Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast.

In this case, Mormon News podcast.

I'm your host, John DeLin.

It is June 6, 2018.

And as always, we're very excited for the panel that we have pulled together today.

As we're trying to do on Mormon Stories, we have pulled together the week's news

and our goal for now is to review it with various panelists.

And just to talk about it, the main subject of discussion today is going to be

the recent B1 event that was held June 1, 2018, where the LDS Church celebrated the 40th

anniversary of its lifting of the ban on pre-stead to black males and of temple blessings

and temple full temple access to all people of African descent.

So that's going to be the main thing that we're talking about.

We're also going to be talking about the weekend news and a few other stories.

Before we jump in, we just want to remind everyone as we always do

that we have a few events coming up.

The core mission of the Open Stories Foundation and Mormon Stories podcast is to support

Mormons who are struggling in a religious or a faith transition in their marriages,

raising kids with health, with mental health, with spirituality, with finding community,

with mixed faith marriages, etc.

So without going into much detail, go to Mormonstories.org slash events.

You'll learn that this weekend we ever retreat in Park City, June 8th through 10th.

In Houston July 13th through 15th we ever retreat.

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