1751: Mormon Church Assets - Ensign Peak, Real Estate, and Temples - Widow’s Mite Report Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 182 minutes
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Join us for part 2 of our review of the Widow’s Mite Report, which investigates and reports on LDS Church finances. Today we will discuss Ensign Peak Advisors, the Mormon church’s real estate holdings, and their extensive construction of temples.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:04.4 | Delin. It is March 30th, 2023 and today we are here for part two of our series on the |
| 0:14.4 | Widows Might Report. The Widows Might Report provides research and analysis on the state |
| 0:20.2 | of wealth in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It can be found at widowsmightreport.wordpress.com |
| 0:28.3 | and we did our initial episode on the wealth of the Mormon Church and how wealthy it is. |
| 0:34.3 | And today we are going to be talking about the Mormon Church's assets. We're going to be |
| 0:39.4 | talking about Ensign Peak, its investment arm, real estate and temples. Joining us today |
| 0:45.5 | first is one of my partners in Truth and Righteousness, Herardo Sommano. Hey Herardo, welcome |
| 0:50.4 | back. Hi, thanks. Thanks for staying late tonight. Yeah, I'm excited to be in this series |
| 0:55.8 | and one of the episodes for you. Yeah, people are excited about the last one and we're |
| 1:00.2 | glad to be doing this series. We're going to be doing at least three parts. So this will |
| 1:04.3 | be part two of a three part series. Also joining us is the Rebecca Biblia Teca from the |
| 1:10.1 | Good Book Club. Hey, Rebecca. Hey John, how are you tonight? Thanks for joining us. You |
| 1:15.4 | are so welcome. Thank you for that offer podcast, didn't you? I was doing an interview for |
| 1:20.9 | my podcast Mormonish. So that's going to air over Easter. Excellent. Well, we love all the |
| 1:26.7 | work you do. So thanks for joining us. Hi, so welcome. And our special guest for tonight, |
| 1:32.8 | all the way from the University of Illinois at Champaign or Bena is Spencer. Hey Spencer, |
| 1:37.6 | do you want to introduce yourself again? Reintroduce yourself to our audience? Yeah, so my name is |
| 1:41.9 | Spencer Anderson. I'm a professor of accounting at the University of Illinois. Super excited |
| 1:47.3 | to be here and talk a little bit about accounting and more in depth. What I usually do for my job |
| 1:53.3 | is I do research around financial reporting issues. So I look at how investors might react to the |
| 1:59.4 | way that a company might disclose something or how they might measure something. And so this is |
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