In this minisode, Hannah looks at the Mountain Meadows Massacre through one specific question: what would a real apology from the Mormon Church actually sound like?
Using a ten-part framework for meaningful apologies, she builds the apology the Church should have given to the victims’ descendants, then compares it to the Church’s actual response: silence, blame-shifting, scapegoating, “profound regret,” and an explicit refusal to call any of it an apology.
This episode discusses the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, John D. Lee, institutional accountability, Mormon history, and what repair would require after religious violence.