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Below is the money quote from one of the high councilmen at Bill Reel's disciplinary hearing last Tuesday night. The context for this quote is that it is toward the end of the hearing. Several high councilmen are asked by the stake president to render their opinion on whether the proceedings have be...

The single dumbest thing a stake president could do is take all of his top leadership, stick them in one room behind closed doors, and give Bill Reel 60 minutes to say anything he wants to them!

Just got an interview up last night where Radio Free Mormon talks with Bill Reel about his upcoming disciplinary council and delves into the history of Bill's contacts with church leaders, local and general, that have led to this final showdown. https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2018/11/radio-free...

Last night Bill Reel received a summons to his disciplinary court.

https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/201 ... -imminent/

Just used Google to type in "new order Mormon." Guess what comes up first? A link to the Mormon.org website. Somebody is being busy! Money well spent!

A new RFM podcast went up yesterday titled, "Treasure Digging with Joseph Smith and John Steinbeck." I think it is a fun romp and hopefully worth a listen. I may have uncovered a nugget or two in the process. https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2018/10/radio-free-mormon-044-treasure-digging-with-jos...

Thanks for the kind words, everybody!

I find that Bill Reel does a good job of saying the things I forget to say.

And I often find myself smiling on the other end of the line as he says things so well that never even occurred to me!

All the Best!

--RFM

Just wanted to mention that the prediction I made at the end of the podcast that went up the day before GC that we would hear another reference to the church being small was fulfilled by Elder Rasband who made the following statement in the Saturday morning session of the most recent General Confere...

A new Radio Free Mormon episode just went up this morning. https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2018/10/radio-free-mormon-041-gaslighting-by-the-numbers/ It juxtaposes generations of general conference statements about how the church's phenomenal growth fulfills Daniel's prophecy of the stone cut out...

I think there is an off-chance President Nelson will present the Proclamation to the World on the Family as a new Official Declaration in the Doctrine and Covenants.

Or maybe even Section 139 . . .

I have to run, so just want to respond to your first issue about the priesthood. You are right that Alma 13 "borrows" heavily from Hebrews 7. But other than this, priesthood is an absolute non-issue in the Book of Mormon. Which is why Alma the Elder can baptize people at the waters of Mormon without...

Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon's dissection of the Face-to-Face Devotional on Church History questions featuring Elder Cook is now up. --RFM Consiglieri - you and Bill play an audio tape featuring Elder Ballard at different parts of the podcast. Specifically, Ballard says something about Mormon hi...

The first sentence of the penultimate paragraph in the second chapter of the new Saints book says this about Joseph's later accounts of his First Vision. In the years that followed, he recounted the vision more publicly, drawing on scribes who could help him better express what defied all descriptio...

Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon's dissection of the Face-to-Face Devotional on Church History questions featuring Elder Cook is now up. https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2018/09/special-episode-the-dissection-of-elder-quentin-l-cooks-face-to-face-on-church-history/ It three hours and fifteen minut...

I expect they're waiting to the end of the day Friday to hit the sweet spot on the news cycle.

Sweet Jesus! Why do they do these kinds of things? On the one hand, I get that Elder Cook didn't actually mean to say the Savior was martyred in Carthage, Illinois. And I get the fact that somebody caught the slip, and wanted to correct it. All of this makes sense to me; so they edit it with a cut t...

I missed that. When did the Freudian slip occur? Try this: https://youtu.be/K_ste5qjZPQ?t=6199 (Hasn't been edited out... Yet . ) Thanks for linking that! I kept going back over his precatory comments and couldn't find it. Now I know why! I have to admit I have misspoken enough that I will give Eld...

BYU is appealing the order of the committee requiring them to release the audio tape.

This has the effect of putting the committee's order in abeyance during the pendency of the appeal.

Now it looks like NBC has picked up the story.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexua ... ed-n906996

And now the recording of what happened after McKenna bore testimony has just been released by KUTV news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZK2xUT ... e=youtu.be