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Jul 22, 2025•44 min•Season 8Ep. 56
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The LDS Church's Political Dilemma and BYU's Rauch Applause
Professor Ralph Hancock of BYU discusses the dilemmas facing the church and the complexities of navigating politics as Latter-day Saints work within a secular world. Ralph's Articles on Alive and Intelligent Substack - https://aliveandintelligent.substack.com Cwic Media Website: http://www.cwicmedia.com
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 8Ep. 55
A Shadow Faith Has Risen Within The LDS Church
Associate Professor Brent Yergensen has just written the most comprehensive and clarifying work on the Pride movement within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His conclusion? A Shadow Faith has risen in the church! His Paper, Shadow Faith or Organizational Breakoff? Inflection Points and the Symbolic Convergence of Latter-day Saint Subculture was recently published by an academic journal. Here is the paper - https://cdr.creighton.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/8c5efbfa-87d1-4c0f-b...
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 8Ep. 54
Are We In A Post-DEI World?
Erec Smith of the Cato Institute returns to the show to talk about where the US stands with its DEI and woke culture and policies. Now at a crossroads, will academia change? Sports? Business? With a new administration bent on changing law and policy against DEI, we seem to be in a period of reprieve, but will it last? Cwic Media Website: http://www.cwicmedia.com
Jul 03, 2025•44 min•Season 8Ep. 53
Environmental Alarmists and Apocalyptic Doomers Hate This - Because It’s True
The conversation with Dr. Gale Pooley centers on their groundbreaking book Superabundance, which refutes decades of apocalyptic Malthusian thinking by demonstrating—through hard data—that as population increases, so does abundance. Using the innovative metric of “time prices,” which calculates how much time a person must work to afford basic goods, Dr. Pooley shows that global prosperity has skyrocketed over the past two centuries. This conversation dismantles myths of inevitable resource scarci...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 8Ep. 52
Eggs, Technology, and Motherhood feat. Leah Libresco Sargeant
What can be a positive technological breakthrough, such as freezing a woman's eggs, can also end up as a strategy to put off motherhood. What is the status of motherhood today? Author and family policy maker, Leah Libresco Sargeant talks about the cultrual influence on women and motherhood. Wavemakers Podcaster Cruise - https://www.cwicmedia.com/wavemakers Website - www.cwicmedia.com...
Jun 27, 2025•53 min•Season 8Ep. 51
The City and the Soul Series Intro - feat. Ralph Hancock
Ralph Hancock introduces his Cwic Show Series, "The City and The Soul." There is no better voice on the intersection of the Restored Gospel, Politics, and Philosophy. Ralph is also a contributor to our Substack, "Alive and Intelligent.' Ralph is a professor of political philosophy at Brigham Young University and is an accomplished author. Website - www.cwicmedia.com Fathom The Good Curriculum - https://fathomthegood.com/...
Jun 26, 2025•29 min•Season 8Ep. 50
Have BYU's New Anti-Woke Policies Made A Difference?
Alive and Intelligent Substack - https://aliveandintelligent.substack.com WaveMakers Podcast Cruise - https://www.cwicmedia.com/wavemakers Cade Alvey is a student at BYU and co-host of the YouTube Channel, All Those In Favor, who has his ear to the ground. He says things are changing at BYU. Website - www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 25, 2025•28 min•Season 8Ep. 49
Listen to Women? feat. Amanda Freebairn
Amanda Freebairn talks about what Latter-day Saint women mean when they say, "Listen To Women." Sometimes "you're not listening" can mean "you're not agreeing with me." Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 19, 2025•32 min•Season 8Ep. 48
Iran Strikes Back! Continuous Attacks - Where Does It Go From Here?
Jason Olson and Jabra Ghneim join Greg once again as attacks from both Israel and Iran continue. Who is obviously in the right? Where does it go from here? What does the rest of the Middle East really think about this? Trump goes bold. Doubles down. Jason Olson holds his Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University (2016). His first book, “America’s Road to Jerusalem,” was released by Lexington Books in 2018. He researched the role of Christian Zionism in the development of ...
Jun 14, 2025•43 min•Season 8Ep. 47
Waving the Wrong Flag: The Optics and Fallout of the LA Immigration Riots
Why are protestors (rioters) waving Mexican flags in a US immigration riot? Who really is behind these riots? Or are they just spontaneous? The riots are spreading. What is next? Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 12, 2025•14 min•Season 8Ep. 46
Love Wins And Charity Loses feat. Ralph Hancock
Ralph Hancock, BYU professor of Political Philosophy and sane thinker, talks about how secular "love" is overtaking "charity." What is "secular love" and is it encroaching on members of the church and Christianity as a whole. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 8Ep. 45
Is BYU Conquering Its Wokeness?
Jacob Christensen, Editor-In-Chief of the digital student media organization, The Cougar Chronicle, talks with Greg about what's happening at BYU. Are things getting better or worse, or is it stuck at the status quo? Jacob has his ear to the ground on the cultural issues that may conflict with the mission of Brigham Young University. He and his team have uncovered countless stories of anti-family, woke behavior by faculty and departments at BYU. This interview is a type of status report. Website...
Jun 09, 2025•32 min•Season 8Ep. 44
Nephite DNA In The Americas?
Wavemakers Cruise - https://www.cwicmedia.com/wavemakers David Read is certain he is on the right track researching the DNA and genetics of Native Americans and tying them back to the Nephites and Lamanites who left Jerusalem. Website - www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 09, 2025•41 min•Season 8Ep. 43
When Safe Spaces Aren't Safe!
Untethered Empathy and Malevolent Compassion are encroaching upon our youth. It sprouts from the therapy industry. Brianna Holmes, a therapist, joins me in talking about the alarming tendency to "affirm" problems in place of offering a charitable truth. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 42
Pulling The Covers Back- "Be Ye Therefore Perfect" feat.Trevan Hatch
I have never heard this before." - Greg Trevan Hatch, professor at BYU focused on the Ancient Middle-East, lays out a framework for Matthew 5:48, "Be ye therefore perfect." I had never heard this approach before but Trevan backs this up with evidence from the scriptures. We can look at "perfect" through a modern, Western mind as we often have, or as "complete" which is more popular today and fits within a temple framework of the Sermon On The Mount. But Trevan's explanations given though the con...
Jun 05, 2025•31 min•Season 8Ep. 41
The Church And Immigration
Political veteran Paul Mero and Greg Matsen discuss the hot topic of immigration in the US and the immigration "policy" of the Church. Do they match? Are they in conflict? Where has the Church stood previously on immigration law and enforcement? Where do they stand now? What is the ethical approach to immigration policy? Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 04, 2025•52 min•Season 8Ep. 40
Tariffs, Miracles, and MAHA
John Hewlett is a regular on the Show. Today, we talk about tariffs, are they effective?, real miracles in Samoa, and MAHA. Great discussion! Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 03, 2025•10 min•Season 8Ep. 39
Culture Wars and the Covenant: Should Latter-day Saints Stand Up or Stay Out?
Gospel On The Nile Cruise - https://www.cwicmedia.com/gospel-on-the-nile Paul Mero discusses his book, Defeated, and talks of the need to leave Babylon and focus on our homes. Does this mean leaving the culture wars alone? Does fighting the culture war diminish our ability to build Zion? Where do you stand on this? Website - www.cwicmedia.com Alive and Intelligent Substack Articles - aliveandintelligent.substack.com...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 8Ep. 38
Newly Discovered Temple Writing In 2 Nephi feat. Dave Butler
Dave Butler and Greg Matsen team up again to discuss the temple writing of Nephi in 2 Nephi. Nephi knew of the ancient Israelite temple drama and the Royal Procession. Lehi knew of the temple ordinances and exhorted his sons in gospel instruction using temple ordinances. Did Nephi write all of his books as a temple poetry? Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 01, 2025•51 min•Season 8Ep. 37
Are These Three Parables About The Temple?
On the Tuesday of the last week of Jesus' mortal life, He gave His last three parables. There seems to be a buzz about these parables today. Ambrosia Fox believes they are all about the temple. Listen to this interesting interpretation of the Ten Virgins, Talents, and Sheep and Goats. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
Jun 01, 2025•58 min•Season 8Ep. 36
Is The Book Of Moses From The Brass Plates?
Recent scholarship by Noel B. Reynolds and Jeff Lindsay highlights passages in the Book of Mormon that parallel those in the Book of Moses. Since the Book of Mormon authors are pulling from the Brass Plates, this implies that the Book of Moses may be the Genesis of the Brass Plates. This is a segment from a full episode interviewing Jeff Lindsay on the lost Book of Gad The Seer. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
May 31, 2025•16 min•Season 8Ep. 35
Lost Book of Gad the Seer FOUND? Ancient Copper Plates & Hebrew Prophecy in India feat. Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay and Greg discuss the scholarship on the lost Book of Gad The Seer. Jeff has been studying this story and the book for several years. A Jewish colony in India claims descent from the tribe of MANASSEH—and says they preserved a lost Old Testament book engraved on copper. Could this be the real ‘Words of Gad the Seer’? And, is the Book of Moses the Genesis of the Brass Plates. New scholarship suggests it is. To donate to the translation of Meir Bar Ilan's book click here - https://inte...
May 31, 2025•57 min•Season 8Ep. 34
Sticky Subjects With Evangelicals And Latter-day Saints
Interfaith dialogue can get messy. Many of us have been through it. In this video, Greg talks with two Evangelical pastors on specific topics such as Grace and Truth and hashes out how to communicate between us when we disagree. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
May 30, 2025•34 min•Season 8Ep. 33
There Is No Evangelical Church, LDS, And BYU Political Relationship With Jonathan Rauch
Politics is a strange business with the Church and BYU. Dan Ellsworth talks about author and columnist Jonathan Rauch and his "partnership" with the Church. He also covers some major structural differences between the Restored Church and Evangelicals. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
May 30, 2025•19 min•Season 8Ep. 32
Future of Missionary Work? Incredible New Digital Missionary Program feat. Jonah Barnes
With this Digital Missionary Program, 50 cents gets an interested person or family (looking for the missionaries) connected with the missionaries. This is incredibly exciting and may be the future of missionary work. Advertising dollars are tracked directly to the countries targeted and a newsletter shows photos of baptisms and success on the ground. Gathering Israel - https://www.gatheringisrael.org/ Website- www.cwicmedia.com...
May 28, 2025•42 min•Season 8Ep. 31
Walk - I Was Accused Of Being "Bold"
I was accused of being "bold" in my speech, so I used word "Bold" to describe our new Substack newsletter. If we are bold in speaking the truth with charity, others will do the same. If we live in a world of feelings that dictate our behavior and character, then we reject truth. If we stand for something that is true, then we can supersede those feelings anchored on solid ground. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
May 23, 2025•14 min•Season 8Ep. 30
The Hidden Identity Of Elias Revealed? feat. Bruce Porter
So, who is "Elias?" Is it John the Baptist? Is it just the Greek version of the name Elijah? Is it Noah? Is it all of them? But ultimately, who is the "Elias" who visited the Kirtland Temple in Section 110 of the Doctrine and Covenants and restored the keys of the Gospel of the Dispensation of Abraham? Bruce Porter joins Greg to give his idea on who this elusive character is. Isn't there a "Spirit of Elias" and a "Spirit of Elijah?" Website- www.cwicmedia.com...
May 22, 2025•37 min•Season 8Ep. 29
The West Is Collapsing - Family And Fertility Rate
Mads Larsen, an expert demographer, is at the tip of the spear globally in research and messaging on the collapsing fertility rate in the West. He is the source on the issue for many other "experts." The direction of the shrinking fertility rate has undeniable consequences including a lack of human productivity, immigration, and even a new need for an AI driven economy. Website- www.cwicmedia.com
May 17, 2025•59 min•Season 8Ep. 28
Walk On The Nile - Peace Is NOT Compromise
Years before President Nelson gave his talk on "Peacemakers," the word "Peace" had already been hijacked. Peace in the scriptures is not what you think it is. Peace is "Shalom" which is comparable to the Egyptian concept of "Ma'at." That is, order, truth, justice, and harmony. As Jesus is described in the New Testament and Book of Mormon, it is "Grace And Truth." Both are necessary. Without both, we end up with Untethered Empathy and Malevolent Compassion. Website- www.cwicmeadia.com...
May 16, 2025•16 min•Season 8Ep. 27
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