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Postmormon Postmortem
By Hannah and JessReligion & Spirituality
Postmormon Postmortem episodes
- The Mormon Church’s Real Estate Buying Spree
The LDS Church's investment arm just dropped $240 million on a luxury apartment complex in Florida. We connect that purchase to a deep-dive investigation into the Mormon Church in New Zealand — billions in assets, members in low-income communities paying tithing first, volunteers giving nearly a full-time week in unpaid labor, and an institution that asks for personal sacrifice while keeping its finances private. This is what institutional wealth looks like up close.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
12 min - Race and the Priesthood: What the Mormon Church Now Admits
The LDS Church called the priesthood ban a "direct commandment from the Lord" for 126 years. In 2013, they published an essay. We read both — and the gap between them is the whole story.
Jess and Hannah read the primary sources the 2013 Gospel Topics Essay on Race and the Priesthood was written to address — and then read the essay itself. Brigham Young's 1852 speeches. The 1949 First Presidency statement that called the ban "founding doctrine" and declared there was "no injustice whatsoever." Mark E. Peterson's 1954 BYU address laying out the pre-mortal valiance framework. Bruce R. McConkie's Mormon Doctrine, published by Deseret Book and cited in Sunday schools for decades.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
51 min - Mormon Baptisms for the Dead: Anne Frank, Hitler, and Holocaust Victims
Baptism for the dead is one of the most distinctive practices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this episode, Jess and Hannah talk through LDS proxy baptism, Joseph Smith’s introduction of the practice, the use of famous historical names, Wilford Woodruff’s temple work for American founders, and the repeated controversies involving Holocaust victims, Anne Frank, Adolf Hitler, Daniel Pearl, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Simon Wiesenthal’s parents.
The church often frames improper submissions as the work of individual members, but the pattern raises harder questions about consent, religious identity, institutional responsibility, and what it means to perform saving ordinances for people who never chose Mormonism.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
13 min - The Same Playbook: How High-Control Religion, MLMs, and Cults Use Identical Tactics
High-control religion doesn't stay in the church. The same mechanisms run in MLMs, megachurches, political movements, and families. Here's the vocabulary to see it — wherever it shows up.
The final episode of the Mormon Machinery series. Jess applies Robert Lifton's 8 features of thought reform and Stephen Hassan's BITE Model beyond Mormonism and the LDS Church — to Utah's MLM industry (doTERRA, Young Living, USANA), evangelical prosperity gospel, high-control political movements, and family systems where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided divine sanction for patriarchal control. Includes Marlene Winell's religious trauma syndrome and diagnostic questions for identifying high-control environments from the inside. The critical thinking you built to leave? You earned it. And you still have it.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
19 min - Did the Mormon Church Change Its Teaching on Working Mothers?
The LDS Church recently posted a story celebrating a husband who supports his wife’s career as a pediatric neurologist. What looked like a simple social media post quickly became a very Mormon argument about motherhood, women’s careers, and whether the church has changed its teachings or just softened its public language.
In this episode of Mormon Monday, we talk about Jana Riess’s coverage of the post, the Family Proclamation, and older teachings from LDS leaders who framed motherhood and homemaking as women’s divinely assigned role. We also talk about why older women are not misremembering what they were taught, and why celebrating working mothers now requires an honest accounting of what the church used to discourage.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
18 min - Mormon Fratricide: Brothers Who Killed Their Brothers
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
53 min - Tim Ballard: Mormonism, Sexual Abuse Allegations, & the “Couples Ruse”
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
9 min - The Mormon Church Reversed Three Revelations. No One Ever Explained How to Tell the Difference.
You were taught that the prophet cannot lead the church astray. You were also taught that polygamy was required for the highest celestial glory, that Black men were spiritually unworthy of the priesthood, and that the children of same-sex couples were apostates who had to disavow their parents to be baptized. All three of those were the word of God. All three have since been reversed. Each reversal was also the word of God. And in 126 years of institutional history, no one has ever explained how to tell the difference between a revelation that lasts and one that gets quietly walked back when the political cost gets too high.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
18 min - Why Is the Mormon Church Teaching the U.S. Constitution?
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
9 min - The Ensign Peak Billions: What Your Tithing Actually Built
You paid ten percent. Every year. The church grew it to $265 billion inside a fund hidden from the federal government for twenty-two years. The SEC noticed. The fine was five million dollars.
This episode of Postmormon Postmortem is Jess working through one question: what does it actually cost to belong to the LDS Church, and where does that money go?
She covers the Ensign Peak SEC settlement and what the cease-and-desist order actually says, the temple recommend system as a financial compliance mechanism, the psychological research on costly signaling and why sacrifice increases group attachment, the unpaid labor economy of callings and missions and FamilySearch, the social architecture that makes leaving cost everything — and the $265 billion in total church assets that members built while believing they were funding God's work on earth.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
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About Postmormon Postmortem
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Mormonism gave you a complete universe, with charts, diagrams, and a plan for everything. Leaving can dismantle all of it at once. Postmormon Postmortem is hosted by Hannah and Jess, two women who…
left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and wanted more honest conversations about what comes after. We cover Mormon history, doctrine, culture, true crime, institutional harm, religious trauma, and the messy work of rebuilding a life outside the church. Whether you're freshly out, years removed, or trying to understand someone you love, you're in the right place.