This Week in Mormons This Week in Mormons
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This Week in Mormons is the leading podcast on Latter-day Saintnews and issues, peppered with a bit of absurdist comedy and snappy wit! Join our host and editor-in-chief, Geoff Openshaw, as he partners with engaging Latter-day Saint co-hosts from around the world to bring you the best in Latter-day Saint news and commentary. Follow the blog at thisweekinmormons.com
Episodes typically published mid-week.
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3/16 – MTC Rock Concert, AI Guidelines, & Women Boycott Church
Quick Clips:
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Patrick Kearon shares Ramadan Greeting with Muslims around the world
MELISSA
Special Issue of FSY magazine
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BYU to require incoming students to read Holland’s musket speech.
MELISSA
Truman Brothers MTC concert
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Opportunity for UK Member to Sing with TABCATS
TEMPLE NEWS
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New Temple Presidents called
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Manti Temple Open House
Related: Dinosaur Mural -
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3/9 – Kirtland Temple Week! (and a ton of other stuff)
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3/2 – RootsTech 2024, Giving Machines Won Big, & Extortion Accusations
Is God Disappointed in Me?
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Customer Reviews
So refreshing to get on honest view of Mormon News!
The Podcast comes from a very faithful perspective but they can also say, “I’m not sure why they did that”, or “That’s part of Church History that’s hard to rectify.”.
The other podcasts I listened to bent over themselves to say the Church was perfect and every leader that there ever was never made a mistake.
This is a refreshingly funny and current look at Mormon news.
Ill-informed Dribble
Just bunch of self-important people talking for the sake of hearing themselves talk. There is no informed commentary on the news, nothing intelligent they have to add, and in some instances misinformation. The church’s water rights amount to only a drop in the bucket of what the salt lake needs?!?! Experts estimate their rights amount to 10%. That’s significant!!!
Different discussions
This latest episode where the Hamilton talk and the byu church centered teaching guidelines was a good indication of how stale the discussion can get. They were “disappointed, shocked, or didn’t understand how the internet could react like that.” There are valid reasons for them to feel ok with these topics going the way they did, but to have them be so dismissive of people who were concerned or disagreed with the issues brought up in these cases was a bummer. It could be cool to have a model on these episodes where a couple views could be brought forward and model a discussion where the other side could listen to understand instead of listen to respond. I get that there are a segment of people who are afraid of this kind of discussion because they don’t want to validate people who question, and people who question don’t want to validate orthodoxy because it feels dismissive of their own journey. Is there a pair of hosts that can do that effectively? Can TWIM be that place?