Tonight on Mormonism Live, we examine a recurring pattern in Joseph Smith’s prophetic career: when he encountered something mysterious, incomplete, inaccessible, or simply unknown, he… Read More »How Did Joseph Smith Know All This?
What happens when a religious system spends a lifetime teaching you to trust authority, obey, forgive, sacrifice, endure, distrust your own doubts, and fear the… Read More »Trust, Obey, Endure: How Mormon Conditioning Makes Abuse Harder to Recognize
Tonight on The Mormon Newscast, we dig into several stories making waves across the Latter-day Saint world. Our lead story returns to the LDS Church’s… Read More »LDS Church Misrepresents Its Own Evidence Against Mormon Stories?
Can a church become so important that no amount of bad leadership, toxic culture, or personal harm should ever cause someone to leave? Recently, Elder… Read More »“You Will Stay” – When Loyalty Matters More Than Abuse !
RFM and Bill Reel are joined by Dr. Thomas Murphy to discuss what the presence of Native American myths, individuals, and stories in the Book… Read More »Native American Legends in BOM!
Tonight on Mormon Newscast, the LDS Church says its trademark lawsuit against John Dehlin and Mormon Stories isn’t an attempt to silence a prominent critic—it’s… Read More »The LDS Church Changes Its Story ?
In June 1834, while marching with Zion’s Camp through Illinois, Joseph Smith and his followers came across an ancient Native American burial mound. Members of… Read More »Mormonism’s Zelph – The White Lamanite
Why do intelligent, sincere women remain loyal to systems that often ask them to suppress their own intuition? In this episode, Bill Reel is joined… Read More »How Mormonism Breaks Down Women’s Resistance
Tonight on Mormon Newscast, we’re following the money—and asking what the latest numbers actually tell us about the LDS Church. We begin with Ensign Peak’s… Read More »The LDS Church Made $7 Billion & Still Lost to the S&P 500
RFM and Bill Reel host an august panel of Sunstone Symposium presenters and attendees, as they tell us fun and fascinating stories about what goes… Read More »Find Out What REALLY Happened At Sunstone 2026!
Tonight on Mormon Newscast, our lead story centers on a significant development in the LDS Church’s trademark and copyright lawsuit against Mormon Stories Podcast. The… Read More »LDS Church Lawsuit Gets Pushback From ACLU & EFF
The Church as an Abusive Father — Revisited A response to Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge I originally wrote this piece more than a decade ago,… Read More »The Church as an abusive Father Figure: My Response to Larry Corbridge
Can a church become so important that no amount of bad leadership, toxic culture, or personal harm should ever cause someone to leave? Recently, Elder… Read More »“You Will Stay” – When Loyalty Matters More Than Abuse !
What if one of the most important events in early Mormon history never actually accomplished what it set out to do? In 1834, Joseph Smith… Read More »Zion’s Camp: Turning Failure Into Faith
On tonight’s show, our lead story is the BYU Adjunct Professor who was recently arrested on charges of using AI to create CSA images. This… Read More »BYU Professor Arrested Over ai Images