
John Hamer comes from a family who has long been a part of the Latter-day Saint movement. Once a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, today, John pastors a bustling downtown Toronto Community of Christ congregation. …
Royleane Otteson joins me to discuss how to be a faithful witness to another’s spiritual journey. Using the Advent reading of Elizabeth and Zechariah as a story of community witness, we unpack what friendship means to those of us who…
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there’s often a very large gap in the theological or doctrinal understanding of the garment, and the lived experience with wearing one. Predictably, Mormons will simply say that garments are…
Sara Hughes-Zabawa returns to discuss one of the most emotionally and spiritually challenging stages in Fowler’s Stages of Faith; the development of an Individuative-Reflective Faith. In high demand or fundamentalist faith traditions Stage Four is poorly understood and often poorly responded to by families,…
As my interview with spiritual trauma therapy specialist Kathleen Shannon will indicate, a definition for religious abuse is difficult to nail it down. But according to Caswell and Swindle (2018) religious abuse occurs within three categories. Abuse perpetrated by religious…
Sam Young was recently excommunicated from the LDS Church. His sin was ‘advocating’ for a change of policy to prevent Church Leaders from asking children sexually explicit questions. He had collected the testimonies of hundreds of abuse victims, but this was not…