Tonight on The Mormon Newscast we’re diving into one of the strangest stories to capture the internet this year: the Bricks & Minifigs LEGO controversy. What began as a dispute over a massive LEGO collection has exploded into allegations of insider connections, questions about Utah influence networks, and accusations of Mormon favoritism. We’ll separate fact… Read More »The LEGO Scandal and the Mormon Connection

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Ever wonder what happens when you take all the earliest accounts of the Angel Moroni appearing to Joseph Smith and compare them? The answers can be problematic but always fascinating. RFM is joined by an all-star panel of Bill Reel, Randy Bell and everyone’s favorite Rando, Kolby Reddish, to hash through the sources. The result… Read More »Don’t You Forget About Moroni: RFM: 459

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Tonight on Mormonism Live we tackle one of the most controversial and uncomfortable documents in LDS history: Joseph Smith’s 1832 First Vision account. Not the polished 1838 version members know from the Pearl of Great Price. Not the story that has been repeated in manuals and General Conference over a hundred years. We’re going back… Read More »Joseph Smith’s 1832 First Vision: Excised with a Penknife & Hidden Away?

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Bill Reel and RFM are joined this week by Meggan Hayes, host of the “Generally Unquotable” podcast, which features a news report on things Mormon every weekday morning! How does Meggan do it? Where does she get her stories? What are the biggest stories she has covered? These are just some of the things we’ll… Read More »Podcaster Meggan Hayes (Generally Unquotable) Joins the Show!

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Tonight on The Mormon Newscast: A troubling story involving race, faith, and the experience of Black Latter-day Saints in Utah. The president of the Genesis Group, an organization supporting Black LDS members, says he was the target of a racist threat while hiking in Utah County. But this story goes beyond one disturbing encounter. Is… Read More »Black Mormon Leader Says He Received a Chilling Threat in Utah !

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I had a faith crisis in my mid-twenties. A big faith crisis. It involved a salamander and it involved a letter. It made me question everything I thought I knew about Joseph Smith, the book he produced, and the religion he founded. The LDS religion. MY religion! And in that time of despair, I clung… Read More »They Didn’t Tell Me This!!! RFM: 458

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Tonight on Mormonism Live, we explore one of the most uncomfortable and fascinating questions in early Mormon history: Was Moroni originally understood through the same treasure-digging framework Joseph Smith had already been practicing for years? Long before the Book of Mormon was published, Joseph Smith and those around him were involved in treasure seeking using… Read More »Moroni As A Treasure Guardian

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What if the harm didn’t start with a crisis… but with what you were taught as a child? In this episode of Mormonism Live, we sit down with researcher and clinician Samuel Clemens, PhD, LCSW, to unpack his groundbreaking study on religious trauma among former Latter-day Saints—particularly those who identify as sexual minorities. This isn’t… Read More »The Hidden Cost of Mormon Belief: Conditioned From Childhood

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Tonight on The Mormon Newscast we dive into one of the most secretive and controversial topics in Mormonism: The Second Anointing. Recent photos posted by the LDS Church along with a TikTok video by Mormon apologist Jasmine Rappleye appears to openly discuss and display imagery associated with the Holy of Holies, raising fresh questions about… Read More »Is Mormonism’s 2nd Anointing No Longer Secret?

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RFM is joined by Kolby Reddish to finish off our analysis of the historic trouncing Bill Reel recently gave to Mormon apologist Robert Gurr! This is one for the record books! My favorite part is Mr. Gurr’s argument for why it is horses went extinct in the Americas. Hint: It has nothing to do with… Read More »Mormon Bring Knife To Gunfight! RFM: 457

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