Cwic Media- LDS Podcast / Latter-day Saints

Cwic Media- LDS Podcast / Latter-day Saints

LATTER-DAY SAINT CULTURE & THEOLOGY Cwic Show articulates the current cultural, political, and Church-related trends that affect our lives and the Church. Also, Cwic Media offers a new approach to the scriptures through its Cwic Interpreters. Theology, History, No fluff. LDS, Mormon. Unscripted! 'I have been looking for an LDS podcast like this! Not like anything else out there!' Latter-Day Saints, Christian Book of Mormon New Testament Old Testament The products (services) and content offered by Cwic Media are neither made, provided, approved nor endorsed by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Any content or opinions expressed, implied or included in or with the goods (services) offered by Cwic Media are solely those of [name of User] and not those of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Episodes

August 1, 2025 13 mins

Walk - Sydney Sweeney's recent American Eagle ad has caused a stir. Why? Because we have moved further into a progressive world that idolizes postmodernism and the destruction of beauty, truth, and most importantly, the binary.

 

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Alex Bass studies the numbers on members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. Here's what they say.

Mormon Metrics - https://mormonmetrics.substack.com/

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July 30, 2025 28 mins

Nathan Pacheco is a classically trained tenor who has performed in the United States, Canada, and Mexico with Yanni; performed with Latin singing sensation Olga Tañon; touring England, Scotland, and Wales with Katherine Jenkins and the National Symphony Orchestra; and performed for Prince (King) Charles. He also performed for President Russell M. Nelson for his...

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What is art? I talk with filmmaker Barrett Burgin and Jacob Taylor about what makes good art, the state of LDS art today, and how a horror movie is emerging as a tool to teach the gospel.

Watch Java Jive - https://vimeo.com/1034851440/e635fd0617

Read Jake's Alive and Intelligent Article on Art - https://aliveandintelligent.substack.com/p/art-is-a-language-of-spirit

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The West is Losing Its Soul - Why Don't They Follow What Countries In the Middle East Have Done To Curb Extremism?

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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

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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:/...

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July 3, 2025 43 mins

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?

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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....

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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 

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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.

 

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Fathom The Good Curriculum - https://fathomthegood.com/ 

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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.

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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."

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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. H...

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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?

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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.

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June 9, 2025 32 mins

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 depar...

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June 9, 2025 40 mins

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.

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June 6, 2025 66 mins

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.

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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 Se...

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