LDS Church 2022 Growth, Arizona Clergy Privilege, Holland Ill Health w/ Patrick Mason and Jana Riess - Mormon News 02

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss:
– LDS Church membership growth/statistics for 2022.
– Arizona court upholds clergy privilege in child abuse case.
– LDS leader in Trenton charged with allegedly enticing teen girl from congregation.
– LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland ‘excused’ from church duties due to ill health. He won’t speak at SUU.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Mormon News Weekly. This is a news, let's start over.
0:09.0	Yeah, go ahead and start over. No worries.
0:11.0	Okay, so I just just go from here.
0:14.0	Yeah, just pretend we're starting right over.
0:17.0	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
0:20.0	Okay, go for it.
0:23.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Mormon News Weekly.
0:26.0	This new weekly show is dedicated to a roundtable discussion of the latest news in the broad world of Mormonism.
0:32.0	Each episode will dissect the previous week's top Mormon-related news stories from our different perspective.
0:38.0	My name is Patrick Mason and I'll be moderating the conversation this week with my two friends and fellow panelists, Jan Arise and John Dillin.
0:46.0	Hi, Jan and John.
0:48.0	Hey Patrick.
0:49.0	Hey Patrick, hey Jaina.
0:51.0	Hey, so just so you know we'll rotate each week with a different one of us directing traffic each time.
0:58.0	My day job, I'm a professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University.
1:03.0	Jan is a senior columnist at Religion News Service and John is the founder and the host of the Mormon Stories podcast.
1:13.0	And so we've got a, there's always lots of news.
1:16.0	We've got several things to talk about this week.
1:19.0	And so why don't we go ahead and just dive in?
1:22.0	Each year in the spring and connection with the April General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the church releases a statistical report.
1:34.0	Many years it was read as read out in general conference this year.
1:39.0	It wasn't but the church released it publicly on its newsroom in addition to its comparison to some numbers from the last few years.
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