Mormons in Media

Welcome to Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree, a podcast dedicated to discussing pop culture from a Latter-day Saint perspective. (More about us)

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Ep 39 - Indiana Jones, Lapsed Latter-day Saint?

Grab your hats and archeology tools; it's time to go on an adventure! Guests Matt Bowman and Megan Harris help us unpack the intriguing...

Ep 25 - The Whale: To Live A Celestial Life, Sometimes You Have to Stare Into the Abyss

Can you atone for years of hurt after a major breach of trust by asking forgiveness? And are people inherently awful to each other or are...

Ep 18 - PCAT Live: Mormonism in the Mistborn Series

A conversation about Mormonism in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, live from Dragonsteel 2022. Our panel digs into the LDS symbolism...

Announcing PCAT Live: Mormonism in Mistborn

We're excited to announce an episode of Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree live from Dragonsteel 2022, the Brandon Sanderson convention. In...

Ep 11 - Stranger Things 4: Elevated Horror and Perfect Mormon Representation

You might have guessed from the title, but we loved Stranger Things season 4. Not only did we get a nearly perfect representation of the...

Ep 9 - Under the Banner of Heaven: Ex-Mormon Fan Fiction?

We promise that this is more than just an hour of Mormons complaining about the bad representation in Under the Banner of Heaven, though...