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What an exhausting way to live.

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Anonymous Mormon artist attempts to illustrate a Book of Mormon story. Nails it.

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One missionary telling you that they wish they’d never converted you is shocking. Four missionaries telling you that they lied to you is the universe trying to send you a message.

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The angels stood quietly while protesters yelled “pedophile” and “groomer” and pushed signs quoting the Book of Mormon toward their faces. “You’re going against God,” one man spat. Another told them to “stop protecting the homos” at Brigham Young University.

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Her talk was originally delivered in Sacrament Meeting on Christmas Eve in December 2023 at her home ward. Her uplifting message was met with a baffling response: a cruel letter in her mailbox from an anonymous ward member.

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Congrats to Andrew Garfield on his Emmy Nomination!

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We Asked 20 Stake Presidents

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Anonymous Mormon artist depicting giant white extraterrestrials arriving to bring unspeakable horror to a group of unsuspecting villagers

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“Ballard would get ketamine treatments and have a scribe come in with him while he would talk to the dead prophet Nephi and issue prophecies about Ballard's greatness and future as a U.S. Senator, U.S. President, and ultimately the Mormon Prophet, to usher in the second coming of Jesus Christ.”

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Coming to Hulu this week: “Mormon No More,” an ABC News Studios documentary series, follows two married Mormon moms who fall in love and leave the faith.

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Mormons & MLMs go hand in hand

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I don’t know what it’s like now, but Satan played an outsized role in the pre-90s temple movie extravaganza. That was the most jarring bit for me. Just like this lol “inspirational” quote, somehow I was supposed to suddenly be taking advice from Satan? Mormonism is so deeply weird.

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Oh, yeah, it’s business time.

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Where do Americans learn about Mormons? The latest numbers.

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Ryan Burge crunches 2020 Religion Census data: In Utah, LDS are rapidly losing population share. Many rural counties are in the double digits in loss since 2010. But Salt Lake County is down 8% and Utah County is down 6%, as well.

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Unsurprisingly, I’m reminded of this every time I see the latest Church News piece running photos of the prop flags in the Book of Mormon videos.

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Over the course of 2002, the Spotlight team published close to 600 stories about Catholic abuse and coverup. The Mormon scandal is nowhere near fully reported; the AP story was just a warmup.

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This random guy is not your family. And his church has never provided you an actual home. Social media is a platform for performing Mormonism. A culture where believers cry on cue and imagine a God who weeps. Whatever your reason for not serving a mission, you dodged a bullet. Rock on.

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Technicolor graduation robe commandeers BYU jumbotron and it‘s glorious.

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What the Mormon brand has become.

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Young women are leaving religion behind at rates that now exceed those of young men. Cue handwringing discussions about the fragility of the male mind, the unique contours of how social authority works in their inscrutable peer circles, that somehow delays confronting big T scientific truth.

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Yeah, Jim’s gonna be totally baffled by Kevin S. Hamilton’s BYU devotional this week, inviting students to use “the Church” and “Jesus Christ” interchangeably.

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Found on r/exAdventist. Not much tweaking, if any, required to liken it unto TSCC. Only difference being that top LDS leadership is even older (by 20-30 years!), more intransigent, and harder to replace.

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The national anthem of Deseret is a giant sucking sound.

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Some folks snicker at our exmo selfie trains, but never apologize, and never forget: Deseret News invented ex-Mo selfies. We just improved the concept and made it our own. Way more fun than a so-called church that got its jollies by publishing the names and locations of those it kicked out.

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#2 is a hoot: Tim Ballard announced he and his entire family are considering conversion to [Catholicism] from Mormonism. Doubt your doubts, Tim!

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Jim Bennett asking the right question.

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The fact that every man on the stand during General Conference receives paychecks from the church and not a single woman does... is all you need to know.

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This is the church Russell M. Nelson grew up in. He was just shy of 23 years old when Deseret News published this exmo blacklist.

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“As a student of SUU and the sister of Matt Easton, whom Elder Holland attacked, I signed the petition because graduating and all LGBTQIA+ students should feel seen, loved, valued, supported, and important. I stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.”

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Apparently this is breaking news today in some quarters. So many ostensibly brilliant people in Mormon Studies lacking anything like the kind of actual curiosity or courage required to avoid devoting decades of wasted effort in the pursuit of obvious conclusions.

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With apologies to V: These kids are gonna give them a 14th of February that shall never ever be forgotten.

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The Cooperative Election Study is the most useful survey for tracking LDS membership trends in the US. A statistically significant number of Mormons answer their polls. What did they find? The number of respondents who say they’re Latter-day Saints is falling more quickly than any other religion.

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Andy Larsen: “Overall, Utah has more Utahns who were born here than neighboring states do... not everything can, nor should be, blamed on those who claim somewhere else as their hometown.”

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Iran said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code. In other news...

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The middle name of the pictured teen is ISAIAH. The guy pictured lower right, left a goodbye note to his cat named ISAIAH. The adults were deep into Avraham Gileadi’s LDS prepper ISAIAH cult.

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“Ballard would get ketamine treatments and have a scribe come in with him while he would talk to the dead prophet Nephi and issue prophecies about Ballard's greatness and future as a U.S. Senator, U.S. President, and ultimately the Mormon Prophet, to usher in the second coming of Jesus Christ.”

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Ziontology, the catchiest portmanteau word to describe TSCC ever invented. Deftly undermines any imaginary Mormon cultural cachet. r/ziontology is yours for the asking.

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With this news, there is now a very real possibility that Lynn Packer's long years of investigative reporting about Tim Ballard and associated grifters, including LDS church leaders, will become a network docuseries.

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Seen at r/byulgbtq: We still got our light on a hill tonight. Happy Rainbow Day, BYU (if you‘d like to show support, there‘s an AMA at r/BYU right now)

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The difference between empty nesters and busy parents, you brainiac. Such a fitting Mormon twist-of-fate that this bantam blowhard’s final KPI will be whether or not he’s able to keep LDS temples operational in the wake of his predecessor’s temple-building frenzy.

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Today‘s Twitter find: When I left on my LDS mission, my HS girlfriend was given a life size doll of *me*... No joke. Her grandmother made a doll of me, and gave it to her. Buttons on the hands so it could hug you. And slots in the feet so you could dance with it.

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Mormons live under an absolutism. They have no more right of judgment than a dead body. Yet the diffusion of authority is so clever that nearly every man seems to share in its operation... and feels himself in some degree a master without observing that he is also a slave. -- Frank J. Cannon, 1911

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I entered the prompt Write a post for the exmormon reddit and with zero training of the AI, this was the result.

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Currently at the top of r/mormon (and rightfully so): “This is the first picture we saw in our new building today.” The caption/plaque/snark writes itself.

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Saw this over at r/mormon: “8th grade seminary on pause” ... the Nelson administration is setting a new record for rolling out initiatives that get cancelled, reversed, ignored or pilloried immediately upon contact with the air outside whatever bunker its schemes are hatched in.

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“We are always just one generation away from extinction.” — J. Roy Holland

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Graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1997. Attorney General of Utah since 2013. Sean David Reyes in 2023 “does more than attend movies.”

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Jim Bennett asking the right question.

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“As a student of SUU and the sister of Matt Easton, whom Elder Holland attacked, I signed the petition because graduating and all LGBTQIA+ students should feel seen, loved, valued, supported, and important. I stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.”

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Mama Dragon FTW

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In 2022, this is still on the official LDS church website, in its various apps, and makes any apologetic defense of Mormonism pointless. Humble converts send their tithing to a church whose leaders authorize this dishonesty. Shame on those who collect donations while perpetuating lies.

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And yet it’s inevitable that the upcoming fresh batch of nonagenarian LDS leaders/First Presidents will waste countless hours ponderizing with consultants behind closed doors and publicly bemoaning the total collapse of their moral authority.

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Ryan Burge’s latest. EOM.

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“This very well may be the first shot across the bow to let all of us know, Satan has the unrighteous placed in all high places. We need to be very strategical about any moves from here. We are playing chess now. The days behind us I fear will soon feel like we were playing Candyland.”

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OG Utah Influencer move: getting your name on a BYU campus building

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Upcoming O.U.R. devotional at an LDS church featuring Matt Osborne offering timely advice on — wait for it — Situational Awareness and Grooming Tactics.

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3 years ago at r/mormon: Let's play a game where I'm still here 3 years from now to post an article reminding folks how Holland's 100K projection turned out... My own projection is that r/exmormon will have more subscribers in 2019 than the LDS church has missionaries in the field.

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Things that are actually kind

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If someone asserts authority over you, and lots of people will throughout your life, you are the one who gives them that authority. They can stamp their foot and say “serve me,” but only your agreement that they hold power over you makes them powerful.

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From the r/Mormon greatest hits archive: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints marketing philosophies.

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The angels stood quietly while protesters yelled “pedophile” and “groomer” and pushed signs quoting the Book of Mormon toward their faces. “You’re going against God,” one man spat. Another told them to “stop protecting the homos” at Brigham Young University.

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Finally something everyone can agree on.

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What's past is prologue: In 1963, the SEC revoked M. Russell Ballard’s broker-dealer registration due to his false and misleading statements. 30 years later, the same Ballard is president of the Mormon church’s Quorum of the 12 as the LDS come under SEC investigation.

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BYU USGA response to the new anti-LGBT policy

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What's past is prologue: In 1963, the SEC revoked M. Russell Ballard’s broker-dealer registration due to his false and misleading statements. 30 years later, the same Ballard is president of the Mormon church’s Quorum of the 12 as the LDS come under SEC investigation.

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TIL: Social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) are prepolitical psychological orientations. SDO and RWA involve preferences for hierarchies and deference to authority. Thanks, Dan.

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Chieko was the best of us.

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For 75 years, No Man Knows My History has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands.

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Tim Ballard's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

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The 2021 General Social Survey data recently dropped, and it looks like 0.9% of people in the US self-identify as Mormon. This is a decline from 1.2% previously measured in 2018. Prediction: Saintinism will never again bounce above 1%.

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What the Mormon brand has become.

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“While I am glad racism is being addressed in conference, until we say the priesthood ban was wrong and shouldn’t have happened, it’s hollow.” — Tarik D. LaCour

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This script? “Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, ‘How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!’” Such a critic, that guy.

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“60 Minutes” has named Ryan Burge one of the leading data analysts on religion and politics in the US. Interesting finding regarding Mormon college students: 78% identify as straight.

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Where’s a deacon when you need one?

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This is Fawn M. Brodie, one of the first tenured female professors of history at UCLA. She wrote a biography of Joseph Smith titled No Man Knows My History, published in 1945. In 1946, the LDS Church excommunicated Brodie. Denigrate her contribution to Mormon scholarship at your peril.

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Our band played a gig at Ivy Tower in Provo back in the day and the BYU college crowd looked like any other: pitchers of beer on the tables, scruffy jocks, provocative club attire, and nobody batted an eye. Don’t let yourself be bullied by a school that‘s never applied the rules fairly.

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Technicolor graduation robe commandeers BYU jumbotron and it‘s glorious.

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Mormonism in a nutshell. Ask a simple question. Get an answer shrouded in pointless mystery.

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Iran said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code. In other news...

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Top 3 states that have seen the largest decline in weekly church attendance, 2008 vs 2020: New Mexico: 32% -> 16%; Utah: 54% -> 39%; Montana: 33% -> 18%

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Ryan Burge’s latest.

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John Bytheway chose the words but the rhetorical device is copied straight out of the LDS leadership's playbook: pick a marginalized group and turn their marginalization into a narrative prop that redirects attention to the misfortune of Mormon leaders burdened with being in charge.

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Dr. Ryan Burge: “The best indicator of the future size of a religion is not the number of missionaries it sends, but how many children are in the pews.”

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So much respect for these kids who’ve turned the Rainbow Y into an instantly recognizable icon

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Dr. Ryan Burge: “The best indicator of the future size of a religion is not the number of missionaries it sends, but how many children are in the pews.”

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Total LDS membership in the 70s was roughly 4 million. The Brethren claim it’s around 17 million now. In 2021, TSCC added 150K new members. That’s the same number of new members TSCC was claiming per year in the 70s. Huh? Mormon math doesn’t add up.

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And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. No parents. No leaders.

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I‘m glad to know that Deseret Book is carrying Richard Ostler‘s latest book. Being a good exmo requires similar reserves of kindness and reminding ourselves to remember the human.

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I was raised to believe our religion was the fastest-growing on the planet. Shunned by my family after leaving it. The blue line in this chart is my former church.

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Why did Jesus intervene in the stoning of the adulterous woman if it would have been better for her to be dead?

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Remind me again which church I grew up in.

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Anonymous Mormon artist attempts to illustrate a Book of Mormon story. Nails it.

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Your chance to help choose the next Book of Mormon cover. Choose wisely! But do let us know your thoughts. We appreciate your input and guidance during this ongoing Restoration.

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Bruce R. McConkie doing his part to redirect to the one true subreddit.

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“Do you approve or disapprove of the actions of the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol?” Survey conducted a week after Jan 6th: 24% of LDS approved.

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“As seen at BYU”. Heh. Looks like fun.

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October 2022 General Conference Statistical Report

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If you’re like me, you grew up thinking that being Mormon meant we were likely doing better financially than most folks (or at least could count on doing better over the long term). Looks like that was just another self-serving myth that the LDS leadership has been happy to perpetuate.

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What not to say to a loved one leaving the church

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John Bytheway chose the words but the rhetorical device is copied straight out of the LDS leadership's playbook: pick a marginalized group and turn their marginalization into a narrative prop that redirects attention to the misfortune of Mormon leaders burdened with being in charge.

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The day will arrive when the exmo snoo becomes as prevalent in the Morridor as the HRC equality bumper sticker once was in the Bay Area.

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California judge recommends disbarment of pro-Trump attorney John Eastman

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Some of these folks have “forgotten” more than the rest of us will ever know about OUR and Tim Ballard. Props to those whose memories are suddenly coming back. Thoughts and prayers for those still suffering from sudden onset memory loss.

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Co-conspirator #2 is a former chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. Matthew S. Holland and Orson Scott Card were early board members. NOM was the brainchild of Robert P. George and LDS leaders to bring Prop 8 into existence. John C. Eastman & The Brethren are BFF.

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It’s time to talk about surveillance culture at BYU (its history, its perpetrators, and how to finally end it).

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A jingle of unknown origin emerged among the locals: “There stands Brigham • High on his perch • With his hand to the bank • And his back to the church.”

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