, then ascending to perfection thanks to Mormon beliefs. We didn’t realize until pretty late in the project that the 5 chapters of the book are structured around the different stages of the Mormon Plan of Salvation (PoS), but it become clear pretty early on in our discussion. All told, the book is a marker of modern orthodox Mormon belief: pray, pay, and obey. They even have an ultra-conservative take on abortion that makes the official stance of the church seem like bleeding-heart liberals in comparison. Then we talk about The Meaning of Life, a Monty Python movie from 1983 that has a much more healthy way of looking at the random cosmic soup that led to human existence. We wrap with some happy news about the success of a slightly higher tax in Massachusetts that raised a bunch of money for all the things for which taxes are used. We round out by going through some delightful listener mail from the April Fools episode!

MOGP:

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

Happy News:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/28/massachusetts-millionaires-tax-institute-policy-studies-newsletter

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April 2025 General Conference Sunday Afternoon session. Patrons of the show get the appendix of Saturday Evening session at the end of the record.

Ulisses Soares – Reverence; Moses and the burning bush; you-damn-kids talk; pray for guidance from the Holy Ghost for AI, don’t weaken your connection to God with AI!!!

Michael Strong Q70 – Killed a kid on a bike during his mission, was really sad that he had to spend the night in jail until a ‘compassionate’ fellow missionary stayed with him

Scott Whiting Q70 – Hazed as a deacon and sat on a cactus; Garden of Eden, “blessed Eve”, crying repentance

Christopher Kim Q70 – JS translated an ancient record, includes God’s dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas; Laman and Lemuel were sooooo evil and dumb; moral agency, we can choose to harden or soften our hearts, submission vs respect

Patrick Kearon – Gifts, “you really are that you might have joy,” repent ye, repent ye

Benjamin M Z Tai Q70 – Cancellation of a sealing after divorce, pray daily, “Ask sincerely what you can do to help an individual feel god”

Rusty Nailz – The world is coming to an end; sooo many new temples that won’t be built for another 3 decades

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April 2025 General Conference Sunday Morning session.

David A Bednar – Joseph Smith totally restored the one true church; and other sundry sacrament meeting talking points

Steven Shumway Q70 – Do your callings, no matter how demanding they may be

Tamara Runia FC YW GP – Cry for repentance; Jesus is excited every time he sees us on our knees

Gerald Causse PB – Dude who controls the church’s wealth is moved by seeing people suffering in poverty

Gerrit Gong – Jesus Wept; Easter, Palm Sunday, holy week; mortal and moral agency and alignment with Bednar

John McCune Q70 – Tithing, temple attendance, the world is ending, Rusty is a terrible dad who abandoned his daughter on her death bed

Dallin Oaks – The most flacid GC talk he’s given in years; Plan of Salvation, sacrament meeting talk, returning to the Celestial Kingdom, 10 virgins, trusting in the lord will keep you safe

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April 2025 General Conference Saturday Afternoon session.

Niel Anderson – Heinous abortion is evil diatribe, the church is extreme Conservative

Steven Lund YM GP – Priesthood is awesome, men run everything in the church

S Mark Palmer Q70 – Willow tree, cut up the fallen ones

Sandino Roman Q70 – Drowning story

Dale Renlund – A dumb 6-year-old thought the second coming was real

Hans T Boom Q70 – Poor people donated their washing machine money to build a temple; Armies of Helaman

Dieter Uchtdorf – The Church isn’t perfect, come back anyway; polishing the turd of a session before him

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April 2025 General Conference Saturday Morning session.

Jeffrey R. Holland – Little boy bites a little girl, better teach her to forgive!

Camille Johnson RS GP – Waiting to be healed filling spiritual holes

Ronald Rasband – Church is DOING GREAT! Don’t check our numbers…

Quentin L. Cook – Handcart companies and tragedy

Ricardo Gemenez Q70 – Checklist Mormonism

Henry Eyring – Zombie Jesus

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It’s time to examine Joseph-Smith-polygamy skepticism. After the recent Journal of Mormon Polygamy conference, we decided to seriously consider the evidences used by this cohort of Mormon studies, leading us to understand that polygamy was a creation of Brigham Young and the Utah Mormon movement. After that we discuss O Brother, Where Art Thou? An Oddessy movie interweaving many storytelling archetypes and tropes. Then some good news about automotive subsidies coming in the form of tariffs.

Show notes:

Joseph Smith Wasn’t a Polygamist video playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL19uMsnpSU&list=PLmuYPN2xUIM0zw-bwR1MEAJ7gcRL9zuSH&index=5&t=745s

Journal of Mormon Polygamy

https://journalofmormonpolygamy.org/jmp

MOGP: O Brother, Where Art Thou

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/

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We have a guest for our main segment this time. Chris Shelton is a cult expert content creator who eats, breathes, and sleeps high-demand, coercive groups. We discuss everything from what makes a group a cult, how to identify them, is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a cult, and proper ways to approach conversations about high-demand groups. Be sure to check out our series collaborating on Chris’s YouTube channel linked below. After that we discuss Don’t Look Up, a 2021 movie about the cult of politics and a major natural disaster that affects everybody across the globe. To wrap up we have a brief chat about a gene-related study on mice and speech patterns before closing out with a review of all our listener mail from the Death Penalty series.

Next Live Show: Mon, March 31, 2025 6:00 PM (MT)

Bryce’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bryceblankenagel7707

Show Notes:

Chris Shelton:

Chris’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisSheltonMsc

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Shelton_(author)

MOGP: Don’t Look Up

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/?ref_=hm_rvi_i_1

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/dont-look-up-2021

Happy News:

https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-put-a-human-language-gene-into-mice-and-curious-things-unfolded-78418

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56579-2

Listener Mail link: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-some-european-prisons-are-based-dignity-instead-dehumanization

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism: Speaking of Cults … Mormonism is a Compliance Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCeW3jvP-RE&t=2973s

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We begin our next series, this time on Capital Punishment. We start with the history of crimes throughout written history that justified the death penalty. Then we get into colonial history and how the death penalty was built into the foundations of racist America. Multiple Supreme Court rulings have shifted the landscape. We end with the recent EO attempting to expand the powers of the death penalty.

Death Penalty survey #1: https://forms.gle/S31MTYbM8JNsikpe9

Show Notes:

History of the death penalty: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/history-of-the-death-penalty/

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/background/history-of-the-death-penalty/early-history-of-the-death-penalty

Timeline of the history of the death penalty: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/history-of-the-death-penalty-timeline

History of the death penalty in USA: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/background/history-of-the-death-penalty

Death penalty in the U.S.: https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/the-u-s-and-the-death-penalty.html

Capital punishment in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States

On Crimes and Punishment by Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, 1764: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/cesare-bonesana-di-beccariaon-crimes-and-punishments-1764 Overview of the death penalty and capital trials: History, current status, legal procedures, and cost: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/overview-death-penalty-and-capital-trials-history-current-status

Crimes act of 1790: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_Act_of_1790 List of women executed in the United States since 1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_executed_in_the_United_States_since_1976

Amnesty International resources https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/

“The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861” by David Brion Davis: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847110?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Study reveals racial bias in executions: https://eji.org/news/study-reveals-racial-bias-in-executions/

“I just wanted to … stay alive” Who was WIlliam Furman, the prisoner at the center of a historic legal decision?: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/i-just-wanted-to-stay-alive-who-was-william-henry-furman-the-prisoner-at-the-center-of-a-historic-legal-decision

Furman v Georgia: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/408/238.html

chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1097&context=law-student-publications

Gregg v Georgia: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/428/153.html

HIstorical Federal Executions: https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/historical-federal-executions

Judiciary Act of 1789: https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/judiciary-act-of-1789-charter-us-marshals-and-deputies

EO on expanded Death Penalty

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-the-death-penalty-and-protecting-public-safety/

https://prismreports.org/2025/02/10/death-penalty-undocumented-immigrants-trump/

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-lawmakers-push-for-mandatory-death-penalty-in-immigration-crackdown/

Equal Justice Initiative

https://eji.org/issues/death-penalty/

Texas Department of Criminal Justice on DP

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_facts.html

McCleskey v. Kemp

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/481/279/

EJI on McCleskey v. Kemp

https://eji.org/news/the-legacy-of-mccleskey-v-kemp/

Racial bias in death penalty

https://eji.org/news/study-reveals-racial-bias-in-executions/

Furman v Georgia

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/69-5030

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/238/

Wilkerson v Utah

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/99/130/

The Movement to Abolish Capitla Punishment by David Brion Davis

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847110?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

Abraham Johnstone address

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/johnstone/johnstone.html

Slave Executions in the US

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0362331999800019

Execution statistics in US

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/executions-overview/executions-in-the-u-s-1608-2002-the-espy-file

Thomas Paine opposing execution of Louis XVI

https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/paine-opposes-executing-king-1793/

History of lynching in America

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america#:~:text=Lynchings%20did%20not%20occur%20in,the%20only%20victims%20of%20lynching.

Confronting hte legacy of lynching in America

https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/

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3 lawsuits against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We discuss the class action suit, Judson et al v. LDS, the recently tossed case of Huntsman v. LDS, and the civil RICO suit Gaddy v. LDS. Where do they stand? How likely are they to prevail? What are the next steps? We go over them and discuss the implications and steps forward. Then we chat about the 2015 movie Spotlight about the Boston Globe journalists who reported on Cathlolic sex abuse in the early 2000s. We wrap with some happy news about a new solar plant being built in Oregon!

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Show Notes:

Gaddy v. LDS

https://casetext.com/case/gaddy-v-corp-of-the-president-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/utah/utdce/2:2019cv00554/116009/141/

https://becketfund.org/case/gaddy-v-corporation-of-the-president-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.utd.116009/gov.uscourts.utd.116009.135.3.pdf

https://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/75208-gaddy-lawsuit-judgement/page/2/

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-utd-2_19-cv-00554/pdf/USCOURTS-utd-2_19-cv-00554-3.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16025781/gaddy-v-corporation-of-the-president-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UQYzFYaxc

Judson et al v. LDS

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/utah/utdce/2:2024cv00296/147894

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.912925/gov.uscourts.cacd.912925.1.0_1.pdf

https://casetext.com/case/chappell-v-corp-of-the-president-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-sts/case-details

https://www.abc4.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/01/Judsons_v_Church-et.-al.pdf

Huntsman v. LDS

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/08/07/21-56056.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0z0RlmuGbs4QHRVQ6byrR4hxtFMJnO3ATZY6_OZoxAa0amlQMV1hjt_u8

https://www.seegerweiss.com/news/lds-church-members-file-class-action-suit-over-misuse-of-donations/

https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/litigation-continues-in-federal-actions-alleging-fraud-with-lds-tithings#google_vignette

https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/lds-church-federal-court-tithing/

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10324777/james-huntsman-v-corporation-of-the-president/?q=huntsman+v+lds

https://becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/20250131123631/21-56056.pdf

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/01/31/huntsman-tithing-lawsuit-dismissed-9th-circuit-panel/

Other related resources:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-267/132540/20200210155952382_19-26719-348tsacNationalRightToWork.pdf

https://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/adults/river/workshop9/178594.shtml

https://supreme.justia.com/cases-by-topic/religion/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Shelby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAOqZHyxbtg

https://www.mormonstories.org/church-on-trial-history-fraud/

https://wasmormon.org/facts-vs-beliefs-no-limit-at-all-on-what-church-is-required-to-teach-or-not-teach/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/121/1327/2505205/

https://www.churchlawcenter.com/church-law/when-churches-own-a-business/

MOGP:

Spotlight (2015): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/?ref_=tttrv_ov

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/spotlight

Articles:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)

Wired: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/spotlight-journalism-movies/

LA Press Club Veritas award: https://lapressclub.org/veritas/

Happy News:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/oregon-to-host-nations-largest-solar-plus-storage-installation

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It’s time to start a new year and new book for our long-form deep dive reviews of terrible Mormon books. And this one is… not terrible? The Givens present a form of Mormon theology which tries to “make sense of life” and we’re here for any Mormon theology that doesn’t include discrimination, sexism, and anything holding it over from its past. We dive into the introduction and first chapter of the book. But, what would a book review be without some due diligence about the authors? We spend the first portion talking about Terryl and Fiona Givens, their histories, publishing careers, and try to get a sense for what we can expect throughout this book.

Terryl and Fiona Givens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Givens

https://www.fionagivens.com/about

https://www.patheos.com/topics/2014-religious-trends/mormon/joseph-smith-on-mormon-women-and-the-priesthood-fiona-givens-071014?p=2

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-perfect-union-of-man-and-womanreclamation-and-collaboration-in-joseph-smiths-theology-making/

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/missing-and-restoring-meaning/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terryl_Givens

https://www.terrylgivens.com/about

https://web.archive.org/web/20110827023337/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705385222/Daniel-Peterson-Terryl-Givens-making-his-mark-in-Mormon-writing.html

https://www.google.com/books/edition/By_the_Hand_of_Mormon/cC_RCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover

https://www.deseret.com/2012/11/15/20509757/scholars-terryl-and-fiona-givens-discuss-life-love-and-their-new-book-the-god-who-weeps/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA7kdkzW09c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecCget_CNM

Sword of Laman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

https://www.gotquestions.org/did-Jesus-go-to-hell.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo

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BYU and SLC anti-vice. We discuss the history of Charles A. Callis, his career in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and politics, and his final assignment before death, creating a sexual purity surveillance and counseling/therapy program for Mormons in the 40s. After his death, Spencer W. Kimball took the reins and vastly expanded the reach and purposes of the program, resulting in The Miracle of Forgiveness. Cleon Skousen was running raids on gay clubs and anybody else seen as commie enemies of god’s country. The systems they created have adapted, evolved, and conformed to the times, but never gone away, as evidenced by the recent SL Tribue piece about BYU’s retrenchment and culture of fear. Then we chat about Minority report, a Tom Cruise sci-fi flick with surprisingly profound concepts. We wrap with happy news about the first openly transgender congressperson in American history.

Show Notes:

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/05-the-miracle-of-forgiveness/

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/16-the-cure-2-0/

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/07-salt-lake-city-gay-scene/

https://archive.org/details/spencerwkimballt00kimb/page/271/mode/2up?view=theater

https://ourphoenixfoundation.org/includes/about.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_International

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/gay/individuals?lang=eng

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/transgender/understanding?lang=eng

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/05/byu-blue-why-these-are-dark-days/

https://fairnessforall.org/the-utah-compromise/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Cleon_Skousen

https://police.slc.gov/about/history/

https://lris.com/recent-developments/2012/05/salt-lake-city-vice-squad-disbanded/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Talmage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot_hearings

https://prophetsseersandrevelators.wordpress.com/2021/10/31/the-political-manifesto/

https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/DE2/id/201100

https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?nid=Aul-kAQHnToC&dat=18961109&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/e/ELECTIONS.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Utah)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_United_States_presidential_election_in_Utah

https://archive.org/details/improvementera3707unse/page/434/mode/2up?view=theater

https://archiveviewer.org/collections/en/improvement-era#1934

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/david-o-mckay-diary-excerpts/w-cleon-skousen/

https://www.qsaltlake.com/news/2009/09/28/the-oppressive-50s/

http://www.nomorestrangers.org/timeline-of-mormon-thinking-about-homosexuality/

http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/fghij/Jack%20Pembroke.html

https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/utah.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Utah#Conversion_therapy

https://books.google.com/books?id=rlC1DgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Brigham_Young_University_LGBTQ_history

https://web.archive.org/web/20100122080551/http://www.affirmation.org/memorial/joseph_fielding_smith.shtml

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1981/04/elder-charles-a-callis-twentieth-century-missionary?lang=eng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Callis

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2001/04/them-that-honour-me-i-will-honour?lang=eng

https://thesingleleaf.com/tag/charles-albert-callis/

https://rsc.byu.edu/prophets-apostles-last-dispensation/charles-albert-callis

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/2d1fb5a0-211a-4908-baca-5e3dd9e145eb/0/178?lang=eng

https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/charles-albert-callis-1866?lang=eng

Article Shannon brought up: The Role of the LDS Church in Utah Politics: An Insider’s Look https://www.mrm.org/utah-politics

MOGP: Minority Report: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/?ref_=tttrv

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Happy News:

https://apnews.com/article/sarah-mcbride-congress-transgender-lgbtq-delaware-9cce7f778e6b57dfdb08986d7410404e?taid=677918364fe1660001b83485&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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You know the time of year!

Next Live Show: Monday 12/30/24 https://www.youtube.com/@bryceblankenagel7707

Show Notes:

Starship Troopers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/?ref_=tttrv

Movie:

Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#

Robert A Heinlein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#Politics

District 9:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9

The Island: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_The%2520Island

Viral by Robin Cook:

Robin Cook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Cook_(American_novelist)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury : chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://lexiconic.net/english/F451.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

Animal Farm: A Fairy Tale by George Orwell:

George Orwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#

Animal Farm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

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We are finally finishing up the Huge Niblet! We cover the last two chapters of Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley followed by our own conclusions about Nibley and what he accomplished. We then finish with some happy news about an environmental lawsuit in North Carolina.

Show notes

Approaching Zion, by Hugh Nibley

The Closing of the American Mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind

Haldeman-Julius and their Little Blue Books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Blue_Book

John Dewey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

Pragmatism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

Progressive education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_education

Functional psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_psychology

Modern liberalism in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States

The Muses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur

What is Yom Kippur?: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/177886/jewish/What-Is-Yom-Kippur.htm

Yom Kippur: https://www.jewfaq.org/yom_kippur

Rosh Hashanah: https://www.jewfaq.org/rosh_hashanah

Ten Days of Repentance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_of_Repentance

Dura-Europos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura-Europos

Dura-Europos Synagogue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura-Europos_synagogue

Predestination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination

Paradox of Free Will: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_free_will

Nibley review by Kent Jackson

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2587&context=byusq

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https://www.ecowatch.com/carrboro-north-carolina-duke-energy-climate-lawsuit.html

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Here in the USA, it’s right before Thanksgiving and right after a bad election so it’s time to talk about Gaslighting. We discuss what it is, how to spot it, and how to fight it. For Media of Great Price, we talk about the 1944 movie Gaslight, which is where the term originates. We close out with happy news about a new way to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

Gaslighting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

— https://health.clevelandclinic.org/gaslighting

— https://themendproject.com/gaslighting/

— https://www.helpguide.org/relationships/domestic-abuse/gaslighting

Domestic Abuse Hotline, What is Gaslighting: https://www.thehotline.org/resources/what-is-gaslighting/

What is gaslighting abuse: https://www.newportinstitute.com/resources/mental-health/what_is_gaslighting_abuse/

What is Narcissistic Gaslighting?: https://themendproject.com/narcissistic-gaslighting/

History of Gaslighting: https://woventraumatherapy.com/blog/history-of-gaslighting

Gaslighting signs: https://www.healthline.com/health/gaslighting#signs

How to deal with gaslighting: https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-deal-with-gaslighting#confirm

Is Someone Gaslighting You?: https://www.verywellmind.com/is-someone-gaslighting-you-4147470

Zersetzung: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung

Gaslighting in the Workplace: https://business.wisc.edu/news/combatting-gaslighting-in-the-workplace/

How to Combat gaslighting in the workplace: https://business.wisc.edu/news/combatting-gaslighting-in-the-workplace/

Religious/Spiritual Gaslighting: https://anchoredcounsellingservices.com.au/i-dont-know-what-to-believe-anymore-the-impact-of-spiritual-gaslighting/

How to Deal with Gaslighting by Ariel Leve, Ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4P2Qwh1QCU

Gaslighting: What is it and how do we fight back?: https://www.mga.edu/news/2023/04/what-is-gaslighting-and-how-to-fight-back.php

Mindfulness: https://www.mindful.org/what-is-mindfulness/

MIndfulness: The surprising skill you can use to stop gaslighting: https://www.joinonelove.org/learn/mindfulness-the-surprising-skill-you-can-use-to-stop-gaslighting/

Recommended books:

On Gaslighting by Kate Abramson

Gaslighting: The Double Whammy, Interrogation, and Other Methods of Covert Control In Psychotherapy & Analysis by Theo L. Dorpat

The Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide by Dr. Robin Stern

MOGP:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/

Happy News:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exotic-powder-pulls-carbon-dioxide-from-the-air-at-a-record-rate/

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Welcome to another Huge Niblet episode. And yes, it’s a bit huge. (You saw the time stamp!) In the A segment, we discuss Hugh Nibley’s 1969 diatribe titled Science Fiction and the Gospel as well as the article that likely triggered his rage induced lecture. Then we move into our penultimate Approaching Zion discussion. Following that, we have some excellent news about Gen Z women leaving religion. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hugh-nibley/science-fiction-gospel/

Sword of Laman:

Approaching Zion, by Hugh Nibley

Books and poems mentioned:

1984 by George Orwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy
Egyptian and Mesopotamian lamentation literature: lamenting lost glories and looking forward to a return of the same under a messianic king
Lycurgus by Plutarch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus
Eunomia by Solon:https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/fid_932_solon.html
Republic by Plato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
Eclogues by Virgil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogues
Utopia by Thomas More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)
The City of the Sun by Thomas Campenella: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_the_Sun
Nova Atlantis by Francis Bacon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)
The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commonwealth_of_Oceana
The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses by François Fénelon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_de_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9maque

Other references:

1984 US Presidential Election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election

Ronald Reagan scandals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandals_of_the_Ronald_Reagan_administration

Cry Havoc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dogs_of_war_(phrase)

Utopia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

Rekhabite/Rechabite/Rekabite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechabites, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Order_of_Rechabites

Joachim of Fiore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_of_Fiore

Benedict of Nursia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_of_Nursia

Mendicant orders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendicant_orders

Potemkin Village: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

Happy News: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/13/gen-z-women-less-religious/74673083007/

Next Live Show!: Saturday November 23, 2024 at 11:00 AM (Mountain time)

Kang, Lydia; Pedersen, Nate. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing Company.

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It’s October and so you finally get a Halloween themed media episode to round out the month. First we talk about Robert Louis Stevenson and his book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. We discuss some of the major themes as well as some of the many, many, MANY movie depictions that have been done of it. Then we talk about the incredibly amazing metal album by A Wake in Providence titled I Write to You, My Darling Decay. And we end with happy news about the increase in early voting. Enjoy and have a happy Samhain!

Show Notes:

Robert Louis Stevenson:

Robert Louis Stevenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson

RLS website: https://robert-louis-stevenson.org/

Fanny Stevenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Stevenson The Lighthouse Stevensons: https://www.historyhit.com/the-lighthouse-stevensons-how-one-family-lit-up-the-coast-of-scotland/

The Speculative Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speculative_Society

William Henley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Project Gutenberg ebook of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42/pg42-images.html

Gothic fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: https://www.britishlibrary.cn/en/works/jekyllandhyde/

Dualism in the Victorian Age: https://britlitsurvey2.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/dualism-in-the-victorian-age/

MOGP:

I Write to You, My Darling album stream w/lyrics in video description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMc1tGG-JA&list=PLMJGV7p_FGBW2JGxXjBphgPzyrP-VJXby

Interview with vocalists D’Andre Tyre and Adam Mercer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fnnin_99w

Sundry links to magical grimiores referenced in the album

https://archive.org/stream/a-book-of-the-office-of-spirits/A%20Book%20of%20the%20Office%20of%20Spirits_djvu.txt

https://archive.org/details/ac_goetia/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater

https://archive.org/details/lesserkeysolomo00laurgoog/page/n7/mode/2up

Happy News:

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/more-than-600000-vote-by-mail-ballots-received-in-florida-elections-offices/

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It’s that time of year again! We go through the entirety of General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Brad Wilcox was an idiot, Oaks was legalistic, and Bednar fawned over Ezra Taft Benson. But there were so many other talks that slipped through the cracks; that’s why we’re here. Yes it’s long, and yes it’s thorough. And now we don’t have to think about it for another 6 months!

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Links:

Exponent II article by Jen Morrison https://exponentii.org/blog/the-lgbtq-community-and-general-conference/

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Fear! What is it? How does it work? How can it be used to control us? That’s our main segment, fear and mind control. Then we dive into the next installment of Huge Niblet and Approaching Zion for 2 essays/talks about fear and Nibley’s envisioned perfect society. We wrap with happy news about coal power taking another hit.

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Show Notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ybzC2wP7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31wjVhCcI5Y&t=1704s

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7788451/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-main-ingredient/202004/fear-lifesaver-or-manipulator

https://lageneralista.com/how-fear-conflict-manipulate-you/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201012/in-groups-out-groups-and-the-psychology-crowds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearmongering

https://www.icip.cat/perlapau/en/article/fear-management-as-a-political-instrument/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-angry-therapist/201802/how-dissolve-fear-hurt-and-control

https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Lauerman2000.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

https://www.jstor.org/stable/i23562431

https://www.webmd.com/brain/amygdala-what-to-know

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/a-short-history-of-xenophobia#:~:text=Though%20xenophobia%20has%20been%20around,%22%20or%20%22fear%22).

https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/political-propaganda/43850

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

Sword of Laman:

Approaching Zion, by Hugh Nibley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

https://www.britannica.com/topic/gnosticism

Happy News:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq5e4n5z888t?post=asset%3A108a5e5f-b319-4599-b6c9-0ce31ae836a8#post

Kang, Lydia; Pedersen, Nate. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing Company.

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Shannon talks about books again! We are back on the subject of dystopian literature today and we deliberate over the 1992 book Children of Men, written by PD James. We also watched the movie based on the book and we talk about the differences and similarities to each. After that we share some happy news about nuclear power. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

The Children of Men, by PD James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men

PD James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._James

MOGP: Children of Men

Film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/?ref_=ttpl_ov

Where film is streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/children-of-men

Happy News: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html

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The weirdest chapter in Approaching Zion makes for a kinda’ weird A segment about intelligence and genius. We talk about the history of ranking intelligence and its influence on eugenics before discussing more modern conceptions of intelligence and genius from a nature AND nurture perspective. Then we get into Hugh Nibley’s eulogy of Donald Decker. It’s a standalone chapter, very different from every other chapter in Approaching Zion, and provides a wealth of interesting discussion, including why it was even included in the book to begin with. Then we wrap with happy news of Sweden hitting carbon emission targets ahead of schedule while boosting their economy.

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Utah Fungi Fest

https://wholesunwellness.com/utah-fungi-fest/

John Whitmer Historical Association Conference

https://www.jwha.info/

Show Notes:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/genius

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/10-child-prodigies.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton

https://archive.org/details/inquiriesintohu00galt/page/316/mode/2up?view=theater

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.222974/page/n5/mode/2up

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181994/

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24831-grey-matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_of_Albert_Einstein

Hedy Lamarr: https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/hedy-lamarr-golden-age-film-star-and-important-inventor

Sword of Laban:

Approaching Zion, by Hugh Nibley

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/a-midsummer-nights-dream/read/

“The Tempest” by William Shakespeare: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/the-tempest/read/

Happy News: https://www.dailyclimate.org/sweden-shows-how-to-slash-emissions-while-boosting-the-economy-2668966746.html

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Yes, it’s time to dissect this horrific document telegraphing the downfall of American democracy. We examine bits and pieces to see what the cabal of Christian nationalists want to turn the nation into over the next conservative presidency. Then we chat about the Mike Judge movie Idiocracy and it’s prophetic warnings. We wrap with happy news about the Harris-Walz campaign polling quite well among voters.

Show notes:

Are you registered to vote?!

https://www.vote.org/

Project 2025 links

https://www.project2025.org/

https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

MOGP: Idiocracy

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_Idiocra

Where it is streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/idiocracy

The Movie Hollywood Doesn’t Want You To See: Idiocracy, the feel-bad comedy of the year: https://slate.com/culture/2006/09/reviewing-mike-judge-s-idiocracy.html

Idiocracy: a disturbingly prophetic look at the future of America – and our era of stupidity: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jul/19/idiocracy-a-disturbingly-prophetic-look-at-the-future-of-america-and-our-era-of-stupidity

Happy News: Kamala Harris in the polls

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harris-trump-poll-latest-updates-2024-election-states-b2597984.html

Trump Vs. Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads In 2 Major Surveys—Up 6 Points In 1 Poll: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/08/18/trump-vs-harris-2024-polls-harris-tops-trump-in-two-major-surveys-up-6-points-in-one-poll/

2024 Kamala Harris v. Donald Trump battleground-state estimates: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2024-harris-trump-polling-michigan-wisconsin-arizona-nevada-north-carolina/

What the Latest Presidential Polls Say and What They Might Be Missing: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-the-latest-presidential-polls-say-and-what-they-might-be-missing

Trump vs. Harris: Latest polls show these 3 key issues could sway the election: https://www.silive.com/politics/2024/08/trump-vs-harris-recent-polls-show-economy-immigration-abortion-issues-could-decide-the-election.html

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Just that! We talk Sunstone because it’s the best Mormon Con around and we want to spread the good word! We discuss a few of our favorite sessions, some fascinating things we learned, and how Sunstone recharges our batteries in the Mormon studies space. Then we talk about Lego helping PTSD sufferers. We wrap with a brief chat about some changes we’re making to the Patreon page; long story short, now is a great time to sign up to financially support the podcast!

Happy News: https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/04/17/lego-trauma/

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We do a quick dive into moral agency and free agency in Mormon culture. Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have recently changed the definition of agency to suit their totalitarian needs. We explore the evolution of the phrase ‘free agency’ into ‘moral agency’ and springboard into a discussion about Ernest L. Wilkinson, the most influential BYU president in the institution’s history. After that we chat about The Last Temptation of Christ, a Scorsese film about a VERY human Jesus. We wrap with happy political news, adoring our new DNC candidate, Kamala Harris.

Don’t forget to check our Patreon page to find deets about our hangout during Sunstone on 8/03/2024!!!

Show notes:

“Using our free agency” Delbert Stapley, April General Conference 1975: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1975/04/using-our-free-agency?lang=eng

“Weightier Matters” Dallin Oaks, BYU Devotional Feb 1999, reprinted in Ensign March 2000: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2000/03/weightier-matters?lang=eng

Agency in Mormonism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_in_Mormonism

“On the wings of eagles” Dieter F Uchtdorf, Ensign July 2006: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2006/07/on-the-wings-of-eagles?lang=eng

“Free agency or moral agency” Ensign Oct 2014: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2014/10/free-agency-or-moral-agency?lang=eng

“Moral agency” D Todd Christofferson, BYU devotional Jan 2006 reprinted Ensign June 2009: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2009/06/moral-agency?lang=eng

Ernest Wilkinson links:

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ernest-l-wilkinson/america-1776-1976/

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N02_103.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_LWilkinson#citenote-FOOTNOTEBergera1993a94-19

Media of Great Price: The Last Temptation of Christ

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Happy News: Kamala Harris!!!

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Since this is another Huge Niblet episode, we decided to talk a little bit about philosophy. More importantly, we discuss Diogenes the Cynic and what the philosophical meaning of the word “cynic” is. Then we cover 3 chapters in Approaching Zion, all while keeping the question, “Was Hugh Nibley a modern day cynic?” in mind.

Show notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)#cite_ref-dudley5_8-0

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/740/the-life-of-diogenes-of-sinope-in-diogenes-laertiu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeCKQnWogxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EM_cfYcDjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xl_7Ivi2og

Sword of Laban:

Approaching Zion, by Hugh Nibley

Pages from Hopi History by Harry C James: https://archive.org/details/pagesfromhopihis0000jame

The False Gods We Worship, by Spencer W. Kimball: http://www.nauvoo.com/library/kimball-false.html

Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Peabody_Coal_controversy

Happy News: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/small-island-nations-maritime-court-pollution-ruling

In case you want to see where Shannon got the product placement information: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/mcdonalds-french-fries-truth/

Next Live Show! Book club meeting: July 22, 2024, 6:00 pm (MST)

Book: No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Faith Required by Brittney L. Hartley. Patrons come prepared to discuss the book!

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Happy Pride Month! To celebrate, we interviewed the amazing Shelly Johnson from Latter Day Lesbian podcast. She talked about the balance between navigating tough situations between the church’s control over family and resisting its influence in these family situations. In Media of Great Price, we discuss the book Closeted: My Life As a Gay BYU Student, by Jonathan Alder. After which we tell you about the new campaign headed up by David Tennant and Dannii Minogue to help Trans youth.

Show notes:

Shelly Johnson’s links:

Latter Day Lesbian website: https://www.latterdaylesbian.org/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/latterdayles

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2311239802538428/

Media of Great Price:

Closeted: My Life as a Gay BYU Student, by Jonathan Alder

Jonathan Alder’s website: https://jonathan-alder.com/

Happy News: https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/18/david-tennant-and-dannii-minogue-remind-trans-youth-they-are-loved-in-vital-new-campaign/

Next Live Show! Book club meeting: July 22, 2024, 6:00 pm (MST)

Book: No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Faith Required by Brittney L. Hartley. Patrons come prepared to discuss the book!

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Just that! Next episode we need to drop a few days late so we wanted to record a snippet to let everybody know why. We'll be dropping the next episode 2-3 days later than our regular schedule.

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Let's talk about the Law of Consecration. First we will start with the background leading into it, as well as what it means and how it’s applied in early magic and occult before Mormonism. Next, we cover two chapters in Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley that are on, you guessed it, the Law of Consecration. We end with some happy environmental news that should make everyone feel good. Enjoy!

Show notes:

Frederick G. Williams

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/f-g-williams-co-account-book-october-1833-november-1835/14#full-transcript#12663060396937193650

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/joseph-smith-and-the-1834-d-p-hurlbut-case/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/frederick-granger-williams#15314640672430267174

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-medical-practice-of-dr-frederick-g-williams/

https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/21463/frederick-g-williams/the-life-of-dr-frederick-g-williams-counselor-to-the-prophet-joseph-smith

Francis Barrett’s The Magus

https://archive.org/details/b24926747/page/34/mode/2up?view=theater

Law of Consecration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-By_W0b0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKQ9jNxm1zw

https://www.mormonwiki.com/Law_of_Consecration

https://askgramps.org/what-is-the-difference-between-communism-and-law-of-consecration/

https://www.fromthedesk.org/lets-talk-about-the-law-of-consecration/

Sword of Laban:

Approaching Zion, by Hugh Nibley

Pages from Hopi History by Harry C James: https://archive.org/details/pagesfromhopihis0000jame

The False Gods We Worship, by Spencer W. Kimball: http://www.nauvoo.com/library/kimball-false.html

Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Peabody_Coal_controversy

Happy News:

https://electrek.co/2024/06/05/us-solar-q1-2024/

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Come see Bryce on Aron Ra’s YouTube channel! He’s doing another titled Pearl of discount plastic Price. This link is for Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfZTnLYXsY8

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In 1977, a book was published that shocked much of the world. It was an almost instant bestseller and ended up being translated in 20 languages and has sold more than 21 million copies today. The book has been described as one of the most influential novels of the modern feminist movement. The book? The Women’s Room by Marilyn French. We will talk about the author, the book, and the impact it had.

Show Notes:

The Women’s Room by Marilyn French: can be found anywhere books are sold.

List of Feminist Literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feminist_literature

Marilyn French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_French

LA Times article when she died: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-05-me-marilyn-french5-story.html

NY Times review written by Anne Tyler when book first published: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/19/specials/tyler-french.html

You’ve come a long way, baby” published by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/sep/13/featuresreviews.guardianreview36

A History of Women in Higher Education: https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2021/03/21/history-women-higher-education/

Media of Great Price:

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/everything-everywhere-all-at-once

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_2

Happy News: 2 teens win $50,000 for ultrasound microplastic filtration device https://www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-fifty-thousand-for-ultrasound-microplastic-filtration-device-2024-5

Other Appearances:

Come see Bryce on Aron Ra’s YouTube channel! He’s doing another titled Pearl of discount plastic Price. This link is for Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfZTnLYXsY8

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Part 2 of Episode 150! Yay!! And now for something completely different. This episode is a bit of a departure from our regular show. We invite Alex Criddle and Cody Noconi, researchers into the psychedelic origins of Mormonism, to respond to the recent debate on the Mormon Book Reviews channel between ourselves and Mormon apologist, Brian Hales. Brian attempts to provide the apologetic response to the theory that Joseph Smith utilized psychedelics (entheogens) in the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to facilitate visionary experiences for the early Saints. Disinformation requires much greater effort than simply stating information so we do our best to debunk his debunking (rebunk the theory?). This one is a long haul so we split it into 2 episodes to make it a little more digestible.

Show notes:

Video version: https://youtu.be/3l0L1EHtQOo

Support our research and outreach: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions

Original here: Psychedelics & Early Mormonism Theory Brian Hales Responds on Mormon Book Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7J0y_cPpg

Further information:

“The Higher Powers of Man” - Frederick M. Smith was a prophet of the RLDS Mormons and paternal grandson of the founder Joseph Smith. In 1918 Frederick published this Ph.D. dissertation breaking down altered states of consciousness from an early psychologist’s perspective, specifically, religious states of ‘ecstacy’ as he called it. A lengthy chapter devoted to peyote is particularly worth reading.

“The Higher Powers: Fred M - Smith and the Peyote Ceremonies” - Shelby Barnes’ 1995 paper highlighting the curious psychedelic interests of Frederick M. Smith. While Barnes does not make any direct connections to Joseph Smith and psychedelics, Barnes does note that Frederick’s interests were an attempt to find the reliable keys to visionary revelation that his grandfather Joseph had demonstrated.

“Restoration and the Sacred Mushroom” - Dr. Robert Beckstead’s seminal research paper presented at the August 2007 Sunstone Symposium. Beckstead’s paper was the first to propose the possibility that Joseph Smith used psychedelics to facilitate visionary experiences.

“A 1920’s Harvard Psychedelic Circle with a Mormon Connection: Peyote Use amongst the Harvard Aesthetes” Alan Piper’s 2016 paper highlighting Frederick M. Smith’s interest in psychedelics, and how as a standing Mormon prophet Fred was funding a 1920s group of Harvard students with peyote.

“Revelation Through Hallucination: A discourse on the Joseph Smith-entheogen theory” - Bryce Blankenagel and Cody Noconi’s 2017 follow-up paper further explores the hypothesis originally put forward by Dr. Robert Beckstead a decade earlier.

“The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis” - Dr. Robert Beckstead, Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi, and Michael Winkelman’s paper published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies in June 2019. This was the first paper on the subject published in an academic journal.

“Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens” Brian Hales’ 2020 response paper to the one published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies. As a believing Mormon engaged in academic apologetics, Hales details what he perceives to be holes in the proposed hypothesis.

“The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs” - Cody Noconi’s book published in 2021.

“Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism (Part 1)” Alex Criddle's 2023 paper that was originally presented at the Forms of Psychedelic Life conference at UC Berkeley (April 14-15, 2023).

“Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism (Part 2)” A continuation of Alex Criddle’s 2023 paper.

“A Real Spiritual High: In Defense of Psychedelic Mysticism” An enlightening philosophical essay from Alex Criddle.

Bibliography and further reading:

The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
The Higher Powers of Man, by Frederick M. Smith
The Magus, by Francis Barrett
A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences, by Ebenezer Sibly
Hearts Made Glad: The Charges of Intemperance Against Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet, by Lamar Peterson
The Seven Sisters of Sleep, by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
The Encylopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, by Christian Rátsch
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, by Richard Evans Shultes, Albert Hoffman, and Christian Rátsch
The Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants, by Christian Rátsch
Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants, by Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Rátsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl
Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible, by Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen
Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult, by Chris Bennett
Cannabis: Lost Sacrament of the Ancient World, by Chris Bennett
Plants of the Devil, by Corinne Boyer
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name, by Brian C. Muraresku
Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft, and the Poison Path, by Daniel A. Schulke
Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism, by Daniel A. Schulke
The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens, by Richard Evans Shultes and Albert Hoffman
Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, by Richard Evans Shultes
Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia, by Richard Evans Shultes and Robert F. Raffauf
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline, Richard Evans Shultes and Siri von Reis
Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, by Jonathan Ott, R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, and Carl A. P. Ruck
Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History, by Jonathan Ott
Plant Intoxicants: a Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants, by Ernst Bibra and Jonathan Ott
Age of Entheogens & the Angels' Dictionary, by Jonathan Ott
Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia Divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants, by Jonathan Ott, Gianluca Toro, and Benjamin Thomas
The Road to Eleusis, by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith
Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, by William A. Richards
Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness, by Carl A.P. Ruck and Mark Alwin Hoffman
Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman and Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran
Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis, by Carl A.P. Ruck
The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Clark Heinrich, and Blaise Daniel Staples
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: Sacred Plants, Magical Practices, Ecstatic States, by Thomas Hatsis
The Witches’ Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic, by Thomas Hatsis
Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry, by PD Newman
Angels in Vermillion: The Philosophers’ Stone: From Dee to DMT, by PD Newman
Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine, by PD Newman
The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs, by Cody Noconi
Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy, by Clark Heinrich
Psychedelic Medicine, by Richard Miller
Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History, by Brian Jackson
The Religious Experience: It’s Production and Interpretation., by Timothy Leary
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, by Huston Smith
The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide, by James Fadiman
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, by Paul Stamets
Soma: divine mushroom of immortality, by Robert Gordon Wasson
The Philosophy of Natural Magic, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Dwellers on the Threshold; Or Magic and Magicians, with Some Illustrations of Human Error and Imposture, by John Maxwell
The History of Magic, by Eliphas Levi
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, by Albert Mackey
The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius F. Sachse
God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-Time Religion, by Don Lattin
The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs, byAlexander Dawson
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzne, and Richard Alpert
Entheogens and the Future of Religion, by Robert Forte
How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin
Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, by James B. Bakalar and Lester Grinspoon
The Peyote Cult, by Weston LaBarre
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, by Rick Stassman
A Hallucinogenic Tea Laced With Controversy, by Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill
Occurrence and Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin Alkaloids, by Jakob Kristinsson and Jørn Gry
Psychedelics Encyclopedia, by Peter G Stafford
Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain, by Nicolas Langlitz
Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History, by Robert W. Fuller
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic, by Mike Jay
DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible, by Rick Strassman
Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition, by G. William Barnar
Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk, by Don Lattin
The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible, by Dan Merkur
Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation and Mystical Experience, by Dan Merkur
LSD and the Divine Scientist: The Final Thoughts and Reflections of Albert Hofmann, by Albert Hoffman
The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley
Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy, by Don Lattin
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious, by Stanislav Grof
LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache
Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby and Rafael Chanchari Pizuri
Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon by Marlene Dobkin de Rios
The Antipodes of the Mind by Benny Shannon
Ancient Psychedelic Substances by Scott Fitzpatrick
Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion by Stan Grof, Huston Smith, and Albert Hofmann
The Shaman and Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms by Don Jose Campos
The Religion of Ayahuasca: The Teachings of the Church of Santo Daime by Alex Polari de Alverga

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Part 1 of Episode 150! Yay!! And now for something completely different. This episode is a bit of a departure from our regular show. We invite Alex Criddle and Cody Noconi, researchers into the psychedelic origins of Mormonism, to respond to the recent debate on the Mormon Book Reviews channel between ourselves and Mormon apologist, Brian Hales. Brian attempts to provide the apologetic response to the theory that Joseph Smith utilized psychedelics (entheogens) in the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to facilitate visionary experiences for the early Saints. Disinformation requires much greater effort than simply stating information so we do our best to debunk his debunking (rebunk the theory?). This one is a long haul so we split it into 2 episodes to make it a little more digestible.

Show notes:

Video version: https://youtu.be/3l0L1EHtQOo

Support our research and outreach: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions

Original here: Psychedelics & Early Mormonism Theory Brian Hales Responds on Mormon Book Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7J0y_cPpg

Further information:

“The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs” - Cody Noconi’s book published in 2021.

“Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism (Part 2)” A continuation of Alex Criddle’s 2023 paper.

“A Real Spiritual High: In Defense of Psychedelic Mysticism” An enlightening philosophical essay from Alex Criddle.

Bibliography and further reading:

The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
The Higher Powers of Man, by Frederick M. Smith
The Magus, by Francis Barrett
A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences, by Ebenezer Sibly
Hearts Made Glad: The Charges of Intemperance Against Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet, by Lamar Peterson
The Seven Sisters of Sleep, by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
The Encylopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, by Christian Rátsch
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, by Richard Evans Shultes, Albert Hoffman, and Christian Rátsch
The Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants, by Christian Rátsch
Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants, by Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Rátsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl
Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible, by Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen
Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult, by Chris Bennett
Cannabis: Lost Sacrament of the Ancient World, by Chris Bennett
Plants of the Devil, by Corinne Boyer
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name, by Brian C. Muraresku
Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft, and the Poison Path, by Daniel A. Schulke
Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism, by Daniel A. Schulke
The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens, by Richard Evans Shultes and Albert Hoffman
Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, by Richard Evans Shultes
Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia, by Richard Evans Shultes and Robert F. Raffauf
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline, Richard Evans Shultes and Siri von Reis
Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, by Jonathan Ott, R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, and Carl A. P. Ruck
Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History, by Jonathan Ott
Plant Intoxicants: a Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants, by Ernst Bibra and Jonathan Ott
Age of Entheogens & the Angels' Dictionary, by Jonathan Ott
Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia Divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants, by Jonathan Ott, Gianluca Toro, and Benjamin Thomas
The Road to Eleusis, by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith
Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, by William A. Richards
Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness, by Carl A.P. Ruck and Mark Alwin Hoffman
Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman and Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran
Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis, by Carl A.P. Ruck
The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Clark Heinrich, and Blaise Daniel Staples
Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: Sacred Plants, Magical Practices, Ecstatic States, by Thomas Hatsis
The Witches’ Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic, by Thomas Hatsis
Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry, by PD Newman
Angels in Vermillion: The Philosophers’ Stone: From Dee to DMT, by PD Newman
Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine, by PD Newman
The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs, by Cody Noconi
Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy, by Clark Heinrich
Psychedelic Medicine, by Richard Miller
Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History, by Brian Jackson
The Religious Experience: It’s Production and Interpretation., by Timothy Leary
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, by Huston Smith
The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide, by James Fadiman
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, by Paul Stamets
Soma: divine mushroom of immortality, by Robert Gordon Wasson
The Philosophy of Natural Magic, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Dwellers on the Threshold; Or Magic and Magicians, with Some Illustrations of Human Error and Imposture, by John Maxwell
The History of Magic, by Eliphas Levi
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, by Albert Mackey
The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius F. Sachse
God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-Time Religion, by Don Lattin
The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs, byAlexander Dawson
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzne, and Richard Alpert
Entheogens and the Future of Religion, by Robert Forte
How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin
Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, by James B. Bakalar and Lester Grinspoon
The Peyote Cult, by Weston LaBarre
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, by Rick Stassman
A Hallucinogenic Tea Laced With Controversy, by Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill
Occurrence and Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin Alkaloids, by Jakob Kristinsson and Jørn Gry
Psychedelics Encyclopedia, by Peter G Stafford
Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain, by Nicolas Langlitz
Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History, by Robert W. Fuller
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic, by Mike Jay
DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible, by Rick Strassman
Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition, by G. William Barnar
Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk, by Don Lattin
The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible, by Dan Merkur
Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation and Mystical Experience, by Dan Merkur
LSD and the Divine Scientist: The Final Thoughts and Reflections of Albert Hofmann, by Albert Hoffman
The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley
Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy, by Don Lattin
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious, by Stanislav Grof
LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache
Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby and Rafael Chanchari Pizuri
Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon by Marlene Dobkin de Rios
The Antipodes of the Mind by Benny Shannon
Ancient Psychedelic Substances by Scott Fitzpatrick
Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion by Stan Grof, Huston Smith, and Albert Hofmann
The Shaman and Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms by Don Jose Campos
The Religion of Ayahuasca: The Teachings of the Church of Santo Daime by Alex Polari de Alverga

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Every General Conference the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announces new temples. We walk through the history surrounding a few of the worldwide temples, along with some of the subtle international political maneuvers necessary to open the door to a new temple project. Wherever the church wants a temple, leaders must curry the favor of local and national politicians and regulators, doing so with no legal oversight. This two-way-street of backscratching opens the way for national security risks. After that we jump into Hugh Nibley’s Approaching Zion where he talks about gifts and laments how much people have to work for money when God provides everything we need. We round out with an update to the USDA guidelines for school food nutritional requirements being improved.

Show notes:

https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/6383

https://apnews.com/article/china-foreign-influence-utah-legislature-mormon-church-921526d0c8eda2732c361488d20dd1b4

Happy News:

https://apnews.com/article/school-meals-lunch-nutrition-sugar-sodium-aa17b295f959c72ef5c41ac3cd50e68d

Other Appearances:

Psychedelics & Early Mormonism Theory Brian Hales Responds on Mormon Book Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7J0y_cPpg

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It’s that time of year again. We go through all the talks from #GeneralConference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from top to bottom.

Show Notes:

EntheoMagus Documentary Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uHmmToTec

Documentary screenings: April 27-28, 2024 in Salt Lake City, UT At the Natural Law Apothecary. April 29, 2024 At Brewvies

May 11, 2024 Portland, OR at the Fifth Ave Cinema,

https://seerstonedproductions.com/ to get a ticket

Find Brandon Crockett here: https://seerstonedproductions.com/ through the contact form.

Find Alex Criddle here: https://alexcriddle.com/

Find Cody Noconi here: mormonsanddrugs@gmail.com

Naked Mormonism links to 2019 “Entheogenic Origins” paper:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MXig8juxUKfMkJAIoYDxB

https://open.spotify.com/episode/75DZPdYHHhXCXjpwwuNVkX

https://open.spotify.com/episode/79EGBuWTJTBdJrMcHzoBxJ

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We’re very excited to invite a panel onto the show to discuss the forthcoming documentary about psychedelics in early Mormonism, EntheoMagus! We’re joined by the creators, Brandon Crockett, Cody Noconi, and Alex Criddle, to discuss the documentary, its genesis, and the overall future of the Smith-entheogen theory. Two sets of screenings are coming in late April and early May so if you’re in the SL, UT or Portland, OR areas, mark your calendar and grab your tickets before they’re all gone. Admission is free and we’re looking for any and all feedback!

Show Notes:

EntheoMagus Documentary Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uHmmToTec

Naked Mormonism links to 2019 “Entheogenic Origins” paper:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MXig8juxUKfMkJAIoYDxB

https://open.spotify.com/episode/75DZPdYHHhXCXjpwwuNVkX

https://open.spotify.com/episode/79EGBuWTJTBdJrMcHzoBxJ

Contact Cody for a PDF or ebook of his book: mormonsanddrugs@gmail.com

Documentary screenings: April 27-28, 2024 in Salt Lake City, UT At the Natural Law Apothecary. April 29, 2024 At Brewvies

May 11, 2024 Portland, OR at the Fifth Ave Cinema,

https://seerstonedproductions.com/ to get a ticket

Find Brandon Crockett here: https://seerstonedproductions.com/ through the contact form.

Find Alex Criddle here: https://alexcriddle.com/

Find Cody Noconi here: mormonsanddrugs@gmail.com

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Mormon News Roundup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_XVScOBGKY

Latter-Daily Digest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Lu00FuBVU

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Scripture study!!! Well, sort of. We’re talking about the codenames contained in the Doctrine & Covenants sections 78, 82, 92, 96, 103, 104, and 105. Names like Gazelam, Ahashdah, Pelagoram, Mahalaleel, Mahemson, Shederlaomach, and (most importantly) Talents, all appear concerning the Secret Combination of the United Firm, or United Order. We discuss the history of the names, who’s involved, and why they appear in the first place. Huge thanks to Gene Judson of Latter-daily Digest for inviting us onto the show and suggesting the topic! After that we chat about a movie concerning a secret combination, Hot Fuzz! We wrap with some happy news about biodegradable micro-polymers hoping to replace plastics!

Show Notes:

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2203&context=byusq

https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/blog/ask-us-top-five-reference-questions-about-doctrine-and-covenants-publishing?lang=eng

https://comparedandc.com/

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5015/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_code_names_in_the_Doctrine_and_Covenants

Happy News: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/biodegradable-microplastics

Media of Great Price: Hot Fuzz: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/hot-fuzz

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EntheoMagus Documentary Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uHmmToTec

Mormon News Roundup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_XVScOBGKY

Latter-Daily Digest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Lu00FuBVU

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It’s time for our next installment of Huge Niblet’s Approaching Zion! He spends basically the entire section lamenting higher education and any information from sources other than the “p”rophet’s counsel. Does he want us to be zealous, or learned? Nobody knows! But before that we have a quick debrief and error correction from the last episode of Mormonism Live with Dan Vogel and Bryce discussing the Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship. Don’t miss the discussion linked below. Then we round out the episode with some happy news about Christians getting supermad about being held to the same legal standard as non-Christians.

Show Notes:

Mormonism Live Spalding discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwLZ68Z6LAI&t=6201s

ChurchisTrue authorship analysis:

https://wheatandtares.org/2020/04/23/book-of-mormon-wordprint-studies-in-2020/?fbclid=IwAR2KodKO9RYp69XCm0rtDCHkzSyd2i6Knmbu-asaDyFFnyNZvMIPGtf3Zb8

Happy News:

https://www.christianpost.com/news/canadian-bill-would-remove-religious-exemption-from-hate-speech.html

Sword of Laman:

https://archive.org/details/mindofman0000nige/mode/2up?view=theater

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We did it! We FINALLY did it! After years and years and years of requests from many listeners we have finally taken a look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s very first Sherlock Holmes book — A Study In Scarlet. We look at the time period Doyle was writing it and why he would take on Mormonism in his first book. We also take a look at the impact the story had on how Mormons were treated in film. And since that book is an outsider looking into Mormonism, we decided that for the Media of Great Price segment, we’d look at a film of an insider looking out of Mormonism. Yes, after many listener requests, we watched the shitshow that is the Mormon film 17 Miracles. Following that discussion we cleanse all palate’s with some good news out of the UK about leaving a treaty that allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments. Enjoy your listener request episode!

Show Notes:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27089071?read-now=1&seq=39#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.1.85?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

https://web.archive.org/web/20060923063139/http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/041094.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-was-arthur-conan-doyle-fascinated-mormons-180965353/

https://archive.org/details/StudyInScarlet/page/n167/mode/2up?q=danites

https://archive.org/details/cityofsaintsacro00burtuoft/page/xii/mode/2up?view=theater

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=mormonhistory

https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a/page/54/mode/2up?q=portray&view=theater

https://theeverydaycinephile.com/series/utah-in-film/the-beginnings-of-utah-film-history-the-mormon-exploitation-film/

https://theeverydaycinephile.com/series/utah-in-film/mormon-portrayals-in-classic-hollywood/

https://theeverydaycinephile.com/series/utah-in-film/celebrating-125-years-of-utah-and-the-movies/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_States

https://web.archive.org/web/20061020125538/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1980/2/1980_2_12.shtml

Media: 17 Miracles

Happy News: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/22/uk-quits-treaty-that-lets-fossil-fuel-firms-sue-governments-over-climate-policies

Kang, Lydia; Pedersen, Nate. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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It’s time to take a look at the early Utah economy as created by Brigham Young, a ruthless capitalist in his own right. We take a brief look at the beginnings of the California Gold Rush and how much the Mormons were involved, as well as the battle for control between Bloody Brigham and Samuel Brannan. Which also leads us into Part 1 of our deep dive into Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley. We discuss the first two essays and show the contortions Hugh Nibley has to make in order to present Bloody Brigham Young as a utopian. And to wash that image from your eyes, we will close out with some fantastic news about, of all things, the most recent Super Bowl and renewable energy. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

https://utahstories.com/2016/07/the-legend-of-brighams-gold/

https://rsc.byu.edu/california-saints/apostles-amid-gold-seekers-1849

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-samuel-brannan/

https://www.historynet.com/latter-day-scoundrel-sam-brannan/

https://historytogo.utah.gov/mining/

Sword of Laman:

chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://coast.noaa.gov/data/Documents/OceanLawSearch/Senate%20Hearings_Committee%20on%20Commerce%20Oct.%20&%20Nov.%201971.pdf

Happy News: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/energy/2024/02/10/super-bowl-58-100-percent-solar-powered/72538610007/

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The Community of Christ, formerly the RLDS church, has named its new president! We bring on guest Evan Sharley to help us navigate the history of the RLDS/CoC, the climate into which Stassi Cramm is ascending to the office of prophet/president, and the current issues within the Community of Christ which converge to give a bleak impression of its future. Then we review the movie Whale Rider, a heartfelt legend-exploration story about progress overcoming conservatism. Then we wrap with some happy news about OpenAI and ChatGPT.

Show Notes:

Gileriodekel.com - Evan's personal website

facebook.com/people/Heart-of-Discernment/100087683864565 - Heart of Discernment (progressive advocacy group)

Gileriodekel.com/Maxims - Maxims of the Mother (Evan's book gathering her thoughts and beliefs)

heartofdiscernment.com/polyamory-panel - Sunstone 2023 panel

heartofdiscernment.com/polyamory-primer - About polyamorous families

https://gileriodekel.com/books/

Media: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298228/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_2

Happy News: https://thetechbasic.com/openai-seeks-to-combat-the-use-of-chatgpt-for-political-purposes-in-the-u-s-elections/

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Today we take a look at the man who is inarguably THE best apologist of the mormon church. Yes, we are talking about Hugh Nibley.

Show Notes:

Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life by Boyd Peterson

Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith by Martha Beck

Hugh Nibley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Nibley

Hugh Nibley Biography: https://interpreterfoundation.org/bibliographies/hugh-w-nibley/biography/

Charles Nibley (Grandfather): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Nibley

Lives of the Saints: Mormonism’s Troubled Legacy: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/21/lives-of-the-saints

Faith of An Observer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xw_0_zZDVE

Hugh Nibley, 94; Mormon Scholar, Professor and Author: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-02-me-nibley2-story.html

Hugh Nibley WIll Never Happen Again: http://archive.timesandseasons.org/2021/10/hugh-nibley-will-never-happen-again/

No Ma’am That’s Not History

http://www.sainesburyproject.com/mormonstuff/No%20Ma'am%20That's%20Not%20History.pdf

Sunstone article about Fawn Brodie

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/034-32-37.pdf

Happy News:

https://www.ketv.com/amp/article/plattsmouth-voters-recall-school-board-member/46333101?fbclid=IwAR0UisXhFIHr4GpcpM1eDH_qU_VLl_2HBVaAKyQuFBi43Mnx5-T3pb3kJwQ

https://www.ketv.com/article/highway-administration-banning-funny-electronic-messages-signs/46383174

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Newest Apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Patrick Kearon, joins replaces M. Russel Ballard in the highest leadership body of the Mormon hierarchy. Who is he, from where does he come (professionally and otherwise), and what does his calling mean for the future of the wealthiest religion in the world? We do an apostolic profile with what publicly-available information can be found about Patrick Kearon, and his wife Jennifer Hulme-Kearon. After that we’re joined by Jen from ExMo Candle Co. to discuss the winner in the Glass Box War for the official Destroying Angel candle. Then we chat about Thank You For Smoking, a movie about propaganda and the power of argumentation through the lens of Big Tobacco (™) and finally we wrap with good news about an across-the-board cost of living increase for minimum wage workers.

Show Notes:

Jennifer and Patrick Kearon’s talks/speeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCcX_BrGqRI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs1zqc9-HzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lImAFNL_Wi4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2onAy0uKVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3YJ2F8xMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNdB7jrBMxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF-z2kAgW8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDH1KeSf5B8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ktVGHMyLU

Richard G. Scott infamous victims clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXR4XiA5eoc

Other Links

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/18rcnwd/2023_year_in_review_the_recap_that_tscc_very_much/

https://www.deseret.com/2023/4/12/23680418/arizona-supreme-court-upholds-latter-day-saint-priest-penitent-privilege-in-sex-abuse-case#:~:text=The%20Arizona%20Supreme%20Court%20has,from%20a%20confidential%20spiritual%20confession.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/02/13/jana-riess-more-jesus-less/

https://floodlit.org/a/a519/

https://universe.byu.edu/2023/05/24/ex-byu-professor-admits-to-three-counts-of-sexual-battery-in-no-contest-plea/

https://religionnews.com/2023/12/11/new-mormon-apostle-is-a-bridge-builder-and-a-brit/

https://religionnews.com/2015/10/05/naming-of-3-new-mormon-apostles-raises-questions-about-race-international-diversity/

https://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2023/10/25/church-president-probabilities-changes-with-the-death-of-one-q15-member/

https://www.ensign.edu/elder-patrick-kearon

https://www.consultantscout.org/company-kearon-hulme-communications-in-clevedon-60343

https://clarity-project.co.uk/company/06078311

https://leedaily.com/2023/12/09/who-is-patrick-kearon-wife/

https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660

https://floodlit.org/a/a720/

https://gazette.com/news/courts/preliminary-hearing-waived-for-former-deputy-district-attorney-accused-of-child-sexual-assault/article_e4c450c0-87f0-11ee-81e7-1f88731633a9.html

https://apnews.com/article/jodi-hildebrandt-ruby-franke-child-abuse-0604b1f95978abdd11a341cb19088fba

https://www.deseret.com/2023/9/18/23880008/tim-ballard-responds-to-latter-day-saint-church-statement-operation-underground-railroad

https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-therapist-scott-owen-arrested-alleged-sexual-abuse-patients

https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-investigation-child-sex-abuse-9c301f750725c0f06344f948690caf16

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2023/12/14/23993671/how-the-newest-latter-day-saint-apostle-ties-a-church-history-record-for-the-quorum-of-the-twelve

https://www.byui.edu/radio/lds-news/elder-patrick-kearon-called-as-new-apostle-for-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints

https://www.standard.net/news/local/2023/dec/08/lds-church-calls-new-apostle-to-serve-in-quorum-of-the-twelve/

https://www.deseret.com/2023/12/8/23993667/new-apostle-called-elder-patrick-kearon-joins-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles

Media: Thank You for Smoking: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1

Happy News: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/26/1221521157/minimum-wage-states-raises-jan-1

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WAHOO! It’s that time of year again. Time for our last episode of the year because we’ve finished off everything for the year and we want to have some fun. And that fun is BOOKS, of course! Well, this time books, movies, TV shows, and video games. We each brought three for you. Shannon brought three books to movie adaptations and Bryce brought three games to movie/TV series adaptations. We had some fun and hope you do too! And Happy Holidays to all of you!

Show Notes:

First Blood: Book by David Morrell.

Doom

Arcane A League of Legends Story

Coldest City graphic novel by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart/Atomic Blonde:

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves:

How to Train Your Dragon: Book by Cressida Cowell

‘Destroying Angel’ Candle Scent War!!!

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That’s right! We’re done!! But we have to get through the final 3 chapters before rounding it out and providing our conclusions. The new authoritative history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is mostly what we expected; New Mormon History is dead and Saints: The Standard of Truth telegraphs an era of academic retrenchment. These chapters cover the assassination of Hyrum and Joseph Smith in Carthage and the immediate aftermath and succession crisis to get the church into the hands of Bloody Brigham Young. This has been a big project so if you’re a patron of the show who supported the project, check your feed for a special post for my entire 200+ pages of show notes generated for these episodes. Apologies in advance for all the typos. #TeamBryce, signing off.

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Show Notes:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-declarations-martial-law-united-states

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorr_Rebellion

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Public_Address_of_Lieutenant_General_Joseph_Smith.jpg

https://archive.org/details/ahistoryillinoi00shiegoog/page/n358/mode/2up?view=theater

http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/HStout.html

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/samuel-harrison-smith

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/hosea-stout

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3162&context=byusq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_(Bickertonite)

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V12N02_39.pdf

https://scblog.lib.byu.edu/2014/09/14/battle-of-nauvoo/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43201320

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16noj_RBgUPc1pgFuGzp7sL8Gn3TvXNKr

Our Live Show Q & A was November 27, 2023. You can see it on Bryce Blankenagel’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bryceblankenagel7707

Other Appearances:

She Became Visible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2andBqOPcM

Almost Awakened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ziJKR_D6s

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We’re in tunnel-vision mode until we finish this propagandistic pile of rubbish. Today is the penultimate episode of our long-form review of Saints. It begins in the spring of 1842 with John C. Bennett’s violent departure from Nauvoo and ends with the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor. Lots of things happen in this 2-year period and the book ignores most of them so let’s dive in. We do finish the episode with a tiny bit of happy news to keep us all positive as well as an update about the ongoing ExMo Candle Co Destroying Angel battle for the best scent. Patreon listeners get a tease for our next book review so be sure to tune in to the exclusive feed!

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Show Notes:

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-expositor-7-june-1844/4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Law_(Latter_Day_Saints)

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/2#full-transcript

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/il/sign1844.htm#0522

https://www.toddmcompton.com/WWfamilies.htm

https://byustudies.byu.edu/online-chapters/volume-5-chapter-24/

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/plural-wives-overview/maria-lawrence/

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/plural-wives-overview/emily-dow-partridge/

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/plural-wives-overview/sarah-ann-whitney/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-newel-k-elizabeth-ann-smith-and-sarah-ann-whitney-18-august-1842/1#full-transcript

https://archive.org/details/historysaints00benngoog/page/n95/mode/2up?view=theater&q=rockwell

https://www.ldsdiscussions.com/happiness

https://files.lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/articles/rockymountainsa00sten.pdf

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/john-c-bennett-and-spiritual-wifery/#back_ajs-fn-id_16-8646

Happy News: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/waste-plastic-eu-ban-exports-non-oecd-countries

Next Live Show Q & A!! November 27, 2023, 6:00 PM (MDT) on Bryce Blankenagel’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bryceblankenagel7707

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She Became Visible:

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Almost Awakened:

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AT LONG LAST! We’re joined by Jen from ExMo Candle Co. to talk all about her experience and what led her to processing and healing from the Mormon cult through blasphemous candles! She tells of her story with the church, attending a Mormon university, depression and self-destruction caused by shame through bishop’s interviews and “repentance”, and how she navigated her way out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of course, she also announces the debut of a new candle… well TWO candles to be more accurate. After that we talk Death to Smoochy, a Robin Williams and Edward Norton flick directed by Danny DeVito. We wrap with happy news about rebuilding underwater reefs and a bit of listener mail.

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Show Notes:

https://www.yearofpolygamy.com/

MOGP:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266452/

Happy News:

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/a45585627/marine-biologists-doubted-him-now-hes-revolutionizing-coral-reef-restoration/

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It’s that time of year! SpooOOOoooOOOookey stories! First we talk about a hotbed of paranormal interdimensional activity in the heart of Mormon country; Skinwalker Ranch! After that we deep dive into the sci-fi classic Frankenstein. We wrap with a quick reminder to get out and vote along with catching up on listener mail!

Show Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Burns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_S._Taylor

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecbard

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/Soil%20Electrical%20Conductivity.pdf

https://www.reddit.com/r/sdr/comments/v4577h/16ghz_signals_a_simple_question_skinwalker/

https://www.utah.com/articles/post/what-is-skinwalker-ranch-and-whats-really-going-on-there

https://www.iflscience.com/skinwalker-ranch-bastion-for-the-paranormal-or-hoax-69969

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/claims-about-pentagon-ufo-program-how-much-is-true/

https://www.hullingermortuary.com/obituaries/junior-hicks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch

https://www.deseret.com/1996/6/30/19251541/frequent-fliers

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2316/ML23165A245.pdf

MOGP:

Mary Shelley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

Frankenstein Castle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_Castle

Luigi Galvani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani

Giovanni Aldini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Aldini

Lord Byron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

Happy News:

Just get out and vote, y’all!

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Our review of General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for October 2023 Sunday sessions.

Yes, our review of GenCon was longer than the actual GenCon. Thank you to all the wonderful folks who made this project happen! The last nearly 2 hours is patreon extras for you all you fantastic financial supporters of the show.

Show Notes:

Links:

Brad: https://twitter.com/ComfytheGhost

V (Friend from Serbia): @NoChillAuntie

Aurora: aurorarosea.com

Alexis: https://www.youtube.com/@UtahSustainGardening

Julie’s Twitter - @juliebr83

Tanner’s blog - https://diligenceovertime.blogspot.com/

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Our review of General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for October 2023 Saturday sessions.

Yes, our review of GenCon was longer than the actual GenCon.

Show Notes:

Links:

Brad: https://twitter.com/ComfytheGhost

V (Friend from Serbia): @NoChillAuntie

Aurora: aurorarosea.com

Alexis: https://www.youtube.com/@UtahSustainGardening

Julie’s Twitter - @juliebr83

Tanner’s blog - https://diligenceovertime.blogspot.com/

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It’s the listener show! Today we bring on a group of cohosts to attempt the impossible task of filling Shannon’s shoes while she continues to recover. Tanner presents a segment on the Kinderhook plates, drawing larger implications for how it disproves other Mormon scripture “translation” claims. Then Will takes us on a journey through reconciling his relationship with his mom through LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) and making his own “translation” of the Kinderhook plates. Then Julie gives us a rundown on the new Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. After that we’re joined by Friend from Serbia (V) to discuss the ongoing situation involving Connexions and its leaders, Jodi Hildebrant and Ruby Franke. We round out the show with some happy climate news based in the U.S.

Show Notes:

Will’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheSeerStoners / Tail end of Heavenly Mother LARP - https://twitter.com/TheSeerStoners/status/1576569834384809984

Ryan Gosling Talent Show at a Mormon church 1991 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJQvXCoNDzM

Julie’s Twitter - @juliebr83

Tanner’s blog - https://diligenceovertime.blogspot.com/

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Runnin solo today! While Shannon continues to recover we’re going to take the opportunity to do a segment that sent Shan to hospital in the first place! That’s right, we’re back in Saints: The Standard of Truth, the new, authorized history of Joseph Smith and his early religious movement. That’s it. That’s all we’re doing this episode! We talk missionaries in Europe, political machinations, President Martin Van Buren, polygamy, the endowment ceremony, Freemasonry, The Book of Abraham, so many other gems! This period of April 1839-April 1842 is one of the most complicated and adaptive periods of Joseph’s ministry and we hold on with the edge of our finger tips as the book rips us through it, hoping we aren’t stopping to smell the shitpiles the book conspicuously ignores along the journey.

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Show Notes:

Warsaw Signal Archive (ThomASS Sharp) http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/il/sign1842.htm

Nauvoo City Council Minute Book

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-city-council-minute-book-1841-1845/19

Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/plural-wives-overview/mary-elizabeth-rollins/

Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/translation-and-historicity-of-the-book-of-abraham?lang=eng

Discussions over Joseph “turning the key” to the Relief Society

https://exponentii.org/blog/daughters-in-my-kingdom-something-better-the-female-relief-society-of-nauvoo-chapter-2/

https://wheatandtares.org/2021/08/02/do-women-have-priesthood-keys/

https://exponentii.org/blog/daughters-in-my-kingdom-something-better-the-female-relief-society-of-nauvoo-chapter-2/

https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/part-2/2-2#inline-note86

https://bycommonconsent.com/2015/03/17/establishment-of-the-relief-society/

RS Minute Book by Eliza R. Snow

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/10#full-transcript

Mormon News Roundup Ep 76

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BtfLgWkJB4

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We have a bit of an unconventional episode this time around. We invite Aron Ra onto the show to discuss a recent debate between Bryce and Kyle Adams, an apologist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We play a few clips, have a few laughs, and chat about the sport of debate in general. This episode is a rare exception because we know it isn’t everybody’s favorite thing; we’ll be getting back to regular programming soon! :-)

Show Notes:

Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@AronRa

See Aron Ra debate live in Houston, TX Sept 16th 2023 https://www.eventcreate.com/e/mddliveandinperson

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Continuing our media episodes, this time we’re taking aim at Mormon movies! Specific Mormon movies though! Movies made by Mormons for the purpose of gaining converts. These are just a small handful of the movies that missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints show in the homes of investigators in order to teach certain aspects of doctrine or articles of Mormon faith. After that we wrap with some good news that's HUGE in the realm of climate and green energy!

Show Notes:

Hard to FInd Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@HardtoFindMormonVideos/videos

Vincenzo Di Francesca: https://archive.org/details/improvementera7105unse/page/n8/mode/1up

Happy News: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-a-first-wind-and-solar-generated-more-power-than-coal-in-u-s/

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Just as the title states! After two motherlode history episodes, we’re doing an all media episode! Shannon walks us through the history of feminist literature from the earliest surviving scraps of parchment to a recent 2022 best-seller about women turning into dragons! Join us to learn about everything in between! After that we discuss a dam removal project that’s showing great promise as an environmental remediation project.

Show notes:

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-shattering-myth-men-hunters-women.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protofeminism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feminist_literature

Sappho:

https://www.charlottemuseum.co.nz/post/who-was-sappho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Giovanni Boccaccio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Mulieribus_Claris

Christine de Pisan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_de_Pizan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_City_of_Ladies

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41298737

Jane Anger:

https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/anger/protection/protection.html

Aphra Behn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroonoko

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rover_(play)

Mary Astell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Astell

https://iep.utm.edu/mary-astell/

https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2018/06/03/mary-astells-a-serious-proposal-to-the-ladies-1694/

Blue Stockings Society:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Stockings_Society

Judith Sargent Murray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Sargent_Murray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Equality_of_the_Sexes

Mary Wollstonecraft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman

https://www.britannica.com/topic/A-Vindication-of-the-Rights-of-Woman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Godwin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_the_Author_of_A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman

Virginia Woolf:

https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf

Beatrice Webb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Men_and_Women:_Should_They_be_Equal%3F

Maya Angelou:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maya-angelou

Recommended book list

Nonfiction and poetry:

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee
Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third Word Feminism by Uma Narayan
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
I know My Name by Chanel Miller
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Women, Culture & Politics by Angela Y. Davis
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
The Bridge Called My Back by Multiple Writers
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

Fiction, for the most part:

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
Women who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Happy News: https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dams-removal-tribes-restoration-seeds-1bffbd1c351992f0f164d81d92a81b47

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The conclusion of the Missouri-Mormon war of 1838! Two events which are incredibly infamous in Mormon history, the Haun’s Mill Massacre, and the Liberty Jail stint, feature throughout this episode. But we discuss the context that led to the circumstances and the criminal proceedings that resulted from the war once Joseph Smith and the Mormons had surrendered. While certain figures are vilified for turning against the prophet, we spend a bit more time with those individuals to see what they had to say for themselves. The section ends with the Mormon resettlement in Quincy, Illinois and Joseph escaping prison to live the rest of his days a fugitive of murder, arson, robbery, larceny, and treason. Then we wrap with some good news about consumption, or TB!

Show notes:

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-thomas-b-marsh-15-february-1838/2

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/doctrine-and-covenants-1835/95

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-12-january-1838-a/1

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/minute-book-2/99

Pick up Stephen LeSueur’s book here! https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danite_Manifesto

http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/BFJohnson.html

http://www.withoutend.org/missouri-sow-cannon-folis-folly

https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~livcomo/letters/mormon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Extermination_Order

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/oliver-cowdery-letter-to-warren-a-cowdery-olivers-brother-january-21-1838/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-1-letter-to-oliver-cowdery-and-others-circa-17-june-1838/1

https://user.xmission.com/~research/mormonpdf/article4.pdf

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/rigd1838.htm

https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/findingaids/rg005-01

http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1840s/1841Misr.htm

https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/archives/resources/findingaids/fulltext/b02_f25_f01.pdf

https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/archives/resources/findingaids/fulltext/b02_f24_f01.pdf

https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/archives/resources/findingaids/fulltext/b02_f24_f15-16.pdf

https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/archives/resources/findingaids/fulltext/b02_f25_f03-06.pdf

https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/archives/resources/findingaids/fulltext/b47_f7_f03-04.pdf

NaMo Links:

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-40-second-mass-exodus-plus-marie-bom/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-41-gloria-ecclesia-fili-raptus-nominee-deorum/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-42-schism-grenade-john-hamer/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-43-red-sermon/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-44-battle-begins/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-45-militant-seekers-truth/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-46-mo-conquest-mythicist-milwaukee-pt2/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-47-executive-order-atrocity-andrew-torrez/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-48-hauns-mill-massacre-listen-ep-48/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-49-profit-high-treason/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-50-mo-justice-mo-peace/

Happy News: Johnson & Johnson Letting Nonprofit Distribute Life-Saving Generic Tuberculosis Drug—Greatly Expanding Access In Poorer Countries: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/07/13/johnson--johnson-letting-nonprofit-distribute-life-saving-generic-tuberculosis-drug-greatly-expanding-access-in-poorer-countries/?sh=58a324e03dcd

John Green videos:

Barely Contained Rage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5SW0h4

The Good News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywz5xYuNPo

Stop TB Partnership non-profit: https://www.stoptb.org/

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This episode is basically a standalone Saints episode! Why? You may ask. Because the book covers a massive and controversial time of early Mormonism, when Joseph Smith incited a civil war and lost. We compare the Saints book to the documents of the time and see how it shakes out with the following issues: excommunications of Oliver Cowdery, David and John Whitmer, and William W. Phelps, land disputes, The Salt Sermon, the Danites, the Army of Israel, the July 4th Oration, the Gallatin election day brawl, the siege of De Witt, the Mormon depredations and raiding of militia supply depots and stealing a cannon, the Battle of Crooked River, David W. Patten (Captian Fearnought) and his glorious blaze, Thomas B. Marsh and milk strippings, and the Mormon Extermination Order, along with some of the militia movements along the way. There’s more to the story but that’s a little teaser for this reading of Saints: The Standard of Truth, the official history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then we wrap with some happy news about an activist sinking some marble statues!

Show notes:

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-thomas-b-marsh-15-february-1838/2

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/doctrine-and-covenants-1835/95

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-12-january-1838-a/1

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/minute-book-2/99

Pick up Stephen LeSueur’s book here! https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danite_Manifesto

http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/BFJohnson.html

http://www.withoutend.org/missouri-sow-cannon-folis-folly

https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~livcomo/letters/mormon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Extermination_Order

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/oliver-cowdery-letter-to-warren-a-cowdery-olivers-brother-january-21-1838/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-1-letter-to-oliver-cowdery-and-others-circa-17-june-1838/1

https://user.xmission.com/~research/mormonpdf/article4.pdf

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/rigd1838.htm

https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/findingaids/rg005-01

NaMo links:

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-40-second-mass-exodus-plus-marie-bom/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-41-gloria-ecclesia-fili-raptus-nominee-deorum/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-42-schism-grenade-john-hamer/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-43-red-sermon/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-44-battle-begins/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-45-militant-seekers-truth/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-46-mo-conquest-mythicist-milwaukee-pt2/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-47-executive-order-atrocity-andrew-torrez/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-48-hauns-mill-massacre-listen-ep-48/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-49-profit-high-treason/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-50-mo-justice-mo-peace/

Happy News: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/17/underwater-museum-how-paolo-the-fisherman-made-the-meds-strangest-sight

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Happy PRIDE month, y’all! The main segment for today breaks down the history of the Children’s Primary Program and its first president, Louie “Ma” Felt and her lifelong partner, May Anderson. Then we discuss a sex scandal in the form of a gay witch hunt in the 1890s spearheaded by Rudger Clawson. The case is far more complicated than first blush would indicate and it serves as a case study for how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always had fucked up priorities when it comes to sex, gender, and relationships. After that we talk about To Won Foo, Thanks for Everything, a drag queen movie featuring Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes. Then we wrap with a story from Uruguay about proper use for N*zi memorabilia.

Show notes:

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/f8f0d3d6-8a5d-405a-b8b1-049808d50452/0/40

http://www.connellodonovan.com/abom.html#BM34

http://www.connellodonovan.com/hunsaker.html

https://lattergaystories.org/

MOGP:

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114682/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1

Happy News: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230616-uruguay-to-melt-nazi-bronze-eagle-recast-it-as-peace-dove

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Another installment of cult mind control and Saints: The Standard of Truth! We start with discussing Thought control in Hassan’s BITE model of undue influence. That springs us into the period of 1836-1838 of early Mormon history from the church’s new “history” book. The Kirtland Safety Society, the uprising of Warren Parrish, a heist in Salem, Fanny Alger, so many controversies it’s hard to keep them all straight! Speaking of not keeping things straight, happy PRIDE month! Our happy news covers a LGBTQIAP+ play that was shut down by bigots but made a triumphant return in spite of the bigots!

Saints Links: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letterbook-2/69 https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/account-of-hearing-between-circa-3-and-9-june-1837-state-of-ohio-v-js-for-threatening-to-take-life/1 Live hangout 6/12 at 6 p.m. Mountain Time!!! Find it on the Naked Mormonism YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bryceblankenagel7707/streams

Happy News: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dU4WbfUKQFMJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/31/marian-school-theater-lgbtq-indiana/&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk≷=us

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The Plan of Salvation, Plan of Happiness, MORMON HEAVEN! We take a look at the doctrine and teachings compared to the text of Doctrine & Covenants 76. This revelation was given in the early years of Joseph Smith’s religious movement and the theology evolved significantly over time. Rusty’s heaven looks a bit different. After that we chat about Noah, a unique take on the Biblical flood story. We wrap with talking about a superhero compendium book!

Happy News: https://www.them.us/story/the-dc-book-of-pride-jadzia-axelrod-interview

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Behavior control from Steven Hassan’s BITE model of cult mind control. We discuss how Mormonism controls our behavior today and historically. That leads us into our next installment of Saints: The Standard of Truth review. The book covers 1832-1836 from the tarring and feathering of Joseph Smith to the Kirtland Temple Dedication ceremony. Then we wrap with some happy news about organizations fighting against book bans in schools and public libraries!

Show Notes:

Steven Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan

Freedom of Mind Resource Center: https://freedomofmind.com/

BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/

What to Know About the Psychology of Cults: https://www.onlinepsychologydegree.info/what-to-know-about-the-psychology-of-cults/

Happy News:

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/freedomreadstatement

Mormon, Magic and Psychedelic Symposium in SLC 5/20/2023!!!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-the-psychedelic-history-of-mormonism-tickets-622985204517?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

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Mormons on Mushrooms: https://www.mormonsonmushrooms.com/podcast/episode/7dc1c6bf/roughly-stoned-bryce-blankenagel-part-1-naked-mormonism-the-glass-box

Check out Joseph Smith vs Joseph’s Myth, where Aron and Bryce discuss the Joseph Smith story:

https://youtu.be/oD2Xhg6F-Js

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EXMO LEX WahOOOOO!!! We finally find a proper excuse to invite Exmo Lex onto the show to discuss ExMormon tiktok and social media. She shares a bit of her story and experiences online while discussing the future of Mormon-related social media. After that we chat about a whole bunch of media in aggregate for Media of Great Price segment. We wrap the show with some happy news about innovation in the space of battery-density and how it bodes well for slowing climate change.

Happy News:

https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/

Mormon, Magic and Psychedelic Symposium in SLC 5/20/2023!!!

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Mormons on Mushrooms: https://www.mormonsonmushrooms.com/podcast/episode/7dc1c6bf/roughly-stoned-bryce-blankenagel-part-1-naked-mormonism-the-glass-box

Check out Joseph Smith vs Joseph’s Myth, where Aron and Bryce discuss the Joseph Smith story:

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Yes, it’s that time of year again. We discuss General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in granular detail. Every single talk, every slur, every logical fallacy, all contained herewith. Enjoy! If you can, that is.

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With a new year under the control of Revision Rusty M. Nailz we have a new Temple Endowment for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! What’s new? What’s not new?! Why did they make the changes?!?! We dive deep into the new endowment with comparisons from older versions to see what’s slipped through the cracks about the new Mormon ritual. After that we review a movie with another secret combination as its center, Angels and Demons, based on the Dan Brown novel. Then we wrap with happy news about the Bible possibly being banned in Utah public schools.

Happy news: https://www.standard.net/news/education/2023/mar/24/davis-county-critic-seeks-bible-ban-in-swipe-at-utah-school-library-policy/

https://www.davis.k12.ut.us/academics/library/library

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Next on the block is the “Emotion” component of Steven Hassan’s BITE model of cult mind control. This launches us into the next installment of Saints: The Standard of Truth, covering the visionary era of the early Mormon movement and the move from New York to Ohio. Sidney Rigdon and Parley P. Pratt are introduced, as are the Partridge family, including 7 and 11 year-old Emily and Eliza. The book casually introduces the subject of polygamy, presumably to smooth over the subject in the coming chapters when the practice becomes more controversial and widespread. We end the segment discussing Ezra Booth and his expose letters after he was excommunicated from the church for speaking out against Joseph Smith. The episode ends with some good news from Minnesota about transgender health care!

Show Notes:

6 Highly Effective Tactics Cult leaders Use to Build a Raving Audience: https://bettermarketing.pub/6-highly-effective-tactics-cult-leaders-use-to-build-a-raving-audience-ff3111c4bbf3

Steven Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan

Freedom of Mind Resource Center: https://freedomofmind.com/

BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/

Books:

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults, by Steven Hassan

Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs, by Steven Hassan

Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, by Steven Hassan

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steven Hassan

Saints links:

Ezra Booth letters

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ezra_Booth_letters

Jacob 2 “exception clause” links

https://oneclimbs.com/2017/01/05/a-proposed-reinterpretation-of-jacob-230/

https://bookofmormonism.com/2022/01/31/jacob-230-raising-up-seed-and-the-polygamy-question/

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/archive/publications/contradiction_between_jacob_and_dc_132

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/book-of-mormon-seminary-teacher-manual-2017/jacob/lesson-44-jacob-2-12-35?lang=eng

Happy news:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/transgender-health-care-now-protected-minnesota/story?id=97739240

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This is kind of an unusual episode. Shannon’s still in recovery so Bryce is making a solo run for better or worse (definitely the latter). We run through the stories of some early African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their stories are remarkable, their struggles real, their histories vague but inspiring. We try to place their stories within the larger context of slavery in Utah and what life might have been like at the time. Thank you to Century of Black Mormons project at the University of Utah for creating a wonderful resource with biographies of these historical figures. After that, we go through the 2000 movie, Remember the Titans (mighty, mighty, ti-tans!) and discuss how this football movie isn’t really a football movie at all, but a movie about racism. Then we wrap with happy news about the recent SEC filing which charged the Mormon church with hiding assets and unfair investment practices.

Show Notes:

Century of Black Mormons

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/welcome

Black Saints and the Priesthood

https://mormonr.org/qnas/BT5Sk/black_saints_and_the_priesthood_brigham_young_early_utah_era/research

Besty Brown Fluellen

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/fluellen-betsy-brown#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-848%2C-36%2C2224%2C837

John Priesly

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/priesly-john#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2836%2C-127%2C7382%2C2799

Edward “Ned” Leggroan

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/leggroan-edward-ned#?#_ftn16&c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-253%2C-19%2C1084%2C411

Nancy Smith

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/smith-nancy#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1998%2C-132%2C6955%2C2662

Isaac Lewis Manning

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/manning-isaac-lewis#?#_ftn21&c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1381%2C-96%2C5053%2C1934

Utah 1852 slave code

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/primary-documents-african-american-history/utah-slave-code-1852/

History of slave codes

https://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/histContextsE.htm#:~:text=There%20were%20numerous%20restrictions%20to,or%20possess%20%E2%80%9Cinflammatory%E2%80%9D%20literature.

More slave codes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes

The Sounds of Slavery by T. David Franklin; Featured public domain slave songs and hollers

https://archive.org/details/TDavidFranklinTheSoundsofSlavery/02__Levee_Holler.mp3

MOGP:

Remember the Titans

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210945/

Happy news:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35

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CULTS! Well, one specifically. We start this episode with a brief rundown of Steven Hassan’s BITE model of cult mind control. We hone in on the element of “Information” control within the larger BITE model to discuss how important controlling information is to the longevity of any cult. That leads us into our longer segment where we finally begin our review of Saints: The Standard of Truth, the new authoritative history book of early Mormonism published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Part 1 discusses the early history of the Joseph Smith family, the supernatural visitations, the acquisition of the Gold Plates, and the authorship process of the Book of Mormon. Does this book cross the threshold of being New Mormon History, or is it simply a more sophisticated treatment of the same Old Mormon History? Yes, this segment is long, but mining mountains for minute morsels is a tedious task. We wrap with some happy news about repurposing defunct oil wells for green energy.

Show Notes:

Steven Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan

Robert Jay Lifton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jay_Lifton

Freedom of Mind Resource Center: https://freedomofmind.com/

BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/

Books:

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults, by Steven Hassan

Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs, by Steven Hassan

Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, by Steven Hassan

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steven Hassan

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China by Robert Jay Lifton

Saints links:

https://archive.org/details/originriseprogre00tuck/page/n39/mode/2up?q=beer

http://www.fullerconsideration.com/sources.php?cat=GP-T26

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2002/the-1826-trial-of-joseph-smith

http://www.mormonthink.com/witnessesweb.htm#harris

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/37b7b91c-4148-45d6-8f32-df4acf06fe99/0/7

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225502?seq=12

https://archive.org/details/mormonismunvaile00howe/page/270/mode/2up?q=anthon

https://archive.org/details/LucysBook/page/n439/mode/2up

http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/harrisinterviewtiffanysmonthly.htm

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1376&context=jbms

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Who even is Lavina Fielding Anderson?! In this classic deep dive we examine the life of Lavina Fielding Anderson and her contributions to the Mormon academic field. Her story serves as a case study of how far individuals can pressure the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the inside before the institution’s immune system responds. She’s a powerhouse of a scholar, a pioneer in feminist Mormon studies, and an advocate for those who’ve survived ecclesiastical abuse. The Mormon Alliance was the organization Lavina formed with Janice Allred to collect and publish survivor’s stories and advocate on their behalf. Both suffered gruelling and abusive disciplinary processes for their advocacy attempting to reform Mormon practices and policies. History repeats itself and the timeline of Protect LDS Children and Sam Young was telegraphed by the experiences of Anderson, Allred, and the Mormon Alliance. We finish the episode with a review of Erin Brockovich and a happy environmental news item from Liverpool.

Show Notes:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45228305?seq=10#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/issues/130.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20120215064851/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/092-65-79.pdf

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/lavina-fielding-anderson-mercy-without-end-toward-a-more-inclusive-church/

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-lds-intellectual-community-and-church-leadership-a-contemporary-chronology/#pdf-wrap

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/spring-1993/

https://web.archive.org/web/20080123061329/http://mormonalliance.org/casereports/casereports.htm

https://mormon-alliance.org/SiteMap.htm

https://mormon-alliance.org/definitions.htm

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_Church_discipline/Scholars/Does_the_Church_excommunicate_historians

MOGP: Erin Brockovich: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt

Hinkley Groundwater Contamination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contamination

Erin Brockovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich

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It’s finally time for our long-awaited deep dive into New Mormon History. Put simply, NMH was a movement within the history department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to confront controversial history and turn away from the apologetic and polemical Old Mormon History. The leading figure, Leonard Arrington, was the right person for the job. But, he didn’t have the business chops to fight forces much larger than him in the form of Mark E. Petersen, Ezra Taft Benson, and Boyd K. Packer. The main segment is long as we chronicle the rise, fall, and resurrection of the New Mormon History movement and how the Joseph Smith Papers Project, as well as Saints: The Standard of Truth, are both the results of this movement pushing the church for academic legitimacy. In retrospect, Arrington is vindicated as an intellectual fighting for intellectual integrity while Packer spins in his grave. Then we discuss Finding Forrester as another example of the never-ending fight for academic honesty. We wrap with happy news of an invention set to tackle microplastics in our oceans.

New Mormon History:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mormon_history#CITEREFQuinn1992

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45228326?seq=19#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=mormonhistory

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/fall-1983/

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/4836228f-48c3-447f-bcb9-9c2a35496898/0/56

https://www.librarything.com/work/7542838

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1724&context=byusq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Morgan

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V09N01_36.pdf

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2055&context=byusq

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_history/Boyd_K._Packer%27s_talk:_%22The_Mantle_is_Far,_Far_Greater_Than_the_Intellect%22#cite_ref-3

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V16N03_11.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/034-32-37.pdf

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/joseph-smith-and-the-beginnings-of-mormonism_richard-l-bushman/413785/#edition=3500292&idiq=1723338

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_R._Dyer

http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no115.htm

Extra thanks to Brian Buchanan for helping piece together the main segment. Find him here: https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/

https://sunstone.org/sunstone-history-podcast/

MOGP: Finding Forrester https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk

Where it is streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/finding-forrester

Happy news: Princeton engineers developed new way to remove microplastics from water: https://scitechdaily.com/99-efficiency-princeton-engineers-have-developed-a-new-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-water/

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Education is a battleground for the hearts and minds of the future. The Church Education System of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1980, but the history of education in Mormonism is far more complex. We do a deep dive into how the CES started and the sordid pasts of the various educational institutions attached to the Church at some point. There’s also a tangential deep dive into seminary and the legal sphere of “released time” classes carving out exemptions where religion can be taught in public schools. Then we discuss the modern battlefield of public education by reviewing the 2012 documentary, The Revisionaries, focused on public school text books and the fight at the Texas Board of Education. We round out with a quick overview of the best news of our lifetime, recommendations by the Jan 6th Committee to criminally indict the former POTUS for the violent insurrection at the federal capitol building in January 2021.

CES history links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Educational_System#cite_ref-E2014_3-2

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2184&context=etd&httpsredir=1&referer=

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-education/about/ces-administration?lang=eng

https://www.mormonwiki.com/Church_Educational_System

https://mormonfaq.com/mormon-culture/about-education

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-founding-of-the-l-d-s-institutes-of-religion/

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T._Kingsbury#cite_note-10

https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/8306/aaup-1915-declaration-of-principles

https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/University%20of%20Utah%20-%20December%201915.pdf

https://archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/1915-a-year-that-changed-governance-tenure-and-academic-freedom-at-the-university-of-utah/

http://ldspioneerarchitecture.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/EoM/id/5597

https://releasedtime.org

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/884/released-time#:~:text=Released%20time%20programs%20allow%20for,hours%20to%20receive%20religious%20instruction.

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/435/everson-v-board-of-education

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/27/1131880548/football-coach-prayers-reinstated#:~:text=Bremerton%20High%20School.-,His%20practice%20of%20praying%20on%20the%20field%20sparked%20a%20court,religious%20expression%20in%20public%20schools.&text=The%20coach's%20insistence%20on%20praying,victory%20on%20religious%20freedom%20grounds.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1992/10/to-be-learned-is-good-if?lang=eng

CES Purges:

https://www.deseret.com/1995/3/30/19167147/feminist-club-at-byu-loses-its-voice-for-now

https://universe.byu.edu/1996/03/14/voice-leader-chats/

https://universe.byu.edu/2001/06/01/feminist-voice-active-at-byu/

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/02/us/as-mormon-church-grows-so-does-dissent-from-feminists-and-scholars.html

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/11/28/byu-i-instructors-fired-failing/

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/ecclesiastical-leader-questions-new-ces-hires

MOGP: Revisionaries (2012): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091398/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

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Happy news: Jan 6th committee filed report https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144489935/january-6-committee-full-report-release

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=23515535-jan-6-select-committee-final-r

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Guess what! This is the end of our deep dive into The Millennial Messiah, by Bruce R McConkie! It’s party time! We go over the last 4 chapters and then discuss our conclusion. Then, we will watch the 2010 movie Legion, with a mormon lens because it works WAY too well with that. Then we’ll finish off the episode with some good news about a BYU protest!

MOGP: Legion (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038686/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

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What even is the Law of Consecration?! Well it’s a covenant that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make during the temple endowment ceremony, but what actually is it? We go through a deep dive of the Law of Consecration, discuss a bit of its history, and pontificate about it’s impact and possible future use in Mormon culture today. After that we review Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper, a wonderful dystopian fantasy novel with some hard-hitting social commentary we interpret through a Mormon lens. We round out the episode by congratulating LeVar Burton receiving long-deserved recognition. Patrons: we debrief/deconstruct the recent debate between Bryce and a certain litigious individual.

Show Notes:

All Things are the Lord’s: The Law of Consecration in the Doctrine and Covenants by Steven Harper

https://rsc.byu.edu/doctrine-covenants-revelations-context/all-things-are-lords-law-consecration-doctrine-covenants

List of codenames in D&C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_code_names_in_the_Doctrine_and_Covenants

Thou Art the Man Newel K. Whitney in Ohio by Mark Staker

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/thou-art-the-man-newel-k-whitney-in-ohio/#footnote-206

MOGP:

Happy News:

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Our long-awaited deep-dive deconstruction of Adam-God Doctrine, or theory, depending on who you ask. What is it? Who taught it? Why is it controversial? How is it treated by the corporate Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today? ‘As we are, god once was, as god is we may someday become’ is a tried-and-true Mormon doctrine and the Adam-Eve-Gods Doctrine fits perfectly within this logical loop. As the title of the doctrine alludes to, Heavenly Father took the form of Adam with one of his wives, Heavenly Mother Eve, to create and populate the earth, after which he went to Adam-ondi-Ahman, in Missouri, where he ascended back to godhood to continue his charge from Elohim to create worlds without end. Then we dive into the nearly-final segment of Bruce R. McConkie’s Millennial Messiah. McCranky loves the idea of fire burning the sinners and his charged language justifies the physical suffering and burning of anybody who isn’t Mormon or living its dictates. Further, when Jesus returns to reign in the millennium he will rule with an iron rod; the future dystopian Mormon theocracy is a dangerous and unforgiving land. How all these teachings pervade Mormon culture to this day can be seen by Mormons periodically carrying out the will of gods by causing the suffering and death of sinners and those who oppose the kingdom of God. Mormonism creates dangerous men, yet the church never suffers the repurcussions. We round out the episode with some happy news about cannabis legislation heading to President Biden’s desk.

Show Notes:

FairLatterDaySaints Adam-God theory

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_doctrine/Repudiated_concepts/Adam-God_theory

Brigham Young’s Teachings on Adam by Matthew B. Brown (2009)

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2009_Brigham_Youngs_Teachings_On_Adam.pdf

JS On the Plurality of Gods

http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/smithpluralityofgodssermon.htm

JS King Follett Discourse

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/King_Follett_Discourse

The Evening and the Morning Star May 1834 article about Adam

https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/5884

The Position of Adam in Latter-day Scripture and Theology by Rodney Turner (1952)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150328213004/http://mormonbookshelf.com/wiki/The_Position_of_Adam_in_Latter-day_Scripture_and_Theology/Introduction

Council of Fifty Minutes

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/389#full-1189529701479850981

Nauvoo Expositor

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nauvoo_Expositor

The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake by John W. Gunnison (1852)

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbc0001/2019/2019gen35226/2019gen35226.pdf

Women of Mormondom by Edward Tullidge (1877)

http://ia800907.us.archive.org/31/items/womenofmormondom00tullrich/womenofmormondom00tullrich.pdf

Brigham Young first public speech on Adam-God Doctrine April 1852 General Conference

https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/8

Celestial Marriage by Orson Pratt Oct 1852 General Conference

https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/9

Our Own Liahona by Spencer W. Kimball (1978 denunciation of Adam-God Doctrine)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/11/our-own-liahona?lang=eng

Quotes on Adam-God Doctrine from various church leaders

http://www.mormonthink.com/QUOTES/adamgod.htm

Adam-God resource repository

https://www.adamgod.com/

The Adam-God Doctrine by David John Buerger (Spring 1982)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225052?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents

Happy News:

https://themarijuanaherald.com/2022/11/u-s-senate-passes-marijuana-and-cannabidiol-research-expansion-act-sends-it-to-president-biden/

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History comes to life! Today we interview Mark Elwood, the creator of the graphic novel series The Glass Looker. These novels seek to illustrate Joseph Smith’s magic and treasure digging in beautiful and colorful relief. The book just dropped so grab yourself a copy! After that we continue talking fictionalized history with the movie Ford v Ferrari and we wrap the show with some happy news about republicans losing a book ban fight.

Show Notes:

The Glass Looker https://theglasslooker.com/

MOGP: Ford v Ferrari: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Happy News: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/republican-book-banning-attempt-defeated-community-stands-lgbtq-people/

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It’s time for the next installment of The Millennial Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie! Before that, we talk about Zion. What was it, what did/does it mean to various faith traditions, and what’s the Mormon slant of Zion? McCranky spends this entire episode discussing how incredibly awesome the future Mormon theocracy, Zion, the New Jerusalem, built upon the American continent, is going to be! We wrap up with some happy news from Salt Lake City attempting to mitigate homelessness in Zion.

Show Notes:

Repository of LDS Zion resources

https://www.margiesmessages.com/zionnew.html

Bruce R. McConkie Come: Let Israel Build Zion

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1977/04/come-let-israel-build-zion?lang=eng

Spencer W. Kimball Becoming the Pure in Heart

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1978/04/becoming-the-pure-in-heart?lang=eng

Harold B. Lee Strengthen the Stakes of Zion

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1973/04/strengthen-the-stakes-of-zion?lang=eng

Todd Christofferson Come to Zion

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1973/04/strengthen-the-stakes-of-zion?lang=eng

David A. Bednar Put On Thy Strength, O Zion

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1973/04/strengthen-the-stakes-of-zion?lang=eng

David J. Larsen Enoch and the City of Zion; Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/enoch-and-the-city-of-zion-can-an-entire-community-ascend-to-heaven/

Mormonwiki: City of Enoch

https://www.mormonwiki.com/City_of_Enoch

EoM: Zion

https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Zion

Mormonwiki: Zion

https://www.mormonwiki.com/Zion

MOGP:

Steel Meets Steel — 10 Years of Glory, by Hammerfall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiVsLtR7sKs

Ethnic Cleansing: https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/ethnic-cleansing

Armageddon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon

Tel Megiddo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo

Valley of Jezreel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley

Gog and Magog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

Henry V, Act IV, scene i, William Shakespeare: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/henryv.4.1.html

Hymn Before Action 1890, Rudyard Kipling: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_action.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_Before_Action

Happy News:

https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/salt-lake-city-council-votes-to-move-forward-with-tiny-home-village-to-house-homeless

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Mormon Book Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS35GXy3XRY

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It’s that time again! Every 6 months we review every talk given over the pulpit in General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This Mormon Con sees the best and brightest in Mormon hierarchy speaking in 10-30 minute segments, accompanied by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. In total, we review all 10 hours of talks “to see what slipped through the cracks”!

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We both appeared on Jimmy Snow first ever Exmormon General Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXZyjyI1EQ

Bryce was on The Scathing Atheist 503: Dead End Job Edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJqethHMMo

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What does Joseph Smith’s book say about Joseph Smith’s church? We take a look into the Book of Mormon to see what it has to say about the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The BoM has a lot to say about organized, wealthy religion so how does a religion based on it accumulate so much wealth into its organization? After that we discuss the SMBC book Religion; Ruining Everything since 4004 B.C. and discuss a recent speech by Biden about abortion health care.

MOGP:

Religion: Ruining Everything Since 4004 B.C. A collection of religious themed comics by, Zach Weinersmith. (SMBC): https://hivemill.com/products/religion-ruining-everything

The Holy Bible: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness: https://hivemill.com/collections/smbc/products/pocket-bible

Happy News: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/biden-promises-to-codify-roe-if-two-more-democrats-are-elected-to-the-senate.html

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Girl’s Camp! We talk about the history of how it came to be, the experiences of many folks who attended, and discuss the evolution of the program since its inception. What happens there? Who gets (has) to attend? Why don’t young women get to do the same kind of stuff Scouts do? Tune in and all answers shall be revealed! After that we review the most recent Tarzan movie and wrap the show with a new paper proposed as forthcoming EU legislation to reduce slave labor.

Show links:

History of LDS Youth Programs: https://juvenileinstructor.org/history-of-lds-youth-programs/

Changes made in 1993: https://www.thechurchnews.com/1993/2/20/23258666/new-young-women-camp-manual-written-for-today

Young Women of Zion: An Organizational History: https://rsc.byu.edu/firm-foundation/young-women-zion-organizational-history

Young Women Organization Timeline: https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/training/library/young-women-organization/young-women-organization-timeline

A Century and Counting: How Girl’s Camp Has (and Hasn’t) changed Since 1912: https://utahvalley360.com/2016/07/15/century-counting-girls-camp-changed-since-1912/

Changes made in 2018: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/changes-to-young-women-camp-detailed-in-new-guide?lang=eng

Camp Dress codes: https://www.the-exponent.com/oh-those-girls-camp-dress-codes/

Camp (1972 article in New era) https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1972/05/camp?lang=eng

True Stories of Girl’s Camp: https://bycommonconsent.com/2006/05/23/true-stories-of-girls-camp/

Facebook post w/camp songs https://www.facebook.com/lindsay.park.7/posts/pfbid02UMwoYTduaZrNMLbit3bYykYYFErwBZaGueiSueioseUGwafvidXo54vEdDL6z4wpl?notif_id=1662764709416934 MOGP:

The Legend of Tarzan: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918940/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1

King Leopold II of Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium

Force Publique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique

Congo Free State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

George Washington Williams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Williams

Happy News: https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/exclusive-eu-seeks-ban-products-made-with-forced-labour-document-2022-09-09/

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What a fun grouping of topics! We do a relatively long deep-dive into the history of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has dealt with organic evolution and how the stance has changed over time. Of course, the Book of Mormon is predicated on eugenics, as is the history of Utah, so we also include this more controversial subject as it is related. Then we dive into Bruce R. McConkie’s Millennial Messiah where he continues to harp on his favorite topic, the end times. Turns out the book title is very revealing of the subject matter. We wrap the episode with a new press release from the White House about government-funded research.

Show links:

Improvement Era article (Official publication on organic evolution) https://archive.org/details/improvementera28011unse/page/1088/mode/2up

Organic Evolution (current Church official) https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/organic-evolution?lang=eng&fbclid=IwAR2JSViKt8X5b58lHFTGwP223jzjn9pm5Vi9Y1j2kz94QC8bjCHNrhuPpMk

Pew Research interview with Russel M. Nelson https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2007/05/16/in-focus-mormonism-in-modern-america/

Ben Spackman analysis of Official Church essay https://benspackman.com/2022/06/an-annotated-version-of-the-new-church-history-evolution-topic/?fbclid=IwAR2AhOens_H9jWsIZVzw9YZCro0syh7TsHuZ-G4C44BX9p46z2lMDwRs_CY

How Darwin’s Book holds up 150 years later https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-darwins-descent-man-holds-150-years-after-publication-180977091/

Descent of Man http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F937.1&viewtype=text&pageseq=1

Orson Pratt’s statement possibly favorable to theological evolution https://bycommonconsent.com/2015/04/30/orson-pratt-and-god-emergence-as-fundamental-mormonism/

Man; His Origin and Destiny by Joseph Fielding Smith http://www.sainesburyproject.com/mormonstuff/Man%20His%20Origin%20and%20Destiny.pdf

“BYU Packet” https://biology.byu.edu/00000172-29e6-d079-ab7e-69efe5890000/byu-evolution-packet

Mormons and Genetics by Mary V. Rorty Sunstone 2003 https://web.stanford.edu/~mvr2j/mormons.html

Millennial Messiah

Blood moon: https://www.space.com/39471-what-is-a-blood-moon.html

Babylon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

Babylonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia

Dragonheart (metal music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMaLY2wF94c

Happy News: Delivering equitable access to all government funded research to the public: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/breakthroughs-for-alldelivering-equitable-access-to-americas-research/

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Numerology 101! What is it? How many is it? Why is it? We do a quick deep-dive into the esoteric field of numerology and how it influenced Joseph Smith and early Mormonism. We even find out our own numbers just for the fun of it! After that we talk about The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey in a very non-Jim Carrey role, witnessing him driven to madness by, you guessed it, the number 23. We round out with a brief signal boost of the recent sex abuse scandal with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Which sex abuse scandal specifically? Any of them because they never end.

Show links:

Number Symbolism https://www.britannica.com/topic/number-symbolism

Pythagorean numerology https://www.dcode.fr/pythagorean-numerology

Kabbalah numerology http://numerology.center/kabbalah_numerology.php

Chaldean numerology https://numerologytoolbox.com/numerology/chaldean-numerology/

The Philosophy of Numbers by L. Dow. Balliett https://archive.org/details/philosophyofnum00ball/page/126/mode/2up

Happy News:

https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660

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We’ve discussed Mormon endtimes on numerous episodes, but this time we will also discuss some results. Mormonism breeds dangerous men; men who believe the end of the world is coming. Bruce R. McConkie loved the idea of the endtimes. He wrote about it so much that we decided to cover what Mormon Doctrine says are the signs of the endtimes. Then, because we know you just can’t get enough of McCrankie, Shannon will give the 5th segment of Millennial Messiah which, surprise surprise, is all about the death and destruction that is going to happen in the second coming. Then we actually will end the episode leaving you with a feeling that the world isn’t completely on fire with some really cool news about green infrastructure. So fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!

Show links:

Mormon Endtimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming_in_Mormonism

https://mormonbeliefs.org/mormon_beliefs/mormon-doctrine-salvation/do-mormons-believe-in-the-end-times/

https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/04/28/no-george-washington-didnt-believe-in-the-mormon-god/#wrap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/08/576502739/judge-dismisses-federal-case-against-cliven-bundy-and-sons-bars-retrial

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bundy-mistrial-2018-story.html

https://www.yearofpolygamy.com/uncategorized/episode-169-conversations-across-the-aisle-with-bryan-hyde/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-appoints-dayle-elieson-interim-united-states-attorney

Happy News: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/green-infrastructure-benefit-frontline-communities

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Finally, the long-awaited deep-dive of Paul H. Dunn! Dunn was a General Authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a consummate liar. He tweaked or fabricated dozens of stories with a spiritual bend which caused Mormons to feel the spirit that what he was saying was true. He also committed financial fraud by cashing in on his high church rank and grandiose public personality. When all this came to light, shelves of believing Mormons came crashing down worldwide, and he was sent to a pasture up north by the apostles. He was, however, successfully insulated by church leadership from any legal repercussions. After that we review Plan 10 From Outer Space, a 90s Mormon sci-fi flick! We round out the episode highlighting the newly created 3-digit number for mental health resources.

Show links:

Oral traditions: https://ich.unesco.org/en/oral-traditions-and-expressions-00053

Douglas Stringfellow: https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-controversial-career-of-Representative-Douglas-Stringfellow-of-Utah/

Paul H Dunn:

Lying for the Lord: The Paul H Dunn Stories, by Lynn H. Packer

What Hast Thou Dunn? By Jerald and Sandra Tanner

FAIR response: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_church_leadership/Criticisms/Paul_H._Dunn%27s_baseball_and_war_stories

Newspaper reports on Dunn:

Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/1991/2/16/18906053/arizona-paper-alleges-many-stories-were-exaggerated

Sunstone: https://ia804506.us.archive.org/6/items/storiesof_Dunn/Dunn.pdf

The only clip from Plan 10 you NEED to watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BA3SO1sokA

Happy News: https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-hotline-988-ac50f02b74b8b89be5592be3f3605ff5

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Yes, it’s time for our next installment of the Millennial Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie. Before that, however, we’re doing a deep-dive into the history of the BYU center in Jerusalem. We discuss how it came to be, the hurdles overcome, and the strange and mysterious ways in which Mormon God works. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints punched far above its weight class in the sphere of international politics to shoehorn this place onto the Mount of Olives! Then we round out the episode with some happy news about scrap wood being used more sustainably.

Show Links:

Interview of David Galbraith

https://rsc.byu.edu/vol-9-no-1-2008/jerusalem-center-near-eastern-studies-reflections-modern-pioneer

Orson Hyde: A Life of Lessons Learned by Roy Huff

https://rsc.byu.edu/vol-3-no-2-2002/orson-hyde-life-lessons-learned

Eliza R. Snow 1875 Jerusalem trip journal

https://archive.org/details/palestietourutah00smit/page/260/mode/2up

The Haifa German Cemetary and the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center

https://rsc.byu.edu/missionarys-story/haifa-german-cemetery-brigham-young-university-jerusalem-center

Mormon Missionary Miracle in Jerusalem

https://historyofmormonism.com/2012/10/11/mormon-missionary-miracle-in-jerusalem/

In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde by Blair Van Dyke, LaMar Berrett

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/in-the-footsteps-of-orson-hyde-subsequent-dedications-of-the-holy-land/

Provo becomes Sister City

https://www.newspapers.com/image/469494086/?terms=byu%20jerusalem&match=1

Couple Donates $267,992 to BYU Jerusalem Center

https://www.newspapers.com/image/286499702/?terms=byu%20jerusalem&match=1

Israeli Jews Fight New Mormon Center by William Claiborne 12/24/1985

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/12/24/israeli-jews-fight-new-mormon-center/2d7fe78d-4cac-4ed9-ab41-b76a69fb56d9/?fbclid=IwAR0IEoaFWdjjI0CsF3_7DJZ-G9v45a3EcaZieJrt9xYhb_OehR6xCYtudBw

Three sets of brothers…

https://www.thechurchnews.com/archives/2012-11-03/three-sets-of-brothers-serve-in-six-different-temples-as-temple-presidents-48850

Happy News:

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EPISODE 100!!! We’re celebrating this achievement with a different style of show. We’re talking all about hymns and music. What does music do to our brains? How can it be used for benevolent or, conversely, malevolent, purposes? Why is music easier to remember than just about any other media we create or consume? We also discuss some history of hymns and folk music in the Mormon culture and tradition as markers for significant events or used to ensure conformity or battle public perceptions. We round out the episode with some parodies of hymns we wrote to help break the spell!

Show Links:

Hymn Parodies by Bryce & Shannon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1095C1WDVWjOU0I2LVa7bm0Ob-r9e3EORPqJavZd7gd4/edit?usp=sharing

We were on episode #333 of Serious Inquiries Only!: https://seriouspod.com/

Music, Rhythm, and the Brain: https://brainworldmagazine.com/music-rhythm-brain/

The Power of Music: MInd Control, by Rhythmic Sound: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-power-of-music-mind-control-by-rhythmic-sound/

Why Does Music Give You Chills? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51745/why-does-music-give-us-chills

How Cult Leaders Use Music for Mind Control: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/206497/cult-music-mind-control-brainwash

Genetically Modified Skeptic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7btz0ocXDeg

Your Brain on Music: A Popular class breaks down how our brain responds to music: https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/your-brain-on-music/

Your Brain on Music | Alan Harvey | TEDxPerth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFFwy5fwYI

What the Latter-Day Saint Hymn ‘Love at Home’ has to do with Blackface: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/06/12/what-latter-day-saint/

Bryce’s links:

Mormon Songs by Levette J. Davidson

https://www.jstor.org/stable/537180

History of hymns

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/hymns?lang=eng

Emma Smith hymn compilation revelation

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-july-1830-c-dc-25/2

Emma 1835 hymnal

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/collection-of-sacred-hymns-1835/8

1880s Psalmody

https://archive.org/details/latterdaysaintsp00unse/page/n90/mode/2up?view=theater

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I'm uploading this as a token of gratitude for all you listeners showing up for 100 episodes! Plus, people have been asking for our review on the main feed but UtBoH is just too big a topic for the regular show, so here's a standalone episode taken from our YouTube broadcast!

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This time around we're reviewing the new Hulu series, Under the Banner of Heaven, based on Jon Krakauer's book by the same title. SPOILER ALERT!!!

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Hey it’s Pride Month! We all hear about Prop 8 and how the LDS church paid a boatload of money to make it go their way. We thought the actions the church took in the past which led to these actions needed to be brought to light. Then, in our Media section, Shannon brings you a large list of books you should look into written by Mary Renault. And finally, we bring you some excellent news out of New York

Show notes:

Links

Memories of Being Gay at BYU by Earl Kofoed

https://web.archive.org/web/20060617213245/http://www.affirmation.org/memorial/memories_of_being_gay.shtml

LGBTQIAP+ history in America

https://www.lgbtqhistory.org/lgbt-rights-timeline-in-american-history/

Chronology of Events Patriarch Joseph Fielding Smith’s Homosexuality

https://web.archive.org/web/20100122080551/http://www.affirmation.org/memorial/joseph_fielding_smith.shtml

Queering the LDS Archive by K. Mohrman

https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/article-abstract/2015/122/143/22262/Queering-the-LDS-Archive?redirectedFrom=fulltext

History of Sodomy Laws

https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/history/history.htm#:~:text=All%20states%20had%20laws%20against,effect%20in%201962%20without%20fanfare.

LDS Officials Seek to Join Hawaii Suit

https://www.deseret.com/1995/4/14/19169785/3-lds-officials-seek-to-join-hawaii-suit

Mormon campaign against gay marriage in Alaska

https://www.lds-mormon.com/gaylds-shtml/

The Mormon Proposition by Doe Daughtrey

https://www3.trincoll.edu/csrpl/RINVol11No3/Mormon%20Proposition.htm

LDS Cash Carries Gay-Marriage Fight

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96367929/lds-cash-carries-gay-marriage-fight/

Improvement Era 113th semiannual conference report

https://archive.org/details/improvementera4511unse/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater

Prelude to the National “Defense of Marriage” Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities by D. Michael Quinn

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45226709?seq=11

Single men a “menace to society”?

https://www.ldsliving.com/are-single-lds-men-really-a-menace-to-society/s/76642

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Mary Renault: A Biography, by Daniel Sweetman

Books and series by Mary Renault:

Purposes of Love

The Friendly Young Ladies

Kind are her Answers

Return to Night

North Face

The Charioteer

The Last of the WIne

The Lion in the Gateway

The Nature of Alexander (Non-fiction)

The Mask of Apollo

The Praise Singer

(Theseus series) The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea

(Alexander the Great series) Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games

Happy News: “X” Gender Markers Coming to New York State IDs This June: https://www.them.us/story/x-gender-markers-coming-to-new-york-state-ids-this-june

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The end is neigh at hand, or so Abrahamic believers have been saying for over 2000 years. Mormonism has its own special brand of the apocalypse and endtimes. This launches us into the next installment of the Millennial Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie. He talks about the endtimes as well, along with the role of the Book of Mormon. The final chapter we cover he leans deep into the white supremacy of Mormon theology. Be prepared, because we weren’t. Then we wrap the show with an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune from a long-time listener and patron, Dave Winslow, about the problems with violent rhetoric coming from the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Be sure to tune in to our next live hangout on June 6th at 6 p.m. MST wherein we’ll review Under the Banner of Heaven. Supporters at Patreon gain access to join the conversation on air!

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Links:

View of the Hebrews by Ethan Smith 1823 https://archive.org/details/ViewOfTheHebrews1823EthanSmith/page/n81/mode/2up?view=theater

Hope of Israel by Manasseh Ben Israel 1650 http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1650hope.htm

Stick of Joseph flyer Dec 1844 https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-2-document-3-stick-of-joseph-1844/1

Happy News: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/05/19/dave-winslow-lds-leaders/

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We examine the fascinating era of the 1970s feminist Mormon history studies. We focus on the central figure of Claudia Bushman and her push to build a non-existent world within Mormon studies. A group of east-coast women scholars began publishing controversial history in the form of Mormon Sisters and the resulting Exponent II quarterly journal. The official church historian, Leonard J. Arrington, encouraged and assisted where he could, but the General Authorities, especially Ezra Taft Benson, Mark E. Petersen, and Boyd K. Packer, couldn’t handle the prospect of women scholars publishing in academic journals about Mormon women’s issues. The retaliation, blacklisting, and PR fights quickly followed Claudia Bushman, Marueen Ursenbach Beecher, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as they worked to advance the burgeoning field. After that we review the movie/book Hidden Figures and discuss the new White House Press Secretary!

Links:

Interview w/Claudia Bushman

https://rsc.byu.edu/conversations-mormon-historians/claudia-l-bushman

Some Reflections on the New Mormon History by Bob Flanders

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45224462?seq=2

History of Exponent II by Carrel Hilton Sheldon

https://test.exponentii.org/1999/08/27/history-by-carrel-hilton-sheldon-arlington-massachusetts/

Where to get Mormon Sisters and Confessions of a Mormon Historian

https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/

MOGP:

Hidden Figures: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, By Margot Lee Shetterly

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In this episode, we talk about Mormon priestcraft and show just how much they fit into their own description, all while denying it, of course. (Mormons and their leaders are awfully good at that!) This will lead us directly into part 2 of Bruce R McConkie’s book Millennial Messiah. We have an enjoyable time also discussing Martin Luther and the rise of Protestantism. We will also talk about why we think McCrankie hated Catholicism so much. Then we’ll close it out with some amazing news about a successful Malaria vaccine. Enjoy!

Show notes:

Main topic: Priestcraft

Priestcraft: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/gs/priestcraft?lang=eng

The Dangers of Priestcraft: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teaching-seminary-preservice-readings-religion-370-471-and-475/the-dangers-of-priestcraft?lang=eng

A Popular History of Priestcraft In All Ages and Nations: https://archive.org/stream/popularhistoryof00howiuoft/popularhistoryof00howiuoft_djvu.txt

MOGP: Millennial Messiah by Bruce R McConkie

Martin Luther: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

The Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses

Protest Reformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation

Catholic Counter-Reformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation

Council of Trent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Trent

These countries have the most religious freedom: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/religious-freedom

Tyndale Bible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale_Bible

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More Than One Million African Children Protected by First Malaria Vaccine: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220421-more-than-one-million-african-children-protected-by-first-malaria-vaccine

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Hey guess what. It’s Gen Con time. AGAIN! It keeps showing up every six months. Go figure.

In this episode we talk about what slipped through the cracks of this General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And yes, the timestamp is accurate. It’s a long listen, but hearing us dissect #GenCON is much, much, MUCH better than actually watching the 10 hours for yourself, right?

This episode has a general content warning as there are talks involving some damaging concepts including death of a child, suicide, and, of course, LGBTQ+ issues because those mormon leaders just won't stop being bigots. So fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!

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It’s time to break into our next long-form review of Mormon literature; Bruce R. McConkie’s Millennial Messiah! We get an idea for the purpose and objective of the book as well as McCrankie’s pet issues right off the bat. He speaks of the heresies integral to false prophecy and warns of the various movements and political groups are anti-Christ. But before we crack open the spine of this tome, our main segment is a brief deep-dive into Mormon prophecy. What is it? From where does it come? How reliable are Mormon prophecies and can they be trusted? And the greatest question with which some believers may wrestle, what’s Joseph Smith’s batting average? We round out the show with some happy news about government diversity in Portugal!

Show notes:

Mormon Prophecy:

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/archive/publications/the-truth-about-the-god-makers/ic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prophecies_of_Joseph_Smith

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-march-september-1838/41

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-1839/2#historical-intro#josephsmithpapers

https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/prophecies-of-joseph-smith?lang=eng&adobe_mc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1833

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43200790

https://mit.irr.org/joseph-smith-william-miller-and-prophetic-speculation

MOGP:

Book of Common Prayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer

Edward VI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI

Indulgences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence

Protestant Reformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation

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As March is Women’s History Month in the USA, we knew it was time to talk about some amazing and strong women who have had a powerful effect on all of our lives. First we look at a fascinating figure integral to a transitory period of church history, Emmeline B. Wells, who pioneered women’s suffrage in Utah. Then, in MOGP we talk about the documentary RBG. Following that, we round out the episode talking about the 120 3D printed statues of women scientists in the “#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit” at the Smithsonian March 5-27. Enjoy!

Show notes:

Emmeline B. Wells Journals: https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/news/chpress-publishes-emmeline-b-wells-diaries?lang=eng

Emmeline B. Wells: “Am I not a Woman and a Sister?” by Carol Cornwall Madsen https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol22/iss2/3/

Emmeline B. Wells Romantic Rebel by Carol Cornwall Madsen

https://rsc.byu.edu/supporting-saints-life-stories-nineteenth-century-mormons/emmeline-b-wells

Woman’s Exponent archive https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/WomansExp/id/3365/rec/61

Women’s Suffrage in Utah by Jean Bickmore White

https://historytogo.utah.gov/womens-suffrage-utah/

https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/bios/emmelinebwells/

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol22/iss2/3/

MOGP:

RBG: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7689964/?ref_=tt_rvi_tt_i_2

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg

Sarah Moore Grimke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Moore_Grimk%C3%A9

And, what Shannon was trying to remember while recording but forgot the name of until long afterwards, it was Shannon Faulkner at The Citadel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Faulkner

Happy News:

120 3D-Printed Statues of Women Redefine What Scientists Look Like: “#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit” takes over Smithsonian March 5-27: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2022/03/08/120-3d-printed-statues-of-women-redefine-what-scientists-look-like/

Women’s Futures Month at the Smithsonian Institution: https://www.si.edu/womensfutures

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One of the most influential leaders of the modern Mormon church, Bruce R. McConkie, made a name for himself with his seminal 1958 work Mormon Doctrine, an encyclopedia of Mormon doctrine and theology. It immediately made waves in the community and the rest of the leadership decided to censor McConkie and the book was pulled from the shelves. With significant edits to address leadership complaints, the book was republished in 1966 and again massively edited and published in 1979 after the priesthood ban was lifted. We explore the life of Bruce McConkie and discuss the impact of Mormon Doctrine and McConkie, as well as the reasons for censure and highlighting necessary edits to tone the book down. Yes, this is the deep-dive on Bruce McConkie and Mormon Doctrine you’ve been waiting for and this episode launches us into our next long-form book review of Millennial Messiah by Bruce McConkie!

Mark your calendars! Our next Live Q&A!! is March 7th!!! 6:00 PM (MST)

Show notes:

The Bruce R. McConkie Story: Reflections of a Son, by Joseph Fielding McConkie

The End of Bruce R McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine, by Stirling Adams: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43201315?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

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Much is said and thought of John C. Bennett from Nauvoo Mormon history, but what do the documents actually say? Today we go through a brief deep dive into this fascinating figure. He became a close friend and then personal greatest enemy of Joseph Smith throughout a complicated sequence of events. Bennett is most renowned for his 1842 expose, The History of the Saints, which he wrote after his abrupt removal from all church, government, and military appointments. We deal with the charge that he was providing abortions and what the implications which follow actually mean. After that we review Reign of Fire, a Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey dragon movie with surprisingly deep interpretations. We wrap with some happy news from the Lego company to help children undergoing medical procedures.

Mark your calendars! Our next Live Q&A!! is March 7th!!! 6:00 PM (MST)

Interview read for patrons: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/interview-3november-1841/1

Other Bennett Sources:

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/john-cook-bennett

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-john-c-bennett-15-august-1840/2

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-john-c-bennett-25-july-1840/1

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/discourse-from-john-c-bennett-18-december-1841/1

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/discourse-from-john-c-bennett-3-february-1841/3

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/minutes-3-february-1841/1

https://archive.org/details/historysaints00benngoog/page/n63/mode/2up?view=theater

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YES! WE’RE FINALLY DONE!! The Miracle of Forgiveness has been a grind and we’re finally putting this monster of a book to rest. However, we can’t do it alone so we are joined by the incredible expertise of Natasha Helfer. She’s been working in sex and relationship therapy within the Mormon space for two and a half decades and she helps us contrast Spencer W. Kimball’s statements about sex and gender with modern science. Be sure to follow her at the links provided below. We hope you enjoy this celebration along with us before we crack into Bruce McConkie for our next long-form review!

Show Notes:

A veritable gagglefuck of links to find Natasha Helfer!

MMHA: https://mormonmentalhealthassoc.org/

Symmetry Solutions: https://www.symmetrysols.com/

Home page: https://www.natashahelfer.com/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/amp/tag/natashahelfer

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/natashahelfermft

Or Google her to find plenty more projects!

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The Black 14 was a group of athletes at University of Wyoming in Laramie who stood up to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and BYU. They suffered the wrath of withering public ire, but their story is immortalized as emblematic of the struggle for racial justice and equality in the 1960s and 70s. Join us as we learn their story and discuss Brigham Young University’s fight to keep discriminating when it became illegal to do so. After that we discuss Small Foot, a movie about asking questions and breaking out of the shell in which people are raised. We round out the show with some happy news about gender and sex equality in Israel of all places.

Show Notes:

Resources concerning the Black 14

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/black-14-race-politics-religion-and-wyoming-football

https://www.newspapers.com/image/598921419/?terms=byu%20protest&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/636296214/?terms=byu%20protest&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/536317000/?terms=byu%20protest&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/582751880/?terms=byu%20protest&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/215625791/?terms=byu%20protest&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/113865632/?terms=byu%20protest&match=1

http://www.byhigh.org/History/Ymountain/Yletter.html

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2020/3/9/21171077/byu-honor-code-lgbt-protest-church-of-jesus-christ-mormon-lds-activism

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/11/17/21561355/black-14-wyoming-byu-latter-day-saints-thanksgiving-food-deliveries-partnership-mormon

https://policy.byu.edu/view/demonstration-policy

https://universe.byu.edu/2022/01/12/byu-bans-demonstrations-on-y-mountain-in-updated-policy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=byu-bans-demonstrations-on-y-mountain-in-updated-policy

https://www.clickorlando.com/features/2020/06/10/protesting-is-part-of-american-history-these-historic-demonstrations-led-to-changes-in-us-policy/

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/what-black-armband-means-forty-years-later

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/393/503/

MOGP: Smallfoot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6182908/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Happy News: Same Sex Couples can Now Opt for Surrogacy in Isreal : https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-news-lgbtq-rights-surrogacy-rights-same-sex-couples-can-now-opt-for-surrogacy-in-israel-supreme-court-order-2688163

Bryce will be on Thrive: https://www.thrivebeyondreligion.com/event/thrive-unite/

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Yes, a show about New Year’s Resolutions for 2022! We discuss what resolutions the Mormon church should consider for the new year and some of the hold ups of accomplishing them. We have some resolutions of our own though! Then we get to the penultimate segment of Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball. There’s light at the end of the tunnel and it feels good. Then we round out the show talking about clean flying goals for Denmark!

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Happy News: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59849898

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It’s the last episode of the year and since we had a blast doing an all media episode last year, we decided to make it a tradition! We each brought something to the table in each category — books, movies, and music — and we had a great time discussing them. We hope you enjoy them too. Have a fun holiday season!

Books:

Shannon’s book: Eva, by Peter Dickinson

Bryce’s book: Understanding History, by Louis Gottschalk

Film:

Shannon’s movie: Spy Game https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266987/?ref_=tt_rvi_tt_i_5

Bryce’s movie: Uncut Gems https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5727208/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

Music:

Bryce music: The Uneraseable Past by Cattle Decapitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmYcFP1vTdk

Shannon’s music: The Planets, by Gustav Holst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OD_HzdZwKk

Metal version of Neptune, The Mystic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUePYhmdLAA

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We take on the next recommendation from the 2019 NPR broadcast Hidden Brain episode. Shannon tells us how our beliefs can be informed by people we trust and how resilient they prove. Then we get into the next segment of Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball telling us about the benefits of forgiving folks who wrong us. Then we wrap with happy news about green power from India!

July 22, 2019 episode: Facts Aren’t Enough: The Psychology of False Beliefs.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743195213/facts-arent-enough-the-psychology-of-false-beliefs

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, by James Weatherall and Cailin O’Connor https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234015/misinformation-age

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (because it is too funny!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary

Happy News: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-achieves-target-of-40-power-generation-capacity-from-non-fossil-fuel-sources/articleshow/88057024.cms

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Our main segment features a piece done by NPR on their Hidden Brain podcast a few years ago. We discuss the type of mindset people need in order to be influenced for various purposes. Hope and fear feature in informing the mindset of a receptive brain when facts simply aren’t enough. After that we get into the next segment of The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball. We read a couple of the most infamous passages from the book including the level of sin assessed on survivors of sexual assault and the implication that those who choose to end their own lives are unforgivable. This is a heavy segment but we lighten it up with some fun and a poetic reading by Shannon from the book. We finish the episode with happy news about black Santas! Be sure to join us next Monday Nov 29th at 6 p.m. MST for our first live hangout!

Main topic: Facts Aren’t Enough: The Psychology of False Beliefs, From the podcast, Hidden Brain: A Conversation About Life’s Unseen Patterns.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743195213/facts-arent-enough-the-psychology-of-false-beliefs

The Influential Mind, by Tali Sharot: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627792653

Happy News: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/black-santa-disney-parks/index.html

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Let’s chat about some funny Mormon stories! We start from the earliest days of the church. We hear about missionaries raising the dead, Joseph Smith training a dove to eat grain out of his ear, and then going for a swim while covered in phosphorus oil. After that we talk about funny stories told about Mormons by the genius minds of Matt Stone and Trey Parker in the Mormon South Park episode and The Book of Mormon musical. We wrap with a story about lasers saving agriculture and discussing some listener mail.

Main topic:

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/miscoh08.htm

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/miscoh03.htm

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/miscNYSi.htm#072044

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/miscNYSb.htm#060635

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/wayn1830.htm#062230

http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs/Wil1878a.htm#Moss1

Happy News: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-driving-farm-robot-uses-lasers-to-kill-100000-weeds-an-hour-saving-land-and-farmers-from-toxic-herbicides/?sh=4f3d316e4070

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Welcome to today’s show. This episode contains another installment in the dangerous shitshow that is the Miracle of Forgiveness. Because the chapter we discuss is about bishop’s interviews, for our main segment, we interviewed Sam Young to talk about his Protect LDS Children movement — now named Protect Every Child. We also go over some of the answers you, our wonderful listeners, gave us on our survey about bishop’s interviews. Then to cleanse ourselves and you, we finish up with some happy news about cleaning up trash in the Pacific Ocean. And we should point out a content warning for the main segment as well as MoGP.

Show Notes:

Main topic: Sam Young’s Blog: https://invisiblescubit.com/

https://protectldschildren.org/

Happy News: 20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/20000-pounds-of-trash-removed-from-pacific-garbage-patch/

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It’s that time again. Every six months we see what slipped through the cracks of General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We watched it so you don’t have to, and yes, the timestamp is accurate. It’s a long listen, but hearing us dissect #GenCON is way better than actually watching the 10 hours for yourself, right? There’s also a point in the episode with a content warning as one of the talks focused on mental health and suicide, conveying some deeply damaging and problematic concepts.

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We have a fun episode for you this week! We begin with a vicious anti-Mormon story about Henry Caswell (Caswall) and the Greek Psalter incident in Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo church. Hugh Nibley considered this one of the longest-running anti-Mormon stories and spent a good deal of print trying to debunk it (unsuccessfully I might add). Then we talk a Nic Cage movie from 2000, Gone in 60 Seconds because why the hell not. Then we wrap up with some happy news about recent cannabis legislation. Next few episodes are going to be pretty heavy so we wanted to keep things light and fun today. If you’d like to contribute to the next Miracle of Forgiveness segment concerning bishop’s interviews, please consider filling out the survey linked below or send us an email about your experience to glassboxpodcast@gmail.com

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The recent updates to the recently openly-published church handbook contain some fascinating details, some of which have stirred controversy and caused Mormons to leave the church! Shannon walks us through a few of the prominent changes and helps put them in context by comparing the 2020 Handbook to the 2006 Bishop’s Handbook. Then it’s off to the next segment of Miracle of Forgiveness. Spence tells us about repenting or perishing, abandoning sin, and awakening to sins we’re committing. He also spends some time justifying the holocaust and genocide of Native Americans after which he commits egregious sins against founding member of the church, Oliver Cowdery. Then we wrap with some happy news about the job market in climate studies and activism! Be sure to chime in for our survey about bishop’s interviews if you’d like to contribute your voice to the next segment of Miracle of Forgiveness.

Show notes:

Bishop’s Interviews Survey: https://forms.gle/LrhBWKkyX8DeGanh8

Changes to Bishop’s Handbook: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/general-handbook-update-december-2020

Happy News: “No point in anything else!” Gen Z members flock to climate careers: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/06/gen-z-climate-change-careers-jobs

Guest appearances:

RfRx Religion Spotlight — Mormonism with Shannon Grover and Bryce Blankenagel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkdUZcHQpM0

God Awful Movies Podcast: GAM316, The Work and the Glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56pgVYEOcY

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Apostle, and glorified school teacher, Jeffrey R. Holland gave a speech at BYU recently titled The Second Half of the Second Century of BYU. It’s made waves within the community for its viciously anti-human and bigoted bend, but there are many deeper messages and a truly disturbing historical context for the speech. Let not the fire of muskets keep us from seeing the true evil within. After that we invite Devin Sunde onto the show to discuss his upcoming graphic novel, Love & Sects! See his kickstarter below. Then we round out the episode with a story of students standing and protesting on campus for a teacher who was the victim of bigoted school policy.

Show notes:

The Second Century of BYU by Spencer W. Kimball

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/spencer-w-kimball/second-century-brigham-young-university/

This Time of Crisis: THe Race-Based Anti-BYU Athletic Protests of 1968-1971 by Gary James Bergera

https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume81_2013_number3/s/10418366

BlackLatterDaySaints race in the church timeline

http://www.blacklatterdaysaints.org/history

The Second Half of the Second Century of BYU by Jeffrey R. Holland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg36L1989Ss

Devin Sunde’s Love & Sects Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/devinsunde/love-and-sects-the-complete-series

Love & Sects: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/love-sects/list?title_no=80697&page=1

Happy News: Students walk out of class in protest of school forcing gay coach to quit: https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/students-walk-out-of-class-in-protest-of-school-forcing-gay-coach-to-quit/

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Shannon brings us some interesting information derived from a recent study about feeling the spirit™. The study was conducted on a small population of believing Mormons which produced some interesting results. After that we jump into Miracle of Forgiveness discussing sins of omission and suicide. We wrap up talking about some new tech that harnesses water from the air!

Show notes:

Main topic:

Article on Jeffrey Anderson’s study: https://unews.utah.edu/this-is-your-brain-on-god/

Sunstone Podcast Episode 2: https://sunstonemagazine.com/sunstone-podcast-episode-2-jeffrey-s-anderson/

If you get goosebumps while listening to music: https://awarenessact.com/if-you-get-goosebumps-while-listening-to-music-your-brain-could-be-unique/

Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/6/884/2223400?login=true

Happy News: A new technology for producing water from air in Oregon: https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/10/warm-springs-leaders-back-high-tech-in-struggle-for-safe-drinking-water/

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We decided it was time for us to prove we are actual human beings! Shannon and Bryce were able to attend the Sunstone Symposium in Sandy, Utah, along with our friend Julianne Briscoe, and we had an amazing time. We met extremely interesting people — both new friends and old friends — and learned new things that gave us some exciting ideas for us to explore on the podcast. We hope you enjoy our special episode!

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Sunstone: https://sunstonemagazine.com/

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You read that right! Captain Moroni, known as Caesar No-Salad to non-Mormons, who participated in the treasonous Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol building was arrested! We gloat over Nathan Wayne Entrekin’s arrest a bit, discuss the videos he recorded and sent to his mom that day, and take a high-level overview of how the DOJ and FBI are progressing with the unprecedented case. Then we discuss a book that’s great for factoids at cocktail parties and wrap up with discussing a public option broadband service in the works in Virginia.

Show links: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roman-gladiator-costume-capitol-riot-trump-fbi_n_60f08b8ae4b022142cf67b8b?nbv&fbclid=IwAR1xI7tVLISCJ1qlVCDNTvRgU06lC6URR_KVkTkTI2QFmNppdNBEosDoXxg

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-riot-arrests-latest-2021-07-16/

https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1

https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/capitol-riot-mob-arrests/

MOGP: On This Day In History Sh!t Went Down, by James Fell: https://bodyforwife.com/books/

Happy news: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/16/virginia-gov-northam-announces-plan-for-universal-broadband-by-2024.html

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Last December, the church made some changes to the bishop’s handbook that bear a closer look, poor beleaguered Bryce gets to take on the 3rd segment of MOF, and then we’ll relieve EVERYONE’s thoughts with some lovely news from Canada. And please, be prepared. Not only is this an incredibly long episode but we also need to give you a content warning. We will be discussing one of the worst chapters in MOF and it might be painful. Shannon will also be reading a bit from her mission journal. Get a punching bag ready, if you need it, tissues on hand if you need them, and remember to pause and walk away if you need to. We’re all in this together.

Show Links:

Main Topic: Policies On Prejudice, Seeking Info From Credible Sources Added To Church Handbook: https://ksltv.com/451372/general-handbook/

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/general-handbook-update-december-2020

Happy News: Canadian MP’s pass historic bill banning conversion therapy: https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/canadian-mps-pass-historic-bill-banning-conversion-therapy/

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This week’s show is a brief deep-dive into a lesser-known figure of American history and her connections to Mormon polygamy and the larger national women’s suffrage movement. We romp through 70 years of history through a few different vantage points and wrap it all together by discussing polygamy as one of the next social justice issues. After that, we review Love, Simon, a coming-of-age story of a closeted young man seeking validation in his experience, friendship and acceptance, and ultimately love. Then we wrap with happy news about a politician who changed their mind about something; who knew it was possible?!

Show Notes:

Belva Lockwood: The “Nerviest Woman in the United States,” Who Became the Latter-day Saints’ Irrepressible Advocate and Friend by Melinda Evans

https://byustudies.byu.edu/?post_type=article&p=32394

Gaining, Losing, and Winning Back the Vote: The Story of Utah Women’s Suffrage by Brown, Watkins, and Kitterman
https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/2018/02/receiving-losing-and-winning-back-the-vote-the-story-of-utah-womens-suffrage/

Anti-polygamy Legislation

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/anti-polygamy-legislation?lang=eng

Women’s Suffrage timeline
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/woman-suffrage-timeline-18401920

Edmunds Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds_Act

Edmunds Tucker Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds%E2%80%93Tucker_Act

How I Ran For the Presidency by Belva Lockwood
https://books.google.com/books?id=fKoTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA728&lpg=PA728&dq=Belva+Lockwood+%22How+I+Ran+for+the+Presidency%22&source=bl&ots=bJCQKqvhNP&sig=ACfU3U1pkzmj6N3RD59jv5vBFNxDmF3M5g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBgsCu9pDxAhVWsZ4KHZe1CoIQ6AEwEXoECB0QAw#v=onepage&q=Belva%20Lockwood%20%22How%20I%20Ran%20for%20the%20Presidency%22&f=false

The Root: How Racism Tainted Women’s Suffrage
https://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134849480/the-root-how-racism-tainted-womens-suffrage

Happy News: Column: A conservative mayor heard tearful stories. They changed his mind about flying the rainbow flag:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-10/gay-pride-flag-fresno-mayor-jerry-dyer

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There was a recent announcement by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that they are no longer performing time-only marriages in the temple. What? What even does that mean? Our main segment teases apart the marriage and sealing practices conducted in the temple and places this headline within a broader context while we opine on what it the larger plan at play might be. Then we dive into the pages of Miracle of Forgiveness, covering the first 3 chapters of introductory material. We round out the episode with a positive federal court ruling in Australia that bodes well for climate activists and future generations alike.

Show links:

Mormon church will no longer perform time-only marriages in temple: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/05/25/latter-day-saint-leaders/

Mormon church eliminates one year waiting period after civil marriage: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-mormon-church-changes-marriage-policy-20190506-65mxeavi3rdkzgsp6byspavfwm-story.html

Happy news: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/27/australian-court-finds-government-has-duty-to-protect-young-people-from-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Today is a bit of a classic deep dive into early Mormon history, sort of. We crack open the pages of Rick Grunder’s Mormon Parallels (linked below; please pick up a copy) and investigate what was in the air of 18th and early 19th century America. Turns out, Joseph Smith was not an island and the Book of Mormon is very much a product of its time. Let’s see how Shannon does with my clever little game of Mormon or Not!? After that we review a graphic novel Joseph Smith in Space: May the Farce Be With You recommended to us by a lovely listener with a solid bead on our type of humor. Then we round out with some happy news about the Utah Supreme Court actually coming to the right decision for goddamn once!

Show links:

Mormon Parallels by Rick Grunder sold directly by the author!
https://www.rickgrunder.com/parallels.htm

MOGP: The graphic novel Joseph Smith In Space: May the Farce Be With You, by Z.M. Thomas: https://smile.amazon.com/Joseph-Smith-Space-May-Farce-ebook/dp/B084326B9J/ref=sr_1_3

Info on Z. M. Thomas: https://twincitiesgeek.com/twin-cities-geek-staff/z-m-thomas/

Happy news: Utah Affirms Transgender Right to Change Birth Certificates: https://apnews.com/article/utah-business-f27731c87eed5de4050d67e94661a1fc

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For our main segment today, we do a brief deep-dive into the history of Asian-American immigration and public sentiment. Of course, we also analyze the Mormon angle with help from listener Adam Watanabe who is kind enough to share his lived experience. After that we dive into our next long-form analysis of Mormon-related texts with Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball. Then we round out the show discussing the first rent-ready 3D printed house in Amsterdam!

Show links:

Main segment:

New report finds 169 percent surge in anti-Asian hate crimes during first quarter: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-report-finds-169-percent-surge-anti-asian-hate-crimes-n1265756

Hate crimes against Asian Americans are on the rise. Many say more policing isn’t the answer: https://time.com/5938482/asian-american-attacks/

Wythe Asian-American story is missing from many US classrooms: https://time.com/5949028/asian-american-history-schools/

Asian Americans Then and Now:

https://asiasociety.org/education/asian-americans-then-and-now

FDR establishes Japanese American Internment Camps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066

When mormons aspired to be a “white and delightsome’ people: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/mormons-race-max-perry-mueller/539994/

The Concept of “Race” Is a Lie:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-concept-of-race-is-a-lie/

Spencer W. Kimball, MoF
https://archive.org/details/spencerwkimballt00kimb/page/189/mode/2up?q=clark

https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/landing/prophets-of-the-restoration/spencer-w-kimball?lang=eng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_of_Forgiveness#cite_note-trib-10

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2762815&itype=CMSID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Ng-RpcpbA

Happy news: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/couple-elize-lutz-and-harrie-dekkers-move-into-europe-s-first-3dprinted-house-b932829.html?fbclid=IwAR2WiPw12qBCIxUF7dm7PkC8X1rZtMinc8DgL00QyTHHDEDbiZNO7zNHzwA

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Who wants something FUN today? We have had a few dark and depressing episodes lately that we decided we all needed a break. You need to see fun things to remind you the world really ISN’T on fire … yet. First we start with news out of Canada where BYUtv agreed to allow LGBTQ+ characters on their shows, then we discuss the movie Clue in Media of Great Price, and we end with a little happy news about the cellist Yo Yo Ma.

Show links:

Main segment: https://nowtoronto.com/movies/byutv-to-include-lgbtq-characters-following-a-warning-from-cbc

https://campuspride.org/worstlist

https://policy.byu.edu/view/index.php?p=26&s=s314

MOGP movie, Clue (1985): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt

https://www.amazon.com/Clue-Eileen-Brennan/dp/B000KWLRL4/ref=sr_1_1

Happy news: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/cellist-yo-yo-ma-gives-impromptu-performance-at-vaccine-clinic/ar-BB1eCaal

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It’s that time of year again for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We managed to watch all of the April 2021 General Conference and have our analysis for you here. We’ll go over the more damaging points made by Oaks, Bednar, etc, as well some of the more odd moments. And if you’re a Patreon patron, you get to hear about the strange behavior of Eyring in his talk in the Saturday night priesthood session. There’s a lot to get through. Give yourself some time.

Show links:

Jana Riess Single Adults article https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/03/23/jana-riess-what-lds/

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We’re finally done with The Naked Communist!!! Instead of drawing it out for 2 more MoGP segments, we devote the primary segment to wrapping up NC with Cleon Skousen’s 5 questions and a LOOOONG speech in front of a Washington PTA. Then we finish our coverage of communism by reviewing the movie Trumbo about the Hollywood 10. Then we finish with some happy news about some Native American tribes administering surplus COVID vaccines.

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Show Links:

Trumbo: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203606/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

7 Components of Liberalism: https://online.norwich.edu/academic-programs/resources/7-components-of-liberalism

Friedrich Nietzsche : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

Dialectical Materialism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/dialectical-materialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism

Igor Gouzenko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko

Revolutions Podcast: https://revolutionspodcast.libsyn.com/

Happy News! https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/us/oklahoma-tribes-offers-vaccine-to-all-trnd/index.html

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BYU recently released a report on racism and discrimination at the university campus including 26 recommendations to increase diversity. We read through the entire report so you don’t have to! We discuss their findings, the data presented, and what changes we can realistically expect to see as a result of the report. After that we discuss the 2005 George Clooney movie Good Night, and Good Luck. We wrap with some happy news about electric cars because if Shannon gets to share her passion for movies every two weeks then I get to bring another of my passions onto the show once in a while too!

BYU report links: https://news.byu.edu/announcements/report-race-equity-belonging

https://race.byu.edu/byu-committee-on-race-equity-belonging-instagram-story

https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2020-07-22/byu-committee-race-equity-belonging-connecting-community-189483

MOGP: Good Night, and Good Luck

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433383/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt

Edward Murrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow

Happy News: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/01/fossil-fuel-cars-make-hundreds-of-times-more-waste-than-electric-cars

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We start today’s episode with a brief deep-dive into a rumored race riot of 1965 that never happened in Salt Lake City. It reveals troubling trends we’ve seen play out over the past year. Be sure to follow the link to read the article for yourself. Then we do our next installment of The Naked Communist with an eye looking to the future of the Communist takeover of America. Once again, it reveals trends which cannot be escaped when seen through a glass box. Then we round out with a happy story about Dolly Parton!

Show Links:

The 1965 Race Riot that Never Happened by Christopher Blythe
https://publicsquaremag.org/editorials/the-1965-salt-lake-city-race-riot-that-never-happened/

45 Communist Goals: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://cultureshield.com/PDF/45_Goals.pdf

Socialism vs Communism, though they do get personal vs private property wrong: https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/socialism-vs-communism/

American Security Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Security_Council_Foundation

Alien Registration Act or more commonly known as the Smith Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act

Happy News: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/dolly-parton-statue-capitol-tennessee-b1804214.html?fbclid=IwAR0f5b99qmfV_Yw5hvrr179FlGzDw1s1jc_IbQBsKLTiayA2_i150jhuqrc

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Boundaries Part 2! In this episode we give you some listener feedback from social media discussions on the Boundaries Part 1 episode. We talk to two very interesting people — Andrew Torrez and Kimberly Anderson — who give us various tools to help us make and keep our boundaries and we leave you feeling like your world is a little more under your control and safe.

Show Links:

Andrew:

Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion, Dale McGowan: https://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Beyond-Belief-Raising-Religion/dp/0814437419/ref=pd_bxgy_2/135-4281688-4905455

Companion volume — Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, by Dale McGowan: https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Freethinkers-Practical-Parenting-Beyond/dp/0814410960/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/135-4281688-4905455

Protect Every Child: https://protecteverychild.com

Proper Channels PLDSC Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXcUQfuPaA&t=832s

Opening Arguments podcast: https://openargs.com/

Cleanup On Aisle 45 podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cleanup-on-aisle-45-with-ag-and-andrew-torrez/id1549502623

Kimberly:

Twitter: @KimberlyA_AMFT

TikTok: kimberly__anderson

https://flourishtherapy.org/kimberly-anderson/

https://sunstonemagazine.com/sunstone-firesides-podcast/

She’s also a frequent guest on https://latterdaylesbian.org/index.html

Online counseling: https://www.betterhelp.com/

https://www.seculartherapy.org/

Utah-based therapy services
https://mindfulcounselingutah.com/

https://www.cedarpsychiatry.com/

https://mormonmentalhealthassoc.org/

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Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion

Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief

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Special episode this week! Let’s talk about Boundaries: How the church and our TBM family and friends cross them and what we can do about it. We’ll introduce the topic then hear from a therapist and a listener about their interactions with the church and boundaries. We’ll jump into some of our survey data and round out the show with some of our own experiences. Finally, a big thank you to Braden for cohosting the podcast! You will be missed and cherished in all our hearts.

Show Links:

Protect Every Child: https://protecteverychild.com

Proper Channels PLDSC Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXcUQfuPaA&t=832s

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Braden’s taking the week off so Shannon and Bryce spend a LONG episode going through a recent document dump by WikiLeaks concerning the Mormon church. After that we get into our next installment of the Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen. Shannon teaches us about Kruschev and Castro through the 1950s-60s. Then we wrap with happy news about the Georgia Senate runoff election. PLEASE TAKE OUR SURVEY ABOUT BOUNDARIES FOR THE NEXT EPISODE!!!

Show Links:

Boundaries survey: https://forms.gle/Q53MpYqqdfBQQZ1b6

WikiLeaks dump: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/knvvuw/wikileaks_just_dumped_lds_files_pr_bombshell/

Hungarian Revolution of 1956: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

Nikita Khrushchev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev

Patrice Lumumba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba

Remembering King and Lumumba: Two Martyrs of Our Time: https://www.theperspective.org/2005/jan/king_lumumba.html

Cuban Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution

General Fulgencio Batista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

Bay of Pigs Invasion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

Yuri Bezmenov 1984 interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmg2VFX058

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End-of-the-shit-year-of-2020 fun episode! We want to end the year on a high note and what better way to do that than to spend the entire episode talking about fun things! And what might those be, you ask? Some favorite movies and books, of course!

Survey about BOUNDARIES!: https://forms.gle/bHUugqgdtiRxU9nw7

Bryce: Movie: Parasite: https://www.imdb.comhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0/title/tt6751668/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Book: Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic

Braden: Movie: Happiest Season: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8522006/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Movie: Jojo Rabbit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2584384/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Shannon: Movie: The Truman Show: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Book: Double Whammy, by Carl Hiaasen

Show links:

Why Do We Go to the Movies?: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/sep/05/artsfeatures.arts

Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/03/neil-gaiman-view-from-the-cheap-seats-reading/

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, by Neil Gaiman: https://www.amazon.com/View-Cheap-Seats-Selected-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B00RLRLB26/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Isaac Asimov on Fiction vs Science Fiction: https://explore.brainpickings.org/post/82036562960/isaac-asimov-on-fiction-vs-science-fiction-one

Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KWN3VKF/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

Double Whammy by Carl Hiassen: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538729520?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tmmp_0&storeType=ebooks

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Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic

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We do a brief deep-dive into Book of Mormon archaeology, but probably not a story you’ve heard before. Thomas Stuart Ferguson was hired by BYU and the Mormon church to study Mesoamerica for ties to ancient Book of Mormon cities and artifacts. His findings will SHOCK you! Then we dive into the next installment of The Naked Communist with more background on post WWII history and the rise of fear and loathing of Communism in America. Finally we wrap with a feel-good story about a remote village in Canada supplementing their reliance on fossil fuels with tons of solar power!

Links:

Thomas Stuart Ferguson
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/how-mormon-lawyer-transformed-archaeology-mexico-and-ended-losing-his-faith

http://www.ancientamerica.org/library/media/HTML/1bvanve9/30.%20IN%20HONOR%20OF%20THOMAS%20STUART%20FERGUSON.htm?n=0

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Book_of_Mormon/Archaeology/Thomas_Stuart_Ferguson

NWAF
https://byuorg.lib.byu.edu/index.php/New_World_Archaeological_Foundation#Assets_and_Administrative_Structure

Hitler’s invasion of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa

Harry Hopkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hopkins

George Racey Jordan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Racey_Jordan

Lend-Lease — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

1936 Communist Constitution of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union

United Nations Charter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations

Yalta Conference AKA Crimea Conference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

Happy News:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/indigenous-owned-solar-farm-fort-chip-1.5807721

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The Mormon Moses, Russel M. Nelson, recently released a video to all the social medias about a new ad campaign the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is running. We discuss the video, the campaign as a whole, and some of our takeaways watching the campaign play out over the past week. Then, Braden tells us about “Yes, God, Yes!,” a coming of age story of a woman raised in a sexually repressive religion streaming now on Netflix. Then we round out the show with some happy news about the coming COVID-19 vaccine.

Happy news: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer/pfizer-ends-covid-19-trial-with-95-efficacy-to-seek-emergency-use-authorization-idUKKBN27Y1HK?utm_source=reddit.com

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In light of a recent Twitter op-ed, we invite Dr. Cristina Rosetti onto the show to discuss a polygamist group in Utah (the Kingston Group) who’ve recently contributed to political campaigns, shot rifles with POTUS’s son, and opposed the decriminalization of polygamy which recently passed the Utah legislature. Rosetti helps us navigate the tumultuous waters of Mormon polygamy and discusses the recently-passed bill. Then we jump into our next installment of The Naked Communist before wrapping with some happy news about the recent Presidential Election.

Links mentioned in the interview:

https://cherishfamilies.org/?fbclid=IwAR1P2QDwOaqIonSZUAgpepQwrJ3CH1N5AU9_jIHXUBrdQs7s5OfFXs5GiQw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_United_Brethren?fbclid=IwAR0Hgna6chGnE7HbnBKPsVkXCwBBTRGNcYuaNw5b7MfWMhMFODarx7Ei_A4

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/11/06/utah-attorney-general/?fbclid=IwAR0r7qQVu_WARC1bGwdDQWCSrszYpZ25eXAhBLmR8GvrNI853FgveH4cx2M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Creek_raid?fbclid=IwAR18g9FS-5zcBzeHeGxxNG4oNBJ5MgfMOj_iVoAdzm0vmCd66WpKh4jcJZg

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45227157?seq=1&fbclid=IwAR0zfQsegBUAqAeNedCj8USTc2kq_0YWIL_mnuDp9OHgDiv21n0T5h5-t4c#metadata_info_tab_contents

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You heard it right, Justice Dallin H. Oaks said “Black lives matter”! Buuuuuuut, he said ‘but’ after it. We go top to bottom on Oaks’ recent BYU speech titled “Racism and Other Challenges” to see what slipped through the cracks and talk generally about masks, voting, protests, statues, and the works. Then we talk about “The Social Dilemma,” a new doc on Netflix about the problems of social media and how it has fueled and shaped modern politics. Then Shannon tells us about the Duwamish river in Seattle healing after 2 decades of environmental conservation efforts. Hey everybody, get out and vote!

Links:

James Randi Educational Foundation
https://web.randi.org/

Justice Dallin Oaks “Racism and Other Challenges”

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/president-oaks-byu-devotional-october-2020-talk

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/10/27/21536493/black-lives-matter-dallin-h-oaks-byu-devotional-first-presidency-latter-day-saints-mormon-lds?fbclid=IwAR0CAz_O_gyvg1-hybL4nVx-Z3XUpO_b1LP1fxhmRJxrQSc1mpZqM9bLGCc

Trump compared to Captain Moroni:

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lee-donald-trump-captain-moroni-book-mormon-1543117

Happy news:

https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2020/10/sodo-s-duwamish-river-is-visibly-healing-seattle

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A whole episode about Ezra Taft Benson and Cleon Skousen! We invite Dr. Matt Harris, author of the recent “Watchman on the Tower; Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right” along with friend of the show, Joseph Geisner, to discuss the life and influences of Mormon Prophet, Ezra Benson. A product of the red scare and McCarthyism, Benson rose to prominence as Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of Agriculture and continued to gain status as a radical right-wing conspiracy theorist general authority, eventually becoming prophet of the church in 1985. Arguably, no other individual has had more influence making Mormonism a conservative religion than Benson himself. Please pick up a copy of Matt’s book from Benchmark Books here: https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/ or ring them up and have them send you a copy at 801-486-3111. After that, we do our next installment of Cleon Skousen’s “The Naked Communist” with added context from the interview. Then we round out the show with some happy news about high early-voter turnout during our important 2020 election.

Benson speeches:

https://sites.google.com/site/heavenlybanner/crtool

https://speeches.byu.edu/speakers/ezra-taft-benson/

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson/safety-face-danger/

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson/lds-church-politics/

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson/jesus-christ-gifts-expectations/

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2013-05-1250-ezra-taft-benson-documentary?lang=eng

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson/people-world-celebration-iran/

If you HAVE to buy the book from Amazon, here’s the link: https://www.amazon.com/Watchman-Tower-Benson-Making-Mormon/dp/1607817713

Happy news: https://www.voanews.com/episode/coronavirus-fuels-unprecedented-early-voting-us-4451251

Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right

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I mean, the title is pretty self-explanatory. Yeah, it’s that long because boiling down 10 hours of brainwashing stupefaction takes a while. But, we discuss what slipped through the cracks and why it matters for us to analyze every nook and cranny of each #GenCON.

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We take this week’s episode as a time to reflect on the incredible life and legacy of one of the nation’s brightest minds. SCOTUS lost a paragon of civil rights and gender equality in a contentious election year. We discuss the life and accomplishments of RBG, what her death in September 2020 means, and what we can expect moving forward. After that, Braden phones in to tell us about Pride, a movie about a GLB rights group protesting for miner’s rights in Magaret Thatcher’s U.K. Then we discuss the recent endorsement by Scientific American of Joe Biden, the first in the 175 years of the journal’s history.

Voting resources
https://vote.gov/
https://www.vote411.org/

RBG resources
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/486080234/listen-justice-ginsburg-expands-on-decision-to-apologize-for-trump-remarks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR30TLvfPs2wnPJHtPHoCfIvgm0WEnsln7NQ3FS4g83-oZmfj-mjWKxvseU

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/obama-ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-nominee/index.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54214729?fbclid=IwAR3Dak-_TF8mbSH09SINNC4U09o8Oal0vvj82_8NkhS2gy6sJOCVBfAQ6OY
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/a-long-list-of-gop-senators-who-promised-not-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-nominee-during-an-election-year/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/15/how-trump-compares-with-other-recent-presidents-in-appointing-federal-judges/
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/05/05/how-close-is-president-trump-to-his-goal-of-record-setting-judicial-appointments/

Happy news: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/

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Shannon Grover joins us again for the next installment of The Naked Communist, why don’t we just make it official? Welcome to our new permanent co-host!! We start the show with a quick rundown of a recent talk given by Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of Apostles about the current wave of civil rights protests we see across the nation. We transition seamlessly into The Naked Communist and it’s remarkable how similar the arguments are with 70 years separating them. Then we discussed an ad campaign by reddit to try and increase voter turnout this November.

Quentin L. Cook BYU talk https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/8/24/21398349/elder-cook-to-byu-faculty-focus-on-building-faith-in-christ-church-brigham-young-provo-racial-unity?fbclid=IwAR3d20OGp68n-9MuLE-MFt8Yq6_67bPlP7cX6DuP1cxvJ8pM9saO_i4cazg

Happy news https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ikxsst/this_reddit_billboard_advertisement_for_their/

Voting resources
https://vote.gov/
https://www.vote411.org/

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We’re joined by Brian Simper for an interview about Mormon membership statistics. Brian gave a presentation at the recent Sunstone Symposium and was kind enough to join me for a deep dive into his methodology and findings. After that we discuss The Invention of Lying and a brief rundown of Steve Bannon’s arrest on wire fraud charges.

Happy news: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/steve-bannon-fraud-trump/615523/

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Our resident General Authority, Shannon Grover, at long last joins us for an entire episode. We begin with hearing her story growing up in the church, her early life, mission, marriage, and finally apostasy. She’s had quite the incredible journey and we’re lucky to have her share so much. After that, we get through the next chapter of The Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen and wrap up with some happy news about a miner in Tanzania!

Happy news

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53642490

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A lot of people have debated this question for decades. We sit down with some work from Steven Hassan, Margaret Singer, and other cult experts to discuss what makes a cult a cult. Short answer, yes. Longer answer, yes and it's complicated. Longest answer, yes and listen to the show. Now that I have your attention, reader, here’s a fun activity: send a Facebook message to Braden Hamm and ask him “if the players were required to be drunk, what would be the funniest sport to watch?” But don’t tell him why! I want to know who reads these show notes. If you do, send me a direct message to nakedmormonism@gmail.com with your physical address. After that we talk about The Life of Brian and some happy news about New York building up its electric automotive infrastructure.

Cult resources:

BITE model https://freedomofmind.com/bite-model/

Steven Hassan on LDS Church https://freedomofmind.com/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints/

The Cult of Trump https://freedomofmind.com/the-cult-of-trump-media-page/

Ethical concerns of Steven Hassan https://medium.com/@cults/ethical-concerns-raised-on-steven-hassans-book-on-cults-1f6133f63d9f

Steven Hassan “responds” to critics https://freedomofmind.com/the-truth-about-steven-hassan/

Cults in Our Midst by Margaret Singer (2003) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cults-in-our-midst%3A-The-continuing-fight-against-Singer/99e864eba1383e84c40d36a6aba62d8c11fd6041

Cults and the Law https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=136681

Happy news:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-electric-new-york/new-york-to-invest-750-million-to-expand-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-idUSKCN24H3DD?utm_source=reddit.com

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This episode begins with a panel discussion with Marie D’Elephant and Marissa McCool about navigating ethical non-monogamy. Open relationships/marriages can be a taboo topic and uncomfortable for some; Marie and Riss help us by giving a 101 discussion to introduce us to the subject, uncover some common pitfalls, and provide resources for further reading should non-monogamy be a topic which interests you. After that Braden and I debrief from the interview before jumping into part 1 of reading through The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen. We wrap with some good news about black-owned businesses experiencing a spike amid the current protests and a little bit of listener mail.

Marie D’Elephant

https://www.facebook.com/mariedelephant/
https://mariedelephant.com/
https://everyonesautonomous.com/

Marissa McCool (The Purple Amazon)
https://www.facebook.com/RisMcCool

https://centerforinquiry.org/speakers/mccool_marissa/
https://www.amazon.com/Marissa-Alexa-McCool/e/B075NQV56B%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-cis-are-getting-out-of-hand
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/alexander-goodlive/inciting-incident

Ethical Slut by Dossie Eaton, Janet W. Hardy
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ethical-slut-dossie-easton/1100528572

Happy news https://apnews.com/5738fc904a6b29118e63a5d762f48791

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Lots of interlocking stories to discuss this week. We jump right in with a discussion about the most recent headlines sparked by the protests following George Floyd’s death. A lot of legislation has been crafted in response to the protests, including an executive order from President Donald Trump. We examine the organizations he listed during the signing to determine the intent of the order, followed by looking at the text of the order itself. Once created, tools can be used for good and evil. Then we discuss CHOP, the occupation movement in Capitol Hill, Washington. The Seattle City Council crafted resolutions in response to the leverage held by the CHOP protestors joined by protests across the nation. Seattle chose to ban the use of chokeholds, riot control weapons, and officers covering their badge numbers. We weigh in on #DefundPolice and how useful it can be in sparking a conversation, but why does the “defunding” stop at police? Then we finally tackle the Mormon angle by examining the recent rulings in the Supreme Court concerning churches being “non-essential” services and LGBTQ+ people actually being people with Title VII protections. We wrap the episode with some great media for understanding racism in America as well as coming out as gay to your family.

Links:

Trump’s Executive Order on Police Reform
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-safe-policing-safe-communities

Orgs mentioned during EO signing
Federal law enforcement officers association https://www.fleoa.org/news.aspx?id=19

Fraternal order of police https://www.fop.net/CmsPage.aspx?id=39

Internal ass of chiefs of police https://www.theiacp.org/

Intl union of police association; “The Voice of Law Enforcement Officers” https://iupa.org/

Major county sherrifs of am ass https://mcsheriffs.com/

Natl Ass of police orgs http://www.napo.org/

Natl District attorneys ass https://ndaa.org/

Sergeants benevolent ass https://sbanypd.nyc/

Who wasn’t at the Exec Order signing? https://fundersforjustice.org/organizations/

Atlanta, GA Police Walkout
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/18/atlanta-rayshard-brooks-walkout/

Seattle just expelled the Police Union from the city’s labor group. https://apnews.com/7267abcb991ec5210f85aa03eb7ed433#:~:text=SEATTLE%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20The%20largest,address%20racism%20within%20its%20ranks.&text=Local%20elected%20leaders%20are%20reluctant,150%20unions%20and%20100%2C000%20workers

Seattle City Council on Police reform bills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spGMa6-Xu1U

BYU formed a committee to “examine race and inequality at BYU”. https://news.byu.edu/announcements/committee-formed-to-examine-race-and-inequality-at-byu

Donate to groups working or advocating for racial justice and end of racism

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https://justiceforbreonna.org

https://www.joincampaignzero.org

https://www.naacp.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

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Racial tensions and police brutality in America have caused protests, riots, and citizens becoming the victims of war crimes committed by our military-police force. How did we get here? Where do we go? How can we effectively reform policing in America? It’s a complicated issue and a couple of white guys are going to do their best to introduce you to the topic and form a basic foundation on which to build a base of knowledge about these subjects. We also take a look at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints angle of race, as this is a Mormon-centric podcast. We encourage you to use the resources and further reading below. We wrap the episode with the final installment of Case for the Book of Mormon, a tool of genocide and racial supremacy which shaped American history.

Links:

First Presidency statement https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/president-nelson-shares-social-post-encouraging-understanding-and-civility

Church’s social media post: https://twitter.com/Ch_JesusChrist/status/1268233951719510016

The Negro: A Proclamation to the World

https://www.missedinsunday.com/memes/race/proclamation-1949/

Resources:

SISTAS in ZION Twitter

Blacks and the Priesthood by 3 Mormons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN5Gp07zaZE

Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams https://www.akpress.org/our-enemies-in-blue.html

Read the Stanford Prison Study https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html

@Mica_McGriggs presentation June 15, 2020 “Racial Equity & Social Impact” weekly classes https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-equity-social-impact-tickets-104768040028

Mormon Stories #630 Black Lives Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgViT0zuSrk

Black and Mormon by Darron Smith https://books.google.com/books/about/Black_and_Mormon.html?id=lSvRnQgJAx8C

https://8cantwait.org/ for police reform

The Dollop - Furgeson Episode 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1uF67UeyY

Ibram X. Kendi How to be an Antiracist https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1

Donate: https://www.joincampaignzero.org

Joanna Brooks Mormonism and White Supremacy https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mormonism-and-white-supremacy-9780190081768?cc=us⟨=en&

Moroni and the Swastika by David Conley Nelson https://www.oupress.com/books/14220363/moroni-and-the-swastika

Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeoMn1DeUek

Watch: Just Mercy, released free on all platforms by Universal

Killer Mike speech about George Floyd and protests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSWasOhArfM

Stand By Me by Liesa (Lisa) Rodger https://www.thebeehive.com/stand-by-me/

Check your blindspot BYU diversity project https://www.checkyourblindspot.org/

Historian’s take on police brutality against Black people https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gvu38i/george_floyd_was_murdered_by_america_a_historians/

Talking to kids about this:

https://www.amazon.com/Belle-Last-Mule-Gees-Bend/dp/0763687693/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28

https://www.amazon.com/Juneteenth-Mazie-Fiction-Picture-Books/dp/1479558206/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1591332700&sr=1-1

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https://justiceforbreonna.org

https://www.joincampaignzero.org

https://www.naacp.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

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Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story

Juneteenth for Mazie (Fiction Picture Books)

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Update on COVID-19 time! The Mormon church is taking steps to reopen wards around the globe while there’s no evidence that we’ve effectively flattened the curve. They’re also investing some resources into making PPE for medical workers in the form of masks and surgical gowns made from sacred-underwear cotton. Plenty to discuss. Then, Braden tells us about After Life starring Ricky Gervais. We wrap with some happy news about a vodka company based in Utah making hand sanitizer to combat the ‘Rona. Plus listener mail and an iTunes review!

Angel's Trumpet:

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/05/20/lds-church-sells-exxon/

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/05/19/lds-church-unveils-plan/

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/global-sacred-clothing-production-facilities-temporarily-produce-masks-gowns

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/safe-return-church-meetings-activities

Media of Great Price:
After Life

Happy News:

Interesting contrast to the church. Church worries about stocks, while Utah vodka brand makes and donates sanitizer to the navajo nation: https://www.facebook.com/FiveWives/posts/2870931026289832

Don’t miss Bryce’s guest spot on the most recent How 2 Heretic Podcast episode 140!
https://howtoheretic.com/podcast

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We do something a little different this week. This show starts out with an interview of two elders in the mission field who no longer believe in Mormonism, yet are stuck on their mission during COVID lockdown. How do Elders A and B cope with being on a sales force for a product they know isn’t real? They offer a window into the day-to-day life of missionaries stuck in the world of lockdowns while trying to be good people in spite of being missionaries. After that we dive into part 4 of Tad R. Callister’s Case for the Book of Mormon: how to gain a personal testimony of the Book of Mormon. Can we be done with this book yet?! Then we get to some happy news about Germany banning gay conversion therapy for minors at the nationwide level.

Follow Broken Missionary here:
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Happy news https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52585162

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We take a break from headlines and current events to dabble into the lighter side of Mormonism. Braden and I square off in a trivia challenge drinking game. Braden brings the culture, I bring the history and we see who comes out on top. But, it turns out, when you play a drinking game everybody wins! Join us for a light-hearted hangout along with a Media of Great Price about Pineapple Express and a happy news segment about countries transitioning off coal power.

Media of Great Price https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/04/22/sweden-exits-coal-two-years-early/

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We hit our goal on patreon.com/glassboxpod! Braden had to watch General Conference for the first time in our podcast history. It, indeed, is a historic conference! We go through talk by talk to see what slipped through the cracks of all 5 sessions of the April 2020 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Strap in, it’s a long one. Did Rusty make this as historic of an event as the hype made it? Just like the other episodes about #GenConf, we get a little extra NSFW on this broadcast; listener beware.

Jana Riess’ article about General Conference
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/04/07/jana-riess-when-big/

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How is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints handling the Coronavirus epidemic? We explore current events and the coming end of the world. Then we get into our next installment of The Case for the Book of Mormon by Tad R. Callister… ugh. Finally, we wrap up with some happy news about how celebrities, artists, and regular folk are helping each other through the epidemic.

Being sent home

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/03/30/city-creek-mall-merchants/

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/04/02/this-week-mormon-land/

https://www.insider.com/mormons-gathered-salt-lakes-airport-greet-missionaries-with-hugs-2020-3
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/service-options-missionaries-march-31-2020
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/april-2020-edition-of-the-world-report
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/covid-19-mtc-adjustment
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/covid-19-impact-missionary-service

Samuel L. Jackson reads “Stay the F*** At Home”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrbxyna4z4

Cattle Decapitation “Bring back the Plague” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGSLKWeVwE

Dolly Parton reads children’s books from home https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/31/824638554/dolly-parton-will-read-bedtime-stories-to-kids-online-every-week

Musicians live streaming concerts FOR FREE: https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/all-musicians-streaming-live-concerts.html

If you can help or need help, check out Modest Needs
https://www.modestneeds.org/

Or donate to your local blood bank
https://americasblood.org/membership/membership-directory/

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Yes, we’re jumping into the outrage ball-pit of COVID-19, Coronavirus. We do our typical overview of the issue and piece together a chronology from multiple reputable sources. This is a worldwide topic and therefore dives into politics, which we don’t often do. If you want a break from all the hype or don’t want to hear about politics, this may not be the episode for you. If you want to be informed on what a viral outbreak looks like and attempt to gain some perspective, this episode may be worth a listen. Of course, because this is a show about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we tie the issue into Mormonism at the end. Stay safe, everybody. Please follow the guidelines of experts to remain distanced and hygenic. This episode has a bit more NSFW language than usual.

Links:

https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/coronavirus-a-timeline-of-how-the-deadly-outbreak-evolved/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2020/03/07/trumps-lies-about-the-coronavirus-raise-the-risk-of-a-recession/#5308212d6eb2
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/the-biggest-lie-in-donald-trumps-coronavirus-address/
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/zurawik/bs-ed-zontv-corona-trump-lies-20200310-6mrkjbkwprecfg6cw2ljkzh4u4-story.html
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/april-2020-general-conference-format-change
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/covid-19-impact-missionary-service

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/03/16/road-ahead-covid-19-stimulus-still-behind-fisa-on-senate-schedule/

Happy News:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51915723

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Boy Scouts of America is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy because of child sex abuse? We thank thee, O God, for our Profit, Russel M. Nelson for getting the Mormon church out of Scouts before all those lawsuits crippled BSA! While this isn’t a story directly about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, these issues long predate the divorce of these two institutions. Braden and I explore the common threads and what this bankruptcy means. Then Braden tells us about some kids at a Catholic school who walked out when their gay teachers were fired for being gay!

Links:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/02/18/boy-scouts-of-america-files-for-bankruptcy-over-sex-abuse-claims/#353a52cd2e58
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-wave-of-sexual-abuse-lawsuits-could-cost-catholic-church-over-4-billion-2019-12-02

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/806721827/boy-scouts-of-america-files-for-bankruptcy-as-it-faces-hundreds-of-sex-abuse-cla
https://theoutline.com/post/8687/boy-scouts-bankruptcy-filing-sexual-abuse-lawsuit?zd=1&zi=oeee5led
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/boy-scouts-bankruptcy-sex-abuse.html

https://abusedinscouting.com/history-of-abuse/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BSA/comments/8il1du/on_the_separation_of_assets_the_financial_cost_of/

Happy news segment:

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/19/students-walk-class-catholic-school-forced-gay-teachers-quit-12269247/

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The Wall Street Journal somehow got an interview with two of the leading guys of Mormon Money, the Presiding Bishop, Gerald Causse, and the head of Ensign Peak Advisors, Roger Clarke. We discuss the story with the help of a post in the /r/mormon subreddit (linked below). After that, it’s our next installment of The Case for the Book of Mormon by Tad R. Callister where he decides to go completely offensive because us critics have had the ball in our court for too long! Then we talk about Jeff Bezos pledging $10 billion to climate change.

Links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/f1yu3w/epa_what_we_know_now/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/f5gtrg/1billion_fake_church_news_live

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/f4mfbs/netflix_explained_series_i_just_watched_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/f4h1xz/if_mormonism_is_going_to_survive_it_will_not_be/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/f4cgte/how_much_is_124_billion/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/f1vi62/the_mormon_church_amassed_100_billion_it_was_the/

Light of Gazalem
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change

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Clutch my pearls! Braden and I talk about the Super Bowl halftime show and the expected responses from Mormons scared that the female figure exists who never batted an eye at a topless and tattoo-covered Adam Levine last year. After that Braden tells us about Ramy, a Hulu series about a Muslim-American finding his way in life. Then we talk about Activision utilizing lootboxes for good, for a pleasant change!

Links:

Super Bowl Halftime show:

https://youtu.be/pILCn6VO_RU

Media of Great Price:

Ramy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7649694/

Light of Gazalem:

https://blog.activision.com/activision/2020-02/Together-the-Call-of-Duty-community-raises-over-one-point-six-million-dollars-for-Australian-Bushfire-Relief

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2019 in review! We read through the recent Jana Riess article about the most significant Mormon headlines of 2019 and discuss some highlights. Then we make predictions for what we might expect in 2020 and also what we’d REALLY like to see in 2020 regardless of how probable they might be. Then we do our next segment of The Case for the Book of Mormon by Tad R. Callister concerning evidence for a historical Book of Mormon. We wrap up with a happy news story about a church in St. Louis paying off thousands of people’s medical debts (yes, we have those in America). We finish off the episode with a bit of listener mail resulting from our Mormon Money series.

Links:

Jana Riess: Seven top Mormon news stories from 2019
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/12/31/jana-riess-seven-top/

Light of Gazalem
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-churches-buy-up-million-in-medical-then-give/article_cb5202e1-19ae-5cdb-aa4a-4359d17b5db2.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_St._Louis_Post-Dispatch&fbclid=IwAR2H7gIy-0erbu-qpTG2SSnrLJFshJVOZJO3OsbMOslE_ls3q2n9MQnU-Q4

Opening Arguments Ep 344
https://openargs.com/transcript-of-oa344-did-the-mormon-church-really-hide-100-billion-in-assets-from-the-irs-feat-bryce-blakenagel/

Mormon Land episode 114 w/ D. Michael Quinn
https://www.sltrib.com/podcasts/mormonland/

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Today’s show centers around an interview with an anonymous person sharing her story of the Mormon welfare system. She’s currently undergoing a divorce and found out in court the church has been paying her estranged husband’s car and mortgage payments, over $18,000, for the past year on accounts bearing her name without her knowledge. When our interviewee attempted to find more information about the financial support for divorce and tax reasons, she was stonewalled by local leadership. She ran up the ranks to find more information only to be stonewalled by a senior attorney at Kirton-McConkie the primary law firm for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her story is incredible and reveals a troubling aspect of the church welfare program; there are simply no checks and balances available to members when they suspect abuse or misappropriation of funds related to fast-offering funds from the Mormon Church.

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$100 billion (yes… with a “B”) is a lot of money for the church to be hoarding. Unfortunately, the media coverage has been inaccurate in many regards and has missed some of the larger issues contained in the expose “Letter to an IRS Director” by Lars Neilsen. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has become so wealthy and powerful it seems to simply operate by its own set of rules. The size of Ensign Peak Advisors (EPA) is larger than the media has discussed and the alleged violations regarding its disbursements to City Creek Center and Beneficial Financial Group (totally $2 billion) could threaten its tax-exempt status. Also included in the expose is the whistleblower discussing with EPA director, Roger Clarke, “worst practices” which included “deleting receivables” and opening the way for “dark money” payouts EPA made to unknown entities. The actual portfolio by Nov 2019 is estimated to be closer to $124 billion. We discuss a bit of the media coverage and wrap up with talking about how the church should use that money, could use that money, and how we’d use that money. $124 billion is hard to conceptualize but we try our best. Please share if you learned anything worth sharing.

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Links:

Religion Unplugged $100 Billion Stockpile article
https://religionunplugged.com/news/2019/12/16/whistleblower-exposes-100-billion-stockpile-by-mormon-church

“Mormons, Inc. “Kingdom Come”” Time
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986794,00.html

Official church response to expose
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-statement-church-finances

Deseret News Op-ed on expose
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2019/12/17/21026103/the-washington-post-mormon-church-whistleblower-says-billions-thank-goodness

Polynesian Cultural Center
https://www.polynesia.com/packages/

https://www.kitv.com/story/38903471/activist-says-mormon-church-should-pay-taxes-on-polynesian-cultural-center

Deseret Trust Company
https://www.deserettrust.com/about-us?lang=eng

Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5918641

Temples
https://www.businessinsider.com/fancy-mormon-temples-2014-8

Reuters 2012 Mormon Money article
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-mormons/insight-mormon-church-made-wealthy-by-donations-idUSBRE87B05W20120812

Bloomberg 2012 “How the Mormons Make Money”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/how-the-mormons-make-money

https://archive.org/stream/HowTheMormonsMakeMoney/How%20the%20Mormons%20Make%20Money-%20Bloomberg%207-18-12_djvu.txt

Quinn on Church Finances SLTrib
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/local/2017/10/14/historian-digs-into-the-hidden-world-of-mormon-finances-shows-how-church-went-from-losing-money-to-making-money-lots-of-it/

Dowry is not the Lord’s Way Deseret News Article
https://www.deseret.com/2018/4/16/20643748/dowry-is-not-the-lord-s-way-in-kenya-lds-president-nelson-says-tithing-breaks-poverty-cycle#anna-waithira-has-margaret-wanaki-on-her-back-as-she-lines-up-to-attend-a-special-devotional-with-president-russell-m-nelson-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-in-nairobi-kenya-on-monday-april-16-2018

List of Temples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_temples_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints#Dedicated:_2010s

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Wheeew what a doozey! We cover Mormon Money from the 1930s to the 1980s. When this much money gets involved and a church grows to have a significant international presence, money begets politics and politics feed money. Once Franklin S. Richards died another needed to carry the Mormon Money torch; here enters Henry Dinwoodey Moyle, a man with grand ideas and exponential growth intentions. He rolls out new missionary programs, local “baseball baptisms” sports leagues, carbon copy chapels, the new 28-story Church Office Building, and a litany of other aggressive expansion programs. After bankrupting many companies and chewing through untold resources, Moyle died leaving the church $32 million in debt but on a good path toward global expansion. N. Eldon Tanner, with the help of Marion Romney, takes the helm of Mormon Money and rights the sinking ship by filling leadership with more businessmen and lawyers than ever before. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also began to gain a national political foothold with George Romney running for President and subsequently being appointed Nixon’s HUD Secretary. Gordon B. Hinckley is brought in as Tanner’s protege to take the Mormon Money colossus rampaging across the planet. Part 3 will discuss the recent revelations concerning the church’s $100 billion in holdings and Ensign Peak Advisors.

Links (there are a lot of them):

Get Quinn’s latest book in the Mormon Hierarchy series Wealth and Corporate Power
https://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Hierarchy-Wealth-Corporate-Power/dp/1560852356

Henry D. Moyle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_D._Moyle

Eldon Tanner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Eldon_Tanner

Mormon Corporate Structure
https://exploringmormonism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Corporate-structure-image-400.jpg

Church finances (official)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/church-finances-commercial-businesses?lang=eng

Church Office Building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Office_Building

Consolidated Freightways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Freightways

Marion Romney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_G._Romney

George Romney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney#Local_church_and_civic_leadership

George Romney and MLK “marching together” fact check
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2007/dec/28/mitt-romney/george-romney-and-mlk-marched-but-not-together/

Tax churches for $71 bn per year
https://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/how-to-make-71-billion-a-year-tax-the-churches

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We finally broach a subject that’s taken the back-burner for far too long. Mormon money is one of the most complicated subjects associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and we decided it requires a multi-part series to understand with some level of depth and context. Join us for part one where we start at the beginning with Joseph Smith, get into Brigham Young and the Mormon exodus to Utah in 1847, and tie together financial strands all the way into the Great Depression. Some topics of discussion: Joseph Smith as an entrepreneur, Brigham Young as a theocrat and tyrant, polygamy and the first manifesto under President Wilford Woodruff, complicated finances with intermingling the prophet’s personal with the church’s corporate assets, Joseph F. Smith and the church in near-bankruptcy he inherited in 1901, Franklin S. Richards and his rehabilitation program, the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (COP), The Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (CPB), and the trajectory upon which the church was set going into the Great Depression.

Links (there are a lot of them):

Get Quinn’s latest book in the Mormon Hierarchy series Wealth and Corporate Power
https://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Hierarchy-Wealth-Corporate-Power/dp/1560852356

Kirtland Safety Society
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/byu-religious-education-student-symposium-2012/kirtland-safety-society-and-its-effect-faith

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/kirtland-safety-society?lang=eng

Nauvoo Charter
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/topic/nauvoo-charter

Sunstone and Presentation “Joseph Smith, the Entrepreneur”
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/joseph-smith-the-entrepreneur/
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com

Edmunds Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds_Act

Wilhelm Von Wymetal 1886 expose
https://archive.org/details/josephsmithproph01wyme/page/276

Late Corp of LDS v. U.S.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/136/1

Ann Eliza Webb Young Wife No. 19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Eliza_Young

1870 census data
https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/1870_fast_facts.html?

Lorenzo Snow
https://historyofmormonism.com/2008/07/08/lorenzo_snow/

Franklin S. Richards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_S._Richards

CPB
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0122898D:US

COP
https://secure.utah.gov/bes/details.html?entity=553976-0145

COP Structure
https://exploringmormonism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Corporate-structure-image-400.jpg

Church Finances (official)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/church-finances-commercial-businesses?lang=eng

“Corporate-sole” “Corporation-sole”
http://hushmoney.org/corporate-sole_facts.htm

AgReserves Inc
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0275969D:US

PropertyReserves Inc
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,398698,399463

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Joe Geisner returns to spend 2 hours on one of the most iconic and influential characters in recent Mormon history, Boyd K. Packer. We discuss his inauguration into the Quorum of Apostles and how he molded and shaped the church from the highest leadership body from that time forward. We cover the internal issues between Packer and the church’s history department, discuss the shroud of secrecy he helped to foster, and then get into the outward expressions he declared from the pulpit which directly influenced members and national politics. We wrap with discussing what kind of a legacy was left behind when Packer died in 2015.

Hugo Olaiz’s Sunstone Presentation
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/sl10212-sacred-secrecy-in-the-teachings-of-president-boyd-k-packer/
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From Evergreen to North Star, gay-conversion therapy runs deep through Mormon tradition. October headlines blazed with the LDS church opposing a ban on conversion therapy for minors which was defended, misrepresented, and misunderstood by much of the media. We deep dive on conversion therapy in Mormonism and discuss some of the names associated with this abusive and anti-science practice. After that Braden talks about a climate change movie and some YouTubers getting together to plant some trees!

Sources for conversion therapy stuff:

Evergreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_International
North Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star_(organization)
A. Dean Byrd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Dean_Byrd
NARTH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_Research_%26_Therapy_of_Homosexuality
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_Research_%26_Therapy_of_Homosexuality
Joseph Nicolosi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nicolosi
Evergreen expose https://truthwinsout.org/ministry-evergreen-international/
Gay Rights and Political Correctness: A Brief History https://web.archive.org/web/20051220234201/http://narth.com/docs/schoenewolf2.html
Conversion therapy VICE expose https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jmvya8/i-joined-a-bunch-of-gay-conversion-groups
NARTH rebrand https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/ex-gay-group-attempts-rebranding-narth-conversion-therapy/
ATCSI (Formerly NARTH) https://www.therapeuticchoice.com/why-the-alliance-supports-safe-ther
September 1999 gay conversion therapy Ensign article https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1999/09/when-a-loved-one-struggles-with-same-sex-attraction?lang=eng
North Star founder comments https://truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2014/01/38796/
North Star staff https://truthwinsout.org/news/2013/07/36344/
North Star founder defense of conversion therapy https://nypost.com/2013/07/22/a-low-attack-on-same-sex-therapy/
North Star support group criteria https://www.northstarlds.org/join-facebook-mens
North Star President’s Message https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ca12d887fdcb87df5da2b9f/t/5d3e724604588900019087ad/1564373583142/North+Star+President+Message+Winter+2018.pdf
HB 399 https://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0399.html
Psychologist Licensing Act Rule https://rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r156/r156-61.htm
Mormon church opposes LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’ ban https://apnews.com/da5c04204c194e11a5836495f36d818d
SL Tribune church opposing conversion therapy ban article https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/10/21/lds-church-says-proposed/
Church’s press release opposing act https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/statement-proposed-rule-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-change
LDS Church defends its objections to proposed gay conversion therapy ban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rXWY-HPQHA

Media of Great Price:
First Reformed (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438

Light of Gazalem:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/31/20941626/teamtrees-youtuber-charity-fundraiser-climate-change-trees-musk-dorsey-pewdiepie

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I watched it so you don’t have to. We go through every talk given during General Conference of October 2019 from Oaks to Oaks and back to Oaks again, we try to identify what slipped through the cracks of media reporting on this semiannual GC. It’s a long one! Hopefully the length makes up for the month hiatus as Braden moved and I was on a 3-week road trip. Patrons of the show get an extra hour of podcast about the General Women’s session. Please get us to our next Patreon goal to make Braden suffer through the April 2020 Conference with me!!!

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Gaddy is suing the Mormon church for tithing and personal damages. We go through the case and discuss how likely it is to prevail as well as the class-action nature of the suit. Then, after much ado, we finally crack open The Case for the Book of Mormon by Tad R. Callister. We wrap up with some happy news of cannabis convictions being expunged by some smart computer stuffs!

A bunch more reading on Kay Burningham and Gaddy v. LDS

https://www.kayburningham.com/

https://www.federalrulesofcivilprocedure.org/frcp/title-iv-parties/rule-23-class-actions/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NuthcL9L-MZhnDRKcwp1E49Sx2472Dud

https://mormonfraud.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-gaddy-lawsuit-against-mormonchurch.html

https://www.courthousenews.com/scathing-lawsuit-seeks-punitive-damages-from-mormon-church/

http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/72112-rico-act-proposed-class-action-against-the-church-it-is-filed/page/7/

http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2019/08/suit-charges-mormon-church-with.html

http://www.mormonthink.com/personalstories/kayburningham.htm

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/393/440/

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/322/78/

Light of Gazalem

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/marijuana-los-angeles-san-francisco-recreational-pot-559590321.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand

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It’s a long episode today! Don’t let the long timestamp scare you away. We invite a guest to tell us his story of joining the church, working for the church, and eventually leaving it. His story reveals a side of Mormonism most of us know is there, but aren’t privy to. Part 2 of the conversation comes after the C segment where Michael tells a bit about his personal story. Braden and I also talk about a new documentary and discuss The Teachings of Don Juan. Then we round out the episode with a climate initiative in India.

Links:

Light of Gazalem: https://www.thestatesman.com/india/climate-emergency-india-offers-financial-and-technical-support-to-developing-nations-1502794652.html

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We finally wrap up the first Armstrong Lecture! We learn all about hell, the different degrees of the Celestial Kingdom, and Mormon trickle-down heaven! After that we talk about “The Good Place,” a sitcom about heaven and hell. Then we wrap with good news about cow farts!

Show links:

Light of Gazelem:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-15/seaweed-for-cows-could-be-mass-farmed-reduce-methane/11414724

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Now we’ve had the introduction to how heaven is structured, let’s find out how we actually get to each of the degrees. Part 2 of this Armstrong lecture describes the different degrees and who is deserving of them. Plus, Mormon reincarnation is totally a thing! After that we have Ryan McKnight of the Truth and Transparency Foundation to discuss a recent story broke by the organization.

Truth & Transparency story
https://truthandtransparency.org/news/2019/7/24/court-documents-show-local-mormon-leaders-failed-to-report-the-manufacturing-of-child-pornography-following-confession

Links mentioned by Ryan
@the_ttf

https://truthandtransparency.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnp6o4S974&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3CUns_MADCRfe-U_HFfbRA087ogQburkwObdss88w4kEcyG7lGpIQGL8g

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We’re doing something a little different for this episode! We start with a little background on how Braden and Bryce met and use that as a launch point to discuss the main topic today. We read a lecture… Yeah… I lecture. But don’t worry! It’s a lot more fun than it sounds and we’d really like to get some feedback on it to hear what you think! After that, Braden tells us about The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and then we talk about a couple who planted 2,000,000 trees in 20 years! We round out the show with some listener feedback that is absolutely amazing.

Apostle John replaced in Temple video:
https://wheatandtares.org/2011/01/30/temple-john-where-do-the-fallen-go/

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Missions! Braden did his, Bryce left the Mormon church before he could do one. After Braden gives us an overview of his mission experience, we discuss the history of the “Preach My Gospel” program, the impetus behind it, how it came to be, who was involved, and how it was implemented into the field. Hopefully it will be as interesting to listen to as it was to research the topic! After that Braden talks about some media that passes the Bechdel test and we talk about a school in Iowa that’s giving out P.E. credits for service projects.

History of Preach My Gospel
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/volume-14-number-1-2013/history-preach-my-gospel?fbclid=IwAR0BZUafYGnNOhs-PlVj7tmZRgeCe3hhH-qD9-V1pxqHCWqSdUTKJtQAWVs

Ballard: https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2019-06-26/president-ballard-baptize-2019-mission-leadership-seminar-50222

Mission cost increase in 2020:

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900077168/church-announces-mormon-mission-lds-cost-increase.html

Light of Gazalem
https://www.wthr.com/article/iowa-school-giving-students-pe-credits-helping-elderly-people-disabilities-do-yard-work

Jeffrey Suhr’s Children’s Books
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732251703/

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Quercus Minora and the Eight Elemental Stones: Book One (The Great Adventures of Angelica Cherryfur)

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It's been one year since the Be One Celebration; Mormonism isn’t racist anymore!!! We know the high-level overview of what the Priesthood ban included, now we take a foray into the human element. We talk about the tough paradoxes introduced when institutionalized theological racism comes into conflict with an ever-expanding global religion. An oft-forgotten aspect of Mormon conversion, Patriarchal Blessings, become the litmus test for African ancestry. Patriarchs fight with the First Presidency. The church takes no official position. Chaos and pandemonium rule doctrinal racism throughout the entire 20th century.

Links:

Mormons and Lineage: The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings by Matt Harris
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1erugEZ1LYvyMwMfFiQD1H_y0bZP16pFBNnjy-8ScP0E/edit?usp=sharing

Black, White, or Brown? Racial Perceptions and the Priesthood Policy in Latin America by Jeremy Talmage and Clinton D. Christensen
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FqDep89418UPnrN2r5wFg0GAJn7Mx_Li6o13bfEBjJc/edit?usp=sharing

Race and the Priesthood (Faithful & Official)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FqDep89418UPnrN2r5wFg0GAJn7Mx_Li6o13bfEBjJc/edit?usp=sharing

Race and the Priesthood (Critical & Skeptical)
http://www.mormonthink.com/essays-race-priesthood.htm

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World tour time! Rusty and his apostle friend travel the world and meet Pacific Island dignitaries to bless the masses with their presence. Also, when a religion creates new political operatives as “specialists” and opposes a bill with ‘Equality’ in the name, it’s never a good sign. After that, Braden and I both bring books to the table for our Media of Great Price. We round out the episode with a company that froze CEO wages to pay the bottom-line workers more and Costa Rica progressing on Abortion restrictions.

Links:

Mormon policital ‘specialists’
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/05/14/lds-church-is-assigning/

Rusty world tour
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/president-nelson-pacific-ministry-2019-samoa

Light of Gazalem

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/executive-pay-salaries-carecentrix-senior-team-employees

https://ticotimes.net/2019/05/18/morning-after-pill-legal-without-prescription-costa-rica?fbclid=IwAR1jJcOdoBj9G8tC5sLsutIx5by6ADHSHCaH5QXu3NqEDXjXE23ejNCjLfM

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We finally discuss the Temple Endowment Ceremony changes as of January 2019! But not so fast! Before that we get into the Strengthening Church Members Committee (SCMC) and the awkward phone call between Elder Timothy Dyches and Radio Free Mormon. Lesley, Colleen, and Bryce call the number and debrief over on Mormon Happy Hour (links below). Then, Braden and I finally get into how the endowment ceremony was slightly altered with “massive implications” in order to remove some of the overtly sexist theology. We give you a play by play so you don’t have to watch it and go through exactly what the changes mean, along with a little history where applicable. The changes simply don’t go far enough.

Links:

Mormon Happy Hour SCMC
http://angelsonfire.org/mhh73-part-1-call-to-elder-dyches-of-the-strengthening-church-members-committee/

Radio Free Mormon SCMC
https://radiofreemormon.org/2019/05/radio-free-mormon-064-spying-for-the-lord/

Temple Endowment Stuffs

SLC Live secret cam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8sbYtFOnxk&t=814s

Endowment as of Jan. 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VOb0XNjdXE

Adam-God Doctrine

http://www.mormonthink.com/QUOTES/adamgod.htm

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Just as the title states, Braden and I go through the Sunday April 2019 General Conference talks. We [I] watched it so you don’t have to! Plus Media of Great Price about Abducted in Plain Sight and a Light of Gazalem about Morgan Freeman single handedly saving the planet! We wrap with a short listener mail segment.

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Just as the title states, Braden and I go through the Saturday April 2019 General Conference talks. We [I] watched it so you don’t have to!

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November 2015 exclusion policy? What November 2015 exclusion policy? Today is an historic day! The Mormon church ceased to be bigoted against LGBTQ+ people! Oh, wait… no. It didn’t. Not included in the show, but maybe this has something to do with the recent anti-hate crime bill that passed in Utah this week.

In November 2015, while Thomas Monson was president of the church, a policy from the Mormon church leaked stating that children in a home with homosexual parents couldn’t be baptized.

A few months later, Russell Nelson stated it was actually “revelation” born by 15 witnesses. This was before he was called as president of the church.

Now the church announced this policy has been reversed.

Why was this policy put in effect in the first place?
Why didn’t they apologize? https://bycommonconsent.com/2019/04/05/let-love-be-love
How do active members see this?
Was this only to stop the bleeding?

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900063943/church-lgbt-gay-lesbian-policy-mormon-baptisms-blessings-apostasy.html

Additional links:

Video of Church leaders defending the policy 2015-2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPBxFEttiI

https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/first-presidency-messages-general-conference-leadership-session-april-2019

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What’s the deal with cannabis in Utah? We resurrect this old headline to see if any new developments have occurred. We also invite Andrew Torrez from Opening Arguments Podcast to help us understand the law behind Utah legislature overturning the cannabis bill ballot initiative. Elections have consequences… After that Braden talks about The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and we discuss a new U.N. proposal to help get African countries closer to green energy!

Check out these episodes of OA to hear Andrew’s amazing legal takedown of big headlines!
https://openargs.com/oa13-hillary-clintons-damned-emails/

https://openargs.com/oa2-the-2000-election-neverforget-part-1/

https://openargs.com/oa12-tax-protesters-sovereign-citizens-wackiness/

https://openargs.com/oa21-second-amendment-masterclass-part-1/

https://openargs.com/oa154-stormy-daniels-is-a-legal-genius/

Prop 2 headlines

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/02/08/its-commerce-bill/

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/12/06/medical-cannabis/

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/02/14/utahs-biggest-health-care/

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/02/19/former-business-leader/

Light of Gazalem

https://mygoodplanet.com/african-billion-funding/

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Something slipped through the cracks and it smells fishy. We go through some of the quality control mechanisms used in Mormon genealogy research at the ward level. The Church collects and digitizes a lot of information and history, what do they do with it? We tie a few stories together to figure out what the church is planning with a recent $2 million investment into the International African American Museum in South Carolina. After that we bring on Weird Alma to talk about the recent Masonry and Mormonism essay published by the Church. Then we talk about the uptick in EV sales in America and what it might mean.

Headlines:

Temple and Family History Consultants
https://www.lds.org/family-history/temple-family-history-consultant?lang=eng

Family Search blog post
https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/elder-dale-g-renlund-2019-temple-and-family-history-leadership-instruction/

Church donates $2mn to IAAM
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-donation-2-million-international-african-american-museum-center-family-history

Church sells data to Ancestry.com
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865585877/LDS-FamilySearch--Ancestrycom--1-billion-new-historical-records-online.html?pg=all

Church data collection timeline
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/3fi88e/exploitation_and_spin_how_the_lds_church_is/

Check out Weird Alma here:

http://www.WeirdAlma.com

Light of Gazelem

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/010319-us-ev-sales-jump-725-on-year-in-2018-top-354000

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Even if it takes Black History Month to spur the conversation, we dive into racism in the Mormon church. We take a brief high-level overview of how non-white people have been treated throughout the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even though the Priesthood ban was lifted in 1978, racism didn’t go anywhere. From overt examples of prophets advocating slavery, to covert and insidious racism pervading our everyday lives, if we don’t talk about it it’ll never stop being a problem. We wrap with talking about 12 Years a Slave and an initiative in New Orleans to curb homelessness in the wake of hurricane Katrina.

Links:

Racism in Mormon Scripture
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/racialstatements.htm

Book of Abraham 1:26-7
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/1?lang=eng

Green Flake
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/flake-green-1828-1903/

Five Time Mormons Changed Their Position on Slavery
https://gregkofford.com/blogs/news/five-times-mormons-changed-their-position-on-slavery

Slavery in Utah
https://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/slaveryinutah.html

Be One celebration
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/be-one-celebration-optimism-overcoming-prejudice

Healing the Wounds of Racism by Darius Gray
https://www.lds.org/blog/healing-the-wounds-of-racism?lang=eng

MormonNewsRoom fake racism apology
https://www.apnews.com/8453dce99ccf46c2a938a4e65c5addc5

Light of Gazalem
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/19/new-orleans-reducing-homeless-hurricane-katrina

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Braden did a thing! We start with an interview he had with Milo and Angela about their creative muse: healing after Mormonism. It’s alright to be you, everybody! After that we talk about An Honest Liar, a documentary about The Amazing James Randi, and we wrap up with a story about science winning in a world besieged by “alternative facts”.

Light of Gazalem:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/vaccinations-jump-500-in-antivax-hotspot-amid-measles-outbreak/

Interview show notes:

Song: https://soundcloud.com/angela-soffe/alright-to-be-you/s-laqLD

Angela Soffe: https://angelasoffe.com/about

Miles Germer (Milocraft): http://milocraft.net/music/bio

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/angelasoffemilocraft

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REVELATION! Braden and I go through the history of Mormon Temple ceremonies. Remember folks, religion has ceremonies, cults have rituals… there’s totally a difference. We use history to provide context for the ceremony changes of 2019 and the move toward equality between sexes in the passion narrative. “Between” sexes, not “among”. After that, Braden tells us about Kumare and how private citizens are making due during the Government shutdown.

Temple changes

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/abwknz/summary_of_temple_changes_we_know_so_far_morning/

Summary of changes

http://www.ldsendowment.org/timeline.html

SL Trib article
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/01/02/lds-church-releases/

MORMON newsroom release
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/temple-worship

Alonzo Gaskill post
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsHKYi1gwaK/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=10360gliwoswi

NewNameNoah Temple Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VrsFEiTpsQ&t=1765s

Media of Great Price:

Kumare (documentary)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar%C3%A9

Light of Gazaelem:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/national-parks-shutdown-clean-up.html

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Join us for the epic conclusion to our discussion about disunity in Mormon leadership and censorship of General Conference addresses. We pick up with a long segment about Boyd K. Packer and censoring his various talks, including his address from 2010. Then Joe and I draw some conclusions based on everything discussed in our conversation as a whole.

Links mentioned in the show:

To the One
https://archive.org/details/ToTheOne/page/n1

To Young Men Only
https://archive.org/details/ToYoungMenOnly

Harold Lee talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/harold-b-lee_ye-deceived/

Benson BYU talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_safety-face-danger/

Rector talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hartman-jr-rector_roots-branches/

Henry Eyring talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_family/

Quinn telling about his conflicts with Packer
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-being-a-mormon-historian/

Review of Packer's talk in FARMS
https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1426&index=11

Packer provokes academics in Sunstone
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/066.pdf

Lost Sermons
https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/CR%20100%20912/?componentid=427210

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