Jenny is off this week, exploring Idaho Falls, so Brandt is flying solo. Today on the show, clergy privilege and court testimonies, debate over a building name on BYU Campus, church involvement in a death row case and the New Era gives explicit directions on vaping, coffee shops, and marijuana. All that plus more on the Report!
NEWS
* Should Clergy Be Required to Report Abusers Who Confess? (Mother Jones)
* New Wave Of Lawsuits Begins Against Boy Scouts Of America For Alleged Sex Abuse (Wyoming Public Media)
* Call for a new church hymnbook generates 17,000 submissions, suggestions (Deseret News)
* Coach Kim: What to do when neighbors won’t play with kids who aren't Latter-day Saints (KSL)
* Death row inmate seeks new trial over claims of LDS Church interference, bad lawyer (Fox13)
* Utah election fraud problem is overstepping moms of Latter-day Saint missionaries more than foreign meddlers (Salt Lake Tribune)
* Pioneer benefactor’s ties to slavery raise questions for BYU, where a building bears his name (Salt Lake Tribune)
* Scott D. Pierce: This time, TV critics don’t grill BYUtv about the LDS Church’s LGBTQ policies (Salt Lake Tribune)
* Mission accomplished: This leader got a more unvarnished LDS history to members, with the blessing of his bosses (Salt Lake Tribune)
* Gospel Tangents Interview with Elder Steven E. Snow
* Mormon Land Interview with Elder Steven E. Snow
* Beyond Checkboxes: BYU Admissions Changes (BYU Magazine)
* Vaping, Coffee, Tea, and Marijuana (LDS.org)
THE MORMON NEWS REPORT ON PATREON
* Patreon Segment: Seeds of the Restoration (a talk by Brandt)