Episode #141 – The Great Pillow Fight (and More General Conference)
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Holland’s Inner Anger
We’re back with part 2 of our General Conference recap, as well as some other news:
Marlin K. Jensen is released during General Conference, and the Church loses a progressive pragmatist with a flair for conflict resolution.
The Church backs off on its construction of a new nine-story building at the Provo MTC. How will this affect the changes in missionary work announced during General Conference? Victory to the people of Provo!
BYUtv has a new comedy show. It’s sort of OK.
Reverend Billy Graham meets with Mitt Romney and promptly removes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from his list of “cults.” How kind. Pat Billy on the back, but not too hard or he might die.
Vanity Fair publishes an interesting – if flawed – piece on how the Church has been involved in politics from one time to another.
- Farewell to Jensen
- Church drops MTC plans
- Billy Graham loves Mormons
- The Church’s influence in politics
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Geoff Openshaw is an international development consultant as well as the Managing Editor and Executive Producer of the This Week in Mormons podcast. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and Brigham Young University and loves all sorts of nerdy geopolitical stuff. He also writes and performs music and really, really loves Del Taco.
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