[dropcap]G[/dropcap]eoff and Kurt are back with the latest in Latter-day Saint news! A ton of stuff has happened of note, and we'll get to it just as soon a we blow 10 minutes talking about whatever we want.

The top story this week is undoubtedly the announcement by the Church that removes the requirement that couples that marry civilly must wait a year before being sealed in the temple. Now they can get married civilly, if so desired, and hit up the temple as they see fit. This is huge news for non- and part-member families, in particular, but perhaps also represents a precursor toward temple sealers ceasing to perform civil ceremonies altogether? After all, we were tipped off about that very thing five years ago, and it did not come to fruition.

As part of that story, blogger Jasmin Gimenez has a terrific history of the now-defunct policy. You should give it a read.

Near the end of this past weekend's BYU Women's Conference, Relief Society General President Jean B. Bingham related a story about a time when priesthood leadership in her ward was unnecessarily difficult. She was frustrated. Her hot husband felt her frustration. She learned a lot about working with leaders from the process. The problem for some, however, is that Sister Bingham described women as "shrill" and "stubborn." Whoops.

In This Week in Polemics, Geoff asks why we listen to the wives of General Authorities when those wives are not ordained or sustained as anything?! WHY IS THIS? Not even once, Wendy!

All returnED missionaries are now eligible for a component of BYU Pathways, allowing them to enroll in a preparatory year-long course. This is great news for higher education and the continuance of education for the Lord's children, regardless of the access they have to education in their native lands.

Lest we forget, for a few blissful days, we all learned that users could change the icon in the Gospel Library mobile app, including a Lego Moroni! Sadly, we can only assume this was deliberately slipped beneath the gaze of supervisors as developers published the app, for the Easter egg quietly disappeared in about a day through a forced update.

Have you seen our excellent podcast miniseries on motherhood? You should check out Part 1 here.

In crushing news, The Other Side of Heaven 2 is rated PG-13. Will families even see it?!

Transcript

Geoff:

[0:36] Yep that's right I want to start the show the exact opposite way of Josie special podcast from us from Sunday which is very calm and measured.

Kurt:

[0:47] You blew out our speakers Jeff.

Geoff: