The Mormon News Report Podcast

MNR 151: The “No More Politics – Please” Edition


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Today on the show: It's one day to Election day, and things get heated. Things are said. People are compared to Captain Moroni. Just a normal election day. Plus updates on Pres. Oaks' BYU devotional and much more on the Report!

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* 00:00:00 Opening Exercises
* 00:12:15 Man gets jail time for sexual assault of woman at Rexburg church (East Idaho News)
* 00:15:26 For Mormons in a faith crisis, the Gospel Topics essays try to answer the hard questions (Jana Riess, Religion News Service)
* 00:18:24 LDS farms have bumper crop, help food pantries from coast to coast (Daily Herald)
* 00:20:30 'Once I was a Beehive' sequel in the works, filmmakers announce online casting call (KUTV)
* 00:27:35 How Black Latter-day Saints reacted to Dallin Oaks’ mention of Black lives matter (Salt Lake Tribune)
* 00:38:01 Taylorsville Utah Temple groundbreaking signals ‘special’ era of Latter-day Saint temple building (Deseret News)
* 00:39:35 Salt Lake City to Lose Its Two Daily Print Newspapers (New York Times)
* 00:44:48 More Utah women are donating to Biden as Trump struggles with women voters (OpenSecret.org, The Center for Responsive Politics)
* 00:54:19 At BYU Conservatives Feel Free to Speak—Liberals, Not So Much (Real Clear Education)
* 00:59:09 OpEd: Trump or Biden ... what would Jesus do? (Christian Sagers, Deseret News)
* 01:01:27 Sens. Rand Paul, Mike Lee praise president at Gilbert 'Latter-day Saints for Trump' rally (AZCentral)
* 01:04:43 Sen. Lee clarifies 'perhaps awkward' comment comparing Trump to Book of Mormon figure (Fox 13)
* 01:11:03 Sunshine in your Soul

* Jenny: 2 songs

* "Hard Times," Guster
* "All Together Now," OK Go


* Brandt: Trick or Treating and why "think about the children" isn't a bad thing



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The Mormon News Report PodcastBy Brandt Malone | Mormon Commentator


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