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Are Young Single Adult Wards helping people get married… or just teaching them how to stay single? In this episode we go after a question a lot of people are whispering:Should the Church dissolve YSA wards? We talk about:- Why early-2000s Mormon culture felt warmer — and why that energy is gone- Why so many YSA sacrament meetings feel cold, cliquey, and transactional- The “guys on one side, girls...

Olivia Dunson — better known as "Inspire.w. Olivia" — is one of the fastest-rising Gen Z Latter-day Saint voices on Instagram and TikTok. Short, funny, honest, and occasionally savage. In this episode we play her viral reels, talk about the backlash she got from people who insist Mormons aren’t Christian, and get into why her page is connecting so fast:- Why “You’re a real Christian, tho...

KJ Hershey of 1830 Studios brought three prototype Book of Mormon brick sets into the studio — Laban’s house, Lehi’s Tree of Life vision, and Nephi’s ship — and the details are wild. In this episode we talk about:- Why these aren’t legally “Lego” sets (and how the brick market actually works)- Why Nephi’s ship is designed like a proto-Polynesian catamaran instead of a 16th-century galleon- The Tre...

This one is raw. LDS Members Ugly Infighting Is Worse Than the Critics! Anonymous conservative LDS accounts — the Deseret Nation / “frogmo” corner of X — start calling LDS podcasters the “lowest form of latter-day life,” dunking on a year-old joke video, and treating humor like apostasy. That’s not the gospel. That’s infighting. In this episode we talk about:- Captain M'honri, Old Fox, and the...

Someone is finally making a full-cast, immersive audio experience of the Book of Mormon — without changing a single word of the text. In this episode we sit down with KJ from 1830 Studios to hear the first proof-of-concept chapters of 1 Nephi. He walks us through:Why most Book of Mormon audio / dramatization projects get started and then dieHow he’s building an immersive soundscape + original soun...

A new wave of anti-Mormon content is recycling old claims that Joseph Smith was deeply involved with demons and occult rituals. In this episode we break down a recent video from the Catholic channel *Jesus and Whatnot* that argues Joseph Smith had more demonic encounters than any other religious figure. We examine:- The unreliable 1833 Hurlbut affidavits (black sheep sacrifice, toad spirit, etc.)-...

Most people treat “contradictions” in scripture as a problem. What if they’re actually one of the strongest evidences that the Book of Mormon is real? In this episode we dig into:- Why Nephi and Jacob clearly disagree about the Lamanites- Why treating the Book of Mormon like a single, univocal voice is a mistake- How real people (and real prophets) have different perspectives- The difference betwe...

Kwaku-el has been reading L. Ron Hubbard… and he’s not hating it. Should we start a NEW Cult? In this episode we go deep on:Why reading primary sources beats listening to criticsThe surprisingly useful ideas in Dianetics (reactive mind, engrams)How Scientology compares to Freemasonry more than traditional religionThe wild idea of creating “Mormon-ology”What a Liahona E-Meter would even look likeWh...

Ministering is broken… and it’s one of the biggest reasons people feel alone at church. In this episode we sit down with Steve Webber — the man who literally wrote the book on ministering — to talk about:Why home teaching / ministering has collapsed since COVID.The powerful principle President Benson taught about it being the most important calling. The simple question that completely changed his...

Doctor Christopher Blythe and the "Amateur Historian", Ryan Wood join Brad Witbeck, Kwaku El, Adam Witbeck, and Cardon Ellis in the studio to talk about all the absurd amount of stories regarding demonic possession on the mission!

Reid Moon, premiere collector of rare Latter-day Saint artifacts and books, comes into the Ward Radio studio to discuss his unique experiences, books, and insights.

Wyatt Evans watched the debate between God Logic and Jacob Hansen at the 2026 "Bless God" Summit and started down a path that ultimately led to his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka the "Mormons". He comes to the studio to discuss!

Lots of people don't realize this but Dr. Christopher Blythe used to put the fun in "fundy" and fundamentalist for a while and well... he's here to tell all. Ask me anything.

Doctor Christopher Blythe, expert of new religious movements, joins us in the Ward Radio Wigwam to talk about the top 5 craziest and coolest cults of the modern mormon era, and how they went WILD!

Stephen King is furious after Utah parents successfully got one of his books removed from school libraries. The book in question? Different Seasons — the collection that includes The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me. In this episode we break down:What Utah’s new parental rights law actually doesWhy Stephen King is calling it a “book ban”The difference between curating school libraries and actu...

Cliff Knechtle and his son Stewart just got taken apart by Muslim apologists in a debate… and it’s painful to watch. When Your Own Team Says You Lost, Maybe It's Time For Some DEEP Reflection. In this episode we break down the exact moments where Cliff:Completely misstated the New Testament manuscript evidenceDoubled down on a bad claimGot trapped on Old Testament law (yes, the “cut off her ha...

A 29-year-old article by evangelical scholars Carl Mosser and Paul Owen titled “Losing the Battle and Not Knowing It” warned that evangelicals were losing the intellectual and apologetic battle with Latter-day Saints — and most didn’t even realize it. In this episode, we revisit the article and discuss:How Mormon scholarship had already addressed most common evangelical criticismsThe failure of ev...

A newly discovered apocryphal text claims to record Jesus Christ visiting the Lost Ten Tribes in a hidden “City of the Blessed.” The story matches exactly what Latter-day Saints would expect from a record of the Ten Tribes — a miraculous visit from the risen Lord, teaching, feasting, and establishing His church among them. In this episode, we break down:The Acts of Saint Matthew in the City of the...

There's a massive hole in the New Testament that almost nobody talks about. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus rises from the dead… and then basically disappears for 40 days with almost no explanation. Luke gives us only 211 words about the risen Lord’s ministry before jumping to Acts. In this episode, we explore:What “Luke’s Lacuna” actually isWhy Luke barely covers the 40 days after the resurrecti...

A Latter-Day Saint Branch President (Bishop?) in Russia was arrested and photographed in his garments after allegedly donating a small amount of money to the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Alexei Navalny. Russian authorities labeled the donation “support for terrorism.”In this episode we break down:- Who Valentin Gavrilov is and what happened- Why the Anti-Corruption Foundation is banned in...

A newly published fragment of the Gospel of Thomas is causing major problems for traditional biblical scholarship. In this episode, we break down:Why this second-century Greek manuscript is so explosiveHow it interweaves sayings from Matthew, Luke, and ThomasThe two major theories (Upstream vs. Downstream) and what they mean for the age of ThomasWhy this discovery makes it very difficult to mainta...

Have YOU Read ALL of the Joseph Smith Papers? Ryan Wood  @Amateur_LDS_Historian  is one of the very few people (possibly the only amateur historian) who has read the entire Joseph Smith Papers collection — all 26+ volumes of primary documents, journals, revelations, and letters. In this episode, he shares:The craziest things he discovered in the raw recordsOliver Cowdery counterfeiting money (the...

Devin from Latter Day Logic shares his powerful 4-step framework (and 14-step version) for logically dismantling anti-Mormon arguments — especially the ones that go viral on TikTok and Instagram. In this episode we cover:How to respond when someone claims Joseph Smith married a 14-year-oldThe “You worship a different Jesus” argument“There’s no archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon”Isaiah...

Jeff Harmon (co-founder of Angel Studios) shares a fresh and powerful interpretation of one of the most debated verses in the Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 25:23.By connecting it to Alma 24:11, Jeff shows that “all we can do” is actually repentance — not a long list of works. This changes how we understand grace, salvation, and what God actually asks of us. In this conversation we discuss:Why “after all...

Lorenzo Ghiberti spent 27 years creating what Michelangelo called “The Gates of Paradise” — the stunning bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery. Now, a high-quality replica is on display at the BYU Museum of Art. In this episode, we talk about:The incredible story behind Ghiberti’s masterpieceHow BYU-Hawaii discovered plaster casts of the doorsHow BYU Provo recreated them with modern technologyWh...