The Latter Day Lens

By Shawn & Matt

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Episodes: 130

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Your home for authentic, faith-promoting, entertaining discussion of current events. In the podcast we tackle the tough topics that most people avoid and showcase how faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apply gospel principles in their everyday experiences. New episodes each Wednesday.

Episode Date
Episode 128: MAGA's Meaning, Epstein's Secrets, China 2.0, and the Morality of Legal Fees
Jul 23, 2025
Episode 127: Unsolved Crimes, Undocumented Workers, and Unchecked Power: Where Do We Draw the Line?
Jul 16, 2025
Episode 126: Unpacking Propaganda, Power, and Protest
Jul 09, 2025
Episode 125: Hyperinflation Fears, Job Market Realities, Iran's Nuclear Claims, and Synthetic DNA Ethics
Jul 02, 2025
Episode 124: Is America Headed for Civil War? Decoding Political Toxicity, Voucher Waste, and Moral Authority in a Divided Nation.
Jun 25, 2025
Episode 123: Military Presence, Digital Dating, Celebrity Faith, & Religious Freedom
Jun 18, 2025
Episode 122: What Is America? Media Polarization, Gaza Coverage, and Whether Natural Laws Actually Exist
Jun 11, 2025
Episode 121: Jail Escapes, Presidential Pardons, and the BYU Honor Code
Jun 04, 2025
Episode 120: College, Culture, Calling Out Racism, and the Supreme Court
May 28, 2025
Episode 119: AI Ethics, Biden's Presidency, and Refugee Politics: Where Morality Meets Democracy
May 21, 2025
Episode 118: Self-Reliance, Racial Gap in Small Business Success, Ukraine's Mineral Deal, and Religious Expression in Academia
May 14, 2025
Episode 117: Faith in a Fractured World: Misinformation, Politics & Divine Guidance Today
May 07, 2025
Episode 116: White Collar Crime, Taxes, Trump's First 100 Days: A Provocative Discussion
Apr 30, 2025
Episode 115: Biden Better on the Border than Trump, Mormon Views on the Pope, App Control, Lottery Wins, & Money Dysphoria
Apr 23, 2025
Episode 114: Oligarchy, ProPublica's Prophecy, a Lost Deportee, and the IVF Parenthood Question
Apr 16, 2025
Episode 113: Police Training Gaps, CBT for Crime Reduction, Trump's Tariffs, and Four Strains of LDS Thought
Apr 09, 2025
Episode 112: Politics, College, and General Conference: A Lively Debate
Apr 02, 2025
Episode 111: Beyond Divides: College Worth, Church Growth, Happiness, and Immigration
Mar 26, 2025
Episode 110: Trump's Speech to Congress, Partisan Views of Foreign Countries, Suing Church Members, America's Christian Heritage
Mar 19, 2025
Episode 109: Ukraine, DOGE, Lazy federal employees, Cloud hosting of explicit images, The latter day lens on racism
Mar 12, 2025
Episode 108: Republicans and traditional gender roles, Disappointed Trump voters, Germany's move to the right, The abundance movement
Mar 05, 2025
Episode 107: Immigration, COVID-19, Integrity, Post WWII International Order
Feb 26, 2025
Episode 106: The Economy, Robocalls, Ranchers Rights, Promoting the Family
Feb 19, 2025
Episode 105: Can Manufacturing be Saved, Andy Reid's Favorite Trilogy, Unequal Justice, Peace in Politics
Feb 12, 2025
Episode 104: Implicit Racism, Transgender Ban, Deep Seek, Trump's First Week
Feb 05, 2025
Episode 103: Same Sex Marriage in Thailand, Freeze on US Foreign Aid, Transgender Dorms, Germany's AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland)
Jan 29, 2025
Episode 102: Seditious Conspiracy, Shari Franke, Dementia
Jan 22, 2025
Episode 101: BYU Faculty Challenges, Partisan Optimism/Pessimism in 2025, A Felon in the White House
Jan 15, 2025
Episode 100: Sam's final episode
Jan 08, 2025
Episode 99: Special Guest Host, New Year’s Resolutions
Jan 01, 2025
Episode 98: Does American Democracy Require Christianity? Defeating Drug Cartels, How to make big changes
Dec 25, 2024
Episode 97: Lina Khan, NBA YoungBoy, SNL, Syria
Dec 18, 2024
Episode 96: The US Senate vs Airline CEOs, The cost of healthcare in the US, Government vs Private Sector Efficiency, Guardrails for gambling
Dec 11, 2024
Episode 95: Warning Labels, Biden pardons Biden, Abraham Lincoln and the Book of Mormon vs Gandhi and MLK Jr.
Dec 04, 2024
Episode 94: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dominica and foreign aid, The Diploma Divide
Nov 27, 2024
Episode 93: New Takes on the 2024 Election, Mormonism in canonized scripture
Nov 18, 2024
Matt has fled the country. New episode next week
Nov 15, 2024
Episode 92: Post-election, non-election episode.
Nov 06, 2024
Episode 91: Election Special Trump vs Harris, Why vote?
Oct 30, 2024
Episode 90: Wealth, Proud to be an American? Russian Propaganda and Freedom of the Press
Oct 23, 2024
Episode 89: From Rockets to Feelings: SpaceX Success, Clean Energy Controversies, and the Evolution of Parenting
Oct 16, 2024
Episode 88: Conference predictions, Trump trials, political debate, Middle East, abortion, young women, FOIA, public service, morality, political climate
Oct 07, 2024
Episode 87: Predictions, predictions, predictions
Oct 02, 2024
Episode 86: The Role of Prophecy in Our Lives
Sep 25, 2024
Episode 85: Trump's friends and advisors, Housing prices, Debate talk, Healthcare solutions
Sep 18, 2024
Episode 84: Religious pupils do better in school, Origin of religion, Raffle fundraisers, Hole-in-one insurance, Descriptive Representation and Kamala Harris
Sep 11, 2024
Episode 83: Imagine Dragons, Protecting Voting Rights, Fatherhood, Being Kind on Social Media
Sep 04, 2024
Episode 82: Twitter misinformation, BYU football predictions, RFK Jr and Censorship, Would President Benson be a Democrat today?
Aug 28, 2024
Episode 81: The afterlife, bribes, tariffs, Romney 4 Prez, NASA & Boeing, Ranked choice voting
Aug 21, 2024
Episode 80: Learning from the other side, The Pelosi Act, Venezuela, The White Horse Prophecy
Aug 07, 2024
Episode 79: Are healthcare costs killing the American Dream? Was Vance the wrong VP pick? Should Gen Z lose themselves in public service? Biden's proposals to save the Supreme Court
Jul 31, 2024
Episode 78: The Party Decides, Rating the presidential candidates, The Republican National Convention, The church builds affordable housing in Hawaii
Jul 24, 2024
Episode 77: Trump Shooting, Republicans are socialists too, seeking riches, Bloomberg's $1 billion donation to medical schools
Jul 17, 2024
Episode 76: Can you be LGBTQ and active LDS? God's hand in the presidential race, BofM witnesses, Border security and gun control
Jul 10, 2024
Episode 75: Mormon Saints, Does God Bless the USA? Paris Hilton, Are pets human?
Jul 03, 2024
Episode 74: Life coaching, Corporate hijacking, Surgeon General social media warning label
Jun 26, 2024
Episode 73: Is it morally wrong to be rich? Is Matt a liberal, is Sam conservative? Trump's Tariff Proposal, Movie Pass, Movie Crash
Jun 19, 2024
Episode 72: Social Media and Free Will, YouTube Religion Conference, Hunter Biden v. Donald Trump, Equality of Economic Outcomes
Jun 12, 2024
Episode 71: RESPECT for elementary education, capitalism v meta-Marxism, Right wing reaction to Trump conviction, MLB reconciles racial injustice
Jun 05, 2024
Episode 70: Trump v Biden in the polls, NCAA paying student athletes, #rawmilk, Will 2024 see the rise of global authoritarianism?
May 29, 2024
Episode 69: Changes in church policy, Assuming the best about the political opposition, Biden legalizes marijuana, Military humanitarian assistance in Gaza
May 22, 2024
Episode 68: The Greatest Hits!
May 15, 2024
Episode 67: OpenAI copyright infringement, LDS culture intruding on doctrine, Employee engagement, Ranking prophets
May 08, 2024
Episode 66: The Booming US Economy, Chad Daybell vs Donald Trump, Libertarians and the Law, Stricter laws against lying and stealing?
May 01, 2024
Episode 65: Free speech at USC and Google, Michael Jordan wins at NASCAR, churchofjesuschrist.org, Owning and employing as a pathway to wealth and wellbeing
Apr 24, 2024
Episode 64: Accountability for GC Predictions, Green Tea, The Family Proclamation: A political document?
Apr 17, 2024
Episode 63: Hurry and listen before the Second Coming, Real Mormonism, Trans Awareness Day on Easter
Apr 08, 2024
Episode 62: General Conference predictions, Elon Musk and freedom of speech, change to policy about undergarments? Oregon recriminalizes drugs, Racism in Idaho
Apr 03, 2024
Episode 61: BYU Sunday Play, Religious Authority of Women in the Church, ISIS-K attack in Moscow, Should voters listen to people who work with candidates?
Mar 27, 2024
Episode 60: History vs Religion, Tax subsidies for professional sports, Tesla/Mr. Beast/Government Programs, Taxation without representation?
Mar 20, 2024
Episode 59: LDS Leaders Anti-Trump? Recall elections, Crisis in Public Education, CBD and Federalism
Mar 06, 2024
Episode 58: Looking beyond the mark, Was Putin afraid of Navalny? Diversity of music at church, Celebrating Black History Month
Mar 06, 2024
Episode 57: Abortion and Men, Texting Culture, Can spiritual rebirth cure mental illness? Should the poor pay fewer taxes?
Feb 29, 2024
Episode 56: Expensive Drugs, Power to the Patients, Trump Civil Penalty, the National Association of Realtors
Feb 21, 2024
Episode 55: Tucker Carlson v Putin, He Gets Us, Tipping Etiquette, Why are American's so dissatisfied?
Feb 14, 2024
Episode 54: Swift/Superbowl/Vegas, Air Force One, Biden vs Trump, Conspiracy Theories and Truth in Advertising
Feb 07, 2024
Episode 53: Ban smartphones in schools? DINKs, Bi-partisan border bill, Is it time for stricter marijuana regulation?
Jan 31, 2024
Episode 52: Is it unrighteous to support Donald Trump? Backlash against new Church Communications Director, LDS Social Media Influencers, Decline in quality of life in the United States
Jan 24, 2024
Episode 51: Archeology and the Book of Mormon, Changing families, changing social policies? Why does Matt hate Big Pharma?
Jan 17, 2024
Episode 50: Gypsy Rose, Disney-world, The immigration crisis, Pharmaceuticals, Mandatory Military Service in the USA
Jan 10, 2024
2023 Year in Review, Predictions for 2024
Dec 31, 2023
Merry Christmas to all!
Dec 24, 2023
December 20, 2023; The Fall of Giuliani & the Fall of the GOP, Abortion in Texas, The Invisible Hand, Bureaucrats vs Billionaires
Dec 20, 2023
December 13, 2023; Is the World Safer than Ever? Does the FBI deserve our respect? Anti-Semitism on College Campuses, Policy vs Doctrine part II
Dec 13, 2023
December 6, 2023; Newsom-DeSantis Debate, Truth in Media, Musk Loses Twitter Advertisers, Mark Cuban and Gambling in Texas, Doctrine vs Policy in the Church
Dec 06, 2023
November 29, 2023; Third Party Candidates, Cancel Culture, Middle-way Church Members, What Entertainment is Inappropriate?
Nov 29, 2023
November 22, 2023; Surprising trends in youth church activity, Biden's handling of the Israel conflict, Does the Holy Ghost tell us what to do?, Romney's impeachment vote
Nov 22, 2023
November 15, 2023; Censure of Rep. Tlaib, Performative politics, Implanting neuralink to create cyborgs, Ballard and Romney
Nov 15, 2023
November 8 2023; Inheritance Tax? Government waste, Gen Z anxiety, Is Nvidia President Jensen Huang right about entrepreneurship? Peace vs Violence as a solution to conflict.
Nov 08, 2023
November 1 2023; Is marriage the solution to poverty? Young people want more platonic relationships and less sex on TV, The American Dream, Is the US more vulnerable to attacks from our enemies?
Nov 01, 2023
October 25, 2023: Is the US a meritocracy? Killers of the Flower Moon, The Two-Parent Privilege, The path to communism/authoritarianism
Oct 25, 2023
October 18, 2023: Justice for Trump?, Ban Tik Tok?, Is ethnicity a social construct?, Alcohol in the St. George Temple, Adam Smith vs President Nelson
Oct 18, 2023
October 11, 2023: Salvation vs Exaltation, Democrats and job growth, Parents behaving badly at youth sports, What are the appropriate limits on free speech?
Oct 11, 2023
October 4 2023: Hollywood morality, 2nd Amendment, Who sings hymns?, Government Shutdowns, Liquor sales in Utah cities, President Oaks
Oct 04, 2023
September 27, 2023: Are Muslims Christian? Dallas Mayor switching parties, Moral implications of AI, LDS.org website, General Conference predictions
Sep 27, 2023
September 20, 2023: What to do when famous people behave badly, President Ballard rebukes OUR founder, Annotated Book of Mormon, Leadership principles from Airbnb
Sep 20, 2023
September 13, 2023: Healthcare a right or a privilege, College rankings, Joseph Smith papers, Cheating in high school athletics.
Sep 13, 2023
September 6, 2023: Inequality and the collapse of civilization, Mormon's coopting the cross, Should Trump stand trial, New Covid shutdowns, What happened to the Republican Party?
Sep 06, 2023
August 30 2023: Prigozhin, CES Honor Code, Trauma in the church, GOP Presidential Debate, The value of leadership
Aug 30, 2023
Russia and Ukraine Part III: Russian Monuments replaced, Navalny and democracy in Russia, Wagner Group in Africa
Aug 23, 2023
August 16, 2023: Grassroots activism, FBI kills Utah man, Confronting #exmormon, Election reform
Aug 16, 2023
August 9, 2023: Church growth, business principles and church callings, Hitler, Delusional disorder vs revelation
Aug 09, 2023
August 2, 2023: UFOs, Recycling Fraud in Arizona, The Sound of Freedom, How Can We Simplify Our Lives?
Aug 02, 2023
July 26, 2023: Try that in a Small Town, Suicide in Rural America, True Crime, Do we have a moral obligation to be informed?
Jul 26, 2023
July 19, 2023: In which we discuss questions from listeners. Lots of fun stuff in this episode.
Jul 19, 2023
July 12, 2023: Cocaine at the White House, Lindsay Graham flip-flopper, Surprisingly Strong US Economy, Proper role of the US Supreme Court
Jul 12, 2023
July 5, 2023; Porn in Utah, Ecstasy, Mental Health, and the Word of Wisdom, Are Unions Good for Society?
Jul 05, 2023
June 28, 2023: The Bible is Back! Hunter Biden vs Donald Trump, Stem-Cell Chicken? How to find the truth
Jun 28, 2023
June 21, 2023: Lifestyles of the Super rich, Conservation leases on BLM Land, UNESCO, Legalize voting for non-citizens
Jun 21, 2023
June 14, 2023: Mass Shootings, Russian War Crimes, Politics in Church, How Best to Follow the Prophet
Jun 14, 2023
June 7, 2023: Liz Cheney, Pride Month, GOP Candidates, Activism Toward the Church
Jun 07, 2023
May 31, 2023: Racial Inequality, Corporate Activism, Prisoner Swaps, Insider Trading in Congress, Electric Vehicles
May 31, 2023
May 24th, 2023: Crime, Reparations, Punishing former presidents, China and the debt ceiling
May 24, 2023
May 17, 2023: Local Control of Schools, George Santos, Title 42, Immigration
May 17, 2023
May 10, 2023: Media Bias, Seditious Conspiracy Conviction, Young LDS Liberals, 8th Graders Abysmal Knowledge of History and Civics
May 10, 2023
May 3, 2023: Bank Regulations, GOP 2024 Presidential Candidates, Political News Media Landscape, What Obligations Do News Outlets Have?
May 03, 2023
Russia and Ukraine Part II
Apr 26, 2023
April 19, 2023: US Exceptionalism, Jack Teixeira, Clarence Thomas, Should the Government Pay off Individual Debts?
Apr 19, 2023
April 12, 2023: NASA, Trump Indictment, Abortion, Unequal Justice in the United States
Apr 12, 2023
April 5, 2023: Life in Utah, Impact of Mission Presidents and their wives, General Conference,
Apr 05, 2023
March 29, 2023: Origin Story
Mar 29, 2023
March 22, 2023; Bank Failures, Losing with Grace, Arctic Drilling, Imperfect People as Prophets
Mar 22, 2023
March 15, 2023: Proper Role of Government, Government Regulation of Tech, Mexican Drug Cartels, Government Assistance to the Poor
Mar 15, 2023
March 8, 2023: Child Labor, Dogs, CPAC/TPAC, Undocumented Immigrants
Mar 08, 2023
Feb. 1, 2023: School Choice, Section 230, Transgender Laws, Proper Role of Government
Mar 05, 2023
March 1, 2023: Las Vegas, Abortion, Too Old for Elected Office?, Ensign Peak/SEC Settlement, Mass Shootings
Mar 04, 2023
Feb. 15, 2023: Utah Ponzi Schemes, NBA YoungBoy, Biden State of the Union, Битва за Бахмут
Mar 04, 2023
Feb. 8, 2023: COVID is over, Mr. Beast cured blindness, Bad Mormon, BYU tenure changes
Mar 04, 2023
Russia and Ukraine Part I
Mar 01, 2023
Welcome To The Latter Day Lens
Feb 27, 2023