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Oct 22, 2023

Greetings brothers and sisters! Welcome to the weekly MormonNewsRoundup. I am your humble host Dives, talent on loan from Kolob and with half the Kinderhook Plates tied behind my back. 

My crew and I ruminate weekly on the great and spacious beehive! Thanks so much for joining us to discuss the latest current events in Mormondom. 

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EP 82 - Gene Judson from Latter-daily Digest  co-hosts, Bonnie Cordon goes to SVU, Sister Kathleen Eyring passes away

Welcome to the MormonNewsRoundup!

https://youtube.com/@Latter-dailyDigest?si=cufgWakiVskCi9pe 

Why did you start your channel?

I invited you on before you began your podcast, so I can see around corners, Gene!

MNRU Joke of the week

Gene

Articles ‘Our hearts ache’: Latter-day Saint leaders issue statement calling violence in Middle East ‘abhorrent’⁠⁠

Rabbi takes issue with LDS First Presidency statement on Hamas-Israel war⁠

only took 6 days to get this statement through correlation (contrast to Tim Ballard statement which went out lightning fast?)

“Violence of this nature is abhorrent to us and is not in harmony with the gospel of Jesus Christ”

Wait, God repeatedly commanded genocide in the OT and Jesus killed untold thousands in 3 Ne 9, not to mention the global flood and my good friend Uzzah in the Bible

On Friday, the BYU Jerusalem Center, which is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced that it was relocating students and staff to Greece.

⁠Bonnie H. Cordon Named President of Southern Virginia University⁠

Background on her grandson? Gene

Now that she has ‘made it’ we can all take her name off the prayer

retirement of class names Beehive, Mia Maid, and Laurel;

MNRU poll of the week 

⁠Gov. Spencer Cox calls for criminal investigation into allegations against Tim Ballard⁠

Kathleen Johnson Eyring, wife of President Henry B. Eyring, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, passed away peacefully today, surrounded by her family in Bountiful, Utah. She was 82.

Fixed picture?

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/kathleen-johnson-eyring-obit 

https://x.com/ofgoodreport_/status/1715065473987977421?s=46&t=Kn3MLSjDGf_9v6exU2J_Gg 

Her best day