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
Mormon Monday: The 25-Minute Gospel (Or, The Church's New 25-Minute Sunday School
On September 6, the Mormon Church rolled out a new worldwide Sunday schedule: 60-minute sacrament meeting, then just 25 minutes each for Sunday School and Relief Society, elders quorum, Young Women, o...
"You Won't Be Needing Those": The Mormon Secret Council of Fifty
In 1922, Mormon Church president Heber J. Grant pointed to a box of records and told his new secretary, “You won’t be needing those.” Inside: the Council of Fifty. The Council of Fifty was Joseph Smit...
The Murder of Janet Abaroa: The Raven Abaroa Case
In April 2005, Raven Abaroa called 911 from his Durham, North Carolina home and told the operator his wife had been shot. Janet Abaroa, 25 and pregnant, had been stabbed three times while their six-mo...
What Do You Know Wednesday: How Mormonism Became McDonald's
Jess explains Church Correlation to Hannah, and the closest comparison she could find is McDonald's. Before 1960, Relief Society, Primary, and Sunday School ran their own curriculum, magazines, confer...
Mormon Church Tells Members to Oppose Idaho and Nevada Abortion Ballot Measures
On September 16, the Mormon Church sent a letter to all 1,300 congregations in Idaho telling members to oppose the Idaho Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, an abortion ballot measure. Five days lat...
Adam-God: When Mormon Revelation Becomes False Doctrine
Brigham Young said God revealed that Adam is our Father and God. In 1976, Mormon president Spencer W. Kimball denounced the Adam-God theory as false doctrine. How do you know which prophet to trust? I...
Mormon MTC Sex Abuse Scandal: Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt?
Former Mormon MTC president Joseph Bishop became the subject of a sex scandal after a former sister missionary, McKenna Denson, secretly recorded him in 2017. Denson has accused Bishop of raping her a...
Jen Shah: Mormon Upbringing, Real Housewives and Fraud
Jen Shah showed viewers a huge house, designer clothes, expensive parties, and the Shah Squad. Then came the fraud charges. Hannah introduces Jess to the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star, her Mo...
Arizona Supreme Court Rules Mormon Bishops Didn't Have to Report Confessed Child Abuse
Around 2011, a bishop in Bisbee, Arizona heard a man confess to sexually abusing his daughter. He didn't call the police or child protective services. He called a helpline the Mormon Church set up for...