Inside the Disappearance of LDS Devotion
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Bill Reel
4.3 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Tonight’s top story looks at new national data revealing a growing gap inside the LDS Church — especially among Gen Z members. While many young adults are stepping away entirely, new research shows that those who remain often continue outward religious behaviors like church attendance and temple participation. But beneath the surface, something deeper is… Read More »Inside the Disappearance of LDS Devotion
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody, to the Mormon newscast. It is Monday, January 19th, 2026. We're just getting started, |
| 0:08.0 | but hit that like button, hit the subscribe down below. I'm joined by my colleagues, Rebecca |
| 0:12.8 | Biblioteca, Radio Free Mormon. How are the two of you tonight? I'm great. |
| 0:17.8 | Awesome. I'll put the slideshow up here. I had a little fun with the thumbnail. You can see |
| 0:24.6 | the young adult LDS folks down there at the bottom, quite bored in their meeting. I tried to |
| 0:30.6 | figure out a way to have things in Mormonism disappearing. And I thought of the back to the future |
| 0:36.5 | photo with Marty McFly on it and his brother and sister fading away. And I thought of the back to the future photo with Marty |
| 0:37.9 | McFly on it and his brother and sister fading away. And I thought, there's the temple. There's the |
| 0:43.6 | logo. They're fading out of view. The decline. I actually got that reference. I thought it was |
| 0:49.3 | very clever. You know, I saw that in the theaters back in 1985, and I went to see it with my fiance |
| 0:56.6 | the night before we got sealed forever in the Dallas, Texas Temple in July of 1985. |
| 1:04.5 | And ever since then, I can't help but think of Back to the Future as a horror movie. |
| 1:10.0 | All right. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, there's that. |
| 1:12.6 | The decline of Mormon devotion. |
| 1:14.0 | That's our main story tonight. |
| 1:16.3 | Measuring Mormon devotion. |
| 1:18.3 | Our other stories are LDS missionary dies days before farewell. |
| 1:23.0 | Rebecca will be bringing us that story. |
| 1:25.6 | Radio Free Mormon is covering a story where Mormon podcasters plan to drown out the critics. |
| 1:31.9 | Can't wait to hear that. |
| 1:33.6 | Rebecca will be covering also a story about a man arrested in that recent LDS funeral shooting |
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