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SL Tribune: Rasband speaks at BYU. Runs "Proclamation" up the flagpole. This is the way it is kiddies. Okay, grandpa.
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SL Tribune, front page: Gilgal Sculpture Garden, SLC’s most quirky park marks 25-years as a public park. Joseph Smith as sphinx is a familiar icon, but his self-portrait overlooking his one-time backyard project completes the stonecutter motif—brick pants and all.
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NY Times/SL Tribune: J.C Chandor reflects on directing Robert Redford in "All is Lost" (2013). Redford as "Our Man" confronts his mortality on literal and metaphorical journey.
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SL Tribune, concert review: David Archuleta stopped in SLC and delivered a liberated performance. Singer's mother present in crowd—joined him on stage at the finish of “Hell Together.” Final dialogue capped by, “I never thought I’d love life this much and have this excitement to live.”
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[screenshot at mormon] No belief—No problem. No garments—No problem. No tithing—Big problem.
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Laughter in America is now a government-regulated product
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Political Cartoons from the last week for Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Weekend/Virtual Meetup Thread
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Political Cartoons from the last week for Sunday, September 14, 2025
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[screenshot at lds] Q. Are some marriages preordained in the premortal existence? A. Before being quick to dismiss this as Daybell/Vallow nonsense, consider Smith's proposal to Zina Huntington, who was already married to Henry Jacobs.
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[screenshot at latterdaysaints] New convert moves to Provo to attend BYU. Withdrawal symptoms apparent—the immediate shock of not being "love bombed" hurts, but is to be expected on a campus where everyone is assumed to be baptized.
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Rick Davies (1944-2025): Child of Vision.
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/u/alyssadgrenfell posted a few photos submitted to the Wall Street Journal for their front page coverage of exmormons, especially those creating content on TikTok. Grenfell offers a response to her critics, especially the faithful who are clutching their pearls. Yes, shine a light into dark places!
Political Cartoons from the last week for Sunday, September 7, 2025
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Alyssa Grenfell's short video ticks boxes on how Stephenie Meyer's Twilight matches with Joseph Smith's Mormonism. The elect, tick. Chastity, tick. Bella as convert, tick. Resurrected to immortal beings, tick. Corrupt versions of vampirism equate to Catholicism, tick.
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/u/EricNDavis provided a back-of-the-envelope method to check active membership statistics. The number of wards and branches, i.e. “total units” is a much better indicator because if a ward is too large it will be split; if it is too small it will not function as intended.
SL Tribune: Clark Gilbert, commissioner of CES, continues to hammer on BYU-x faculty to toe the line. Don't worry about consequences to accreditation; worry instead whether you'll have a job tomorrow.
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SL Tribune, Sunday front page: from Yale Law Journal, a new paper documents how BYU used their police force and student informants to conduct sting operations that went well beyond campus borders—surveillance included campus bathrooms, local parks and parking lots of gay bars in SLC.
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Political Cartoons from the last week for Sunday, August 31, 2025
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[screenshot at mormon] "I sincerely doubt that there is a second anointing for mortal people." Oh, my sweet, sweet summer child.
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