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Bloomberg Exposes Mormon Land Empire, Baseball Baptisms & More - Mormon News 8.28.26 | Ep. 2187
For this weeks Mormon News Podcast, John Dehlin and Meggan Hayes dig into what Bloomberg uncovered about the Church's growing real estate empire, plus warnings about "baseball baptisms" and the push for convert growth, concerns about the Church's new Sunday meeting schedule, the sentencing of a polygamous sect leader, and a new LDS strategy for bringing nonmembers into local meetinghouses. Bloomberg's investigation examines just how much land The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns across the United States and how its property holdings have grown. We look at the numbers, where that l...
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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of the Mormon News Podcast, brought to you by Mormon Stories Podcast and generally unquotable. I am Dr. John DeLynn. I am here with Megan Hayes.
Hey Megan. Hey, happy Friday again. Happy Friday to you and it's August 28th, 2026 and I'm happy to announce that Nemo and I discovered who is the cause of our Mormon News episodes going too long.
It's officially Megan Hayes. I thought you were gonna say John Dylan at the end of that and then I would have agreed with you No, Nemo and I did an episode of like an hour and a half Yeah, but Nemo and I did an episode in an hour and a half
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