Derrick Clements and Gina Colvin give a quick nod to Thor: Ragnarok and then provide a thoroughly Mormon review of Star Wars VIII.
Category: Global Mormonism
219: Growing up Tongan in Salt Lake City: Moana Uluave Hafoka
With the promise of education, social mobility and gathering in Zion, many Tongan and Samoan Mormons have made Utah their home. But what are the challenges for Polynesians growing up in Salt Lake where wealth, church leadership, education, and opportunity…
216: From Mormon Missionary to Catholic Priest: Rima Tamaiparea-Puki
Tom Christofferson’s spiritual journey as a gay man took him from Mormonism, out, and back again. Rima Tamaiparea-Puki’s spiritual journey as a gay man took him from Catholicism to Mormonism and back to Catholicism through the Reformed Old Catholic Church. …
215: When a Former Mormon Becomes Your Prime Minister: Reflections on Jacinda Ardern and the LDS Church in New Zealand
Ganeshji Cherian, Sarah Howard, Quintin Howard and Nathan McCluskey discuss the cultural mismatch of American Mormon culture with New Zealand culture in the wake of Jacinda Ardern’s becoming the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
210: On The Edge: Melissa Inouye
Melissa Inouye is Chinese, Japanese American and grew up as Mormon in California, aware of her cultural and ethnic differences from the general LDS population. Melissa reflects on the experience of growing up Asian in the LDS Church along with…
209: Creating Religious Pollution: The LDS Church & Latin America: Samy Galvez

Low retention and a failure to contextualize means that the LDS Church continues to be a minority faith tradition in Latin America. Missionaries who are called to serve from nations outside, are more often than not culturally incompetent to…

207: A White Supremacist Church No More?: Moroni Benally
202: Stages of Faith, God and Church: What to do when things change: Pastor Alan Jamieson
199: Global Mormonism: Lindy Yamamoto and Robert Slaven – Sleeping Next to an Elephant (Canada)
198: Global Mormonism: Chantal Muller-Mukamurera – Living Graciously with Change (Rwanda & Germany)
Chantal Mukamurera is Rwandan. She was born in Burundi, raised in Rwanda and grew up in Germany where she joined the LDS Church and married. She’s been Catholic, Mormon and is now preparing for the priesthood ordination in the Community…