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On this breaking news update from Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon discuss the flood of information they just received, detailing the LDS church's eleventh hour efforts to have15,000 emails supporting the McKinney , TX Temple sent to the Fairview Town Council in just 24 hours! Fairview members of the church are also instructed to wear white shirts and attend the town council meeting being hel...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by the guy behind the new interpretation of the Book of Mormon that's making everyone spit out their coffee. John-Michael Holahan is the mastermind behind replacing "And it came to pass" with "I s*** you not!" in the Book of Mormon. I dare you to read these passages and not laugh out loud! John-Michael tells us more about how the...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon burn the midnight oil to bring you yet another update on the five temples they are following. Each temple has updated information so even though it was Memorial Day weekend, we were determined to bring our viewers and listeners the content they expect from Mormonish! Things are heating up in a few of the cities where proposed LDS temples are...

On this episode of Mormonish, Rebecca and Landon are joined by author Alyssa Grenfell to discuss her fascinating new book, "How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon's Guide to Rebuilding After Religion." In this excellent "field guide" to everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about leaving the Mormon Church, Alyssa answers the tough questions, the sensitive questions, the hu...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon sit down with anthropologist Jason Palmer to discuss LDS temple building in Peru. Many of the same elements of the LDS church's playbook used in the United States to push a temple through city government in an area it is not zoned for, seem to be used on the international stage too,. Jason is the author of the "Forever Familias: Race, Gender...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by David Morris to dive into the history of the LDS church’s For The Strength of Youth Pamphlet. Since the mid-1960s, this pamphlet has been given to young people in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints to guide their behavior and make sure they understand the dos and don’ts of growing up in the LDS church. David has co...

On this really important episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by Aaron Brewster, a faithful Latter Day Saint, with experience in financial planning, accounting, and years of callings as ward clerk and executive secretary.  Aaron approached Mormonish with a really important topic he felt very strongly about sharing informaton on, tithing! In this episode, Aaron delves in...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast we continue to update you on the ongoing heated situations involving the Lone Mountain, NV, Heber Valley, UT, Cody, WY, McKinney, TX and Bakersfield, CA proposed LDS temples. Again, we continue to paint a big picture perspective of the strategies used by the LDS church to get each of these temples built. Timestamps: Heber Valley, UT begins at 0.0 McKinney, TX b...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by Dr. Hemopereki Simon to discuss his recent article, "Rolling our eyes towards god: an intervention arising from Mormon missionary YouTube activity and the cultural (mis)appropriation of haka." Dr. Simon discusses the haka’s cultural background and many ways in which it is culturally appropriated. He specifically explores the (m...

Mormonish Podcast's Rebecca and Landon are joined by playwrite Rob Lauer as we present Rob’s award winning play "Beehive State" as a readers' theater theatrical production. The play centers around a polygamous family in post manifesto era Utah and was written by Rob Lauer, who is a post Mormon and now a member of Reformed Mormonism. He is also the former director of The Hill Cumorah Page...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined again by our good friend Ganesh Cherian to discuss the orgin of Mormonism and the LDS church. Using clues and markers from the replacement text for the missing 116 pages, Ganesh provides some really intriguing information regarding the actual timeline of Book of Mormon composition and the formation of the early Church of Christ, l...

On this impromptu episode of Mormonish Podcast, we are joined by the wonderful Lila Tueller, daughter of General Authority Hartman Rector Jr. to discuss a faithful social media thread about medical complication when wearing garments.   The opinoins of faithful Latter Day Saint women are very telling in the broader conversation about garment wearing that is happening today. And especially...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by the creative team behind an amazing new documentary about BYU and the treatment of the LGBTQ community in recent years and the past. The documentary, "A Long Way From Heaven" is the creation of David Sant (Director), Tyler Pace (Producer), and Jessie Gibbons (Director of Photography) and is an absolutely beautiful and heart wre...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Landon and Rebecca delve into the mysterious Granite Mountain Records Vault owned by the LDS Church. Former employee Kate joins the episode to tell us everything you've ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about these little known and top secret storage facilities literally carved into a mountain. ***How to DONATE to Mormonish Podcast: If you would like...

In this update episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon discuss a letter the LDS church sent to residents in Fairview, TX to announce the proposed McKinney Temple coming to their neighborhood.   ***How to DONATE to Mormonish Podcast:  If you would like to help financially support our podcast, you can DONATE to support Mormonish Podcast here:  https://www.mormonishpodcas...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Landon and Rebecca continue their temple watch series with updates on several proposed temples including Cody Wy, Heber Valley Utah, Lone Mountain NV, McKinney Tx, Bakersfield Ca. A recent letter sent to LDS members in the McKinney Temple district has caused quite a stir and you have to hear it to believe it. Join us as we break it all down and tell you how re...

On this highly anticipated episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by Lars Nielsen to discuss his ground breaking new book, "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass: The Second Greatest Show on Earth."  Lars, along with his brother David Nielsen, was responsible for exposing Ensign Peak's vast horde of tithing money that was not being used for charitable purposes. In his new b...

On this episode of Mormonish, Rebecca and Landon are joined by the amazing Nemo the Mormon to discuss current church finances, charitable giving and other fascinating topics. You won't want to miss this interesting conversation with Nemo. He has the ability to put things in crystal clear perspective with wit, intelligence, and an incredible breadth and depth of knowledge. Nemo is the best! **...

On this very special episode of Mormonish Podcast, Landon and Rebecca are joined by four wonderful married LGBTQ couples who still attend and love the LDS church. This episode shines a spotlight on how different this attendance looks for each person as we talk with Austin and Dallin, Tyler, Bethany and Jackie, and Steven.   Becoming aware over the last few months of othe LGBTQ married co...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by Dives and Mormon News Roundup to recap all the voting General Conference news, updates, memes, tweets and posts from the weekend! ***How to DONATE to Mormonish Podcast: If you would like to help financially support our podcast, you can DONATE to support Mormonish Podcast here: https://www.mormonishpodcast.org/support Also at: P...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast Rebecca and Landon are joined by the wonderful John Lundwall to discuss the shocking discovery of golden plates in Saudi Arabia by Dr. Miles Jones. The discovery was revealed on the Shabbatt Night Live podcast and then picked up by faithful podcasts like The Stick of Joseph and David Alexander. This discovery has raised many more questions than it answers and D...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon are joined by the wonderful Rob Lauer to discuss the narrative of Elijah, Elias, and Moses appearing to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland temple. With the LDS church taking ownership of the Kirtland temple recently, the missionary tour guides will be telling a very different narrative about the events that supposedly happened i...

On this episode of Mormonish, Rebecca and Landon discuss the new phenomenon of Mormons celebrating Palm Sunday and Holy Week in addition to Easter Sunday. These sacred days have long been celebrated in the wider world of Christianity, but Mormons seem to have neglected them all together until very recently. Why the sudden shift to adopt the appearance of being part of the more main stream Christia...

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon delve into the controversy surrounding the proposed Lone Mountain temple in Las Vegas Nevada. The residents in the rural area are concerned that zoning codes and ordinances are being changed to accommodate a very large structure that is too tall and will be too bright for the surrounding area. Rebecca and Landon tell the residents’ story in...

On today’s episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca and Landon delve into the events of the past week surrounding the LDS Women’s broadcast and it’s aftermath. When the LDS church reposted a statement from the devotional broadcast telling us that LDS woman has more power than any other women in any religious organization, on their Instagram, it garnered over 8000 comments from faithful LDS women. The...