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Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Dives, host of Mormon News Roundup, a nightly show covering LDS news and history from an ex-Mormon perspective. New episodes drop every night at 9:30 PM ET.
Glad to be here. Say hi or share your own story, I'd love to hear it! youtube.com/channel/UCSI97UE…
Radio Free Mormon & Jenn Kamp: Bury the Hatchet! - A SHOCKING Erotic Connection!? MUST SEE!!! youtu.be/K6k_E_aVGBQ
Salt Lake Tribune: Nearly a year after two people were killed outside an SLC funeral, the LDS Church is selling the meetinghouse where it happened.
The Fairpark chapel that housed two Tongan wards is under a $5 million contract. A developer wants 88 rental townhomes on the site. The church says the 1980 building is just old.
It has sold other Salt Lake County properties as membership there has contracted.
When the site of a deadly shooting becomes a real-estate deal, what gets remembered?
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What happens when Jimmy Swaggart's tears and brimstone take over the whisper-quiet Tabernacle pulpit at LDS General Conference? An alternate-history VHS gone wild.
Full Short: youtube.com/shorts/Fu98pMeVG…
New episodes daily at 9:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
Ex-Mormon legend Mindy Temple walked through Mormon temple ceremonies in a 16-part series — garments, baptisms for the dead, and the experiences that made her leave.
Have you watched her temple series, or did your own temple experience look completely different?
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=_KC-P4h7…
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: The banned God Makers director's cut. In 1982 this anti-Mormon cartoon became legendary in Mormon circles. Now a Patreon supporter sent me a VHS director's cut with scenes I'd never seen. Did you ever catch the original? Full video: youtube.com/shorts/E_FmAg6Rn…
Salt Lake Tribune: Latter-day Saints — usually rock-solid Republican voters — appear swept up in Tuesday's blue wave 🌊
In the 20 densest LDS congressional districts, every one leaped left, some by 20–30 points. Utah County (hello, BYU) is flipping seats that used to be locks.
McKay Coppins: Trump may have "single-handedly wrecked the Republican Party's multigenerational stranglehold on LDS voters."
Is the church's political machine losing its grip?
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The Mantle of the Prophet: Testing Mormon Revelatory Claims
When leaders claim revelation, what happens if you actually put it to the test?
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Wild Bill Hickman, the Danites, and Brigham Young's blood atonement — plus the murder indictment that got thrown out on a technicality.
Does digging into the diaries, sermons, and manuscripts change how you see early Mormon history?
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=ggGSrgZU…
The Graves of Mormon Prophets: What They DIDN'T Want You To See
Under the cover of darkness — a flashlight tour of the Salt Lake Cemetery and the prophets' resting places.
New episodes daily at 9:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
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The LDS Church is leasing thousands of acres of its Texas ranchland for a massive data center 💻
Church-owned Farmland Reserve would open up to 3,710 acres of Triangle Ranch in the Panhandle. The planned 96-megawatt facility uses as much power as ~75,000 homes — and the developer wants a natural gas plant on the same land.
Deep-pocketed faith, for-profit AgReserves, and a tax break ask. What would Jesus do with 100,000 acres?
sltrib.com/religion/2026/11/…
What happens when Jesus calls Dallin Oaks to ask how much money the Church has accumulated? A satirical Mormon News Roundup sketch. What do you think?
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Ward Radio's Luke Hanson seems oddly fixated on Taylor Frankie Paul. What drives that fascination, and where does the twist land?
Watch and tell me what you think.
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Throwback Thursday: historian Patrick Mason on the LDS Church's environmental stewardship, the Cody Wyoming temple fight, Provo Temple rebuild, and how transparent the Church's humanitarian donations really are.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=BwvbtYGw…
The LDS Church settled with child sex abuse victims in West Virginia, then sued its own insurers to make them pay 💸
The abuser got access to kids because his mother, the local Relief Society president, offered him as a babysitter to church families.
Now a federal appeals court has revived the church's argument that its failure to stop years of abuse of several children counts as ONE "occurrence."
Should multiple victims ever be one incident?
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Is Jasmine at Scripture Central a sweet spirit — or a paid puppet of Mormon Inc? I dug into the talking points and the paycheck.
What do you think — sincere apologetics, or PR with a smile?
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Who actually wrote the Book of Mormon? James Adair's 1775 history, the 1611 KJV translators' preface, stylometric studies and B. H. Roberts' own private doubts all point somewhere the official story doesn't.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=Gk_tbvc0…
I invited a Mormon sister missionary to a friendly game of "Would You Rather" on Zoom and we skipped the standard talking points: prophets on evolution and the moon landing, the Book of Abraham, and more.
What would you have asked her?
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The LDS Church spent $1 million trying to sink Idaho's abortion-access measure, and Prop 1 failed 56% to 44% 🗳️
In Nevada, the church read a nearly identical statement over the pulpit but apparently kept its wallet closed, and Question 6 passed with 63%.
A tax-exempt church reading political directives in sacrament meeting and writing seven-figure checks. Where should the line be?
sltrib.com/religion/2026/11/…
PAY YOUR TITHING OR BURN! 🚀 Mormon space disco just hit warp speed: tithing, magic underwear, plural wives, no coffee, and a one-way ticket to Kolob. Full Short: youtube.com/shorts/K5RbCrE8s…