General Conference makes me “Happy”
https://youtu.be/bWks7wPumWk Props to Nic Fitzgerald and BraveHaven Media for this awesome video.
Richie TApril 1, 2015
Emily Belle Freeman Ep 167 The Cultural Hall
Free BYU Our mission is to promote freedom of thought and freedom of religion at BYU. Specifically, we ask that the Honor Code be updated to allow LDS students to change their personal religious beliefs without being expelled from…
Richie TMarch 27, 2015
Moroni and The Swastika Ep 166 The Cultural Hall
Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler’s Nazi government shut down forty-two small German religious sects. An American denomination, however, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, escaped oppression under National Socialism. Unlike persecuted Jews and…
Richie TMarch 20, 2015
Ed Smart Ep 165 The Cultural Hall
“This is a worldwide problem, human trafficking, but it’s really a big problem here in the United States, and it’s something that people don’t talk about,” she said. “But there are girls and boys that need to be saved here…
Richie TMarch 13, 2015
#ThanksMormons
In case nobody knew, there is a new book coming about talking about the Mormon connection to Nazism. That's right. Mormons and Nazis. Now I in no way doubt that there were probably some members of the church that lived…
Richie TMarch 9, 2015
Jolie Hales Ep 164 The Cultural Hall
Jolie Hales grew up in Utah, where she received her BA from Weber State University. She later relocated to California to earn her MFA in film directing from Chapman University, launching her career as a filmmaker. Jolie has written and…
Richie TMarch 6, 2015
LDS FilmArtists Ep 163 The Cultural Hall
Margaret Blair Young: Margaret Blair Young has published eight books—six novels and two short story collections. She is considered an expert on black history in the western U.S., and publishes frequently in online encyclopedias focused on African American history.…
Richie TFebruary 27, 2015
Eric Moutsos SLCPD Officer/Religious Liberty Ep162
A former Salt Lake City police officer who was put on leave and later resigned after he objected to riding in the motorcycle brigade at the front of last year's gay pride parade is speaking out against what he…
Richie TFebruary 26, 2015
Medicaid, Morality and Mormonism
For the past year and a half, I have been heavily involved with the campaign for Utah Governor Gary Herbert's Healthy Utah Medicaid expansion alternative. I do this not because it will benefit me, because it won't. I have health…
Richie TFebruary 26, 2015
Teach Doctrine not Dogma in church
One of the scariest things I have learned as an adult. Just because you're 18, 48 or 108, doesn't mean you know much more about church doctrine than someone who is 10, 12 or 15. Your hormones calm down with…
Richie TFebruary 25, 2015