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Season 1
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...
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 ...