This Week in Mormons

EP 438 – Algorithms Are the Worst


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[dropcap]L[/dropcap]eading Saints' legendary founder and host, Kurt Francom, joins us this week to dissect the news, talk about Leading Saint amazing new Liberating Saints virtual summit, which is aimed at combating pornography addiction. Sign up!

Lots of temple news this week, including an admission by President Nelson that we should expect more temple announcements this upcoming General Conference as well as "other" announcements. But which temples? And what does "other" mean?.

Haiti's first temple, in the capital of Port-au-Prince, was dedicated over the weekend by Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

President Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal toured the Lisbon Portugal Temple during its open house last week. Always fun when a head of state visits one of our buildings.



The Church released renderings of the Richmond Virginia Temple, and Geoff is giddy!

Lastly, to celebrate their temple's rededication, saints in the Raleigh North Carolina Temple district are holding a fun run 5K to the temple grounds. Spiritual and physical fitness, friends.

Let's move to missionaries. Are returned missionaries the key to Utah's success with startups? One publication thinks so. Third Hour, the Mormon Buzzfeed, republished an article about how mission calls are issued, so... read it again.

We came across a terrific article on finding the right balance between making assignments and asking for volunteers at Church. The Church runs on assignments, but we have to go about it the right way.

JTM, formerly James the Mormon, formerly Jamesthemormon, is changing names again, mostly because he says people, even at church, make him feel unwelcome over his continued reference to "Mormon." He also admits this is a play on search algorithms, as his music is not meant to be lumped into the newest Kenneth Cope album.

There's some biased journalism over at High Country News, but author Emma Penrod
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