The Cultural Hall Podcast

Elizabeth Smart Is Challenging the Way the Mormon Church Talks About Women and Sex When we last heard from her, Elizabeth Smart was a budding critic of purity culture, but now it seems her critiques have made their way into...

I’ll add to this later.  But in short… I edited my first video for broadcast television when I was 13, and decided then, that I didn’t want to do anything else with my life. Fast forward a couple decades, and...

Utah woman sues TV studio for allegedly ‘condoning’ sexual harassment A Utah woman is suing ABC Signature Studios after she says she was fired because she reported a supervisor for sexual harassment. Read Story Wall Mansion in Salt Lake City...

Elder M. Russell Ballard lays wreath in Nauvoo cemetery Two apostles — Elder M. Russell Ballard of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Elder Lachlan Mackay of the Community of Christ (both descendants of Joseph Smith Sr....

Nevada family killed in crash on return trip from Utah remembered for love, faith A father, daughter and son were were killed in a crash on I-15 Sunday as they returned home from a trip to Utah celebrating the completion...

A First (And Last*) Look at the New Mormon Temple “Like Solomon’s Temple, we seek to use the finest materials and the highest quality craftsmanship in our construction,” Elder Larry Y. Wilson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Latter-day Church president subpoenaed in sex abuse lawsuits The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has been subpoenaed to give a deposition in a series of sex abuse lawsuits. Read Story Study shows Mormon women fear...

Meet the Mormon brothers who make adorable ads about disgusting things A few years back, the founders of Squatty Potty had a problem. Their product is a plastic footstool that wraps around the base of a toilet to elevate the...

Elder Oaks Gives Advice For Those Struggling Being Single Marriage is a big deal in the Church, so it’s understandable that many LDS single adults feel discouraged or disheartened. One such woman, 26 years old and a student at Harvard,...

Mormon temple in Tucson reaches milestone A major milestone Thursday for the Mormon temple being built here in Tucson. Crews lifted a golden angel to be placed on top of the temple as the building at 7281 N. Skyline Drive moves...

12 Signs You’ve Been in the Singles Ward Too Long While young single adult wards can be a great place to make new friends and meet new people, there are a few tell-tale signs that you’ve become a veteran young...

LDS Woman Wins 2nd in Nation for Toilet Paper Wedding Dress All across the nation, over 1,500 people created wedding dresses from nothing but toilet paper, glue, tape, and thread. And a Latter-day Saint was among them. Read Story Churchill...

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author, Speaker and Activist Known for her riveting tales of transformation, M. Bridget Cook-Burch (Bridget) is a New York Times Bestselling Author, a Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author & Transformational Speaker/Trainer and...

‘Skylighter’ concludes BYU grad’s Keepers’ Chronicles series Brigham Young University graduate Becky Wallace got the idea for “The Storyspinner,” the first book in her Keepers’ Chronicles series, while watching “Sleeping Beauty” with her then-2-year-old. Wallace watched as Aurora danced alone...

So this is a couple of weeks late. Better late than never…yeah? 14 Things You Didn’t Know a Mormon Invented Each of these Mormons have shaped history by inventing devices we now take for granted, including television, the traffic light,...