Mormon Land
By The Salt Lake Tribune
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Mormon Land explores the contours and complexities of LDS news. It’s hosted by award-winning religion writer Peggy Fletcher Stack and Salt Lake Tribune managing editor David Noyce.
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A new biography finds both “prophet” and “scoundrel” in Joseph Smith | Episode 394
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Mormons in Media crossover: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 2 — Did they really do all of this sober?
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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From Africa: Why the LDS faith is drawing so many converts | Episode 393
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May 28, 2025 |
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Catholic conclave vs. LDS succession — Is one system better? | Episode 392
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May 21, 2025 |
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The real story about perfectionism | Episode 391
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May 14, 2025 |
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From stay-at-home-mom to breadwinner — help for LDS women if the marriage ends | Episode 390
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May 07, 2025 |
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Mormons in Media crossover: What is Heather Gay teaching people about Latter-day Saint heaven?
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May 04, 2025 |
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Announcing a new podcast partnership all about Latter-day Saints in pop culture | Episode 389
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Racism in the LDS Church: There's still work to do, says Mauli Bonner | Episode 388
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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LDS missionary program offsets falling birthrates — for now | Episode 387
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Why the new garments are a hit and reminder of a changing church | Episode 386
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The evolution of Exponent II and LDS feminism | Episode 385
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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'Latter Day Struggles' podcasters discuss their resignation from the church | Episode 384
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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How politics and polarization are shaping Latter-day Saints in the U.S. | Episode 383
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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What many Latter-day Saints and church leaders get wrong about pornography | Episode 382
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The conservative LDS prophet who led fights over evolution, the age of the Earth and orthodoxy | Episode 381
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Are LDS men falling prey to extremist masculinity? | Episode 380
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Why those anti-LDS chants at BYU games? | Episode 379
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Johnathan Rauch on the LDS Church's trailblazing compromises for the good of the country | Episode 378
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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How can the church sustain the law and support its undocumented members? | Episode 377
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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From stake president and temple designer to excommunicated trans woman | Episode 376
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Understanding the big courtroom showdown in the tithing lawsuit against the LDS Church | Episode 375
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Separating fact from fiction in ‘American Primeval’ | Episode 374
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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What is happening at BYU and why it matters | Episode 373
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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New garments, social media stars, temple push (and pushback) and 2024′s other big LDS news | Episode 372
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young says to stop making deals with God | Episode 371
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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What the Bible and historical records really say about Jesus’ birth | Episode 370
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Single Latter-day Saints discuss faith, dating and the search for love | Episode 369
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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All about the LDS Church's rapid growth in Africa | Episode 368
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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How practicing gratitude can cure road rage and combat loneliness | Episode 367
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Final 'Saints' volume covers key moments in LDS history | Episode 366
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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The Atlantic's McKay Coppins on the LDS Church and a second Trump term | Episode 365
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Tribune religion reporter, film critic give their take on ‘Heretic’ | Episode 364
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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President Nelson is betting big that more LDS temples will keep more members in the church | Episode 363
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Do new sleeveless options show LDS garments aren’t about modesty? | Episode 362
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Parenting challenges and choices from which schools to attend and whether to stick with the church | Episode 361
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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How the Tabernacle Choir wows crowds and spreads global goodwill for the LDS Church | Episode 360
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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If you’re Christian, BYU ecologist says, you’ll work for the Earth and against climate change | Episode 359
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Everything you need to know about the tithing lawsuits against the LDS Church | Episode 358
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Utah rabbi talks about forgiveness and atonement while Middle East fighting rages | Episode 357
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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On base, she leads the congregation. In her LDS ward, she sits in the pews. | Episode 356
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Can Latter-day Saint women find a place in the patriarchy? | Episode 355
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Why this Republican LDS mayor hopes Trump’s GOP ‘fails miserably’ | Episode 354
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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A conference to help questioning Latter-day Saints stay in the church | Episode 353
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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How new church policies make trans members invisible and could push them to leave | Episode 352
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Utah’s LDS sometimes discriminate — and are sometimes discriminated against | Episode 351
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Latter-day Saints and body image | Episode 350
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Big change for church’s young single adults could bring big benefits | Episode 349
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Church can be painful for some Latter-day Saints. So what’s the answer? | Episode 438
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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After 50 years, feminist voice still rings out in the pages of Exponent II | Episode 437
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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A look at LDS missionary folklore and what it says about the faith | Episode 436
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy? | Episode 345
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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”Leadership roulette” for same-sex LDS couples | Episode 344
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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The case for a group dedicated to protecting Latter-day Saint civil rights | Episode 343
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Why a pastor is teaching evangelicals about the LDS Church | Episode 342
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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What happened behind the scenes before and after the Black priesthood ban ended | Episode 341
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The surprising news about LDS Church growth | Episode 340
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May 29, 2024 |
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What was lost when the LDS Church started emphasizing covenants over community | Episode 339
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May 22, 2024 |
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The LDS Church isn’t dying in Germany, but it is changing | Episode 338
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May 15, 2024 |
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Why leaders’ efforts to keep women in the faith could backfire — and what could work | Episode 337
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May 08, 2024 |
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Will a top LDS women’s leader ever again be seen as a ‘13th apostle’? | Episode 336
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May 01, 2024 |
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How near-death accounts became apocalyptic and why they attract Latter-day Saints | Episode 335
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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What happens inside LDS families when a loved one leaves the faith | Episode 334
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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A conversation about General Conference | Episode 333
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Who should decide when, where and how often Latter-day Saints wear temple garments? | Episode 332
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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What LDS women want — in the wake of a controversial ‘priesthood power’ speech | Episode 331
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Preserving the Kirtland and Manti temples — through the eyes of LDS historians | Episode 330
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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A look at the Kirtland Temple’s past and its future under a new owner | Episode 329
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Huntsman case, ‘copycat’ tithing lawsuits and expanding LDS Church wealth | Episode 328
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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BYU’s racial history | Episode 327
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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The life and legacy of historian D. Michael Quinn | Episode 326
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Finding love in today’s Latter-day Saint dating scene | Episode 325
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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How Latter-day Saints can add other Christian traditions to Easter | Episode 324
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Abuse and forgiveness — How gender imbalances sometimes protect LDS predators | Episode 323
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Why can’t Latter-day Saint girls pass the sacrament? | Episode 322
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Benjamin Park on a fresh take of 200 years of Mormon history | Episode 321
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Why believers and critics miss the complexities of the Book of Mormon | Episode 320
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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A look at LDS Church growth and what the membership stats really reveal | Episode 319
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The LDS army that made its mark in history without firing a shot against a foe | Episode 318
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Remembering a Latter-day Saint humanitarian who truly lived his religion | Episode 317
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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What to expect from Patrick Kearon, not your typical LDS apostle | Episode 316
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Booting women’s leaders off the stand was ‘hurtful’ and ‘heartbreaking’ | Episode 315
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The woman who runs the church’s most visible publisher and retailer: Deseret Book | Episode 314
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Apostle vacancy spurs questions about men who run the church — for life | Episode 313
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Steve Young lays out a new game plan for life: the law of love | Episode 312
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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We aren’t perfect. Life isn’t perfect. The church isn’t perfect. Why that’s OK. | Episode 311
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Can Latter-day Saints become as good at peacemaking as they are at proselytizing? | Episode 310
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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McKay Coppins on Mitt Romney — his faith, his politics and his legacy | Episode 309
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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A Palestinian Latter-day Saint’s view on the Israel-Hamas war | Episode 308
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The rise and fall of Brigham Young’s wine mission | Episode 307
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Only 3 women spoke at General Conference — what they said and why it matters | Episode 306
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Tim Ballard uproar reveals divisions between LDS Church and its far-right members | Episode 305
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Live with eminent scholars Richard and Claudia Bushman | Episode 304
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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‘September Six’ ousters were in the past, but the tug of war isn’t over | Episode 303
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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‘E.T.’ meets Joseph Smith? A new book shows the intersection between religion and UFOs | Episode 302
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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LDS singles sing, dance and rock out. Will such connections keep them in the church? | Episode 301
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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All about the tithing lawsuit facing the church | Episode 300
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Fighting hunger among Latter-day Saints in developing nations. Can the church do it? | Ep. 299
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Is ‘Barbie’ an allegory of Mother Eve in LDS theology? | Episode 298
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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From temple divorce to a thriving interfaith marriage | Episode 297
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Aug 02, 2023 |