In Part One, Peter Bleakley (London) offers optimistic and enthusiastic commentary on the new ministering programme currently being rolled out to replace Home and Visiting Teaching. In Part Two the World Ministry Tour of President Russell …
In this episode, Jana Spangler (Salt Lake City) and Peter Bleakley (London) have a hard conversation about what is troubling the LDS Church and they seek to grapple with these questions: Is there any hope …
Two former Bishops, who have both experienced a faith crisis, respond to the question: ‘How can LDS leaders behave more sensitively and with more wisdom to those experiencing a faith crisis?’
Mormon Temple policy doesn’t change a great deal from year to year, so the 14 December 2017 announcement that extends the rights of Baptistry officiation to 16-17-year-old boys was a surprise. While this might bring …
\It seems most unMormon for anyone to receive a call to ministry. Mormons are supposed to wait for someone in the church to extend that call and as things stand no call for women in …
Ganeshji Cherian, Sarah Howard, Quintin Howard and Nathan McCluskey discuss the cultural mismatch of American Mormon culture with New Zealand culture in the wake of Jacinda Ardern’s becoming the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Ian Thomson is a public defender in Boise, Idaho. In this podcast, we deconstruct the ideology and practice of excommunication. We also discuss how enmeshed LDS excommunication is with the US judicial system.
Amiee Flynn-Curran is a non-Mormon ethnographer who did her PhD fieldwork in the Oakland First Ward of the San Francisco Bay Area. Amiee’s was interested in finding out how a conservative Christian church community negotiates …
Rich Vial is a Republican representative in the Oregan State Legislature. He’s also a former Mormon bishop who went through a faith crisis during his tenure. In this episode, we discuss how to go about …
Gina Colvin and Bill Reel (host of the popular podcast Mormon Discussions) get together for a chat about what it takes to still be engaged in the LDS Church when so many of their friends …
