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.

1. Farewell to Jensen
2. Church drops MTC plans
3. Billy Graham loves Mormons
4. The Church’s influence in politics

About Geoff Openshaw

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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