# Matthew Bowman

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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 po…

Reunion 009 Family Legacies and Latter day Saint History with Matthew Bowman and Lisa Olsen Tait

In the spring of 1906, a young woman named Leah Dunford stood in the parlor of her mother’s Salt Lake City home, watching her husband, John A. Widtsoe, pack for a trip east. He was headed to Cornell to study agricultural chemistry. She was staying behind with their infant son. Leah’s mother, Susa Y…

Your AI Is Lying About Your Book

The chatbot told him his manuscript was brilliant. The humans gave his manuscript a C. That's what happened to one author who trusted AI as his editor. If you use AI to help with your editing, it's probably lying to you too, and not just once in a while. In this week’s episode, I talked with Matthe…

Why gambling violates LDS principles and economics | Episode 460

The explosion in gambling — especially through the emergence of online sports betting and so-called prediction markets — has been debated in the courts, Congress and now Latter-day Saint living rooms. The latter comes after President D. Todd Christofferson’s blistering broadside against all types o…

Why gambling violates LDS principles and economics | Episode 460

The explosion in gambling — especially through the emergence of online sports betting and so-called prediction markets — has been debated in the courts, Congress and now Latter-day Saint living rooms. The latter comes after President D. Todd Christofferson’s blistering broadside against all types o…

McComb Children's Clinic v. Kennedy — 5th Cir. (Oct 7, 2026)

The Fifth Circuit hears McComb Children's Clinic's challenge to a federal healthcare rule. The Mississippi pediatric practice says the rule could force it to provide gender-transition care contrary to its medical policies. It sued over a 2024 Health and Human Services rule treating gender-identity …

126: Mormonism and Politics--Historical Perspectives, Part 2

Too often today's political discourse reduces politics to partisanship, whether one affiliates with this or that political party. It's a much broader topic, however, encompassing big notions about citizenship in a society, how we as a group of people make decisions, how we navigate our responsibili…

125: Mormonism and Politics--Historical Perspectives, Part 1

Too often today's political discourse reduces politics to partisanship, whether one affiliates with this or that political party. It's a much broader topic, however, encompassing big notions about citizenship in a society, how we as a group of people make decisions, how we navigate our responsibili…

97: Mormonism and Its History--Past, Present, and Future. Part 2

Every religion has many dilemmas when it comes to its history. How does a group incorporate the idea of a God or Universal force or will that acts in the development of that group and/or the unfolding of world events when such things are not acceptable claims in academic disciplines? How does a tra…

96: Mormonism and Its History--Past, Present, and Future. Part 1

Every religion has many dilemmas when it comes to its history. How does a group incorporate the idea of a God or Universal force or will that acts in the development of that group and/or the unfolding of world events when such things are not acceptable claims in academic disciplines? How does a tra…