Today on the show - #LightTheWorld Giving Machine Locations are announced, Slavery in the LDS New Testament Curriculum, updates on Mormons Behaving Badly, what does it mean for religious freedom and expression on the job, and we dig through the confusion and terrible massacre of a Mormon family in Mexico. All that plus more on the Report!

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Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess by Richard S. Van Wagoner

HEADLINES

* Introducing: The Dialogue Podcast Collective! 

* #LightTheWorld Giving Machines Expand to 10 Locations During Christmas Season (Church Newsroom)

* Mormons criticize LDS curriculum’s treatment of slavery in the New Testament (Jana Riess, Religion News Service)

* Former LDS Church Historian Dean Larsen dies at 92 (Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune)

* Man sentenced to death for killing 6 members of LDS family (KUTV)

* Church Shares Renovation Plans for the St. George Utah Temple (Church Newsroom)

* Washington County Utah Temple Site Announced (Church Newsroom)

* Councilor with LDS church pleads guilty to filming woman in Opry Mills Mall dressing room (Fox 17 Nashville)

* Is religion off-limits on the job? What the law says may surprise you. (Salt Lake Tribune)

* Everyday Example: Religion in the Workplace

* The LeBaron Family Massacre

* Murders in Mexico: How a Diverse Religious Community with Utah Ties Ended Up in La Mora (Interview with Dr. Cristina Rosetti, KUER)

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