Glass Box Podcast

Just as the title states, Braden and I go through the Saturday April 2019 General Conference talks. We [I] watched it so you don't have to!

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November 2015 exclusion policy? What November 2015 exclusion policy? Today is an historic day! The Mormon church ceased to be bigoted against LGBTQ+ people! Oh, wait… no. It didn't. Not included in the show, but maybe this has something to do with the recent anti-hate crime bill that passed in Utah this week.

In November 2015, while Thomas Monson was president of the church, a policy from the Mormon church leaked stating that children in a home with homosexual parents couldn't be baptized.

A few months later, Russell Nelson stated it was actually "revelation" born by 15 witnesses. This was before he was called as president of the church.

Now the church announced this policy has been reversed.

• Why was this policy put in effect in the first place?
• Why didn't they apologize? https://bycommonconsent.com/2019/04/05/let-love-be-love
• How do active members see this?
• Was this only to stop the bleeding?

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900063943/church-lgbt-gay-lesbian-policy-mormon-baptisms-blessings-apostasy.html

Additional links:

Video of Church leaders defending the policy 2015-2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPBxFEttiI

https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/first-presidency-messages-general-conference-leadership-session-april-2019

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What's the deal with cannabis in Utah? We resurrect this old headline to see if any new developments have occurred. We also invite Andrew Torrez from Opening Arguments Podcast to help us understand the law behind Utah legislature overturning the cannabis bill ballot initiative. Elections have consequences… After that Braden talks about The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and we discuss a new U.N. proposal to help get African countries closer to green energy!

Check out these episodes of OA to hear Andrew's amazing legal takedown of big headlines!https://openargs.com/oa13-hillary-clintons-damned-emails/

https://openargs.com/oa2-the-2000-election-neverforget-part-1/

https://openargs.com/oa12-tax-protesters-sovereign-citizens-wackiness/

https://openargs.com/oa21-second-amendment-masterclass-part-1/

https://openargs.com/oa154-stormy-daniels-is-a-legal-genius/

Prop 2 headlines

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/02/08/its-commerce-bill/

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/12/06/medical-cannabis/

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/02/14/utahs-biggest-health-care/

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/02/19/former-business-leader/

Light of Gazalem

https://mygoodplanet.com/african-billion-funding/

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Something slipped through the cracks and it smells fishy. We go through some of the quality control mechanisms used in Mormon genealogy research at the ward level. The Church collects and digitizes a lot of information and history, what do they do with it? We tie a few stories together to figure out what the church is planning with a recent $2 million investment into the International African American Museum in South Carolina. After that we bring on Weird Alma to talk about the recent Masonry and Mormonism essay published by the Church. Then we talk about the uptick in EV sales in America and what it might mean.

Headlines:

Temple and Family History Consultantshttps://www.lds.org/family-history/temple-family-history-consultant?lang=eng

Family Search blog posthttps://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/elder-dale-g-renlund-2019-temple-and-family-history-leadership-instruction/

Church donates $2mn to IAAMhttps://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-donation-2-million-international-african-american-museum-center-family-history

Church sells data to Ancestry.comhttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/865585877/LDS-FamilySearch--Ancestrycom--1-billion-new-historical-records-online.html?pg=all

Church data collection timelinehttps://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/3fi88e/exploitation_and_spin_how_the_lds_church_is/

Check out Weird Alma here:

http://www.WeirdAlma.com

Light of Gazelem

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/010319-us-ev-sales-jump-725-on-year-in-2018-top-354000

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Even if it takes Black History Month to spur the conversation, we dive into racism in the Mormon church. We take a brief high-level overview of how non-white people have been treated throughout the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even though the Priesthood ban was lifted in 1978, racism didn't go anywhere. From overt examples of prophets advocating slavery, to covert and insidious racism pervading our everyday lives, if we don't talk about it it'll never stop being a problem. We wrap with talking about 12 Years a Slave and an initiative in New Orleans to curb homelessness in the wake of hurricane Katrina.

Links:

Racism in Mormon Scripturehttp://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/racialstatements.htm

Book of Abraham 1:26-7https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/1?lang=eng

Green Flakehttps://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/flake-green-1828-1903/

Five Time Mormons Changed Their Position on Slaveryhttps://gregkofford.com/blogs/news/five-times-mormons-changed-their-position-on-slavery

Slavery in Utahhttps://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/slaveryinutah.html

Be One celebrationhttps://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/be-one-celebration-optimism-overcoming-prejudice

Healing the Wounds of Racism by Darius Grayhttps://www.lds.org/blog/healing-the-wounds-of-racism?lang=eng

MormonNewsRoom fake racism apologyhttps://www.apnews.com/8453dce99ccf46c2a938a4e65c5addc5

Light of Gazalemhttps://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/19/new-orleans-reducing-homeless-hurricane-katrina

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Braden did a thing! We start with an interview he had with Milo and Angela about their creative muse: healing after Mormonism. It's alright to be you, everybody! After that we talk about An Honest Liar, a documentary about The Amazing James Randi, and we wrap up with a story about science winning in a world besieged by "alternative facts".

Light of Gazalem:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/vaccinations-jump-500-in-antivax-hotspot-amid-measles-outbreak/

Interview show notes:

Song: https://soundcloud.com/angela-soffe/alright-to-be-you/s-laqLD

Angela Soffe: https://angelasoffe.com/about

Miles Germer (Milocraft): http://milocraft.net/music/bio

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/angelasoffemilocraft

Show links:

Website http://www.glassboxpodcast.com/index.html

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REVELATION! Braden and I go through the history of Mormon Temple ceremonies. Remember folks, religion has ceremonies, cults have rituals… there's totally a difference. We use history to provide context for the ceremony changes of 2019 and the move toward equality between sexes in the passion narrative. "Between" sexes, not "among". After that, Braden tells us about Kumare and how private citizens are making due during the Government shutdown.

Temple changes

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/abwknz/summary_of_temple_changes_we_know_so_far_morning/

Summary of changes

http://www.ldsendowment.org/timeline.html

SL Trib articlehttps://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/01/02/lds-church-releases/

MORMON newsroom releasehttps://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/temple-worship

Alonzo Gaskill posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/BsHKYi1gwaK/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=10360gliwoswi

NewNameNoah Temple Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VrsFEiTpsQ&t=1765s

Media of Great Price:

Kumare (documentary)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar%C3%A9

Light of Gazaelem:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/national-parks-shutdown-clean-up.html

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Join us for the epic conclusion to our discussion about disunity in Mormon leadership and censorship of General Conference addresses. We pick up with a long segment about Boyd K. Packer and censoring his various talks, including his address from 2010. Then Joe and I draw some conclusions based on everything discussed in our conversation as a whole.

Links mentioned in the show:

To the One https://archive.org/details/ToTheOne/page/n1

To Young Men Only https://archive.org/details/ToYoungMenOnly

Harold Lee talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/harold-b-lee_ye-deceived/

Benson BYU talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_safety-face-danger/

Rector talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hartman-jr-rector_roots-branches/

Henry Eyring talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_family/

Quinn telling about his conflicts with Packer http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-being-a-mormon-historian/

Review of Packer's talk in FARMS https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1426&index=11

Packer provokes academics in Sunstone https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/066.pdf

Lost Sermons https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/CR%20100%20912/?componentid=427210

Further Reading:

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/essential-james-e-talmage/

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N01_23.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/046-38-39.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/045-44-57.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/015-43-46.pdf

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Joe and I pick right back up where we left off with J. Golden Kimball. Joe walks us through nearly 80 years of Mormon history discussing disunity among General Authorities and censorship of General Conference addresses. As we broach more modern General Authorities we discuss how the modern conservative bend of the Mormon church was moved and shaped by prominent figures in the Quorum of Apostles. Ezra Taft Benson and the John Birch Society are the focus for a substantial part. Then Joe documents the lengths the Church will go to cover up controversial opinions from the pulpit, even going so far as to retape a portion of General Conference with a superimposed "cough track" at the cost of $10-15,000. Joe was nice enough to give us over 5 hours of his time, making this episode part 2 of 3.

Links mentioned in the show:

To the One https://archive.org/details/ToTheOne/page/n1

To Young Men Only https://archive.org/details/ToYoungMenOnly

Harold Lee talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/harold-b-lee_ye-deceived/

Benson BYU talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_safety-face-danger/

Rector talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hartman-jr-rector_roots-branches/

Henry Eyring talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_family/

Quinn telling about his conflicts with Packer http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-being-a-mormon-historian/

Review of Packer's talk in FARMS https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1426&index=11

Packer provokes academics in Sunstone https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/066.pdf

Lost Sermons https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/CR%20100%20912/?componentid=427210

Further Reading:

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/essential-james-e-talmage/

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N01_23.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/046-38-39.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/045-44-57.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/015-43-46.pdf

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Over 7,000 General Conference talks given by hundreds of General Authorities, mistakes must have been made, right? Our guest this week, Joe Geisner, walks us through 120 years of Mormon General Conference addresses that were censored in some way. From the earliest talks by John W. Taylor to more recent addresses by Boyd K. Packer, the history of disunity within the highest ranks of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the resulting censorship, is a surprisingly dense and fascinating subject. Joe was nice enough to give us over 5 hours of his time, making this episode part 1 of 3.

Links mentioned in the show:

To the One https://archive.org/details/ToTheOne/page/n1

To Young Men Only https://archive.org/details/ToYoungMenOnly

Harold Lee talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/harold-b-lee_ye-deceived/

Benson BYU talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_safety-face-danger/

Rector talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hartman-jr-rector_roots-branches/

Henry Eyring talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_family/

Quinn telling about his conflicts with Packer http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-being-a-mormon-historian/

Review of Packer's talk in FARMS https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1426&index=11

Packer provokes academics in Sunstone https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/066.pdf

Lost sermons https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/CR%20100%20912/?componentid=427210

Further Reading:

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/essential-james-e-talmage/

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N01_23.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/046-38-39.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/045-44-57.pdf

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/015-43-46.pdf

Show Links:

Website http://www.glassboxpodcast.com/index.html

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