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.
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 …
On August 15, 2017 the LDS church issued the following statement: “White supremacist attitudes are morally wrong and sinful, and we condemn them. Church members who promote or pursue a “white culture” or white supremacy …
Philip Barlow, Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture, and the 2017 fellow at the Maxwell Institute at BYU joins me to discuss the importance of Mormon Studies in the tradition. We discuss …
When 17-year-old Isabella Parker was a Mia Maid she submitted a profile to Ordain Women because she noticed gender inequality in the church. She had also joined her school’s Gay Straight Alliance Club and was …
In this episode I am joined by G. Campbell McNaughton, Roy Hann and Nathan McCluskey. Together we discuss American Mormon cultural imperialism and its effects on the Scottish church (with the occasional nod to the New …
Lynn Packer, nephew of Boyd K. was an investigative journalist who looked closely into the claims of Paul H. Dunn and discovered there to be startling concerns, not just with his storytelling but also his …
At the April 2016 conference Elder Patrick Kearon petitioned Mormons worldwide: “Each one of us can increase our awareness of world events that drive these families from their homes. We must take a stand against …
“The fact is that we already have a diversity of spiritual experiences (and nonexperience) within the church; we don’t very often identify it or use language to express and validate it. With such a …
“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 …
