Episodes
You've found all episodes of Post-Mormon Postmortem, where we examine Mormon culture, true crime, and religious trauma with the analysis that comes from lived experience.
Episode Categories
True Crime - Mormon cases where culture and doctrine create the perfect conditions for deceptionReligious Trauma - Processing the aftermath of high-control religion
Foundations - Mormon beliefs and culture explained for never-Mormons
Exit Stories - Real accounts of leaving and rebuilding
Cultural Deep Dives - Examining the weird, wonderful, and deeply dysfunctional
The Mormon Church Admitted Joseph Smith's Polygamy, But Not the Coercion
Joseph Smith married more than thirty women, including a fourteen-year-old, and the LDS Church's own Gospel Topics essay "Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo" admits it. Then it stops right where t...
Mormon Monday: The LDS Church's Real Estate Buying Spree
The LDS Church's investment arm just dropped $240 million on a luxury apartment complex in Florida. We connect that purchase to a deep-dive investigation into the Mormon Church in New Zealand — bi...
The Mormon Church Disavowed 126 Years of Racist Doctrine. They Called It "Theories."
The LDS Church called the priesthood ban a "direct commandment from the Lord" for 126 years. In 2013, they published an essay. We read both — and the gap between them is the whole story. Jess and Hann...
Mormon Baptisms for the Dead: Anne Frank, Hitler, and Holocaust Victims
Baptism for the dead is one of the most distinctive practices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this episode, Jess and Hannah talk through LDS proxy baptism, Joseph Smith’s introd...
The Same Playbook: How High-Control Religion, MLMs, and Cults Use Identical Tactics
High-control religion doesn't stay in the church. The same mechanisms run in MLMs, megachurches, political movements, and families. Here's the vocabulary to see it — wherever it shows up. The ...
Mormon Women Were Told to Stay Home. Now the LDS Church Celebrates Working Moms.
The LDS Church recently posted a story celebrating a husband who supports his wife’s career as a pediatric neurologist. What looked like a simple social media post quickly became a very Mormon argumen...
Mormon Sibling Violence Has a Pattern. We Have 100 Years of Headlines.
Two Mormon brothers killed their brothers 30 years apart. Two obituaries that don't say how they died. One pattern that made both disappear. On June 18, 1964, Stephen Ferrin, 15, shot his 13-year-...
Tim Ballard, a Mormon Psychic, and Six Civil Lawsuits
In the debut episode of What Do You Know Wednesday, Jess finds out what she knows about Tim Ballard — founder of Operation Underground Railroad and subject of the 2023 film Sound of Freedom . On the t...
Mormon Monday: The LDS Church’s Constitution Lesson
Hannah and Jess break down the First Presidency’s coordinated fifth Sunday lesson on the U.S. Constitution — a lesson directed to every U.S. ward on May 31st, teaching that the Constitution enabled th...