EP 586 – Sports Prosperity Gospel

Hi! We're glad you're here for another week of Latter-day Saint-focused news and discussion. Kurt Francom of Leading Saints, a podcast and community focused on helping Latter-day Saints become better leaders, is with us in the hot seat.

Latter-day Saint News

* Temples to allow walk-ins again

* Washington DC Temple open house has had 250,000 visitors - roughly one-third that of the 1974 open house

* Burley Idaho Temple groundbreaking

* Why do Church leaders tend to be wealthy?

* 5 times Obi-Wan Kenobi reminded us of gospel truths

* 4 ways to include members from different cultures

* Friend to Friend returns

* Join the Church and be a better athlete!

* What faith communities are doing to address the housing crisis

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Transcript

00:01.00

Geoff Openshaw

What's up party people. How y'all doing welcome to This Week in Mormons I'm Geoff Openenshaw your founder.

00:04.65

Kurt Francom

And I'm Kurt Frankham your somewhat regular co-host. Hey yep but I think this is way back. 2012 I mean how long you've been doing this Geoff okay I would say 15012 and I stumbled across you and.

00:15.10

Geoff Openshaw

But longtime supporter of the show Kurt.

00:31.22

Geoff Openshaw

Since 2010 early None the hour. And you listen to it. Yes.

00:43.11

Kurt Francom

And al and I thought well these two are apostates let's see what they have to say and little did I know that you came around you repented and you know I'm just kidding you were out. You're always good. They're just snarky. Okay, all right? That's cool.

01:00.90

Geoff Openshaw

Know you said oh oh you said oh they're faithful modes of the church. They just sound like apostates I get it I get it. You been around for a while folks some days some days I wish I could reduce Sunday school bonanza. But I don't have the time I don't have the time to commit to it. You know.

01:22.61

Kurt Francom

Oh man, do you remember your dream Geoff that you were going to just like do the 4 years and then just hit repeat I guess you did that for a wh...