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Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Dives and Al ruminate on the great and spacious beehive!  

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Join us as we review the brief but storied history of the MormonNewsRoundup including some new ways to interact with the hosts, react to Hulu’s Mormon no More EP 3, look at a stunning $4.6 billion dollar court judgement in favor of Mormon fundamentalists, and investigate the website which turns all dead Mormons gay!  

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Mormon Joke of the Week  Why did the Mormon cross the road? To get to the other bride!

News Articles  

1. Court Orders Mexican Drug Cartel to Pay Mormon Families $4.6 Billion After Desert Massacre  

2.  Forget Under the Banner of Heaven. There’s Another Show That Actually Gets the Mormon Church (Episode 3)

3. An Apostle’s prayer for the Praia temple and ‘the miracle of the rain’ 

4. One post-religion subreddit to rule them all

5. Turning dead Mormons Gay?!

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Season 1 Episode 14 July 3, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

The United States is still reeling from the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, and Dives continues where he left off last week with advanced analysis regarding this case’s impact LDS eschatology. Al analyzes Hulu’s miniseries ‘Mormon no More’ Episode 2, and we review the latest Rolling Stones article which claims that Mormons are leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in favor of magic mushrooms! 

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1. Mormons now look liberal on abortion — by not changing  

2. These Mormons Have Found a New Faith — in Magic Mushrooms  

3. John Oliver on Utah’s Drought  

3a. Solving Utah's drought made easy by Elder Ballard  

4. How Mormons are sabotaging marriage and the family  

5. Hulu’s Mormon no More Episode 2 

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Season 1 Episode 13 June 26, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

Greg from CWIC media joins the show to help us review the first episode of Hulu’s mini-series Mormon no More, analyze the LDS Church’s controversial Juneteenth message, discuss the latest temple groundbreaking in California, look at a potential LDS church sex abuse class action lawsuit, converse if BYU will be banned from the NCAA for Sexual Orientation Discrimination, analyze the impact of the US Supreme Court's repeal of Roe vs. Wade on the celestial kingdom! 

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1. Roe vs Wade vs LDS 

2. Short-term blip or longer trend? Surveys shed light on the LDS Church membership stagnation  

3. LDS Church missionary dies in Mexico bicycle accident 

4. Church’s Official Juneteenth Message brought to you by Ronnel! (who?) 

5. Brown LDS temple lawns coming

6. Ground broken for second temple in Orange County: the Yorba Linda California Temple 

7. LDS Sex abuse class action lawsuit 

8. Keep Sweet’ Is True Crime Worth Your Time Episode 3-4 

9. BYU banned from NCAA for Sexual Orientation Discrimination? 

10. Mormon No More Is a Peak Into the Love Life of Two Queer Ex-Mormons - Episode 1 

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Season 1 Episode 12 June 18, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

Things are really heating up in the great and spacious beehive! Join Al and Dives who analyze Netflix’s Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey EP 2, dissect who is the most popular LDS general authority, bring you up to speed on the latest changes in Tithing categories, cover the first ever BYU approved on campus LGBTQ demonstration, and introduce you to the Mormon “marriage addict” mom who has been married 11 times! 

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1. Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey: EP - 2 

2. Changes to tithing categories 

3. Moroni missing from most new temple construction 

4. Are Latter-day Saints Disproportionately Gay? 

5. BYU Approves first ever on campus LGBTQ demonstration 

6. Mormon Marriage Addict Married 11 times 

7. More Mormons Waiting Til Later In Life Like 22 To Get Married 

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Season 1 Episode 11  June 11, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

Mormon Book Review’s Steve Pynakker joins the MormonNewsRoundup to help us analyze the premiere of Netflix’s new FLDS mini series Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey, dissect why Utah leads the nation in falling church attendance, reflect on Dustin Lance Black’s uncensored motivations for making Under the Banner of Heaven, and uncover what Elder David A. Bednar REALLY thinks about the media! 

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1. Elder Bednar and the “snarky” media @ Seleh Washington Stake Conference  

2. Church claims gun shootings rising because of deadbeat dads? 

3. Finally, a hill Cumorah battle that leaves evidence! 

4. Book of Mormon themed racist Twinkies? 

5. Coffee is good for you? 

6. Utah Leads nation in falling church attendance 

7. COJCOLDS transitioning to mainstream Christian contemporary worship megachurch?! 

8. Dallas Jenkins on Mormons 

9. Dustin Lance Black gets candid about UTBOH 

10. Keep sweet pray and obey, Netflix documentary 

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Season 1 Episode 10 June 4, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

Join us as we recap a truly action-packed week in Mormon news by concluding our seven part analysis of the FX mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven streaming on Hulu. We then get to the bottom of the #MomTok Mormon Mom Swinging Scandal, follow up on the Church’s response to the Uvalde Texas school shooting, ruminate about the Young Women’s President Bonnie Cordon’s mystifying parable of the hardened bread, investigate if Obi Wan Kenobi could have been an LDS prophet, and much much more! 

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1. The church and climate change 

2. Mandatory Background checks for LDS leaders? 

3. MomTok swinger scandal 

4. Creating Awareness of BYU Professors Radicalizing Students 

5. Parable of the hardened bread 

6. Obi Wan Gospel Truths 

7. Utah hate crimes doubled last year 

7a. Utah has highest mental illness rate in the nation 

8. Trendy Tithing 

9. Under the Banner Season Finale (spoiler alert!) 

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Season 1 Episode 9 May 29, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

In the wake of the terrible school shooting at Uvalde, Texas, Al and Dives dissect the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint’s positions on gun control/violence, we critically examine episode 6 of Hulu’s Under the Banner of Heaven series, ruminate about ex-BYU student Julie Stoffer’s return to MTV’s the Real World New Orleans series, and do a deep dive into Elder David A. Bednar’s revealing National Press Club speech and the question and answer session that followed. 

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1. Latter-day Saints mourn over ‘senseless’ shooting in Texas, Elder Bednar tells National Press Club 

2. At National Press Club, Elder Bednar responds to questions about church finances, portrayal of church in media 

3. Julie Stoffer Reveals Why She's No Longer a Mormon on Real World Homecoming: New Orleans 

4. An Apostle Describes a Latter-day Work 

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Season 1 Episode 8 May 22, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

Join Al, Dives, and guest host Christina from Latter-day Ramblings as we ruminate on President and Sister Nelson’s Young Adult Devotional, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Annual Humanitarian Report Analysis, the Church’s response to an LDS Leader who was convicted of sex abuse, and Episode 5 of Hulu’s Under the Banner of Heaven series. 

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Listen to Christina's Podcast Latter-Day Ramblings! Thank You much for joining us this week and co-hosting the episode with us! We look forward to having Christina come back again in the future for more ruminations on the great and spacious beehive! 

News Articles 

1. Church 2021 annual report includes more than 3,900 humanitarian projects in 188 countries 

2. Under the Banner of Heaven Repeats the Book’s Fundamental Mistake 

3. Utah sex offender who became Mormon Church leader convicted of sex abuse again 

4. So Joseph Smith had 33 wives? 

5. LDS Missionaries go viral on TikTok 

6. Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults with President Nelson 

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Season 1 Episode 7 May 15, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

Action packed packed week in Mormonism where Al and Dives look at how Captain Moroni ended up in federal prison, what the LDS Church is doing to help refugees in Ukraine, how to get you own church approved personalized custom garments, a BLOCKBUSTER report on church finances, and much more! Must listen! 

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1. Places of Refuge from the Storm 

2. Man Who Dressed as ‘Captain Moroni’ from Mormon Sacred Text on Jan. 6 Tells Judge He Still Believes Election Results Were ‘Tampered’ with, Gets Jail Time 

3. Some interesting beer I spotted at a Trader Joe’s in DC this weekend 

4. Church Discontinues Military Sacred Garments, Offers Garment Marking Services 

5. Freddie Highmore, Maisie Williams Unite for ‘Manacled Mormon Case’ Adaptation ‘Sinner V. Saints’ 

6. Exclusive: The real Brenda Lafferty is lost in ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ series, her sister says 

7. Mormon mom of six responds to her viral stance on how to end abortion 

8. Review of LDS Church real estate holdings

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Season 1 Episode 6 May 8, 2022 

Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup where Al and Dives ruminate on the great and spacious beehive! 

We are back at it again looking at an action packed week in the world of Mormonism! We will discuss two recent LDS related hate crimes, a BYU professor seeming to endorse White supremacy, Brad Wilcox teaching maturation in Utah’s public school, and Episode 3 of Under the Banner of Heaven. You don’t want to miss it! 

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News Articles     

1. Connecticut Man Accused Of Setting Car On Fire Because Victim Was Mormon     

2. Self-defense argued for man accused of attacking son over church mission     

3. White nationalism meets Mormonism on Twitter (again)     

4. FOX 13 Investigates: LDS leader Brad Wilcox has been teaching Utah boys about puberty for decades 

5. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/05/05/latest-mormon-land-church/     

6. President Nelson Mentioned Twice As Much In General Conference     

7. ‘Under The Banner Of Heaven’ Adds Nothing To The Conversation On Religious Extremism 

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