I am Ryan McKnight and this is Naked Mormonism.

I pledge my life all that I may have.

I will strive to the utmost of my ability to be what you would want me to be.

It's time to find the truth.

And having set our hand to the plow, we will never look back until this work is finished.

Where is the church going?

I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith.

But it will not be saved in Washington.

It will be saved by enlightened members of this church.

The explicit tag is there for a reason, so if you get offended at what's said, it's not for you.

But most importantly...

May you ponder the truths you've heard.

May they help you become even better than you were.

Skepticize everything.

Today is our 50th episode, and it's also March 16th, 2017.

Welcome, welcome, and thank you for joining me.

My name is Bryce Blankenagle.

I know episode 50, it's a completely arbitrary distinction, and, you know, it's taken us nearly two and a half years to get here, and there's actually over 100 episodes in the feed.

But we have to take the time to celebrate once in a while, even if that celebration happens to be completely arbitrary like this.

We have a lot of information to get through in this episode.

Really, it's incredible. But before jumping into the November Court of Inquiry held against Joe and 63 other Mormons,

I want to take a minute to talk to you guys about the podcast in general.

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