A Thoughtful Faith Podcast

196 & 197: Global Mormonism: Azul Uribe – What Does Belonging Mean? (A Bicultural US Mexican Deportee)

By Gina Colvin May 10, 2017 September 9, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"5

When Azul Uribe was 11 years old she was sent from Mexico to live with her Grandmother in the US. She lived there for 15 years when she tragically discovered that she was undocumented. After …

195: Global Mormonism: Nepia Mahuika – Mormon or Māori? (New Zealand)

By Gina Colvin May 7, 2017 September 9, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"3

During the month of May 2017, we look at Mormonism across the world and how Mormonism has made its way into cultural, national and social systems beyond the United States. We discover that Mormonism isn’t …

194: Dancing Like No One’s Watching: John Bonner

By Gina Colvin April 30, 2017 September 9, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"2

John Bonner (clinical social worker, singer and grower of flowers) joins me to talk about his growth into manhood as young and gay in one of the most religiously conservative areas in the Mormon corridor. …

193: God, the Image of God, Theosis, Sex and Godly Creation: Blaire Ostler

By Gina Colvin April 23, 2017 September 9, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"4

Blaire Ostler joins me to discuss God. God as feminine and masculine; God in Mormon theology; God as a plurality; God as a creator; God without the biological need to procreate; the God of our …

192: Kava, Culture, Indigeneity and Mormonism: Daniel Hernandez

By Gina Colvin April 20, 2017 September 9, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"4

How do Indigenous folk manage the White Wasatch American cultural capture of Mormonism? Daniel Hernandez, PhD Candidate at the University of Auckland, is an Urban Diasporic Mayan but grew up in Rose Park, Salt Lake …

191: When God becomes More: Rev. Dr. Fatimah Salleh

By Gina Colvin April 16, 2017 September 9, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"1

Rev. Dr. Fatimah Salleh began life as Muslim; converted as a teenager to the LDS Church; served a mission; taught LDS Institute, and then, responding to a call, she attended Duke Divinity School. Following a period of discernment, she was recently ordained a Baptist minister.

Her call to ministry is part of a colourful journey into finding a God for all and for the least. God is too often the product of a White Western Patriarchy and as a Black, Brown woman whose spiritual life was percolated in the intersection of different faith traditions Fatimah is passionate about preaching a God that holds, loves and ministers to everyone.