EP 495 – Sariah Wilson, Author of “Roommaid”
September 21, 2020
Romance author Sariah Wilson discusses writing for a broad audience but with an LDS perspective and how her faith informs her journey.
Category: Podcasts
EP 494 – Detours to Spanish Fork
September 15, 2020
Cobra Kai goes to Geoff’s head. Senator Mike Lee wants to cancel KSL. Zelophehad’s Daughters tackles LDS cinema on IMDB.
EP 493 – The Socially Distant Temple
September 8, 2020
One new temple breaks ground and another loses its president to COVID, children of divorced parents can bein two wards, and new youth theme!
EP 492 – Four Options for LGBT Latter-day Saints: A Conversation with Tyler Lefevor
September 1, 2020
Professor Tyler Lefevor discusses his research showing four options for LGBT Latter-day Saints, which might include leaving the Church.
EP 491 – To Trump or Not to Trump
August 25, 2020
Latter-day Saints for Trump. Latter-day Saints for Joe. The Mormon vote suddenly matters much more than it did in elections past.
EP 490 – A Look at LDS Offshoot Leader James Strang w/ Author Miles Harvey
August 18, 2020
James Strang is barely known to most Latter-day Saints, a new book, “The King of Confidence” goes into the rise and fall of this self-proclaimed monarch.
EP 489 – We’ve Gone Full Christian Rock
August 12, 2020
What is the history of the angel Moroni statue on temples? Are we teaching the law of chastity correctly? What is up with the new Hymns at Home app?
EP 488 – Pioneering the Vote: Neylan McBaine on Utah’s Role in Women’s Suffrage
August 4, 2020
Utah was the first territory in the U.S. where women voted. What is the story behind suffrage in the west, and how is it relevant to Latter-day Saints?
EP 487 – All Pioneer Days Matter
July 28, 2020
With Pioneer Day behind us, how can we celebrate the pioneers of the future?
EP 486 – We Are Not Speculating About Temple Changes AT ALL
July 21, 2020
FamilySearch reaches—badly—on religious freedom, BYU’s Black Student Union wants to rename the whole campus, major changes to temple work!
EP 485 – Wear Your Mask, Kids
July 14, 2020
How did face masks become about religious freedom when they are supposed to be about public health? How is your sabbath in the time of COVID?
EP 484 – Lilburn Boggs for Apostle
July 7, 2020
Some satire on Lilburn Boggs makes a good point about monuments, Tad Callister doesn’t read the room, Josie has a new podcast. And Wear. The. Mask.
EP 483 – Racism in the Church: A Conversation with Historian Russell Stevenson
June 29, 2020
Noted Latter-day Saint historian Russell Stevenson sits down to talk Brigham Young and racism, modern-day LDS racism, and what we can do to be better.
EP 482 – Walk and Chew Gum
June 23, 2020
We can acknowledge that vandalism is wrong and still be open to a discussion on the Church’s racist past. Elder Bednar goes after the government! And more!
EP 481 – Defund Wards
June 16, 2020
BYU-Idaho steps in it when trying to address race relations, male missionary fashion may now not involve ties, active Latter-day Saints support Trump less.
EP 480 – Privilege
June 9, 2020
White privilege is real among Latter-day Saints. You may not think so, but it’s true. How can we identify and combat racism in our own ranks?
EP 479 – Abhorrent
June 2, 2020
Widespread protests and violence in the wake of George Floyd’s murder causes Latter-day Saints to look inward and ask, “Is it I?”
EP 478 – Singing Is Very Plosive
May 27, 2020
Latter-day Saints weigh reopening their congregations. But do we need professional cleaners? Should we sing? Bishops lose oversight of missionary work.
EP 477 – Your Local Nasal Swabber
May 19, 2020
Will we see a drop off in church attendance once we all come back? Are women truly equal in priesthood authority during a lockdown? Polygamy in 2020.
EP 476 – The Only Peer Review You Need Is Social Media
May 12, 2020
It’s Jesus only in Church meetinghouse foyers, revisiting Mark Hofmann, phased temple reopenings, and the latest from Kate Kelly!
EP 475 – Surviving Not Thriving
May 5, 2020
The Tabernacle Choir gets a new logo, BYU Magazine goes all in on listening to women, Shanghai Temple might face a rocky road, a bevy of COVID news
EP 474 – “Kingdom of Nauvoo” – Benjamin E. Park
April 27, 2020
Benjamin E. Park discusses his new book, Kingdom of Nauvoo, about the rise and fall of Nauvoo as a theocracy that stressed the limits of American democracy.
EP 473 – The Beginning
April 21, 2020
Most of you have not suffered through our very first show, so with 2020 commemorating 10 years of This Week in Mormons, the time is now!
EP 472 – More Mournfulness Give Me
April 15, 2020
Recapping the global fast for COVID-19. Why is Moroni not on some newer temples? Global COVID relief efforts. Courts cannot decide validity of religion.
EP 471 – General Conference Recap: Social Distancing Edition
April 5, 2020
It was certainly a General Conference like no other, full of incredible counsel, the Hosanna Shout, a new Proclamation, youth speakers, and more!
EP 470 – A Nexus of Truth and Disease
April 1, 2020
We predict the most unpredictable General Conference ever; missionaries to be released and reutrn later to the field; competing accounts of the First Vision
EP 469 – Temple Predictions: The Podcast Too!
March 30, 2020
This special edition of This Week in Mormons delves exclusively into our temple predictions for the April 2020 General Conference.
EP 468 – World War C
March 24, 2020
Missionaries start returning home en mass due to cornavirus, General Conference scales way back, Utah gets rocked, and felon toilet paper thieves in Idaho.
EP 467 – Empty Pews
March 17, 2020
Coronavirus brings nearly all Church activity to a halt. How was your first Sunday conducting church at home? What does the future hold?
EP 466 – Get It Together, BYU
March 10, 2020
Brigham Young University needs to figure out how to include the LGBT community.
EP 465 – Devin Thorpe for Congress
March 3, 2020
Surprising us all, our own host Devin Thorpe is running for Congress! Coronavirus cancels part of General Conference. How to make the sacrament cleaner.
EP 464 – All the NCMO in the World
February 26, 2020
Let’s dissect the changes in the new Handbook. BYU decriminalizes homosexual displays. Utah decriminalizes polygamy. And LDS Business College is no more!
EP 463 – Polygamy Wow!
February 18, 2020
Utah flirts with decriminalizing polygamy, coronarivus ruins your vacation, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell marry in Hawaii, meetinghouse wifi changes forever!
EP 462 – No More Mr. Nice Mittens
February 11, 2020
Mitt Romney, saver of Constitution? Reporting on the ground on coronavirus. Racism at BYU. Elizabeth Smart assaulted again. International News!
EP 461 – One Handbook to Rule Them All
February 4, 2020
One general handbook replaces two, Mitt Romney chugs chocolate milk, nursing mothers denied entry to BYU event, Utahns want church finances to be public!
EP 460 – You’re Very Generous with Your Thunder
January 28, 2020
Come, Follow Me isn’t perfect, but is it a “dumpster fire”? Maybe.
EP 459 – Are You a Rachel?
January 21, 2020
How is the new Young Women’s structure working out for you? How are your classes organized? We’ve surveyed you to find out more.
EP 458 – Alright, Wendy Nelson, I’m Gonna Need to See Some Credentials
January 14, 2020
Josie Gleave is here to talk about a surfeit of women’s issues that have come up over the past week. Also, we might know where General Conference is!
EP 457 – It’s the New Year, and We Can’t Think of a Title for This Episode
January 8, 2020
The Church has a new augmented reality app. Should Mormons be on Meidcaid? New First Vision podcast. Troubling growth numbers in Utah.
EP 456 – Money
December 30, 2019
We finally get around to talking about the elphant in the room: the Church’s wealth and alleged tax violations. Also, be nice to the DC Gay Men’s Chorus!