Your daily #Mormon image.

"The practice of podcasting…[is a way] for everyday Mormons to define Mormon identity,” she said, and to do so within a church “that has long been a very hierarchical, bureaucratic, top-down organization.”

“I’m so sick of being taught supposed eternal gospel principles in Sunday School lessons, only for the church as a whole to wildly ignore its own teachings whenever it serves them.” I shared this where Mormon family and friends will see it. Denial harms children. Let them be mad at me. Worth it.

You can take the Scoob out of Mormonism, but you cannot take the Mormonism out of the Scoob.

A Pew poll shows Latter-day Saints agree that tattoos are becoming more acceptable, but they remain more resistant to wearing them.

Bracing myself for another round of LDS apologists claiming that laws exempting clergy from mandatory reporting encourage people to confess their crimes. Hear me on repeat: if someone will only confess with an understanding of escaping criminal accountability, they are not penitent and a danger.

NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The tens of thousands of sex abuse cases were not a deal breaker but allowing the participation of girls and queer scout leaders is a bridge too far.

Another post that would have gone hard on Mormon Twitter.

"If it is wrong for a man to have more than one wife at a time, the Lord will reveal it by and by, and he will put it away that it will not be known in the Church." –Brigham Young, 19 Aug 1866 Journal of Discourses 11:268

I don't believe in Hell. At least, I didn't until I saw this video.

Exponent II is good reading!!

It fills me with so much joy that @leahsottile.bsky.social still reads and cites Exponent II in her newsletters. This week's piece is also very very good and well worth the read.

Powerful, thoughtful and insightul essay by investigative journalist and writer Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social. Highly recommend. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

*trying to explain ‘marriage’ to Levi* Me: “Marriage is when two grownups make a promise to be a part of each other’s family” Levi: “Like a pinky promise?” Me: *remembering Mormon temple rituals* “…yeah actually”

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

It’s the problem with modern journalism, in my view. We’ve become so concerned with objectivity, we sometimes remove humanity from the equation.

Your daily #Mormon image.

Apparently this has been confirmed: Wade Christofferson—the brother of Elder D. Todd Christofferson—is accused of sexually assaulting 7 victims over a period of many years. Many of these allegedly occurred after he faced church disciplinart action.

The LDS church under Dallin Oaks lowered the age of eligibility for sister missionaries from 19 to 18. I do not think it is a coincidence Oaks frequently preaches on pro-natalism and not delaying marriage or childbearing.

In case this wasn't.... matchlessly clear... RFK Jr. told the New York Times he's personally responsible for the new CDC website page claiming that vaccines may cause autism. This is a lie and Kennedy employed tortured logic to try to justify it to the paper. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Signal adding polls before Bluesky was not in my forecast.

Your daily #Mormon image.

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

Republican support for MMR vaccine school requirements also continues to slip, from 79% in 2019 to 52% today.

Religiousness varies a lot by race among Democrats, relatively little among Republicans

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

Religion is what you do with it.

Based on the synopsis and the image, I was surprised to discover in the story that this was not an LDS church. Alas, it is all too common an LDS story.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

It seems they finally made up their mind about what to do with the Saturday evening sessions of General Conference—not having it.

They made it a video, and it is glorious!

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

One wonders if they "translated" the LDS Doctrine & Covenants from faux-KJV English into contemporary, everyday English whether folks would still have such a hard time seeing through the toxic bullshit of § 132.

Parent of a kid I teach in my primary class reached out because she sees what the manual wants teachers to teach about polygamy tomorrow, and she has concerns. I reassured her that I’m not teaching anything about it. You absolutely *do not* have to teach primary kids about polygamy.

Priesthood is stored in the balls.

In the LDS church's new SEC filing they now have $288 million invested in Palantir, up from $13 million last year. That's a staggering investment. Unreal. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

The LDS church is sitting on more wealth than the GDP of the following sovereign nations: Kazakhstan Algeria Nigeria Greece Iraq New Zealand Hungary Qatar Ukraine Morocco Kuwait Slovakia Uzbekistan Kenya Ecuador Dominican Republic Bulgaria Guatemala Angola Ghana Ethiopia Oman and 120+ more!

The LDS Church's stock investments at Ensign Peak Advisors have climbed to a new high in value at $60.9 billion. That's double what the fund was worth during the pandemic.

No notes 🎯….internet is undefeated!

“…he doesn’t explicitly say women should stay home. He does say we should have more babies. But what the women I was with heard in his talk, and likely most of those Gen X or older, is an echo of all the many talks over the years… saying women should stay home and have lots of children.”

They promoted Waddell to Presiding Bishop? The 60 Minutes guy! Really!?

You could replace woman with an LDS sister missionary promoting the Book of Mormon and the resulting video would still have the exact same vibe. I know because my feed is full of them.

people love to debate the extent to which BrandoSando’s Mormonism impacts his books but I would argue the single most Mormon thing is condensing a bunch of background characters into one called “Doug,” like unto how Mormon simplified diverse ethnicities into “Nephites” and “Lamanites”

In "Surviving Mormonism," Heather Gay highlights abuse within the LDS Church. Here are details she doesn’t cover. #survivingmormonism #heathergay #lds www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

If we ever get our version of the Nuremberg trials for these 21st-century Nazis, Bovino needs to be amongst the first to face justice for his criminal behavior against the American public.

New post. It’s long past time to de-canonize D&C 132. lindahamiltonwriter.substack.com/p/de-canoniz...

Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 this week. IYKYK Verses not covered in the manual: 3-4 6-12 24-28 Everything past 40