LDS Church Historian Apologizes for Racist Remarks
This week on Mormon Monday, we’re talking about Elder Kyle S. McKay, a General Authority Seventy and Church Historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who apologized after making r...
15 Juni 16min
You Didn't Get a Comment. You Got a Node. The LDS Influence Machine Explained.
Someone showed up in our comments with three arguments, one after another — missing scrolls, Chicago Fire, syncretism. Behind that comment is a funded nonprofit, studio space, and SEO training. Here's...
14 Juni 0s
Joseph Smith’s Happiness Letter to Nancy Rigdon Was Worse Than We Thought
Joseph Smith’s “Happiness Letter” is famous for the line “Happiness is the object and design of our existence.” But the full letter was connected to Nancy Rigdon, the 19-year-old daughter of Sidney Ri...
10 Juni 0s
Are Mormons Christian? The Pentagon Just Made It Awkward
Utah senators are demanding the Pentagon fix its religious categories after the LDS Church wasn't listed under "Christian." We break down why that categorization reflects a 200-year-old theological di...
8 Juni 0s
The Grammar of Harm: How Mormon Care Language Delivers Harm
Someone said something loving. You left feeling searched. Six specific LDS practices deliver harm through care language — and make naming it feel like the problem.Jess and Hannah name six practices em...
7 Juni 0s
The Mormon Church Still Hasn't Apologized For Mountain Meadows
In this minisode, Hannah looks at the Mountain Meadows Massacre through one specific question: what would a real apology from the Mormon Church actually sound like?Using a ten-part framework for meani...
4 Juni 10min
What Is a Dry Mormon? Dirty Soda, Ballerina Farm, and the Second Mormon Moment
New York magazine says America is in a second Mormon moment, and this time the church didn't do a thing — the influencers did it for them. This week on What Do You Know Wednesday, Jess puts Hannah on ...
3 Juni 11min
A Former Utah Supreme Court Justice Asked Dallin Oaks to Defend the Courts
David Bennett, a former Utah Supreme Court justice, wrote to Dallin Oaks in the Salt Lake Tribune on May 14. Oaks is also a former Utah Supreme Court justice and the current president of the Church of...
1 Juni 0s
