Why Young Latter-day Saints Are Leaning Liberal
Four young Latter-day Saints say their liberal politics came from their faith, not despite it — and it exposes the gap between Church neutrality and ward culture.A Salt Lake Tribune piece profiles Ril...
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Joseph Smith, Freemasonry, and the Temple Apron
The apron Lucifer wears in the LDS temple ceremony isn't in Genesis — it's Masonic. Joseph Smith became a Master Mason in 1842, and seven weeks later, the endowment appeared using the same signs.Hosts...
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The Bear River Massacre and the Mormon History Behind Washakie Ward
The Bear River Massacre is the deadliest massacre of Indigenous people by the United States military in American history, and most of us were never taught about it.This week on What Do You Know Wednes...
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Mormon Exclusion Is Structural — Temple Recommends, Shunning, and Love Bombing Explained
The LDS Church doesn't need anyone to be cruel. The recommend interview, the ministering grid, and the love bombing cycle do the work — and they were built to.Jess and Hannah break down three structur...
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The Pinkest City in the Reddest State: The LDS Church Doesn't Play Politics?
Why does Utah's most Democratic city sit at the heart of the LDS Church? This week on Postmormon Postmortem, we examine Salt Lake City's political evolution, Utah's controversial redistricting battles...
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Joseph Smith's First Vision: The 1832 Account They Kept in a Safe
There's an earlier First Vision account — written in Joseph's own hand, kept in a church official's personal safe for decades. It describes a different age, a different reason, and one being, not two....
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Utah Has More MLMs Per Capita Than Any U.S. State. Mormon Culture Created the Perfect Conditions.
Utah has more MLMs per capita than any state in the country, and the three biggest — Young Living, Doterra, and Nu Skin — were all founded by members of the LDS Church. This week, Jess explains to Han...
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Reckless Ben vs. Bricks & Minifigs: The Mormon Mafia Claim
A missing Lego Star Wars collection somehow became one of the strangest Mormon-adjacent internet stories of the year so far.Bryan Mansell says his family’s valuable Lego collection was taken after a B...
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