It's Deathstorm 2020 in Michigan, but the Mormon News Report rolls on! Today on the show, lots of updates to stories you've heard in the past, including more detail on 19th century garment practices, an interesting survey from the Church, feminism addressed in the New Era, and an update to LDS temple ceremonial clothing. All that plus more on the Report!

Finally Statehood! Utah's Struggles 1849 - 1896 by Edward Leo Lyman

HEADLINES

* First Presidency Announces Adjustments in Temple Ceremonial Clothing (Church Newsroom)

* Church Announces Location of Bengaluru India Temple (Church Newsroom)

* Female LDS missionaries don’t always see their own leadership, according to study (Salt Lake Tribune)

* BYU VP Overseeing Athletics Called As Latter-day Saint Mission President (KSL)

* LDS Church generates $6.3 million with help of Christmas Giving Machines (Daily Herald)

* McKenna Denson may drop her lawsuit against LDS Church over sexual misconduct by a former MTC president (Salt Lake Tribune)

* The person who disrupted LDS General Conference by shouting ‘stop protecting sexual predators’ goes on trial (Fox13)

* 3 'glass-half-full' news items about Mormon growth (Jana Riess, Religion News Service)

* LDS Church issues new statement on feminism (Salt Lake Tribune)

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