Tons of passionate thoughts this week, mostly about Elder Bednar's address to the BYU Law Society. We recap the feedback and look at a BYU statue defaced, more discussions on race in the church, and do we have an idol worship issue? All that plus more on the Report!

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Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books by Joseph Geisner

* 0:07:00 Letters

* 0:30:40 Correction

* 0:31:51 Washington D.C. Temple open house, rededication postponed, Church of Jesus Christ announces (Deseret News)

* 0:33:14 Their church may not be apologizing for black priesthood ban, but individual Latter-day Saints are doing so (Peggy Stack, Salt Lake Tribune)

* 0:37:05 Elder Jeffrey R. Holland Released from Hospital (Church News)

* 0:38:14 Unsealed documents highlight religious beliefs that may have led to deaths of Tylee, JJ (KUTV)

* 0:43:09 Southern Virginia University removes white supremacist’s name from building at school for Latter-day Saints (Deseret News)

* 0:46:32 Statue of Brigham Young covered in paint at BYU with the word ‘racist’ sprayed at the base (Salt Lake Tribune)

* 0:47:59 Student petition calls for BYU to change name of building honoring Latter-day Saint pioneer and slave owner (ABC4)

* 0:54:38 When Mormons make an idol of the church (Jana Riess, Religion News Service)

* 1:01:17 Sunshine

* Jenny: 13TH on Netflix (content warning), Kids getting wisdom teeth out, blocking people on twitter, ANYONE WEARING A MASK

* Brandt: Not-Sunshine:Not-Sunshine, via The Atlantic: “30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact: Here’s what’s become of them,” by Melissa Fay Greene

* Happier sunshine: The Prof G Show with Scott Galloway, marketing MBA professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU, “For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for "America the Beautiful" by Nancy Churnin

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