‘Mormon Land’: LDS scholar examines the coronavirus’s effects on the global church, anticipates a General Conference with talk about Second Coming
(Jeremy Harmon | Tribune file photo) Patrick Mason speaks while recording the 100th episode of the "Mormon Land" podcast on Oct. 4, 2019.
It’s been several weeks since our latest “Mormon Land” podcast. Thankfully, not much has happened in that interval.
OK, let’s just say the world has turned upside down.
For The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its fundamental operations, programs and plans have been upended by the coronavirus. Services have been canceled. All temples are closed. And tens of thousands of missionaries have been recalled, released or reassigned. All of this coming in front of an online spring General Conference that will mark the bicentennial of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” but will have no public attendance.
Here to sort through these astonishing developments and look forward to this weekend’s conference is Patrick Mason, head of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University.
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