LDS Church vs The Wall Street Journal
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Bill Reel
4.3 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Tonight on The Mormon Newscast, we’re diving into the growing spotlight on ex-Mormon voices in the media. The Wall Street Journal recently covered social media influencers critiquing Mormonism, sparking a rebuttal from the Deseret News and a statement from Senator Mike Lee. We’ll unpack what this means for the public conversation around the Church, truth… Read More »LDS Church vs The Wall Street Journal
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everyone. This is Radio Free Mormon. Welcome to the Mormon Newscast with co-host Bill Reel and Rebecca Bibliotheca. Good evening, you two. |
| 0:12.0 | How are you? Good evening. How are you? |
| 0:15.2 | An underwhelming response, but we'll let it go with that. We've got some great stories here tonight, but first at the very top, we have some announcements to make. |
| 0:23.2 | And first among those is there is a 20th anniversary celebration going on across the country, yay across the world, because it's a 20th anniversary of Mormon stories. |
| 0:35.8 | I think that was just a few days ago. This is the first newscast we've had since |
| 0:39.2 | the Blessed event. And I was talking to John DeLynn on the phone just before the show. I wanted to |
| 0:44.3 | thank him for everything he's done in my life and in the lives of so many. Anyway, if you have any |
| 0:52.2 | comments about that, you two about this announcement, it's just amazing. |
| 0:56.2 | He said 20 years, where has the time gone? |
| 0:58.1 | He asked me, how long have you been doing this RFM? |
| 1:00.3 | I said, well, in October nine years. |
| 1:01.8 | And he goes, geez, yeah, it goes fast. |
| 1:04.5 | It'll continue to go faster for John, I predict. |
| 1:07.2 | John was the first place space that gave me permission to question out loud. And so for two |
| 1:14.7 | decades of content that has helped us all feel safer talking out loud about our Mormon |
| 1:21.4 | stories, kudos to him for all the work that he's done. Yep. John and one stories and the whole crew, they are just amazing. |
| 1:29.5 | And it's interesting because I am friends with the first like sound tech engineer that they |
| 1:35.2 | used, you know, way back 20 years ago when it was all low budget. |
| 1:39.1 | And I remember this person talking to me and going, yeah, I'm doing this thing. |
| 1:42.1 | I'm kind of helping. |
| 1:43.1 | And I was like, what is that? You know, early days, I had no idea. But yeah, very meaningful to a lot of people. |
| 1:50.2 | And I would say has saved some lives. Yeah. And I was talking to him not only about, |
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