Mormon Truth Interviews!!

On January 21, 2018, David Bednar, Apostle in the Mormon Church, visited three stakes in Houston, TX. He visited the Houston, Tomball and Kingwood Stakes. This is the talk he gave at one of those stakes. There is no one more arrogant than David A. Bednar, in the BIG 15..the arrogance drips from every word he speaks. Get ready for the day he becomes Prophet..maybe he can finish things off & drive away the last true-believer if we're lucky. Thanks to Mormon Leaks for posting this audio & for the person that sent it to them. They need to be exposed!

Wednesday, we’re talking about new LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson, other changes in the First Presidency, and how the Church may meet the challenges of a global faith in the 21st century. Tuesday morning, the LDS Church announced the new leader of the faith. It was no surprise that Russell M. Nelson was called; there’s a clear succession plan when a president dies. It was a surprise though that he replaced the popular leader Dieter F. Uchtdorf as a counselor in the First Presidency, the highest governing body of the Church. So Wednesday, we’re talking about Nelson, the “new” face Dallin H. Oaks, and how they may meet the challenges of a global faith in the 21st century. We want to hear from you. What do you see as the social, political, and faith challenges facing the LDS Church? What are you hoping to hear from Church leadership? Send an email to radiowest@kuer.org or comment below. Guests: Lee Hale, KUER religion reporter Joanna Brooks is a professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. She is the author or editor of nine books including Decolonizing Mormonism: Towards a Postcolonial Zion [Indie bookstores|Amazon], due out in May with University of Utah Press. She is also the chair of the Dialogue Foundation supporting Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Janan Graham-Russell is a PhD student at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the dialogue between Afro-Atlantic identity, religious experience, and contemporary Mormonism. Her work has been featured in Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings [Indie bookstores|Amazon] and A Book of Mormons: Latter-day Saints on a Modern-Day Zion [Indie bookstores|Amazon]

Thomas S. Monson, President of the LDS Church, has died at the age of 90. Thursday, we’re talking about his life, the course of the Church during his tenure, and what comes next for Mormonism. Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Tuesday at 90 years old. President Monson had served in the role Mormons regard as “prophet, seer, and revelator” for nearly a decade. Thursday, we’re talking about his life and legacy, the course of the Church during his tenure, and what comes next for Mormonism. Our guests are historians Patrick Mason, Andrea Radke-Moss, and Greg Prince, as well as Church observer John Dehlin. Remembering the life and legacy of President Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018). From the official Thomas S. Monson Facebook page. Guests: Patrick Mason is the Howard W Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. His latest book is called What is Mormonism? A Student's Introduction [Indie bookstores|Amazon]. Andrea Radke-Moss is a history professor at BYU Idaho and a contributor to the Mormon history blog Juvenile Instructor. Gregory Prince is an independent historian whose books include David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism [Indiebound|Amazon] and Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History [Indiebound|Amazon]. John Dehlin is a psychologist and founder/host of the podcast Mormon Stories Read more from KUER News: LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson Dies At Age 90 Utahns, Others Share Memories Of Mormon Leader Thomas S. Monson Thomas S. Monson: Mormon Faithful Recall A Great Leader Sharing Humble Stories How A New Mormon Prophet Is Chosen

Thomas S. Monson bragging about not signing the petition against a "little paperboy" who then tragically killed himself. He did NOTHING to help this "poor little paperboy" but considered himself and his wife to be heroes! It's a sick and tragic story and I hope he just made it up like most of his stories and that it wasn't even true. Where was his compassion or so called "spirit of discernment" they brag so much about? Once again, non-existent! Then again, he seems to love to push young kids to suicide with his November 5, 2015 GAY HATE DOCTRINE, so it wouldn't be surprising if it really did happen & he didn't care. I sure hope not though! This was from the April 2005 General Conference.

Thomas S. Monson bragging about not signing the petition against a "little paperboy" who then tragically killed himself. He did NOTHING to help this "poor little paperboy" but considered himself and his wife to be heroes! It's a sick and tragic story and I hope he just made it up like most of his stories and that it wasn't even true. Where was his compassion or so called "spirit of discernment" they brag so much about? Once again, non-existent! Then again, he seems to love to push young kids to suicide with his November 5, 2015 GAY HATE DOCTRINE, so it wouldn't be surprising if it really did happen & he didn't care. I sure hope not though! This was from the April 2005 General Conference.

Utah Senator Steve Urquhart says the LDS Church “effectively snuffed out” his bill to strengthen the state’s hate crime laws. Last week, the Church criticized any legislation that would upset the “careful balance” Utah achieved between LGBT rights and religious liberty with last year’s anti-discrimination law. Wednesday, Urquhart and others will join us to talk about the timing of his bill, what balance should look like it, and why proponents argue the state’s current hate crime law falls short. For a complete list of guests & links, please click here: http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/utah-and-hate-crime-law

Utah Senator Steve Urquhart says the LDS Church “effectively snuffed out” his bill to strengthen the state’s hate crime laws. Last week, the Church criticized any legislation that would upset the “careful balance” Utah achieved between LGBT rights and religious liberty with last year’s anti-discrimination law. Wednesday, Urquhart and others will join us to talk about the timing of his bill, what balance should look like it, and why proponents argue the state’s current hate crime law falls short. For a complete list of guests & links, please click here: http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/utah-and-hate-crime-law

A great show by Doug Fabrizio, on RadioWest, entitled "The Mormon Jesus", from July 14,2016. Did you know that in the 1850s some Mormons argued that Jesus was married and had children? Or that even today, there’s LDS theology around Jesus Christ that leads Evangelicals to say The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn’t really Christian? Thursday, scholar John Turner is Doug’s guest. He’s written a book called The Mormon Jesus and he joins us to discuss how the LDS concept of Jesus Christ has changed over time, and what it reveals about Mormonism in American religious life. John Turner is a historian of American religion who teaches at George Mason University in Virginia. He's the author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet [Indiebound|Amazon|Audible] and a new book The Mormon Jesus: A Biography [Indiebound|Amazon] On Wednesday, July 27, Turner will deliver the Smith-Petit opening lecture of the Sunstone 2016 Salt Lake Summer Symposium. His talk is entitled Jesus Christ, Marriage and Mormon Christianities It begins at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Utah Olpin Student Union, and is free and open to the public. http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/mormon-jesus

"Woven into the story, the history will be some of the issues that sometimes rise associated with church history and our doctrine. We try to cover those with some essays which are linked to lds.org under Gospel Topics. The Brethren two years ago gave us twelve questions to answer. They included 'œRace and the Priesthood'€, 'Polygamy'€, '€œThe translation of the Book of Mormon', on and on. Nine of those have now been answered and three questions remain to be answered and we are still working on those. We should conclude our work by the end of this year. If you haven'€™t had a chance to look at those essays, we'€™d encourage you to do so and share them with your friends. We are in the process of letting leaders, stake presidents and bishops know about them so they can be a resource in the event that some of their members are having questions or challenges about those issues. 'Book of Abraham' essay was just released in July, that's the most recent of the nine essays that have been published on-line. I think it'd be helpful to know how we chose to roll those out. It was a soft roll out. There wasn'€™t an announcement saying '€œYou can go to this website to learn everything weird about the Mormon church you ever wanted to learn.' (Loud Laughter from the audience) But yet we had a lot of people struggling with some of these issues. We were loosing young people particularly. And we felt we owed a safe place for people to go to get these answered. So they were deliberately kind of placed in an existing database, so they wouldn'€™t..You know, 90% of the church probably couldn't care less, they don'€™t worry about such things. But we do have some folks who are on-line and we felt like they needed a safe place to go to get answers if they had questions. So I don'€™t think you are gonna see a well publicized campaign to tell you to go to these sites. But we just, you know, the people that are interested seem to kind of pass the word amongst themselves. And the only other thing is that leaders now will have access to them. And I think the long- probably the greatest long-term benefit will be: These are answers that have been vetted by the, reviewed by the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency and they have signed off on these answers. And now curriculum and seminaries and institute can safely weave these essays into a future curriculum to in a sense '€œinoculate'€ is a word I use quite a bit for the rising generation. So, they can learn a little bit about these things without being totally shocked when they hear them for the first time. Does that make sense? ('yeah'€ from someone in the audience) Yeah, OK. So, don'€™t expect a big campaign. I think there'€™s been a lot of interest within maybe a small percentage of church members but my view is most of the church really is not troubled, members are not troubled by these."

A great show by Doug Fabrizio, on RadioWest, entitled "The Mormon Jesus", from July 14,2016. Did you know that in the 1850s some Mormons argued that Jesus was married and had children? Or that even today, there’s LDS theology around Jesus Christ that leads Evangelicals to say The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn’t really Christian? Thursday, scholar John Turner is Doug’s guest. He’s written a book called The Mormon Jesus and he joins us to discuss how the LDS concept of Jesus Christ has changed over time, and what it reveals about Mormonism in American religious life. John Turner is a historian of American religion who teaches at George Mason University in Virginia. He's the author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet [Indiebound|Amazon|Audible] and a new book The Mormon Jesus: A Biography [Indiebound|Amazon] On Wednesday, July 27, Turner will deliver the Smith-Petit opening lecture of the Sunstone 2016 Salt Lake Summer Symposium. His talk is entitled Jesus Christ, Marriage and Mormon Christianities It begins at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Utah Olpin Student Union, and is free and open to the public. http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/mormon-jesus

"Woven into the story, the history will be some of the issues that sometimes rise associated with church history and our doctrine. We try to cover those with some essays which are linked to lds.org under Gospel Topics. The Brethren two years ago gave us twelve questions to answer. They included 'œRace and the Priesthood'€, 'Polygamy'€, '€œThe translation of the Book of Mormon', on and on. Nine of those have now been answered and three questions remain to be answered and we are still working on those. We should conclude our work by the end of this year. If you haven'€™t had a chance to look at those essays, we'€™d encourage you to do so and share them with your friends. We are in the process of letting leaders, stake presidents and bishops know about them so they can be a resource in the event that some of their members are having questions or challenges about those issues. 'Book of Abraham' essay was just released in July, that's the most recent of the nine essays that have been published on-line. I think it'd be helpful to know how we chose to roll those out. It was a soft roll out. There wasn'€™t an announcement saying '€œYou can go to this website to learn everything weird about the Mormon church you ever wanted to learn.' (Loud Laughter from the audience) But yet we had a lot of people struggling with some of these issues. We were loosing young people particularly. And we felt we owed a safe place for people to go to get these answered. So they were deliberately kind of placed in an existing database, so they wouldn'€™t..You know, 90% of the church probably couldn't care less, they don'€™t worry about such things. But we do have some folks who are on-line and we felt like they needed a safe place to go to get answers if they had questions. So I don'€™t think you are gonna see a well publicized campaign to tell you to go to these sites. But we just, you know, the people that are interested seem to kind of pass the word amongst themselves. And the only other thing is that leaders now will have access to them. And I think the long- probably the greatest long-term benefit will be: These are answers that have been vetted by the, reviewed by the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency and they have signed off on these answers. And now curriculum and seminaries and institute can safely weave these essays into a future curriculum to in a sense '€œinoculate'€ is a word I use quite a bit for the rising generation. So, they can learn a little bit about these things without being totally shocked when they hear them for the first time. Does that make sense? ('yeah'€ from someone in the audience) Yeah, OK. So, don'€™t expect a big campaign. I think there'€™s been a lot of interest within maybe a small percentage of church members but my view is most of the church really is not troubled, members are not troubled by these."

This song was available until July 31, 2016 for free & is now just a sample. Please visit iTunes or CDBaby(linked at the bottom) to purchase the full,high quality version & help Lori to pursue her dream of singing & helping others with her amazing voice & talent. Thanks! "I've Had to Learn". My gift to the LGBT community at large but especially in the LDS faith. For those of you who are being shunned, abused and thrown out of your homes simply for being who they are. I know that abuse and I care. I offer..."I've Had to Learn" with some beautiful photography of New Zealand and Idaho. Don't kill yourself over the loss of your family. There is a huge community of people just like you waiting to love you...and you have you and that my friends is your greatest asset ever. Always follow the love. Always move towards love even if that is in another country. Go as far a you need to go to find love. I know your pain and have been where you are. Please investigate www.cesletter.com to educate yourself about the LDS church. It's not you.... If you like what you hear, please donate to my gofundme campaign to keep the music being produced and distributed. Thank you. http://www.gofundme.com/zs3bync To purchase the higher quality version of "I've Had to Learn" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/loricrandall4 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ive-had-to-learn-single/id522891880 This song will be available here until July 31, then it'll be removed. So download it while you can or download the higher quality version. Thanks everyone for your support!

This song was available until July 31, 2016 for free & is now just a sample. Please visit iTunes or CDBaby(linked at the bottom) to purchase the full,high quality version & help Lori to pursue her dream of singing & helping others with her amazing voice & talent. Thanks! "I've Had to Learn". My gift to the LGBT community at large but especially in the LDS faith. For those of you who are being shunned, abused and thrown out of your homes simply for being who they are. I know that abuse and I care. I offer..."I've Had to Learn" with some beautiful photography of New Zealand and Idaho. Don't kill yourself over the loss of your family. There is a huge community of people just like you waiting to love you...and you have you and that my friends is your greatest asset ever. Always follow the love. Always move towards love even if that is in another country. Go as far a you need to go to find love. I know your pain and have been where you are. Please investigate www.cesletter.com to educate yourself about the LDS church. It's not you.... If you like what you hear, please donate to my gofundme campaign to keep the music being produced and distributed. Thank you. http://www.gofundme.com/zs3bync To purchase the higher quality version of "I've Had to Learn" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/loricrandall4 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ive-had-to-learn-single/id522891880 This song will be available here until July 31, then it'll be removed. So download it while you can or download the higher quality version. Thanks everyone for your support!

The Day of the Lamanites-Spencer W. Kimball Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles Conference Report October 1960, pp. 32-37 This talk was originally given in General Conference, in October, 1960 & is therefore considered OFFICIAL scripture! One of the most horrific, racist talks given in General Conference, in modern times. It's just sickening! This talk is read by a computer program, until I hopefully find the original audio someday. If anyone has it or knows where I can get it, please let me know!

This was a meeting held Saturday, June 11, 2016 in Lethbridge, Canada, with Mormon Apostle Russell M. Nelson. Here is a summary of Nelson's comments. Others also speak after he is done. This meeting also included seventies, a mission president, temple president, stake presidents & bishops. The question is, who in this room of Mormon leaders, betrayed Mr. Nelson, recording this private meeting & then posting it on the Internet, for the world to hear. Who can they trust these days? It's always great to hear what is talked about in private, that isn't meant for the rest of the members or world to hear. Thanks to whoever recorded this meeting! Enjoy! 0:00 - Russell Nelson 0:20 - 4 levels of church government plus mp and church pres 2:55 - stats 15,700,000 members of the church 3218 stakes 150 temples 4:00 Jacob 1:19 5:30 read standard works in 2 weeks. (1590 + 531 + 294 + 61 = 2472 pages 176 pages per day). Read standard works to find the purpose of God, Jesus, Satan, church, priesthood, leaders, members 9:40 calling a man and woman 10:20 Russell recalls a woman who wrote about her husband being called as hp group leader and blaming the bishop - "she didn't know where to put the blame" 11:00 who do we talk to before we ever place a call? We talk to momma. 14:20 what's satan’s purpose 16:40 people don't attack the prophet like they used to do they attack the Book of Mormon 17:40 Satan attacks right at the heart of the church which is the family. 18:10 tool of pornography. DC 38:13, 28 21:20 purpose of the church, starts with 1820 25:10 purpose of the priesthood 29:33 “not to pronounce a blessing or give a blessing to people who, in contrary to the will of the lord” on families DC 132:4 Helaman 10:8 thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will 32:30 what's the purpose of sending children to planet earth 35:00 anecdote about him being in a suit coat and others in a tattoo 40:30 End of Nelson (Elder Suarez edited out due to length) Beginning of Bassett 42:40 “Standards of the world” 56:23 End of platitudes about Proclamation & Sabbath/Bassett. Begin Nelson 57:13 End short remark of Nelson, Beginning of Evanson on self reliance & sacrifice 1:18:20 End of Evanson. Intermission. 1:19:10 (Edit) Evanson conducting, QA with Suarez, Testimonies of President Hardy, President Miles, Bassett, Suarez, Nelson 1:20:05 Intro of Suarez conducting QA 1:28:10 Growing gap between god’s standards and the world’s standards and the tension between the two. 1:35:50 “Vocal minority holding sway”. Any advice on not overstepping our bounds as church leaders but still holding onto values? 1:41:18 How do we help youth and pornography 1:50:42 RM’s and helping them 1:53:41 Advice for those suffering “same sex attraction” 2:00:41 Temple recommend questions on attending meetings 2:06:18 Good members walking away from the church. “Do you have any comments on that?” 2:11:50 End Q/A. (Testimony of Hardy, President Miles, Evanson, Bassett, Suarez edited out due to length) Beginning Russell Nelson 2:19:00 Lauding Joseph Smith “translating” 2:21:15 Projections of the church 2:29:30 Apostolic blessing(which means NOTHING!)