EP 93 - Disturbing Mormon sexual assault hush money allegations, bizarre Book of Mormon themed move hits the big screen, LDS Christmas devotional fallout, and yet another Tim Ballard lawsuit

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Dec 10, 2023

Greetings brothers and sisters! Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup. I am your humble host Dives, talent on loan from Kolob, 

My crew and I ruminate weekly on the great and spacious beehive! Thanks so much for joining us to discuss the latest current events in Mormondom. 

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EP 93 - Disturbing Mormon sexual assault hush money allegations, bizarre Book of Mormon themed move hits the big screen, LDS Christmas devotional fallout, and yet another Tim Ballard lawsuit 

Welcome to the MormonNewsRoundup!

Get to know Enos Envy

Articles

https://youtube.com/shorts/HvlhX-3cn3Q?si=uscG-TlxRS4yH79L 

Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims

https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-investigation-child-sex-abuse-9c301f750725c0f06344f948690caf16 

The best 60 second summary 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0e60aJthw6/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 

Video

https://x.com/floodlitorg/status/1732101622992429274?s=46&t;=Kn3MLSjDGf_9v6exU2J_Gg  

Church responds

Video of Church Response

Response

Response

If AP story is factually in error  

Helpline

Irony

Actual pics of Mormons protesting the AP

Just the comments section 

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/12/06/new-court-filing-accuses-tim/

This is a new development in the Tim Ballard fiasco: 

https://x.com/AdamHerbets/status/1732525193422160087?s=20

Another Mormon News rooster in the henhouse

https://www.youtube.com/live/m2pF7Ugwn88?si=6h8aMV01CV0_cHs7 

B roll to talk over 

Link

Moroni comes to the big screen, but some LDS scholars see some big problems

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/12/03/new-movie-aims-reach-beyond-lds/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1CUF_oC7js&ab;_channel=TheSaltLakeTribune 

Poster 

https://m.facebook.com/groups/latterdaylobsters/permalink/3625990431052596/?mibextid=cr9u03 

Video

https://youtu.be/BTSCW0Q30Ds?si=Fec3xBpBr7Y0dWin 

Review

MNRU Top 10 Poll of the week

Slides

What do you want to see most in the new Moroni Inspired feature length movie

MNRU Joke of the week

Conclusion

What projects are you currently working on?  

I have two things I try to maintain consistently: 

The Mormon Question of the Day: Weekday Polls on Twitter (so follow @Enos_Envy to add your vote)

Could be something simple like “What’s the scariest room in a ward building” 

or doctrinal “How many gods exist in Mormon theology”

The Aposties–the annual ExMo Awards on Twitter

I’ll be taking nominations starting in January and we have a panel of ExMos who select the winners which are announced each hour of April General Conference. 

We’d really like to host a live Aposties in person at a Chili’s someday–Cultch would have to handle the parody musical numbers.

Shout out to Jacob Hansen for winning 2022’s Mental Gymnast of the Year award. He took home the Fanny (our digital trophy is named after Fanny Alger). 

He’s sure trying hard to repeat in 2023, but the competition is FIERCE!

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