Mormon Land explores the contours and complexities of LDS news. It's hosted by award-winning religion writer Peggy Fletcher Stack and Salt Lake Tribune managing editor David Noyce.
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Latter-day Landscape (previously Mormonism Magnified: Top Mormon News)
Patrick Mason and Morgan McKeown
Mormonism Magnified is a podcast covering recent TOP MORMON NEWS STORIES, with insights from leading Mormon Scholars associated with the Claremont Mormon Studies program.
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What LDS women want — in the wake of a controversial ‘priesthood power’ speech | Episode 331
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A decade after the Ordain Women movement within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made national news, another feminist issue is getting lots of media attention.During a March 17 meeting to celebrate the creation of the church’s Relief Society, J. Anette Dennis, first counselor in the faith’s global women’s organization, declared that …
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Preserving the Kirtland and Manti temples — through the eyes of LDS historians | Episode 330
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In the past, historians and preservationists were not always pleased with how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints treated its treasured buildings. Bulldozing Utah’s Coalville Tabernacle and gutting the Logan Temple led to cries of anguish from insiders and outsiders alike.These days, though, the same groups are lauding the painstaking a…
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A look at the Kirtland Temple’s past and its future under a new owner | Episode 329
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The recent acquisition by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of Mormonism’s first temple — in Kirtland, Ohio — along with historic buildings in Nauvoo, Ill., similarly tied to founder Joseph Smith and his band of believers thrilled the global faith’s members.For followers of the Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Ch…
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The Huntsman case, ‘copycat’ tithing lawsuits and expanding LDS Church wealth | Episode 328
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Money talks. It makes headlines, too. Just ask The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The Utah-based faith’s finances have become a source of discussion, debate and, yes, dissent among insiders and outsiders.In recent weeks, the church’s chief investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, has seen its publicly reported stock portfolio shoot past $…
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BYU’s racial history | Episode 327
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Even in the 19th century, Brigham Young Academy (later Brigham Young University) welcomed students of both sexes, all nationalities, religions, races and colors.Nearly from the start, it included women, which made it distinctive among other American higher-education institutions. And the school — owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of …
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The life and legacy of historian D. Michael Quinn | Episode 326
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What most Latter-day Saint historians and other scholars know about D. Michael Quinn is that he was, by all accounts, a remarkable researcher who could assemble disparate dots into a colorful mosaic.They may know that he was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of the “September Six” for his discussion of post…
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Finding love in today’s Latter-day Saint dating scene | Episode 325
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Ah, Valentine’s Day, a holiday full of hearts and hopes, cards and candy, roses and romance. It’s a time couples seek their favorite table at their favorite restaurant and view their favorite rom-com from their favorite couch.What does it mean, though, for young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Are they on the lookout for…
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How Latter-day Saints can add other Christian traditions to Easter | Episode 324
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Easter is the most significant holiday on the Christian calendar, celebrated in solemnity and song, pageantry and prayer, rituals and rejoicing, “hosannas and hallelujahs.”While members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe deeply in Christ’s resurrection, they have not participated as a church with the rest of Christendom in i…
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Abuse and forgiveness — How gender imbalances sometimes protect LDS predators | Episode 323
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Chelsea Goodrich was a returned missionary pursuing a graduate degree in California when she came forward with allegations that her father, John Goodrich, had molested her throughout her childhood.(In a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune, John Goodrich has denied the accusations of sexual assault.)The alleged abuse, the subject of a recent Associat…
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Why can’t Latter-day Saint girls pass the sacrament? | Episode 322
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Every year, a new crop of young Latter-day Saints turning 12 by December will graduate from Primary, the faith’s program for children. The boys will get a new title — “deacon” — and start passing the bread and water of the sacrament (known as Communion in other Christian faiths and mostly distributed by priests and pastors), while the girls will st…
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Benjamin Park on a fresh take of 200 years of Mormon history | Episode 321
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Scholar Benjamin Park’s new book, “American Zion: A New History of Mormonism,” tells the sweeping saga of the rise, rifts and resilience of the nation’s most successful homegrown religion.“The Mormon story,” he writes, “is the American story.”Under the guidance of founder Joseph Smith, this new movement was cradled in upstate New York and nurtured …
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Why believers and critics miss the complexities of the Book of Mormon | Episode 320
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Grant Hardy is among the preeminent scholars of the Book of Mormon.The North Carolina history professor has produced two volumes on Mormonism’s sacred text: a study edition from Brigham Young University’s Maxwell Institute, and a reader’s edition from the University of Illinois Press — and now, from Oxford University Press, a third, The Annotated B…
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A look at LDS Church growth and what the membership stats really reveal | Episode 319
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At every spring General Conference, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offers a glimpse of its growth by reporting worldwide membership statistics, including the number of converts and children added to the faith’s rolls the previous year.A more reliable barometer for tracking church expansion, however, can be found in the congregation…
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The LDS army that made its mark in history without firing a shot against a foe | Episode 318
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This is a war story unlike any other.It’s about a fighting force of nearly 500 men who were drafted, in a very real sense, not by the president of their nation but by the prophet of their faith.Though they were prepared to die for a country they were fleeing, they labored to live for the families they were supporting. Though they were armed and mar…
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Remembering a Latter-day Saint humanitarian who truly lived his religion | Episode 317
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Lowell Bennion was among Mormonism’s greatest humanitarians, while also being one of its most prominent thinkers and teachers. Indeed, he was among the few non-general authorities or officers ever to speak in General Conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.As the first director of the church’s Institute of Religion at the Uni…
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What to expect from Patrick Kearon, not your typical LDS apostle | Episode 316
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Newly named Latter-day Saint apostle Patrick Kearon brings an unusual biography to second highest leadership council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.A British convert, he joined the faith at age 26. Kearon has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the United States. He does not have a university degree, but, ha…
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Booting women’s leaders off the stand was ‘hurtful’ and ‘heartbreaking’ | Episode 315
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For more than a decade, women’s Relief Society leaders were invited to sit on the stand facing the pews during Sunday services among some Latter-day Saint congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was an uncontroversial tradition until October, when an area president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ordered an end to the pra…
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The woman who runs the church’s most visible publisher and retailer: Deseret Book | Episode 314
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Deseret Book has been the church-owned commercial publisher for more than a century, producing landmark theological volumes such as James E. Talmage’s “Jesus the Christ” and LeGrand Richards’ “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder.”It is a sought-after brand for Latter-day Saint leaders, scholars and writers, and remains the go-to retail outlet for rank-an…
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Apostle vacancy spurs questions about men who run the church — for life | Episode 313
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With senior apostle M. Russell Ballard’s death, church President Russell Nelson’s back injury and apostle Jeffrey Holland’s recent illnesses, the focus has fallen once again on the top men who lead the 17 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Years, even decades, of policy, practice and precedent have established how the hierar…
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Steve Young lays out a new game plan for life: the law of love | Episode 312
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Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young, the former BYU star who earned multiple MVP awards and Super Bowl rings with the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, ranks among the most famous members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Recently, though, Young has turned from tactics for victory on the football field to strategies for winning at life —…
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We aren’t perfect. Life isn’t perfect. The church isn’t perfect. Why that’s OK. | Episode 311
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No one likes pain or poverty, bigotry or war, frustration or failure, disease or doubt, joblessness or homelessness or loneliness.That includes this week’s “Mormon Land” guest, Melissa Inouye.The Latter-day Saint scholar has endured more than her share of heartache. She inexplicably lost her hair at a young age and then, at 37, the marathon-running…
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Can Latter-day Saints become as good at peacemaking as they are at proselytizing? | Episode 310
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Amid today’s polarized political scene, many Americans throw up their hands and say, like Patrick Henry, “‘peace, peace,’ but there is no peace. The war is actually begun.”To some, the partisan divide seems deeper than ever — with no way to bridge it. Even religions sometimes seem to battle with other faiths, as well as those within a faith.Eboo Pa…
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McKay Coppins on Mitt Romney — his faith, his politics and his legacy | Episode 309
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Lots of national politicians are keen to learn how Mitt Romney may skewer them in McKay Coppins’ newly released biography, “Romney: A Reckoning.”Coppins, a Brigham Young University alum who writes for The Atlantic, had access to the journals and emails, as well as candid interviews with the Republican Utah senator, who made history as the first Lat…
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A Palestinian Latter-day Saint's view on the Israel-Hamas war | Episode 308
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As the war in Israel and Gaza rages on with civilians caught in the violent crossfire, those watching from across the globe are asking what it must be like to live in such a conflict-ridden space. What does it mean to face possible violence every day?Sahar Qumsiyeh can offer a firsthand description of how routine activities were affected by such a …
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The rise and fall of Brigham Young’s wine mission | Episode 307
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For today’s faithful, believing, temple-recommend-carrying members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sipping a Chardonnay with their salmon entree would be unthinkable, off the table, a no-no.They know that the faith’s Word of Wisdom health code strictly forbids consumption of alcohol.But there was time in the church’s history whe…
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