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It’s a gargantuan show this week. A trio of hosts are with you to break down so much news: your beloved hero, Geoff Openshaw; longtime partner in temple predictions, Cory Ward; and host of “Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree,” Liz Busby. Geoff and Cory both toured the Washington DC Temple. Liz has updates on the Latter-day Saint literary community.
Latter-day Saint News
- Cory attends the Young Adult devotional where President and Sister Nelson spoke, but there were no promised cardboard cutouts!
- LoveLoud, a festival to help LGBTQ individuals, particularly Latter-day Saints, happens at the same time the Church releases a video tour of the Washington DC Temple
- Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons pays off the mortgage of Velour, a beloved music venue in Provo
- Missionaries are using social media to share the gospel now more than ever – but is it a successful approach?
- Church humanitarian aid exceeded $900 million in 2021
- The sister of “Under the Banner of Heaven” subject (and victim) Brenda Lafferty speaks out on the series
- The Washington Post covers Utah’s dirty soda empire
- 20 movies every Latter-day Saint has seen!
- 100th anniversary of Primary Children’s Hospital
- LDS Living writes a piece that seems to be native advertising for the author’s Instagram account
- Virtual tour of the Washington DC Temple
- The Church News podcast covers the “reverse open houses” in Washington, DC
- Should Brad Wilcox be teaching boys about puberty?
- Buzzfeed covers the “Black Menaces” at BYU
- Six ways to support bishops!
- Hate crime charges come in two separate anti-LDS cases
- Conservative think tank head thinks the Church should voluntarily revoke its tax-exempt status
- Brandon Sanderson and Darius Gray win Whitney Awards – awards for books written by LDS authors
- Bela Petsco, whose memoir about his mission cost him his job at BYU, dies
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