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‘Mormon Land’: What counsel, if any, should LDS bishops give to spouses in abusive marriages?

(Francisco Kjolseth  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  LDS temple in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) LDS temple in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018.

Mormon bishops and the counsel they give spouses in abusive marriages are in the news.

What should — or should not — these lay leaders say and do in these confidential conversations?

David Cook, a former LDS bishop, stake president and area Seventy, and Alice Faulkner Burch, president of the all-female Relief Society for the Genesis Group of black Mormons, discuss those questions and more in the latest edition of “Mormon Land.”

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