264: I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar: Jan Tyler
Jan Tyler has been an active campaigner for women’s rights since the early 1970’s. Her first job was at Weber State University as the Women’s Dean. It was there that she met the incoming President, …
Category: Bodies, Sex and Faith
255: Mormon Culture and Sexual Abuse: Tara Workman-Tulley
In 1990 the Pace Memorandum reported the findings of General Authority Glenn Pace in which alleged victims described ritual abuse. This was followed by a Utah State Legislature investigation in which hundreds of alleged victims …
246: “There’s a world of ideas competing for access to human brains”: Souls, Brains and the Divine: Dr Michael Ferguson
Dr Michael Ferguson is a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. He works at the intersections of culture and brain. His active research includes cognitive neuroscientific …
232: A God Who Changes: Blaire Ostler
Who is God, Blaire? Thus, begins a discussion that unsettles, moves and disrupts our taken for granted conceptions of the Divine. The God of process theology doesn’t entirely fit the script of the male, authoritarian, …
230: Race and the Making of The Mormon People: Max Mueller
How racist was Joseph Smith? Can the LDS Church really claim Jane Manning James as an example of Joseph Smith’s progressive ideals? There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Joseph Smith had a theological imagination …
220: When Mormons need a Psychiatrist: Neuroplasticity, Scrupulosity, and Children Hoarding: Dr. Bill Bunn
Dr.Bill Bunn is a BYU psychiatrist who specializes in adolescent and young adult psychiatric disorders. He joins me to discuss mental illness, the brain and neuroplasticity. We also consider how scrupulosity and anxiety disorders present …
204b: Can you really be a Mormon woman?: Jenne Erigero Alderks
Jenne de Normandie Eregiro Alderks was a teen convert from Unitarian Universalism. Â When she joined the LDS church her mother, knowing somewhat of the strict gender roles in Mormonism, asked her, Â ‘Can you really be …
194: Dancing Like No One’s Watching: John Bonner
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
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
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 …