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The shadow and light of the church are a part of the same story. Integrating the suffering and the healing that the church created is part of our necessary preparation for the next part of …
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It’s one thing to know that letting go is possible and even necessary. But it’s another to stand at the threshold of leaving without feeling fear. Most of us will carry some fear. In this …
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In this episode: “Letting go needn’t be feared. Letting go can become a friend to us, releasing us into the flow of an abundant and growthful life.”
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This episode opens up the last chapters of my time as host of A Thoughtful Faith Podcast. I aim to hang up the mic at the end of 2022. The remainder of my time with …
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Some years ago, Tali Aitofi found Mormon podcasts and became hooked. But Tali isn’t Mormon, he’s Pentecostal. Yet, his own spiritual and religious journey has played out with the hum of Mormon faith crises in …
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Painter and documentary film maker Nathan Florence joins me to discuss ‘Bright Spark: The Reconciliation of Trevor Southey’ For eleven years, artist Nathan Florence documented Trevor Southey’s life with his heart and with his lens in …
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The 2022 A Thoughtful Faith Podcast season kicks off with a conversation about faith deconstruction and life reconstruction! Utah based life coach, Jana Spangler, reflects on her extensive work with Mormons who are in the …
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If you love Christmas, then this episode isn’t for you. But, if you or someone you know doesn’t approach Christmas with merriment and cheer, then this conversation between me and my good friend Nicola Petty …
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At Syracuse University, moral injury is defined as, “… the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, …
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Child sexual abuse in the church is pernicious and confounding. Why anyone purporting to be Christian would sexually abuse a child is beyond the imagination of many. Yet it happens, and far too often to …
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Author of the Spiritual Child, Professor of Psychology Lisa Miller writes in ‘The Spiritual Child’: “Spiritual development through the early years … provides a protective health benefit, reducing the risk of depression, substance abuse, aggression, …
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‘Tax’ by Images Money@Flickr Australian barrister Neville Rochow QC has offered the LDS Church legal advice over the years and has appeared for the church at parliamentary committees on the question of religious freedom. For two years, he also represented the church at the European Parliament in Brussels.
He has been intimately involved in the church’s legal concerns and is well versed in how its legal machinery works, particularly internationally.
In part two of this series, Neville joins me to discuss the LDS Church and its financial activities.
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Photo Credit: Woody Hibbard @ Flickr Australian barrister Neville Rochow QC has offered the LDS Church legal advice over the years and has appeared for the church at parliamentary committees on the question of religious freedom. For two years, he also represented the church at the European Parliament in Brussels.
He has been intimately involved in the church’s legal concerns and is well versed in how its legal machinery works, particularly internationally.
In part one of this series, Neville joins me to discuss the LDS Church and its legal machinations. In this episode he offers an overview of the US church in the international legal arena.
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Micah’s DNA@Flickr.com Geneticist Dr. Simon Southerton joins me to discuss the DNA Story of Polynesian Origins.
There have been numerous theories posited about the origins of Pasifika people. The Semitic Origin Theory; Thor Heyerdahl’s South American migration theory and the Mormon idea that Polynesians are descended from an ancient Israeilite prophet who fled Jerusalem with his family during the Babylonian captivity. However, advances in DNA science have put much of those theories to bed.
Australian plant geneticist, Dr. Simon Southerton explains the science of DNA and how this has been used to put all other Pasifika ancestry theories conclusively to bed.
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Mark Crego and I met around eight years ago, fellow sojourners in the quest to understand our shared faith in the LDS church. We had a similar curiosity about the spiritual life and consequently we both completed a Masters degree: He in theology and me in ministry. Having taken a Christian formation path we find ourselves similarly interested in the necessity of the divinity of Jesus. Was he literally, biologically the Son of God?
Neither of us think so.
This conversation is not new. Jane Schaberg is one scholar who tackled the question front on, and she paid dearly for it.
Mark and I come to similar conclusions, that the divinity of Jesus has more to do with claims of power, authority and Empire than it has to do with biology. For Mark and I, the illegitimate, fatherless Jesus who God chose as his son is a far more spiritually enlivening and plausible alternative.
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