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Family Ties and Legal Minds Inside LDS Church Leadership

Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.3618 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Mormon Newscast, we take a deeper look at who actually rises to leadership inside the LDS Church and why. A new analysis shows a striking pattern that raises questions about loyalty, trust, and how power reproduces itself inside a church that claims to be led by revelation rather than résumés or relationships.… Read More »Family Ties and Legal Minds Inside LDS Church Leadership

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Mormon newscast. It is Monday night. It is 6 p.m. and it is February 2nd. I'm Rebecca

0:08.8

Bibliateka and I am joined with my two amazing colleagues. Radio Free Mormon. How are you on February 2nd?

0:15.3

Happy Groundhog Day. That's right. That's exactly what it is. Did you see your shadow today? I have to ask.

0:21.5

I actually didn't look. It's usually behind me. That's a good point. Bill, how about you? How are you on this

0:26.9

Groundhog? How are you on this Groundhog? You know, we get through Groundhog's Day and Valentine's Day is just around the

0:34.7

corner. So, so we're ready. That's a lot of pressure. Some people say, oh, shit, right? When they realize that other people look forward to it, I think more people are upset and worried, right, about Valentine's. There's a lot of pressure. If you're going to take it to a nice restaurant, you need to get your reservation now. That's right. Otherwise, you're at Del Taco, which is fine. I like Del Taco.

0:56.1

Del Taco has great tacos. I recommend their fish tacos. I was talking to someone who is visiting

1:00.8

a Del Taco just last night. Is that right? No, I love fish tacos at Del Taco. It's so funny you said that

1:06.1

because now I literally, right after the newscast, I may talk fast so we can end early because I'm going to go there.

1:11.4

Now that you put it in my brain. Hearing no objections. No objections. Let's go to the slides so I can get

1:17.8

on with this and get over to Del Taco. All right. We have a lot of stories today. And some of them

1:22.7

were breaking even through the afternoon. We had to like take some out, put some in because the news is

1:27.6

ever changing. So we're going to be talking about the church built on bloodlines and briefcases.

1:34.1

Love that title. Bill came up with that. George Zinn sentencing. You probably remember who that is.

1:40.2

And that's probably wrong too. It's just a guilty plea. Okay. It's a guilty please.

1:44.4

None of us know the difference. You're the only one that knows, and that's why you, too. It's just a guilty plea. Okay, it's a guilty plea. None of us know the difference.

1:45.9

You're the only one that knows, and that's why you're here to cut through it for us.

1:49.5

Christian Easter versus LDS General Conference.

1:52.8

I'm sure you can't guess whose soapbox that is.

1:55.8

That would be me.

1:57.3

Church growing in Africa and everywhere with three question marks not one not two but three

2:03.4

Maronize holy relic displayed I'm going to be taking that one kidnapped kids return from

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