Latter-day Faith
By Dan Wotherspoon
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Latter-day Faith is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Wotherspoon, PhD, that explores faith and its realities for this time in human history. Although each discussion maintains awareness of its primarily Latter-day Saint audience, the conversations, sensibilities, and variety of guests featured are drawn from many religious traditions.
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229: Is Christianity's Idea of Individual Sin and a Need for the Savior Helpful to Becoming Christlike?
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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228: Rethinking Prophets: Lessons from the Hebrew Bible
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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05_Women Outside the Garden: Healing from Generational Trauma
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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227: A Reason of the Hope That Is in You
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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04_Women Outside the Garden: Tonia Toole
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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226a: Big-Tent Mormonism--How Can We Help Bring that About?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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226: Big-Tent Mormonism--How Can We Help Bring that About?
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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225: Hope Now!
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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03_Women Outside the Garden: Alyson Deussen and Susie Augenstein
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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224: Valuing Myth
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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W2: Women Outside the Garden - Just Give Me the Keys to My Own Dang Car
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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223: What Do We Do with Scripture?
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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222: Thoughts in the Aftermath of "No Kings" Rallies
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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"Women Outside the Garden": Episode 1
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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221: Anxiety and the Dearth of Optimism in Today's World
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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220: Making the Shift from Being Right to Being Good
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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219: Exploring Faith Outside the Garden
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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218: What's Ahead for Latter-day Faith
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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218: What's Ahead for Latter-day Faith
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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217: Showing Up Imperfectly
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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216: Religious Trends and How They Are Reflected in the Upcoming Sunstone Symposium
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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215: Fear, Labeling, Dismissing, and False Peace
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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213: What Does Healthy Differentiation Look Like?
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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212: Why and How Do We Engage with Mormonism the Way We Do
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May 29, 2025 |
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210: A Different Kind of Creed
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May 24, 2025 |
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211: Women Emerging from Patriarchy
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May 23, 2025 |
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209: We Love That They Have Said It (and Have Now Written About It)!
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May 07, 2025 |
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208: Healing Our Religious and Political Divides
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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207: Conference Challenges, Comments, and Connections
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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206: How Is Our View of God Related to How We View External Authority?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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205: What is Mysticism? Can Mormons Be Mystics?
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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204: Responding to Today's Loneliness Epidemic and Pervasive Sense of Helplessness
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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203: Navigating the Doctrine and Covenants in Sunday School
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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202: Navigating Life and Spirituality as a Single Woman in a "Family" Church
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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201: The Challenge for Church in a Changing World
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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200: What is "The Way?"—with author Larry Jordan
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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199: Breaking with the Resolutions/Goal-setting Pattern and Having a Much Happier New Year
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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198: Seasons of Light!
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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197: Meet David Hayward, "The Naked Pastor"
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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196: Becoming Change Agents through Constructive Community Involvement
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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195: The Good We Can Do When We Share from Our Hearts
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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194: Election Thoughts and How We Can Care for Ourselves in its Wake
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Can AI Play a Supporting Role in Our Spiritual Journeys?
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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192: Reacting to the Announcement of Changes to the LDS Temple Garment
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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191: Responses to the New LDS Emphasis on Christ's Second Coming
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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190: Discerning Our Life Path
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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189: How Does God Intervene in Our Lives and in the World?
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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LatterDayFaith-188
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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187: The Gospel of Jesus Christ--What is the "Good News"?
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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186: Life and Other Transformational Stuff
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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185: Garments, Responsibility, and Wisdom
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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184: How I Stay
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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183: Buddhist Insights for Living Within or Without a Religious Tradition
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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182: Creating a Fulfilling Life Outside of Formal Religious Structures
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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181: Temple Recommend Interviews, Worthiness, Self-Assessment
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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180: Understanding Better Our Own and Others' Motivations
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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179: Experiences with Prayer
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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178: Life as a Divorced Mom in the LDS Church—One Woman's Experience
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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177: Mercy as Taught in the Book of Mormon
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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176: Grace as Taught in the Book of Mormon
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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175b: What is Latter-day Faith Podcast? What Do Dan and Mark Really Think? Part 2
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May 23, 2024 |
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175: What is Latter-day Faith Podcast? What Do Dan and Mark Really Think?
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May 10, 2024 |
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175: Word Shakers
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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LatterDayFaith-174
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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173: On the Death of Nephi
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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172: The LDS Church Offers Resources for Those with Questions, Part 2
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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171: The LDS Church Offers Resources for Those with Questions, Part 1
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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168–170: Three Encore Christmas Episodes
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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167: Thomas McConkie: At-One-Ment--Embodying the Fullness of Human-Divinity
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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166: Wrestling with Grooming and Polygamy, Part 2
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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165: Wrestling with Grooming and Polygamy, Part 1
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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164: God is Loving; You are Beautiful
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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163: Abiding in Christ
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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162: Practical and Spiritual Life Lessons from Elder James E. Talmage
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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161: Enlivening Spiritual Metaphors and Symbols
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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160: Worship
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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159: Seeing with More of Ourselves
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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158: Abiding, Not Presiding
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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157: Creating Loving and Affirming Communities
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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156: A Transgender Woman's Experience: Laurie Lee Hall
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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155: Non-Violent Communication
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May 12, 2023 |
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154: Peacemakers Needed!: Do We Even Know How to Be One?
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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153: Insights from Jesus' Final Days
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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152: Discernment Journeys, Part 2
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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151: Discerning our Spiritual Path
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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150: Viewing the Miracles of Jesus as Invitations
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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149: Therapeutic and Spiritual Uses of Psilocybin
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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148: Michael Hicks--Musician, Artist, Teacher, Jesus Freak, Mormon
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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147: The World of Jesus and Discovering His Central Message
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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146: Looking Afresh at the Creche
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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145: Spirituality without All the Religious Trappings
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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144: How our Bodies Experience and Hold Trauma: Understanding and Finding Healing, Part 2
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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143: How Our Bodies Experience and Hold Trauma: Understanding and Finding Healing, Part 1
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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142: Exploring the Love Map with Carol Lynn Pearson
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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141: The Covenant Path and the Spiritual Journey
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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140: The Hero's Return, Part 2
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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139: What is "Holiness"
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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138: Prosociality, Societal Shifts, and Religion
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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137: The Hero's Return
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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136: Turning Obedience Upside Down
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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135: (Encore) Embracing Myth
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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134: What is Priesthood, Really? Do We Know?
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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133: Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of the New Supreme Court Ruling on Roe v Wade
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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132: Continuing Our Discussion about What it Means to be "True"
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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131: What Does It Mean That Something is "True"?
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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130: Hope
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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129: Experiencing Scripture Literally and Spiritually
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May 19, 2022 |
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128: Experiencing a Gendered God—or Not, Part 2
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May 13, 2022 |
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127: Experiencing a Gendered God—or Not, Part 1
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May 06, 2022 |
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126: Helping Children Develop Spiritually
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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125: Spirituality and Neuroscience, Part 2
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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124: Spirituality and Neuroscience, Part 1
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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123: (Encore) Resurrection Now
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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122: Creating Spaces for Women's Voices and Spiritual Flourishing in the Church
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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121: Spiritual Grounding in Times of Cynicism and Despair
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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120: Leaving Church as Well as God
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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119: What Do We Really Want?
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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118: Dan's Approach to Seeking Truth and Goodness
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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117: Loving Scripture
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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116: LDS Anti-Racism 101
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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115: Christmas Insights from Catholicism
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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114: (Encore) Christmas Conversation: Birthing the Christ Within
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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113: Reading Scripture as a Spiritual Practice
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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112: A Journey Away from Perfectionism
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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111: The Wisdom of Two Sages
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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110: Finding Our Home
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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109: Why We Should Attend Church Even If We Might Not Like It
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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108: Authority
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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107: Living, Loving, and Growing Strong Amid the Challenges of Mental Illness
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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106: Gender Equality through Partnership Families
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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105: Developing Ou Resilience
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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104: Curt Bench--Mentor and Friend
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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103: Finding Our Path
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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102: Mormonism's Rascal—Levi Peterson
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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101: Sunstone and It's Upcoming Symposium
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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100: Our 100th Episode! Reflections and Moving Forward
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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099: The Sacrament: A Communion of Love
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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098: Queer Mormon Theology
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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097: Meet My Dad, Jim Wotherspoon
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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096: Where the Soul Hungers
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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095: Disruptive Change and Inner Work
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May 28, 2021 |
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094: 1 Corinthians 13--What is Love?
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May 21, 2021 |
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093: A Spiritual Traveler Finds a Home in Mormonism
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May 07, 2021 |
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092: A Journey into Grace
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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091: Witnessing Even When Things Hurt So Badly, Part 2
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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090: Witnessing Even When Things Hurt So Badly, Part 1
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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089: Jesus Lost and Found
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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088: Resurrection Now
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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087: Hallmarks of Mature Spirituality (Encore)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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086: Religion is a Technology: And Jesus Was a Saboteur
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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085: Healing the World as Only Mother Can
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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084: Gifts of the Spirit, Part 2
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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083: Gifts of the Spirit, Part 1
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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082: The Spirituality of Accountability
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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081:Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything In Between, Part 2
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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080: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything In Between, Part 1
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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079: Making Jesus More Real, More Present—Part 2
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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078: Making Jesus More Real, More Present—Part 1
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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077: Complicated Grief
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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076: President Nelson's "Let God Prevail" Conference Talk
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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075: (Encore) Covenant Belonging
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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074: (Encore) Let's Talk about "Blessings"
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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073: Faith Deconstruction/Reconstruction Processes, Part 2
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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072: Faith Deconstruction/Reconstruction Processes, Part 1
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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071: Embracing Zion in Our Hearts and Lives
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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070: The Power, Meaning, and Relevance Today of the Spirituals
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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069: Redeeming Mormon Racism
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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068: Religion, Politics, Polarization
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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067: Rituals, Ordinances, and Covenants
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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066: Evil, Part 4
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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065: Evil, Part 3
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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064: Evil, Part 2
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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063: Evil, Part 1
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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062: Racism, Consciousness, Grief, Hope
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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061: Living Deliberately and Deeply—Lyndsay Pulsipher
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May 27, 2020 |
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060: Carol Lynn Pearson—Walking with All of Us
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May 20, 2020 |
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059: God Is Much Bigger Than You Think! -- Grace, Mercy, Belonging in the Book of Mormon, Part 2
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May 13, 2020 |
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058: God Is Much Bigger Than You Think! -- Grace, Mercy, Belonging in the Book of Mormon, Part 1
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May 13, 2020 |
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057: At Last They are Saying It!—Women's Voices in the Church
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May 05, 2020 |
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056: Living Atonement
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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055: Developing Your Own Spiritual Path
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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054: Increasing Our Sense of 'Belonging'
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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053: Expanding the Way We Pray, Part 2
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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052: Expanding the Way We Pray, Part 1
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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051: Preparing for General Conference
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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050: Fresh Views of the First Vision
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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049: Behavioral Science Insights for Mormons
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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048: Living, Loving, Learning in the Age of Coronavirus
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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047: The Spirituality of Activism
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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046: Jungian Insights for Psychological and Spiritual Health
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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045: Psychology and Spirituality
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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044: The Divine Feminine, Part 2
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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043: The Divine Feminine, Part 1
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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042: When Stories Collide
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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041: Wrestling with the Book of Mormon, Part 2
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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040: Wrestling with The Book of Mormon
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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039-Nature, Evolution, Spirituality
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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038: Renewal
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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037: Christmas Conversation: Birthing the Christ Within
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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036: The Real Gospel of Jesus, Part 2
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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035: The Real Gospel of Jesus, Part 1
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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034: Stages of Change/Stages of Faith
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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033: Dream Like Jesus
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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032: Wisdom Jesus
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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031: What is "Doctrine"?
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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030-Mormon Philosophy Simplified
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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029: Covenant Belonging
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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028: Mental Illness and Religious Discomfort
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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027: Characteristics of Religious Experience and Profound but Low-Key Ways of Talking about What We Hold Most Dear
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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026: Healing Journeys
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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025: The Importance of Having One's Own Spiritual Connection
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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024: A Paradigm Shift in Today's Mormonism, Part 2
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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023: Spiritually Surviving/Thriving as a Latter-day Saint
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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022: A Paradigm Shift in Today's Mormonism
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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021: Gathering Zion "from Beneath"
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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020: Engaging Scripture the Ignacian Way
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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19: Surrender and Spiritual Expansion
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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018: Zion
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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017: The LDS Temple and the Vitality of Ritual Immersion
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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016: Defending the Family: Alternative Emphases
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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015: Let's Talk "Blessings"
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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014: Engaging Scripture: The Practice of Lectio Divina
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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013: Rhetoric and Ideas about the Term "Latter-day"
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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012: Embracing Myth
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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011: Church
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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010: Becoming Aware of Our Biases
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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009: Faith is Much More than Belief
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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008: Faith Journeys
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May 29, 2019 |
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007: Rethinking Scripture
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May 21, 2019 |
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006: Clearing the Way for Joy and Forgiveness: A Spiritual Practice
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May 14, 2019 |
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005: Hallmarks of Mature Spirituality
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May 07, 2019 |
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004: Changing Our Story
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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003: Wrestling with Revelation, Personal and Institutional—Part 2
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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002: Wrestling with Revelation, Personal and Institutional—Part 1
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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001: Introducing Latter-day Faith Podcast
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Apr 05, 2019 |