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
Lying for the Lord: The Documented Pattern Behind Mormon Denials
A church president was asked a direct question about core Mormon doctrine — and answered like it didn't exist. There's a name for that pattern, and it goes back to Joseph Smith himself. Jess a...
LDSforTrump and the Trademark Double Standard
The Church sued a podcast over a logo. A group called "Latter-day Saints for Trump" used the actual Salt Lake Temple in a campaign ad and got a press release. Twice. Two election cycles. The...
The LDS Committee That Tracked Its Own Members
The LDS Church denied this committee existed for years. Then it admitted the committee tracks members' speech, feeds files to bishops, and — the church says — never judges or punishes anyone itsel...
The 1911 Salt Lake Temple Photo Scandal
In 1911, Gisbert Bossard secretly photographed the inside of the Salt Lake Temple, and Max Florence tried to sell the images back to the LDS Church. Joseph F. Smith refused to pay. Then the photos hit...
Why Young Latter-day Saints Are Leaning Liberal
Four young Latter-day Saints say their liberal politics came from their faith, not despite it — and it exposes the gap between Church neutrality and ward culture. A Salt Lake Tribune piece profiles R...
Joseph Smith, Freemasonry, and the Temple Apron
The apron Lucifer wears in the LDS temple ceremony isn't in Genesis — it's Masonic. Joseph Smith became a Master Mason in 1842, and seven weeks later, the endowment appeared using the same sig...
The Bear River Massacre and the Mormon History Behind Washakie Ward
The Bear River Massacre is the deadliest massacre of Indigenous people by the United States military in American history, and most of us were never taught about it. This week on What Do You Know Wedne...
Mormon Exclusion Is Structural — Temple Recommends, Shunning, and Love Bombing Explained
The LDS Church doesn't need anyone to be cruel. The recommend interview, the ministering grid, and the love bombing cycle do the work — and they were built to. Jess and Hannah break down three str...
The Pinkest City in the Reddest State: The LDS Church Doesn't Play Politics?
Why does Utah's most Democratic city sit at the heart of the LDS Church? This week on Postmormon Postmortem, we examine Salt Lake City's political evolution, Utah's controversial redistric...