“I don’t know the way forward yet. I think that it’s going to be a combination of people at the top exercising their inspiration and the people at the bottom exercising their inspiration as well and somehow coming to a…
Category: Mormon Stories
129: Face to Face with Mindy Gledhill
This podcast is Part 3 of a Mormon Stories and A Thoughtful Faith Collaboration. Mindy Gledhill is an American indie pop music singer-song writer. She has five albums, the Sum of all Grace, Anchor, Winter Moon and Pocketful of…
122: C. Jane Kendrick: Life Under the Spotlight
C.Jane (Courtney) Kendrick needs very little by way of introduction. An uber popular ‘mommy’ blogger (she doesn’t like to be called a mommy blogger) Courtney began blogging ten years ago beginning with intimate posts about her experience with infertility, marriage…
120: Got a Sermon October 2015
This week our sermons come from Trace Rogers, (Come Unto Christ), Doug Christensen (Holiness), and Fatimah Salleh (An Introduction to the Book of Mormon).
118-119: Mormonism through the eyes of Swedish women
Marion Fust Saeternes, Kristina Olergard Tenney and Wiktoria Heinz join me at A Thoughtful Faith to discuss the differences between Swedish culture and Mormon culture and the invariable tension that creates. Recorded during a week where we are discussing and debating the…
113-115: John Dehlin: From the Beginning
John Dehlin will be no stranger to most of our listeners. Ten years ago he posted the first of hundreds of podcast interviews with Mormons who have over the last decade shared their own stories, narratives and experiences that have been…
107: Joseph Peterson – Talking Church Public Relations
LDS Church Public Relations have played a central role over the last few years in shaping Mormon public discourse and responding to institutional crises. They have come under some criticism because of how their obvious management of church communications seems…
104: Kris Black – On her resignation and her rebaptism
Twenty years ago, Kris Black resigned from the church. Wanting to be free of her ties to Mormonism she went through the then arduous process of having her name removed so that she could feel free to explore other religions and forms…
100-101: Rock Waterman: On Being Excommunicated
In June 2015 Rock Waterman, who hosts the popular blog Pure Mormonism, attended a Church Disciplinary Council in Sacramento California where he was excommunicated. Several questions arise out of this incident not the least being – ‘What does it take these…
098: Got a Sermon 7 June 2015
This is the first of a podcast series called “Got a Sermon” where those primarily from the ‘A Thoughtful Faith Support Community’ share their ‘church’ talks. This week our speakers are Ronie Hayashida Cabral Reed, Tom Tolman and Mica McGrigg…