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News Flash: LDS Church WILL Be Actively Opposing Gay Marriage in California This November | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. News Flash: LDS Church WILL Be Actively Opposing Gay Marriage in California This November. June 21, 2008. Bull; 388 Comments. News Flash: The LDS Church WILL be actively opposing gay marriage in California this November, and is encouraging members to actively oppose gay marriage in California. They are asking all members of the church to, “do all you can to support the proposed constitutional amendment by. I find it rathe...
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279–280: Mutual Respect: Creating Healthy Relationships When Loved Ones Choose a Different Faith Path | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 279 280: Mutual Respect: Creating Healthy Relationships When Loved Ones Choose a Different Faith Path. May 12, 2015. Bull; 37 Comments. For more than a decade, Chelsea Shields Strayer. And her parents, Eric. What has this journey felt like to each of them? What mistakes have they have made along the way? This two-part episode features a wonderful, open-hearted dialogue between Chelsea. Thank you to Jay Griffith, always a ...
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215: Mormonism’s Modesty and Sexuality Discourse | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 215: Mormonism’s Modesty and Sexuality Discourse. March 3, 2014. Bull; 32 Comments. The cover of the March 2014 Ensign. In this episode, two therapists, Natasha Helfer Parker. And Jennifer Finlayson-Fife,. Who both work closely with Latter-day Saints struggling through issues often related to negative ideas they picked up during their formative years, join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon. Winter 2014 (links to entire ...
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170–171: Toward Expanding and Improving LDS Discourse about Sexuality | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 170 171: Toward Expanding and Improving LDS Discourse about Sexuality. April 22, 2013. Bull; 65 Comments. Why is it so difficult for us to talk forthrightly and in healthy ways about sexuality, especially in teaching our youth? Why do we imagine willful ignorance about our bodies and sexual response and pleasures as admirable? How might we do better? In this episode, Natasha Helfer Parker. Natasha Helfer Parker and Jennif...
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276: Being Heard in Today’s Church | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 276: Being Heard in Today’s Church. April 8, 2015. Bull; 17 Comments. In this podcast, co-released by Mormon Matters, A Thoughtful Faith, and Mormon Mental Health, Dan Wotherspoon. And Natasha Helfer Parker. What are cultural forces as play? How have the hosts found the strength, courage, and abilities to speak up and still be seen (by most members) as faithful, active, and constructive voices within today’s Mormonism?
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277: Does Powerful Faith Require Scriptural Literalism? | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 277: Does Powerful Faith Require Scriptural Literalism? April 22, 2015. Bull; 72 Comments. In speaking at the April 2015 General Conference about the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland boldly stated that “the simple truth is that we. Fully comprehend the Atonement and Resurrection of Christ and we. In this episode, Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon. Is it possible that within these cont...
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283: Being an Ally | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 283: Being an Ally. June 16, 2015. Bull; 8 Comments. Am I wearing my role as a badge of honor? Or are we truly in the trenches, willing to be in the background, to be taught and changed by the stories we will learn? In this episode, three people who work as allies Jody England Hansen. Join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon. What have been the most gratifying things? 8220;Male Allies,” Conversation Seven. Jerilyn isnR...
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Matters of Perspective | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. Matters of Perspective features audio recordings of important articles and essays discussed or referred to in Mormon Matters episodes, as well as other classic pieces from independent Mormon discourse that deserve a wider audience through production in an audio format. When possible, these pieces are read by the author. 1 Godwrestling: Physicality, Conflict, and Redemption in Mormon Theology. By Charles Randall Paul.
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269: The Effects of Excommunication on All of Us: Healing Perspectives | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 269: The Effects of Excommunication on All of Us: Healing Perspectives. February 11, 2015. Bull; 37 Comments. On the evening of the news that John Dehlin was excommunicated, Natasha Helfer Parker. How do we not let our emotions get the better of us and block out wider perspectives that likely would serve us better for the long haul? In a section led by Joanna Brooks, she refers to and describes this chart:. Parker J. ...
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265–266: Mormonism as a “Religion” | Mormon Matters
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A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Matters of the Heart. 265 266: Mormonism as a Religion. February 3, 2015. Bull; 4 Comments. Of course Mormonism is a religion. But do we always think about it through the lenses of such a big and diverse category? In this two-part episode, religion scholars Laurie Maffly-Kipp. And classics scholar Margaret Toscano. Join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon. Please listen and then share your reactions and ideas in the comments section below!